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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 [905. ESTABLISHED 1844. TIE FLAG INCIDENT OF SNO GRASS HILL. Judge 0. G. Thompson Makes Ful Statement and Description of th< Episode. (Frow 77e Ntat. Two years ago at the reques of my comrade and friend, Sherif Thos. J. Duckett, I -:rote (whollh from memory' a brief history o the old flag of the Third regimen of Kershaw's old brigade, yhiel was read on Memorial Day This description was in essentia matter correct. I said amon; others things: "At the battle o Chickamauga Gen. Kershaw rod( up to 'Squire'Lamb, as we always called him and said: 'Sergeant give me that flag,' proposing t< lead the charge, for which ou: line was forming, to which tl? 'squire answered: "No. you can' get this flag, general; point on where you want it to go, I'll tak< it, but vou can't get this flag general.' Grand old Kershav pointed to a tree a thousanc yards in front. 'Now, sergeant straight toward that tree." Ther I briefly described the terrifi< assault on Snodgrass Hill. A short time after Memoria: Day, 1903, I learned that some members of the Third battalion who had, I suppose, never knowr or had forgotton of the episod( between Gen. Kershaw and Lamb were disposed to discredit my statement and to confound it -with a similar incident on the same day at the same hour, with Gen. Kershaw and Colorbearei Evins of the battalion,-This led to some correspondence betweer .nyself and State Treasurer Jen mings, who was a gallant soldiei of the battalion and commanded a company on that field. From this correspondence I found that Jae, Mr. Jennings, had never known of the Kershaw-Lamb incident, as I had never heard of the in cident with the gallant Evins, or had forgotton it, if I had known .of it. We both found also that there was no conflict between us. The story of how Lamb had refused to give up the flag on that famous field had been known by our boys as a part of the unwritten history of old Com pany G, (Laurens Briars) of the Third regiment for these 40 years. Sergeant Lamb was one of oui zomvanv. Although I had writ ten wholly from memory, I knew I was eorrect in essential par diculars, but hearing of the dis position of some persons to i,% it up with th'e eis9aw-1Vins i neident, I asked Sqiune Laml the first time I met himn the was *. present when my article was read i n the court house Memcrial Day; tgive me the particulars of Ker sh law's coming to him at Chick emauga. He says: "He didn't ie, he walked up to me. and <akd. 'Sergeant, lot me hwao the flg said, 'No, you can't get ~the flag~ tell me where you want it to gd; TI'l take it there.' I p~ointed to the battalion and said. 'There, general, is the trou ble, meaning that the battalion wras Joseag its direction, or cans * ing the 'brigde to lose its direc tion, whereupon~ Kersha w point ing to the wooded heights of Soiodgra'ss Hill, now to he made famosfor a thousand years by this heroic assaalt- nnd the per: .haps no less heroie defense by TXhomas, said: "Sergeant, sekect a tre or an object straight to the front and march directly to it,' and inrrying to Colorbearer Evins I thins that he got hold of ,his flag." This is borne out Xby Mr. Jen iainge who says that Kershaw did get h(l of the~ battalion ting. 10 must not be forgotten that all this was the work!~ of a very few minutes, in a long sight less time thau it takes to write if, and biie every man in the brigade spushing toward the front and er tire, and was all done DJ Ker-shaw to neify his ~eM to change son : ire.ctica . f his march,' and a3 crossing tat large openflo h.3 farther side of which we ceivedl the tirst deaidly Ide of musketry, and in crossira whieh we evt r anexrds said that we had. executed. Kenzhaw' the march as if we~' had Leen os an ordiuary parade. Nine survivors of Compa3icy u brought up ihe question on pu pose to learn ihi recollection o: th exunrrences at L(rumauga; gSevard o the number who se s dere, u:.