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den, Wylie, Moore. J. - Brise SnO MeAlilly. Twenty years have passed since the war made its last rugged track ovei these quiet fields, and the actors in its scenes are fast passing away. A few years ago tidings of the death ot our own grand old commander, Gen. Lee, sped from hamlet to hamlet and a wail swept over the length and thc breadth of oi- Southland. which -xi, not without response from the North. But the other day the great champiorn of the Union, Gen. Grant, laid him. I: down to die and passed quietly to h eternal rest. The flags are at hal mast all over this broad land and th nation mourns. None knew better the value of his services to his cause than those whc contended with him, and nooe can heartily sympathize with the vetEr ans of the "Army of the Potomac," their tributes of respect to the mINL ory of their greatest chieftain ihan their old antagonists, the survivors i of the -Army 'of No-rthern Virginia. Twenty years of peace have rei__ned over this field, and we, the survivors of that stalwart band of 1S62, a squad of gray-haired men, I may say ti: mutilated remnant of a noble regi ment, have met here under the walls of Richmond, that long sought goal of our opponents, here on the soil of Virginia, :hat Virginia which *took an equally noble part in framing our grand institutions of liberty, and in our effort to maintain them. We re vere her for giving us Washington and Jefferson, Madison and Henry. We love her as the mother of Lee and Jackson, Stuart and Hill, and each and every one of us, individually and collectively, hold her ever in grateful admiration for the heroic courage and pure womanly tenderness of her fair daughters. Time, place and circum stance open up the floodgates of mem ory, and we are engulfed in a maei strom of reminiscences and confused. conflicting emotions beyond the power of human language or human art to depict. And yet, on looking back upon it as a whole, this great mass of experiences and recollections, this past of those who engaged in rebel lion, so called, because they resisted the exercise of unlawful power by government, containing, as it does. every shade and grade of emotion from the most radiant and warmest sunshine- of hope and success .to the 1 blackness of despair and the chill of death, there is above and beneath, in fro-it and rear, and on either flank, completely encircling it, a halo of glory as steady as the light of. truth itself. Uncompromising tenacity to principle and honest, straightforward - top.ort of it, and relianc'e on it, con ,temiif,erhaps or the cold, practical advantages of diplomacy, pharacter ize this past and constitute the cen ter around which its wheel of for-* tune revolved, shedding a glow .over its passage alike through sunshine and through storm. The following letters are a part of the 'archives of the Sixth Regiment Survivors' Association. Although I have not Gen. Bratton's consent for. their publication, they are so inti mately coninected with the subject of Gen. Bratton's address that I furnish them for publication. JAMES H. RION, Chairman Executive Committee. Camp Near Fair Oaks, Va., 4-. June 9, 1862. Col.' Bratton, 6th S. C. Volunteers:) Sir-On the evening of May 31 the reg -I knent yinder your command. being one of those opposed to the brigade under command of Col. J. H. Hobart Ward, 38th New York Volunteers, (to whose ~dmmand I have the honor to -belong), ou were, unfortunately for you, se vjerely wounded and came under knmy charge. On that occasion you placed in my charge for safe keeping your watch, and now, being in a place of safety, I have the honor, through Gen. P. Kearney. commanding this division, to return the same, and with the hope that your wound, though severe, may not prove fatal. I remain with -sincere sympathy, most respectfully wour obedient ser vant,B. GESNER, Assistant Surgeon SSth N. Y. V. Camp Near Fair Oaks, Va., J-une 10, 1852. Dear Sir: The fortunes of this un natural war have made you a prison er, and it was in the hands of one of my regiments, (4th Maine, Col. Wal ker), that you fell. I take the liberty, in courtesy and..good feeling, of put ting myself. or friends of the North, at your disposal. I forward by a special messenger your sword, belt and watch, together with a letter from the surgeon-Dr. Gesner--who attended you. who is an acquaintance of your family at the South. If, sir, you will permit me the fa vor, I also place at your call a credit with my bankers, Rigg & Co., Wash lngton, $200, which may serve you un-: til your own arrangements are made.! Very respectfully, your obedient servan' ~ P. KEARNEY, Brig.