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A NOBLE HERO Whose Remidns Repose in the Ceme tery at Newberry, F. C. CALVIN CROZIER,A SON OF TEXAS Story of the Splendid Heroism of a Man Who Was Murdered at Newberry by Negro Fed eral Troopers. Near the entrance to Rosemont cemetery, this city, stands a monu ment to the memory of Calvin- Cro zier, a heroic son of the Lone Star State, whose sacred remains rest be neath. The story of his splendid he roism, which inspired him to risk his life to defend the honor of South Car olina women. and to give that life to save that ef an innocent man, and of his murder' by negro ruffians who ware the uniformof the United States army, is well told in the following article by Octavia Zollicoffer Bond, which appeared in a recent issue cf the News and Courier: I would be glad to "eat the slop from your kitchen," wrote Calvin Crozier to his mother when about to leave the Indianapolis military prison in April, 1865. To say that he was "one of Mor gan's men" presents to the imagina tion the picture of a stalwart Ken tucky trooper, which Crozier was not. On the contrary he was a rather boy ish looking Texan for his 25 years of age. Barely five feet, eight inches in height, slender, with fair complexion and dark brown hair, he had a mild expression of countenance which, ex cept for the steely gleam of the steady blue eyes, was not suggestive of the bold and determined character of the captive Confederate. Few would have taken him to'be what he really was, one of the most daring of Morgan's intrepid raiders, on,, moreover, who had been early seasoded in arms, an Indian fighter on the bprder, under Gen. Ross, just before the outbreak of the civil war. Especially did he ap pear now, at the end of nearly two years' imprisonment and ill treatment, a harmless creature. "Almost starved to death," as he wrote his family, sick and pitifully thin, he had hardly the strength to button his faded gray jacket and walk out of the prison gates that had been thrown open by the surrender at Appomattox. The type of thousands who like himself had fuught for a principal with all his might, and lost, he faced about and1 began to consider, in a dazed sort of way, how he was,to reach home. Ah, the Gailveston homne with its sunshine should he never see It again? ' How clearly he remembered the patiotic exalation of spirit in which he had left it to jin God' Light Artillery at Dallas in 1861. Well, too, he re membered the enthusiasm of his first great battle at Elk Horr., (Pea Ridge,) where brave McCulluch fell; the march eastward to Corinth, where he was transferred to the command of Gen. Gans, as well as the reckless ar dor with which he had refused to re turn to Texas when Gans was ordered back, and had persisted in going for ward to join John Morgan, "where there is more fighbting." Now all was changed. There were no drums and fifes, no comrades and, worst of all, no hope. It was a long way to walk back to Galveston, and he was ill. Yet the effort must be made. For there alone might he find rest from his utter weariness in the loving ministrations of father, moth er and two dear sisters, and possibly a reunon with the five brave brothers, who, like Lhimself, had dedicated all to the South in the beginning of the great conflict. By slow stages the re turn was begun. Three'States in suc cession were crossed by the ragged, foot-sore Confederate. With the help of sympathizing compatriots, many of whom had been left by the chances of war almost as dest itute as himself, he painfully pursued his journey. In the "Old North State" a benevolent dec tor was his good Samaritan, nursing him back to (comparative health by weeks of fait iful care and enabling him, with timely aid, to make the rest of the journey home by rail. On leaving the kind doctor, with a grate ful heart he proceeded to Newberry, in South Carolina. Here he was half way home and his thoughts turned with increasing eagerness to the home folks: for this was the native State of his mother, who came of hardy South Carolina stock, but later knew to dare the dangers of the newer West ernd brz~v th2 perls of surrounding savages in Alabama. From here he had the traditional pioneer manhood that made him the natural champion of the defenceless, the instinctive pro tector of women against all that was brutal, low, strong or coarse. From his Irish father he had the imopulsive blood to strike swiftly and freely for the right. lDuring the night of Thursday. September 7. he reached Newberry. expecting to make close connection wimi tne south-bot:nd train. In those d:sjointed 'reconstruct~Onl tim:es"* travel was :ot altogether safe for a man. mnuzh les for a woanan. l.pc afly was this true in Newberry, where the :ad regiment of U. S., negro troops, under Col. Trowbridge, was en camped inan ad joining grove. There fore, when two young women from Orangeburg, S. C., going the same route as himself, were placed in his care by a fellow passenger Calvin Crozier accepted the charge as a sacred trust. As a