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(Mest J^eurspaperUn Jiwitb Carolina VOL. 79. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WED?Jf DAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914 FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE. Part Taken in Battle of Frank lin, Tennnessee by The South Carolina Troops. The following account of the bat tle of Franklin was taken from the ???ws and Courier of April 14, 1914, and will be of interest to many of our readers. To the Editor of The News and . Courier: Enclosed I hand you an extract from the official report of Col. (af terwards|Brig. Gen.) Ellison Capers, of the part his regiment, the 24th South Carolina, bore in the battle of Franklin. Tenn., Nov. 30 1864. It is taken from volume XLV, part 1, serie? 1, pages 733-39, of the offi cial records of the Union and Con federate armies, in the war depart ment library. As it refers to the heroism and gallantry of some of the officers and men of that regi ment, I think it fitting that it should be published for the benefit of their descendants, as well as for the whole state.? The a4th and 16th South Caroli na regiments grandly illustrated your st?,te in that battle, as in all others in which they participated, and I think the descendants of the men who distinguished themselves should be reminded of it. The col ors of the 97th Ohio volunteers, caotured by Lieut. Tillman and his gallant men, I saw the morning af ter the battle and was told they had been captured by a lieutenant of the 24th South Carolina, but I did not know the officer's name until I read Col. Caper's report. I was a member of Company C, 2nd Georgia battalion sharpshoot ers, in Gist's brigade, and we led the attack in advance of the divis ion that day. I will be glad if you will publish this and that some one will send me a copy of that issue. The extract, follows: . . ~^AT)?^?? of - James A Tillman of the 24th South Carolina, led his own company (l,) and men from other companies of the regiment in a charge against the enemy over the work and cap tured the colors of the 97th Ohio volunteer infantry aud some forty prisoners. The regiment held its po sition, as did the brigade, against repeated attempts to drtve it from the work, until about midnight, . when the enemy retired and left our army in possession of the bloody field of Franklin. I was shot down i before reaching the last, work, and have reported the facts occurring after my wound upon the statement of the men and officers who visited me at the hospital on the next day. At the close of the battle Capt. Gillis, of the 46th Georgia, was the senior officer of the brigade; of the general (Gist) staff, Capt. H. D. Garden alone remained. Before we reached the locust abatis the ranks of thefiregiment were decimated by the direct and enfilade fire of the enemy, and the lieutenant colonel and myself had both been sbot down, yet the company officers led their men forward, worked their way through the abatis and assault ed the main work. Lieut. Galley, of Company F, and Lieut. Padgett of Company I, with many of the men, were killed beyond the work. I would specially commend the gallant conduct of Lieut. James A. Tillman, commanding Company I, who led his company over the work .and captured the flag and some for ty prisoners of the 97th Oliio regi ment, Lieut. Tillman specially com mends the gallantry of privates J. P. Blackwell, Anderson Walls and J. E. O. Carpenter in this affair. I would also mention specially the gallantry of privates Prewett and Mock, both of whom were killed on the last line *of the enemy. Lieut. W. M. Beckham, of Company G, acting adjutant; Capt. Bowers of Company D; Lieuts. Claud S. Beaty, Company F; Adrian C. Appleby, Company C; C. D. Easterling, Com pany B; McDaniel, Company N, and Andrews, Company K, w^re conspicuous in the field tor their gallant conduct. The conduct of these officers came under my notice but I have no doubt others acted with equal gallantry whose conduct did -not come under my immediate notice. Private Adam Carpenter bore the flag with courage and faithfulness, and color-corporals Jones, Company MT. ZION NEWS. Modern School Building, Honor Roll, Thanksgiving Enter tainment. Clean-up Day Observed. Dear Advertiser:- I Lave never had the pleasure of reading a letter in jour paper from any member of the Mt. Zion school so I have at last decided to write this one time and if it escapes the waste basket probably I will com? again. First, I will tell you about our school building, etc. We have a handsome new building with mod ern equipments. Our teacher is a young lady from your town, Miss Mamie Cheatham. We have four teen pupils enrolled, ranging from the first to ninth grade. Our first month's work has been completed and those who made the required averagejfor honor roll were Marie, Lilla Mae. Bronteeand Dewey Pad gett, Mildred and W. A. Pardue, Covie and J. C. Smith. We observed "Clean-up day" Friday November 13, and although it required a steady putting forth of energy the day through we suc ceeded in making our school grounds much more attractive. Miss Cheatham gave a lunch par ty at the school house last Thursday evening. You see it was on Thanks giving; that jolly time of the year which, next to Christmas, is