-Gen. Comimdg ad Div. 3d Corps. Camp Near Fredericksburg. Va., January 24, 1863. General: I beg to recommend Col. John Bratton, commanding the 6th :egiment. South Corolina troopz, for >romotion to the iank of brigadler ,eneral. The superior capacity and con tancy in the d.charge of his ordi -iarv duties as a colonel would strong !y recommend him for advancement, but he merits it more particularly for galliant conduct in battle. At "Se-ven Pines" he was one of the eaders in the intrepid and irresisti le charge of the 2nd brigade, Long street's division, which encountered nd beat a greatly superior force of :he enemy in four successive combats. driving them two miles from their line of battle. Throughout the whole action he vas conspicuous for skill and courage' oolness and good management. At the close of the fourth and last mncounter he received a very severe wound through the arm and shoulder. His conduct excited my admiration, and I am happy to perform this rather tardy act o justice. I am. very re -pectifully. Your most obedient servant, R. H. ANDERSON, Major General Provisional Army. To Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and In spector-General, Richmond, Va. - Seven Pines Casualties. The following was Once publishcd in the Chester Reporter, and veter ans who are getting records in shape request us to republish it: From the Richmond Dispatch of June 7, 1862, kindly fu:rnished us by Mr. J. K. Coleman, of this place, we get the following list of casualties of Chester. Fairfield and York counties of the 6th Regiment and Capt. T. . Beckham's company, of 6th Regiment, in the battle of Seven Pines. May '31, 1S62. This list of 5th Regiment is from the official report of Adjutant 11. A. Galliard. C!,A. John Bratton, wounded in the aim, aud missing. Capt. L. L. Love, assistant commis sary sergeant, slightly wounded in the thigh Wm. Moore, musigian, severely wounded in the leg. Company A, Capt. G. L. Strair Killed: Sergt. W. E. Lewis; privates B. F. Backstrom, William Moore, Sam uel Miller, W. I. McFadden, T. S. Reid and J. M. Frye; wounded severely, Privates D: S. Dickey (and missing), J. T. Thomas, William Kitchens, Jos hua Kitchens, J. P. Nail, W. C. Reid, G. Amzi Brown, Perry Ferguson. J. H. Gaston, John Dunlap, R. 3. Massey, L. H. Dye,1 John McG rity and J. P. Gaston; funded stlgJtly.; Sergt., J. C. Ferguson, Thomas Peden, L. 5. Mc Garity, D. J. Wylie, J. D. Williamson, A. P. Neely, J. J. Nichols. A. Hicklin William Hughes, R. N. Blanks, W. N. Hder: Lieutenant J. C.. MtcFadtlen, Sergt. I. N. Whitesides. Private F. Bigham; missing: Private John Me Garity; total, killed, wounded and mssing, 36. Company B, Captain John M. White -Killed; Private W. S. F. McFadden, wounded severely: Sergt. J. P. Miller; privates, J. 31. Caskey, W. C. Glover, H. Johnson, B. Merritt and B. Nivens; wounded slightly: -Caipt. .J. M. .Wite, Junior 2nd Lieutenant I. M. Wylie, Privates, B. F. Baker, James Epps, W. F. Her'got, H. Merritt and W. C. Perry; total killed and wounded, .24. Company F, Captain J. L. Gaston Killed: Captain J. L. Gaston; Privates Fred Babcock, William Crawford and W. H. Gaston; wounded mortally: Private W. L. McDaniel; seriously: Private Robert Hemnphill, S. H. Mc Walters, H. Morris, J. A. Rader and W. S. Turner; severely, Privates J. F. Barber, W, H. Brawley, J. I. Caldwell, W. J. Cornwell, D. E. Dunlap, S. E. Vanpelt, J. C. Walker and C. S. Wil son; slightly: Lieutenant J. M1. Moore, Sergts. J. J. Stringfellow, E. M. Shan non and J. G. Blair; Privates J. D. Boyd, Henry Duffy, A. F. Lindsay, H. McConnell, E. J. MlcDeniel, J. H. Mc Daniel, H. M. Elduff, J. C. Pedlen, J. R. Peay, W. F. Smith and W. T. Far rar; total killed and wvounded, ,33. Company G. Capt. J. .3i. Phinney Killed: Captain J. M. Phinney, 1st Sergt. J. W. Sloan; (Corporal S. T. Ca :ack: Privates W. A. Ellisorv. J. Pow ell, P. N. Powell. J. J. Weir; severely wounde: Sergt. WV. A. Milling; Pri vates A. W. Ladd. Robert Bankhead. J. G. Boggs, T. T. Williamson, J. A. Seires, J.