gentleman should as a manly Southerner would, he felt honor bound to stand between them and every danger. Through an unfortunate accident lbs traZa on which the? ver 1ei11ag was derailed. (whether done by tb negro troops or not was never known and as there were no suitable accom modations convenient, the ladies con cluded to remain in the coach unti the train should be righted. Whili help was being summoned iron Helena, the nearest station, thek protector left the car for a short time On returning presently he was shocket to find the ladies under his care terri fled by the insults of a burly n'gr soldier who had taken advantags o his absence to enter the car occupie by the young women. Hurrying t their rescue Crozier orderel the offen sive wretch to leave, which he secur in the military power behind him, re fused to do. Another uniformed ne gro now showed himself and )oinet with the first in 7iolently rfusing t go. In the altercation and itruggl which followed Crozier managed t eject them both from the car, whet one of them moved off In the directiot of the camp.. But, the other stil mada determined resistance. Out or the tracks, in the darkness. the whit man and the black closed in desperati [ight in which Croizer drew his knift ,-d slashed across the back of the ne gro's neck, inflicting a wound all to( slight for his desert. At which thi cowardly creature fled after his com rade yelling: "I am cut! I'm cut!" Crozier was not slow to realize the danger of his own position. Tb town was practically in the power o: the colored troops. For an Ex-Con federate law and justice did not exis1 at that time; and at best there weri two witnesses to swear falsely agains1 him, both members of a race to whon lying is natural. His only safety wai to disappear under cover of darkness which was immediately and effective ly done. None too soon bad Cr(ziei left the spot. The awful sound of ar enraged mob was gathering in thi distance. With increasing noise il came nearer and nearer. Presentl] tifty or more infuriated blacks were swarmiag around the station, roaring for vengeance on the white man While they were searching for theii ntended victim Mr. Jacob Bowers the section master, came up from Helena to superintend the righting o: the cars. He was pounced vpon b3 four Qi the mad crowd, who excited 13 cried out: "Here he is!" and drag. ged hir forward into the midst of thi others who bad gathered on the sta. tion platform. Crozier could heai Bowers declaring his innocence, whit the. frenzied soldiers, refusing to be: ieve him, were denouncing him tI oaths and curses. T '~ere foi shooting him at on ..ad despite hi protestations w . eading him off ti ill him. Itcrucial test for a man't o il ceon Calvin rozier's parl ment more and the section would be sacrificed in his sta B the hero who within the hour ha jeopardized his life In defense of hell less womLanhod wa not of the moun to let another pay the penalty oft b daring act. There was no choice lej to his noble spirit. Instantly emer ing from his hiding place he ga' himself up boldly asserting that was be, not Bowers, who had done tt cutting. Upon which the sectio master was released and the new vil tim was grabbed, bound fast and hu: red by the bivonac of the wounde negroe's regiment, where he was keg under guard the remainder of ti night. That he was not killed on ti spot was owning solely to the sel geant, who insisted that he must 1 taken to headquarters. One woul think that, however violent men hers of an -antagonistic race ma have Meen in their fury against hii that tie might have looked for prote< tion from Trowbridge, the colonel < the regiment, who passed for a whil man. On the contrary, the only mere 1shown him was from a negro subord nate officer who, willing to save, noble life, urged the prisoner to tali back what be had said and deny tb; e was the one who had wounded tb soldier. But Crozier stoutly ref us Ito recant, saying: "Loose me and will show you whether I am the ma or not." Higher offcers were appealed toi vain to save him. On being questiol ed by Col. Trowbridge he acknow edged the deed, explaining that I acted from a sense of duty and bold1 declaring: "I would do it again. In answer to which he was told tbs the act would cost him his life. In short. Crozier was promptly cor depned to death without even ti form of a trial and was not allowe communiCation with any citizen whi awaiting his doom. About dayligi on the following morning (Frida, ISeptember 8,) the regiment was draw up in line of march. Slow drum hea marked off the remnaining momeni of the prisoner's life while he was b ing led a few yards from the camp. 13 was halted on the brink of a shallo hole, freshly dug in the earth, an ordered to kneel. There was a !las of guns in the murky dawn anrd ti martyred Crozier fell lifeless. A rc] a.Je citizen, who had( ventured nel to watch the tragedy, saw tbe di moniacal troops throw the still warl joy into the hl~ue, then jump upt t.0 dacing and stamping~ with the be~ oress it intj the :nsumeic: The :: colored