&ember the Kershaw ber A. Y . Thompnjsom a s o sendid: nuemorv: Judge 3.ri -sdale of Louisiana, first sergeant i of the company, a gallant soldier ] who lost an arm there, was pres- c ent. He recalls Kersh;w waving I either flag or sword, but not right. in front of our regiment, i which seems to bear out the idea < of Kershaw Laving waved the Cbattalion flag after leaving Lamb. In a contribution to The News F and Herald of Winusboro of b'March, 1903, a copy of which I I prooured some months after my write-up of the Third regiment * flag in April of that year, Hon. f R. H. Jennings says of tLis episode: "Kershaw walked up to Evins and taking the flag from him walke1 out in front of the e line, so that the fiag could be t seen from all parts of it. Evins I tbinking perhaps that the general t had an idea that he was going to f waver, walked along with Kershaw < and pleaded with him to please i give him the flag,' and just point I out to him where to go, and as- I suring him that he would go there or die. Gen. Kershaw kindly gave it back to him and pointing to a large green pine at the top of the hill said: "Do you see that pine?" 'Yes,' said Evins. I 'Go directly to it,' and he went.' At the time of the correspon dence between comrade Jennings and myself referred to, we agreed c that something explanatory E should be published about this s apparent, but in no sense a real, conflict. But as most of us have t done with regard to the priceless I treasures of our glorieus histoy I ' went along and , glected it. f Again last May while at the It State Democratic Convention in, talking the matter over, myself and Mr. Jennings, we agreed that something ought to be published and I again resolved to write, and I I may never have been sufficiently impressed with the neceseity for it had it not been that last au tumn, by accident, I learned that I at the last annual session of the! U. D. C. some lady-unwittingly, t of course-disputed or challenged the Chichamauga flag story, so far as it connected Serg'eant Lamb with it. I then once more C resolved that I would publish something that would, or at least should set the matter at rest.. Another thing that made me hesitate was a natural aversion to rushing into p1 it. But I am satisfied that it should be ex plained for fear that after all1 v ling wi itnesscs are gone, and taIt will not be long, some of the younger g'-'iier.tion might be misled to believe that some sur vivor might have been vain enough to fall into the, egregiousC error of trying to appropriate to his comnmaud honors that justly beogad to another. Fortunately, for all concrned., for the Iiin and for the dead, there i.s aloryI enoug'h for all. If the old 'Tbird 1 Regiment was wanting in glory, . the Third battalion could well1 paesome of her laurels with panty ef This history of one i the history of the other, they Touht and marched and biyoua::k ed side by side, shoulder to shord- L der, from Sharpsburg to Fred erickburg, Chancellorsville, Get tysburg, Chichamaug~a, Knoxville,t Cold Widerness, Spotsylvania. CodHarbor, Fisher's Hill andl on to the end at Grennsboro. e* Stiefly the explanation is, that on that fgma shfeld, the bloodiest in percentgge of lesses of the' war., there were v: ihgg incidentsK^ between brave old Kershaw of thz ~First Southi Carolina brigade iai two of his no less brave color bearers, Fvins of the Third bat--I taion and Lamb of the T hirdI regiment, brought about by the e1ort of Kershaw to change the dircic;;1 pl his march under fire a and while evey mani of everyj part of the brigade was pahim *to the front in that famous as' salt on Snodgrass Hill, as before said the bloodiest of the war of the sixties, not excepting the railroad cut slaughter at Second J Manassas. of the bloody lane at charp'!surg, the stone wall, Marye Hill -at 'ra ksburg or theK third~ day at Getk 5s' . I write solely in the inter:.t jf! haprg the iecord straight ad I for the L th of history, and trust that 11 haye :ad it suti n enly plhrin to remove doubts wt saprehnsi- :as to the~ e occurrences and in w riting hope that I hav.e not len groocd fori ~mprssfio that any one in either amanga, or tha t trik v.as ca4ll :fo peCrsonal e~xample byGn Keshw far frm it for Ii yae lw;ays said that althoug~h it wa +'u moe thain tw o mnon ths nto battle in better shaps. Both .amb and Evins were stricken town badly wounded in this attle. The Third regiment never had ts flag captured in battle. The id flag was spirited away from xreensboro at the time of the urrender, the 26th of April, 1865. Lud our former captain, R. P. 