- D. Gilliard, WV. M. Melton; slightly wounded: Lieutenant Mich ael Brice, Color Sergt. 5. WV. Rabb, Corporal W. D. McKinstry; Privates R. B. Aiken, Peter Bird, B. F. Boul ware, A. Boney, A. C. Frater, W. Hi. Jamison, W. T. Hodges, J. Lemon, J. T. McCreight, J. W. McCreight, W. M1. Nelson, J. L. Richmond, J. C. Raines and J. A. Wooten; total, killed and wounded, 32. Company H, Captain W. B. Lyles Killed: Captain W. Boykin Lyles; Pri vates Samuel Stevenson, J. B. War finid; sevPrely wounded: Sergt. R. W. Brice, Privates E. P. Allen, W. R. Counts, 5. H. Glenn, W. P. Gray, A. T. Holly. W. W. Hunt, W. H. Kerr; slightly wounded: Scrgt. J. T. By aum, Privates W. Boyce Simonton, 5. KA E ",If people only knew of its virtue t1j This is what the Rev. H. M. Haynes., of Pat Dr. Hilton's Lif You should'keep it in your home. It is a gu Bowels. It is a most genial and ready restoratii and withcut regard to occupation or diet. If You Are a Dyspeptic, Ar Dr. Hilton's Life for Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, oj preparation. It regultes the entire system, invi makes a new man of you. It is ideal for womei ENDORSED Dr. J. R. Thompson, writing in the Americar "Dr. Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidne: even on the part of the most skeptical that it stipation, Biliousness, Bright's Disease, Drop4 of the Liver, Kidneys and Urinary organs." The above endorsement clearly-shows that I keep it in your home as a family medicine. It N IDo you go to bed tired, get up t through the day's work without pleas energy? Dr. Hilton's Life for the Li Kidneys is1what you need. ..25c., 5oc. AND $i Prepared and Guaranteed by LIFE [HE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, H. Crosby, J. L. Dye, J. Garrick, .1. P. bravery displayed on Grissom, A. Grubbs, J. F. Joyner, 1I. Some of them are giv McCojrnmick. W. B. Norris. I. R. Sterl- J. Caldwell in his Hit ing, W. 31. Young, J. B. Blackledge; an's Brigade. The I: total, killed and wounded, 27. -,. incident mentioned la Company I, -CaptaId 3. M. Cros'-. to 14th S. C-.Reginiel Killed: .none; severely wounaIed, the second incident nt First Lieutenant William McAl'ley, was a brave Fairfie Sergt. H. S. Hardin, Corporal w. 31 writer 'remembers he Corkill. 'Privates J. W. Brooks, R. M. at the time by his Duffy, R. I. Duffy, W. R. Kennedy, J. Matthews. son of Jon Leopold. S. J. McNinch, James Walker, both of whom were n Andrew Wages, G. W. Wilson; slightly pany F, 12th Regime> wounded: Sergt. B. 3M. Neely, Corporal The heroic death W. J. Davis, Privates J. H. Jaggers, son of Fairfield, alth T. A. Lipsey, J. A. Lipsey, W. H. Ross; w.as unknown to th4 missing: oseph Leonard; total, wound- scribed in the "Histo ed and missing, 19. Brigade" as .follows: Company B, 5th Regiment, Captain " Another soldier:C T. C. Beckham-Killed: none; imore than eighteen wounded: Captain T. C. Beckam. Or- me early in the I Iderly Sergeant W. H. R.agedale, Pri- scarcely so deliberate Yates J. W. McCully. WV. D. Watsoni, fired with great pe T. M. Lemons, F. .M. Lemons: Tr. J. coolness, until just al Stevenson, J1. S. Ross; total wounded, the other. He was 8. tall and slende-r, wit] The 6t.h Regiment went into the as a woman's and hbattle wi'th 321 men. The -total of cheek just darkening litilled, woun.ded missing was 22S downy beard. Seemi men. about sunset, he sat _____________cr'oss-trench to rest. A (Gallant Fairtield Boy Who Sealed down, when a ball gla ~His Patriotism With His Blood, and struck him just ______ear. He struggled At a sailent in the Confederate line with a brief convulb near Spottsylvania Court House, oc- caught him, in his a cupied by Gen. Edward .Johnson. Divi.. his eyes, with the s sion of Ewell's Corps, Gen. Grant,, smile I think I ever having massed his troops at this point, a-nd died almost on just at daylight on the I 2t.h day of was a strange woun May, 1864. captured this part of Gen. "othing but a smallr Lee's line of works. The troops in the ball struck bim'' the iminediate vicinity having failed - to recapture the line at this salient. SkET(H OF 3) RS. 31 McGowan's Brigade was brought fromn TER., another part of the Confederate line, occupied by Gen. A. P. Hill's Cor ps. (The News and He~ral< early that morning. and at a doubi.e Soon after the first quick .rushed up the O'iterl works at sas Rev. R. W. Barn this point. which is known as "the borde. Hon'. W. F. E bloody angle". At this salient. 