troops immediate moed oil some distance down tU railroad to aw.ait the train. The degraded leader, Trowbridge, w; afterwards beard to declare that 1 took all the responsibilty of the kil ing on himself. There let it and tI shame of it forever rest. During Friday morning the got people of Newberry visited the fat spot where Calvin Crozier had bei murdered. His honored remains wel taken up and an inquest was held I ooe, in whch much~ estimony wv taken that elicited the facts above st Lted. The body was then revei ently cottined and laid to rest in the old cemetery of the town, attended by a 1 large concourse of the best citizens of Newberry. I In 1890 a movement was started r by the editor of the Newberry Ob server to erect a monument to Crozier's I memory. Three hundred dollars was - quickly subscribed, and in 1891 the I 3 heio's body was removed to "Rose t mont" Cemetery, in Newberry, where I his noble self-sacridce was recorded upon a marble shaft ten feet, five inches in height, resting on a high base of Newberry granit. On the front face of the column is a the "Lone Star of Texas." Beneath t It is inscribed: Calvin S. Crozier, e . born at Brandon, Missippi, August, 1840. Murdered At, Newberry, S. C., September 8, 1865. On the north side Is the verse: "Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood you gave; No impious footsteps here shall tread n The herbage of your grave. Nor shall your glory be forgot, While fame her record keeps, Or honor points the hallowed spot Where valor produly sleeps." On the remaining sides of the shaft the circumstances of his death are d recounted. d Calvin Crozier's four brothers, who like himself had lived through the dangers of four years of war, all after wards died. through a singular fatality, 0 from the effects of hardship and ex posure while in the army. The sole survivor of the band of brothers and sisters is Mrs. Mary Roders, of Blum, Texas, who writes under recent date. "All my kin served in the. war who were old enough to go." On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Calvin Crozier died his only remaining sister with all heL family, twelve in number, perishedIfl a tbe great Galveston flood. Did I say that Calvin Croziey-died? d Our heroes can only die j-teing for r~ei gotten. And when t 'eare forgotten all that is ennob in human nature shall have per' ed in our iearts. Till e then CrcyAei's self-immolation shculd stand .s an example to American manhood, a pattern for modern chival rf and women everywhere should k unite to hcnor his name-a name which the South must surely write, t in illumined characters on her his- c toric page. A Horrible Death. - i SAt Atlanta, Ga., from the effects of" burns Mies Fannie Alexander died a -horrible death. Miss Alexander was tcooking room, when her -clothing1 cl ignited. She ran, screaming end Spraying, into a sleeping apartment d and fell in a charred mass as the bed isside of her sick mother. She was rpicked up by neighbors, who were at Stracted by her screams, and medicala ~assistance summoned, but after suffer ting agonies for twelve hours she died ie Thursday morning. Mrs. Alexander n is in a critical condition, as a result Sof the shock at the time of the burn -ing, and the news of the death of her d daughter.________ eA Railway Massacre. e The southbound limited express, on - the Alabama Great Southern, run e ning sixty miles an hour, collided d head-on, with a north-bound Southern - Railway freight near Kewanee, Miss, y early Tues'lay. According to reports a received there, no passengers were -killed, but five railway employees f lost their lives, several were injured e and parts of both trains were burned.1 y The dead are: Engineer P. P. Larkin, ' - Fireman Henry Banks, colored; a Robinson Riggs, mail clerk; D. ID. e Nicholson, mail clerk; Express Messen t ger J. Hi. Hinds. Both roads use the e same track near Kewanee. The ex d press train was three hours late. I Population or China. 'a United States Commercial Agent R. T. Greener, at Viadivostock, has n transmitted to the department of tcommerce and labor the following, Efrom a Chinese publication on the e census of China: "According to the last census taken in China, by impe rial order, in view reassessing taxes, t the total number of inhabitants amounted to 426,447,325 souls. The -18 Chinese provinces proper had 407, e 737,303; Manchuria, 8,500,000; Mon dl golia, 3,334,000; Tibet, 6,430,000 and e Chinese Turkestan, 426,000 inhabi t taats."__________ * Nearer, My God, To Thee. "This hymn has a singular history, and is aproof of the fact that God chooses strange means and instuments at times tu occomplish his purpose. The writer. Mrs. Adams, was the d daughter of a couple who first met in h Newgate Jail, England. the father' being a political offender. it is said .tLhat Mrs. Adams was a Unitarian: rbut the Trinitarian spirit of the hymn is so evident in every line. that it has been acceoted and sung by Christians t hroughiort the word. 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