'odd, then lieutenant-colonel, >eing in command of tha Third egiment, and the "Briars" being ne of the color companies, the lag was brought home by our ompany and has ever since been nd is still, in our care. I send to your widely circulated ,d justly popular paper, hoping hat some at least of those who tave felt sufficient interest in his matter to .discuss it hereto ore, may see it, and will ask our ounty paper to reprint it, and .ould be glad if the News and Ierald of Winnsboro would pub ish. 0. G. Thompson, Co. G, Third S. C. Reg't. Laurens, S. C. Terrific Race With Death. "Death was fast approaching," crites Ralph F. Fernandez, of .'ampa, Fla., describing his fear l race with death, '-as a result f liver trouble and heart dis ase, which had robbed me of leep and of all interest in life. had tried many different doc ors and several medicines, but ot no benefit, until I began to se Electric Bitters. So wonder al was their effect, that in three ays I felt like a new man, and o-day I am cured of all my trou les." Guaranteed at McMaster 0.'S, Obear Drug Co.'s and John . McMaster & Co.'s drug stores; rice 503. White Oak Notes. Communion services were held t the A. R. P. church last Sun ay morning. Rev. J. A. White, lie pastor, did the preaching. Mr. Jno. H. Neil has returned com a week's visit to Chester ounty. He attended the l.aying f the corner stone of the Con derate monument in the city of hester on Wednesday. He re- 1 orts a big time and a grand day >r old Chester. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wylie of Vellridge, Chester county, was -ith relatives here last week. Misses Lila and Laura Wood -ard spent the day with Mrs. . W. Mobley last Monday. Capt. T. W. Traylor attended e meeting of the State Roard f Equaliation in Columbia last reek. Mrs. S. R. McDowell is visiting 2 Winnsboro this week. Miss Euphemia Thompson of1 iaurens is visiting Miss Jean nette 'atrick. Mr. W. T. Johnston of the Vateree section was in our town st week. Misses Ida and Florence Pat-1 Eck have returned home from eir schools. Mr. J. B. Patrick's baby has een 11uite sielg, but am glad to av it i's much better now. Miss Mollie E. Reed of Wins m. Brk., and Mr. Joseph Yongue< f Stover were married here sev-1 ral days ago. Miss Reed has een witlh her aunt, Mrs. Robert tewart, for several months. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. ichols a daughter, to Mr. and Ers. D. G. Smith a daughter; < M. 's. M. T;-.yor g f Jeeds is1 siting his thori~, Capt, T. W. raylor. Mr. John Gwir and1 daughter, lies Pearl, of Hopewell have ee~n visiting their ki nfolks, Mr. od Mrs. T. H. Patrick. N. May 13, 1905. Blood poison creeps up to -ards the heart, catusing death. . E. Stearns, Belle Plaine, Minn., rites that a friend dreadi'sily jured his hand, which swelled 1 p like blood posnig. Buc.k-i1 m's Arnica Salve drew out the 1 oi tpid the wound, and avedhis lie.' iyst is the irorld >r burns and sores. 25e at Mc-i aster Co. 3, Obear Drug Co.'s2 12l John H. McMaster & Co.' s It is fully to tell the father of rigs that two beads are better bga~ ora.I What is Foley's Kidney Cure? I Aswer: It is made from a prescrip onf of a1 1ladi. Chicago 1>hys'ilan, ud1( one of thle mo10stI eminen't inl tue1 nuIntry. T1'he ingredienits are the] urs.- that mioney ennx buzy. and are l ietiical ly combined to get their ut -. % So1 he Mrearner Co. FROM Lzola N 0 Forrile MAN'S *o Couright, 1904, bU Izola LAN Merrifield Alta Vista Villa, No Man's Land, Moon of Poppies. Dear-Look at above heading and dreaim a dream of joy. I'm here, and when I saw thaz name tacked up over the portals of our hotel I said, "Here's where I rusticate just-on the strength of the name." We are up on a bluff-sand bluff. I've been here three blessed, broiling days and haven't found anything in the place yet but sand and bluff. And sea, lots of sea, so much sea that you hope you'll never have to see so much sea again in all your life. Also a bath house, tintype tent, peanut pavilion and bathing houses-little, hot, new pine coffi -is stood up oi:. end. Also girls and girls and girls, from