'he C. Bee. Geo. M. Cofflh Confederates were on the left of the ganized the S. C. H angle, and the Federals held the right tion for the nurpose< of the angle, and fired across the plying our sick and traverses. The trenches on the inner with medicine, nourisl side of the works wer e almost filed ing, which the Conf with water from recent rains, an ment was unable to the water was crimsoned with blood ficient quantities. I This was the place to test the cor tablished and calls age of the bravest soldier. At thispeleadtei-s point the firing was continuous Iforcotributions, wh early in the mnorn,ing of the 12th un to Virginia by the ca til near dayllght the next mori.ng- distributed in field A;. this angle there were two tre active agents. At the cut down by mininie balls, one about Pickens the Legislat sxr inches in diomneter, and the other priated large sums o an oak tree, which was said by an tain the Association oficer, who afterwards measured it, wounded and needy to e teny-to nchs n damter -cared for in camp Ito e twntytwo nchs 1~dia eter ablished by the A A section of this tree is preser'ved in the iMnes of the Confi Wahngton, among the relics of the The first headquartern War. tion were at Charlott There were inetances of conspicnous were at Petersburg NDY ild be without it." neys _ , Kidneys, Stomach and nes with perfect safety, Niervous Vhat You Need speedily remedied by this skin clear and velvety n itieffects. ve no room for doubt psia, Indigestion, Ctn rom a diseased condition That is why you should s. :onstipation, bilious Jespondent, irritable n's Life for the Liver need. 9; Ask for It by Name. ecklenburg Declaration of lndepend iee, and together with Captain eid, s wife's brother, was a soldier of the evolution. Her maternal ancestors, .e Pressleys and'Hearsts, slso serr I their -country in its etrugbfor - A GLORIOUS RECORD. ancaster Ledger, May 17, 1882: In the roll of the 7th South Carolina attalion, Enfield Rifles, occur the Illowing as a list of Color Sargeants: 1 William Mayrant-Eilled at ~Mor s Island, .July 10, 1863. Fell with >lors in his bands. 2 J. H. Outz-Killed at Drewry's luff, May 16, 1864. Fell with colors his bands which were picked uzprbyC 3 John B. Robertson (a youth 19. mars old)-Killed at same time* and ace, holding the colors. 4 Preston Cooper-Picked up the >1ors and bore -them out (the only ie of the nine color guards not.lled r wounded), with forty-seven new allet holes in the flag, and the' .staff ddled and cut in twc$ He feE writh is leg shiattered at Petersburg ona reldon Road, with colors in his hands ugust 21, 1864.. 5 Geo. W. Kennington-Wounded at' rewry's Bluff. Partitioned out the ag at Johnston's capitulation, and ~ought home the belt and socket. The foregoing is an extract from the >11 of field and staff of the battaliop, repared by Col. James H. Rion for eneral Manigault. Sergeants Rob tson and Cooper were from' ar ald. * Sergeant Cooper, with his one g, is well known. The gallant boy - >ldier was a son of our worthy fel iw citizen. Maj. B. H. Robertson innsboro News. Notice to Creditors. All creditors of the late Mr.e. Ella arlisle, deceased, are notified to r~ese.t their claims duly attested, and I parties indebted to said estate will ake payment to the undersigned. J. E. DOUGLASS,~ 5-14-3t Administrator. Trespass Notice. All persoins are hereby notitled not i hunt, fish, cut wood, allow stock to - mn at large or otherwise trespass upon ie land of the undersigned. 0 . W. MOORE. 5-7-4t Ridgeway, R. F. D. 1, 8. C A Regular Tom Boy. as Susie-climbing trees and fences. imnping ditches, whitling, always.get ng scratches, cuts, sprains, bruises, amps, burns or scalds. But -laws! [er mother just applied Bucklen's .rica Salve and cured her quick. ?eals'everything healable-Boils, UI mes, Eczema, Old Sores. Corns or iles. Try it. 25c at John H. M 'OTTLEHA tere is not a iamily in the land that wot :olet, S. C., says of e for the Liver and Kic aranteed preparation for all diseases of the Liver re. Being entirely vegetable, it is taken at all tiz e Weak and Debilitated, or ] 'the Liver and Kidneys is V 'any derangement of the