sixteen to sixty, assorted sizes, and all looking for the man. There are lots of him running around in the days of his youth, but for a real man such as we are led to expect, by all the summer iore ever written, hangs his delightful self around summer resorts and wears white duck and brings you water lilies and sighs over a mandolin at you neath the pale moonlight-there isn't i single specimen wandering for miles iround our villa. Do you know what they call this par ticular eyrie I have alighted on? No MIan's Land. Pleasant, Isn't it, after Vou've toiled over a typewriter while the wintry wind did a ragtime dance round your furless throat and you lidn't give a rap because you were thinking of your white waists and your Linens and organdies abd' your heaven y, floppy Trianon hat with its lace reranda, all of which should storm the acart of the summer man and make iim fall down and worship by the sil very starlight? Nancie Bell, it isn't any such stuff. There isn't any summer man, and wven if there were and he didn't aave sense enough to run away the nlinute he grasped the situation I ;rouldn't have a bit of respect for aim. That's all. I shall be home in a tew days, just as soon as I have ta'n mough to bluff the -stay-at-homes into :he idea that I've had a glorious time md been belle of the beach. Be strong, Nancie. Don't look even at an Mxcursion steamer. If sinners entice -hee, dress up in your organdies an4 -alk down Fifth lvenue and you'll ;ee more admiring sons of Adam in in hour than you will out here in a reek. Haplessly ) ours, 'PERDITA. Day After Yesterday. Hello, central! All hail the man! Re came, he saw, and Caesar isn't a iircumstance. Hie has taken the large ;orper room, Mrs, Banks, our general gverseer, says be 1,s an exceptional roung man. Wonder how much board ie paid in advance! Hie isn't real young nor real old; just hat intermediate age that is so inter isting. I don't think he is exactly iandsome, but you know what a prop irly trimmed vandyke and a pair of ipnJss pyoglasses will do for' ay-man. Ele's that kind. This morning he escorted all of us :hrough the glen. Did I tell you that w'e had a glen? Oh, yes; Glen Ellyn. Iust ferninst the villa. It's a break in :he sand bluff, and It's damp and piny md darksome at midday. Heretofore he organdie flock had religiously es :hpwed its fernly swaml;4npsgutyo ilhould have seen us t rail after him >ver fen and stump a'id hidden vine. he while he fished out dinky little a'eeds and discoursed on them. I opine he is a botanist. Well, it's )etter than a barber. A letter came for im today addressed to Professor Adri mn Vogel. How's that for individual. ty? Ie looks it too. lie does not lance, and he does not play the mando in. lie goes for his morning dip at1 :qnme ppeactlly hog beforg we are~ ap If act, 4ia does not do an~y of the or :odox summer "manisms," but he has nanners and customs of his own. For Instance, he sings, and sings well. ['here are about ninety and nine muses inho group themselves In the parlors if ter dinner to listen to their Apollo. Yhen he sings "All Aboard For Dream and" he looks at you as much as to ay he has only two passes for the boat, et the dhp <,ne is forn yg 'Nad!ting and 'giltbing' he classes as' ie'rve racking, but nature sand close to inture's heart and all the rest of it is vhat the professor's joy is. I think >rivately we would get closer to na ure's heart and the professor's heart, ;oo, if he could be made to understand he expediency of Individual lessons for is botany, pupils. But he canjno,t. Hj lis fog 4i lass. apd wve are al 'classed. T hope for the host.' So yo The other iiety arid eight muses. Botanically ou'rsPERDITA. saturday. Comei to No Man's Land gvary tim? or QmUtbiud doing 'We have save4 he professorts life. If it had only been me of us it wouldn't have beer:. so com diicated. A comnposite grattude doesn't ao far when it has to De passed around. .t was long after lunchtime, and he Iever' misses lunchtime. ie can put tway imore fried bluefish and black >err'y potp~ie than live of the muses, )ut it is cnly proof of his exceptional ~xcellence, and the overseer never re >ukes him. DId .I tell you she was a. widow. also Interested in botany ? I think she stands ' second best. He likes fried bluefish, etc. Anyway, we missed him, and there was a swift summer storm stealing blackly up from the horizon, and the sea moaned as it broke in sobs along the shore. They do that kind of thing all right. I used to think that went with the summer man, but it doesn't. MacGregor Clarence Blair said he hadn't showed up since breakfast, and he'd seen him making a bee line for the glen, and he'd said, "What's yer hurry?" and the professor had said be hoped he could have one morning in peace to study without that thundering crowd of old maids hiking after him. I We didn't believe MacGregor. le looks like a pale, new sand fly, and his father and mother own all of No Man's Land. The professor never in all this world used such words as hiking and thundering, but 3MacGregor did. There fore, I may say, in the same common parlance, that the whole thundering crowd of old maids pitched in and lam basted 3MacGregor until his pretty white linen suit was not fair to see and his twining curls were full of sand burs. Then he howled and retracted, and we all went up the glen after the professor. The glen deepens and darkens as you go In, and the sides are rocky and pre cipitous, with much shrubbery and un dergrowth and scraggly pine trees list ed to windward. And just as the first streak of lightning quivered in the sky we heard a faint shout for help. It was the professor. le hung sus pended in air on the bare limb of a dead pine that jutted out from the rock halfway up the bluff, like Genius on Pegasus, the widow said-on a petrified Pegasus. Then Genevieve Perley, our college product, said Pegasus couldn't be pet rified. He would have to be ossified. And the widow began to cry and sat down on a log and said she didn't care a bit either way, ossified or petrified, and Professor Vogel was such a lovely man and always paid his board like a gentleman, and she hated to see him killed before her eyes, and she never felt so much like fainting before In all her life. Genevieve said fainting was counted out. He was a fine target for light ning up there, and, while it was none of her business and she had no interest in the professor as a lovely man or in the continuance of his regular board pay ing, still she thought a rope might be a good thing. "In mountainous countries," began Agatha, the artist, who has been Eu ropized, "I believe they tie a rope around the waist of one person" "It's the shoulders," said Genevieve: "kind of a slipknot." The professor shouted for help again, tWs time fainter still. "No; the waist," said Agatha firmly. "And lower that person over the moun tain side until he rescues the other party." "Let's lower MacGregor," murmured Genevieve, but the widow cried and said her feet were getting wet and she didn't think it was right to joke In the face of death. That braced us up, be- I cause the professor did look like It, so while the fleeting moments sped Gene vieve and I sped flceter and found some clotheslines and a couple of husky lads in sweaters from the peanut stand and the boathouse, and we sped back tQ the glen. Then the husky lads cUmbed the bluff on the sandy side an~d did the Alpine act with the clotheslines, assist ed by several ropes from the boathouse, and before our eyes the professor was pulled back to life and liberty. He is restLag now. it Is dark and still at the villa. No hops or mando lins tonight. The shock will bring hin to, I think, from the botanical dreans . and cause him to concentrate his joy on~ some io,ving, symnpathetic heart, and it may be your. PERDITA. Monday. I I shall be home on the Tuesday boat The other girls are packing too. The overseer has fainted. Only the profess- li or is serene. He was up bright and early this morning to meet the 6:08 train, and when he came back he had a Mrs. Professor and three little Profess-. or juniors tagging merrily alol afer him.