Liver or Kidneys are all gorates the body, purifies the blood, making the , and children, pleasant to take, mild and certain i BY RENOWNED PHYSICIAN Journal of Health, New York City, says: s has demonstrated to us so conclusively as to lea is a thorough curative agent in all bases of -Dyspe ;y, Gravel, Rheumatism, and all disorders -arising f ,ife for the Liver and Kidneys is what we say it iE vill save many doctor's caVs and many doctor's bill red, go Have you indigestion, 4 ure and ness; are languid and i ver (and and nervous? Dr. Hilto and Kidneys is what you, .oo A BOTTLE AT ALL DRUG STORES MEDICINE CO., Columbia, S. C. Distributers. this occasion. The executive committee consisted of i n by Capt. J. F. Rev. R. W. Barnwell, Dr. M. Laborde, ej story of McGow- IG. H. McMaster, T. A. LaFar, G. W. h ~ero of the first Hick and E. E. Jackson. To the Hos y him belonged pital that its Association established I t. The hero o~ at ,Petersburg, Mrs. G. H. McMaster e entioned by him went in 1862 and assumed the Nffice 11 Id boy, as the' of chief matron, where her husband was spoken of was at the time acting as steward., comrades, John Here she devoted herself with alUthe athan Matthews, zeal and energy and tendernessi of iembers of Corn her nature- to caring for the sick andL t, S. C. V. w ounded with which the hospital was B of this gallant, filled; and it was in great naeasuve ough his name due'to her management that this Hos author, is die- pital received flattering mention on r ry of McGowar- the floors of the Confederate Con gress .and elsewhere. C f- probably not jThe hardships and trials that ourB rears, interested soldiers were subjected to in Rich ight. Althongh m iond on their *passing through onII as the other, he furlough from hospital, from camp, rseverance and or from home in returning to their tethdtofcomands, made it necessary Dt the Shandsome boy, Association should provide for their eyes as ten dex comfort in Richmond. Hence, in 1863 a smooth, fair the Exchange Hotel was rented and0 ;with the first the South Carolina Soldiers' Home b ng to be wea'-y. was established- and G. H. McMaster 1 down in the placed in charge. Mrs. McMaster h He was hardly jtook. contr'of all the household ar need from a tre+ rangement', and managed the large tA behind the right establishment with consummate skill up and shook .and judgment.. ;n. Some one Here thousands received.her atten-~f rms. He 'raised tion, and from the highest officer to:b weetest. saddest the humblest private testified to t heb saw on earth, 'kindnesses received. Many werer the instaig. heard to say, "'This is a home indeed." d. I could se Her labor was unending and her zeal ed blister where w,hich she was struggling. On Thurs-' A. s. D. pirits never failed to cheer the sol-.f -- "diers among whom she moved, even ARY E. McMAS- in the most desponding days of the S C'onfederacy. She never lost faith in I the righteousness of the cause for , Jan. rg, -.. never slackened and her exuberant battle of .Manas- -day, before the Sunday in which' - vell, Dr. M. La- Richmond was evacuated, a friend 'eSaussure, Wmn. (Mr. Paul Roman), a clerk in the iand others or-: War Department. informed Mr. Mc ospital Associa- Master that the families of President C >f aiding in sup- Davis and of the heads of departments rounded soldiers would leave Richmond on the next iment and cloth- day. This portended something, so on ederate govern- Friday Mrs. McMaster and her little furnish in suf- daughter, whom hundreds of soldiers lepots were e sell remember,- took the traini for made upon the South Carolina. cieties at home When at home a few weeks later, ich soon poured being told by a returning soldier that r load and were Lee had surrendered, she was sot nd hospital by shocked that she refused to .believe request of Gov. him, somewhat to his displeasuvre. Thei ure also appro-d war over she devoted her energies to E money to sus-' aid her husband in retrieving his Ld the sick and wrecked fortune. She died January soldiers were 23, 1874. md in, hospitals Mrs. McMaster was a daughter of b ssociation along Rev. Warren Flenni.ken, one of theA Kerate defenses. ; fteAsca-fou.nders of Erskine College. Her pa- F esville and later iternal great-grandfather, John Flen- p and Richmond. niken, was one of the signers of the