$0 No, 'i don't think men were deceivers D)ie ever. I think it was absentminded-- 4. ness. Only Mrs. Professor gave the Fo muses their crushing blow when she pr said she was 8o glad we had all joined the professor's summer botany class, as he had reduced the course rate to $10, and she thought it was the sweet-. est, most olev-ating study one coul4 take up, We all assui'ed her ity l evating. It wa-cp ta professr. ..94 we.re. all gointg home. tomoyrro.w. Ydin-a for' singl'e blessedness, PERDITA. A Muscular M!inister. A Kentucky senator tells of a good old Methodist minister In his staig it the pioneer days who fag a '.'ascumr Christiant" ' $. BOne day;-' says the senator, ''after' the parsori had found it necessary to administer fistic punishment to several A young toughs who persisted in disturty lng the meeting at one of t1.e char.ches which lhe served. one of his 2loc%, anted as souwething of a hard hitter himself got up in meeting and saidg e 'I s a solemn duty of this here(' gopgregation to stand by Parson John aon, lHe does not seek trouble, but he 50c will not shnow the white feather when ma trouble is forced in his way. I believe I that, unrestrained by divine grace, tra Parson Johnson can whip any man in Kentucky. The Lerd Is with him. Let us pray.'_______ koley's Honey and Tar1 c(id ains n, >pilates and cru; safely be giveni to yJil-t dreu :'~nd is p~eculigrly adapted for milthn. Gmiihii and hoarsenesm June is the Wedd and iu common wi mouths of the year June is the Adver It will pay you to hav ment in THE NEW* during the Month o Timely We are Head Call in and examine our sto Dressers -and Centre TableE Dressers at actual cost to ci Now is the time to get your Try one of our Felt Mattre! We have a complete line Stoves. All guaranteed to We have~ in stock also a Lounges. Our UNDERTAKING complete. All calls promp SR. W. P HI WANT TO BUYA A [edding Present? ome in and let us show you our of goods suitable for the occasion. Sterling Silver. S terry Bowls, handsome designs, qi .00 to $50.00. Bonbon and olive tr ~hes, $.3..50 to $10.00. Carving Sets, 30 to $10.00. Sterling Silver Spoons,d a's, Ladles in variety at attractive of ces. . ioj Cut Glass, sa Iadsorce B3'.y Bowls, $5.50, $6.50; 15.04 Bonbon and Olive Dishes, Isc .5 to $4.00. Decanters, $8.50 to!Ic .00. Sugar and Cream, $6.00 to $9.00. Fine China,.o ~eautiiutty decorated, i mn p o r t ed ad Bowls, $3.00 to $5.50. Cracker s, $2.75 to $4.50. Chocolate Pots, 3~ to $3.50. Cake Plates, 7:.e. to 0. Good Clock is Alwaysmn Acceptable.m .'e have a nice assortment of Clocks,.o all silver anid gold artistic designs, )0 to $5.00. Eight-daiy Mantlem icks, striking hours and half hours, an 3 to $10.00. H andsome gold Clocks, m .50 to $25.00. Candelebra in gold to tch gold clocks, $5.50 to $10.50. fyou can't comec write for our ~Ilas- He ed Catalogue of staple goods, viz., gg Ltehes, Jewelry, Silvare, Cut tic ss5, etc. n 3j. LACHIlCOTTE & CO. 424 tlain Street, or Columbia, S. C. Month for ings th all the other month to t.ise. ,e your advertise AND HERALD f June. opics. quarters for :k of Iron Beds, Suites, We have six Cheval ear our stock. Summer Cots. ;ses-tne best in town. of Little Dandy Cook give satisfaction. complete line of Bed DEPARTMENT is :ly attendedi to. LLIPS. SpecialEglection. School District No. II. In compliance with a petition ned by the required one-third the freeholders of School Dis ict No.11 and one-third of the talified electors of the said dis ct, an election is hereby or red to be held by the trustees said district for the purpose levying a special tax of one ill on all taxable property in. id district on FRIDAY, MAY TH. The polls will open at Shiloh. bool building at 2 P. M. and >se at 5 P. M. By order of the County Board Education. D). L. STEVENSON, 5-17-2t Chairman. tters of Administration Lte of South Carolina,1 !ounty of Fairfield. f D. A. Broom, Esq., ProbateJudge: Vhereas, Alexander Davis bath de suit to me to grant him 1etters of ministrtion1 of the estate and effects William Davis, deceased: ['hese are, therefore, to cite and ad nish all and singular the kindred :1 eredsorst of the said William vis.. deceased, that they be and pear' before mye, in the Court of Pro ec, to. be held at Fairfild Court nse, South Carolia, on the ?->th y o( May next,' after publica n hereo~f, at 11 o'clock in the fore- ~ )fn, to show cause, if any they have, tv the said administration should t be granted. iven under my hand, this 10th day May, A. D. 1905. D. A. BROOM, .17.9t .ndgeof Probate.