the most happy time of the year. So everything conspired to make the occasion almost ideal. Even those, who came a long dis tance were impressed with the beau tiful weather as even the generous moon lent it silvery beams to dis pel the darkness altogether. The school house was tastefully decorat ed for the occasion. The color scheme of white and green was beautifully carried out. After disposing of the bountiful lunches there was a very interest ingen w?s declared to be the most poetical one of the occasion and carried away ?he prize of six lovely handkerchiefs. The last, but not least enjoyed, was an old-fashioned cake walk of which Mr. Willie Bush was the lucky winner. Well, Thanksgiving with its en jovment has passed by like a sweet dream and now follows a rush, her alding the approach of Christmas. U. D. C. Programme. The United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet at the resi dence of the president, Mrs. J. II. Nicholson, on the afternoon of Dec. 8, at 3:30 o'clock. After the open ing with the Lord's Prayer, and a business session, the . historical pro gramme will begin by a paper on "Why Fort Sumter was Bom barded", Mrs. Mamie X. Tillman. A Message from the President-Gen eral. Mrs. Daisey McLaurin Stevens delivered at the Savannah conven tion, will be read by Mrs. R. A. Marsh. Founder of U. D. C., Mrs. Lovick Smith. The report cf the Yorkville meeting will be made by Mrs. Mamie Lake, the historian. The musical number will be ren dered by Mrs. W. S. Cogburn and Miss R?sela Parker. A Test for Liver Complaint Mentally Unhappy-Physi-, cally Dull. The Liver, sluggish and inactive, first shows itself in a mental state unhappy and critical. Never is there joy in living, as when the Stomach and Liver are doing their -vork. Keep your Liver active and healthy by using Dr. King's New Life Pills; they empty the Bowels freely, tone up vour Stomach, cure your Constipation and purity the Blood. 25c at Druggist, Bucklen's Arnica Salve excellent for Piles. B, and Morgan, Company K, were both wounded. Lieuts. Weeks, Com pany C; Tatura, company B, and Millen, company H, were severely wounded on the field. I would specially commend the gallantry and devotion of the litter corps, under private Joseph Breland. They kept up with the regiment and rendered prompt assistance to the wounded several of them being themselves wounded on the field." Frank Stovall Roberts. Washington, D. C. * Petitions Will Be ?ireulated Asking For an Eleetionjbn State-Wide Proh?ion To THE PEOPLE OF EDGEFIELD Cot In all movements or reforms, pa^^ularly moral reforms, the failure to constantly press forward, ultimately means retrogression, and as tho forces of evil are never idle, it behooves those who ?re interested in the moral uplift of the country to be equally as alert and active. Had Judge John Belton O'Neall ?nd others among pioneer prohibi tionists in South Carolina been satisfied with what had been achieved, and rested upon theiroars instead of there would doubtless to-day be-a distillery or licensed tavern at practi ideavoring to win other victories, As we are now enjoying the striven in the past to stem the 1 and the strong publi : sentiment constrain me to believe to the cally every cross-roads in the count fruits of the labors of those who ha' tide of intemperance, we in turn should press forward with renewed zeal to the end that conditions be stu?jmore improved for those who shall come after us. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberation from the dom ination of whiskey. It is generally known that theresa movement on foot looking to the placing of South Carolina in lin^jftfth the fourteen States that have adopted State-wide prohibition, whichjff carried to a successful conclu sion wiil forge another link in the chop of national prohibition. It has been the pride and boast of?Edgefield county in the past that she has always been found in the foreffrcnt of, every movement having for its purpose the betterment of South Carolina. Will she be found lagging in this exigency? The progressive spirit and intelligence of our people, the quickened public consciem against the sale of intoxicating liqi contrary. The plan adopted at the recent prohibition conference in Columbia . provided for the immediate circulatia&of petitions in every county in the State asking the legislature to ordern election upon the question of State-wide prohibition some time next|summer. As next year is an off year, politically, the question can the|better be settled upon its merits as a moral issue, being divested of p?i?cs and the personalities of can didates for office. ''??. There is practically no doubt thatg?he legislature will act favorably upon the petitions, as the members o??fe general assembly are servants, not masters, of the people. Furthermore, the request is a reasonable one. The lawmakers will not be aske$to enact a State-wide prohibition law, but simply to provide a way f?rike people themselves to pass upon this vital question at a time when it ?$0 be stripped of all political com plications. In my judgment it would not beV\yise for the legislature to pass a prohibition law merely upon the pr^aitation of petitions asking that such a law be enacted. But, on the jjra|er hand, to refuse a request that the people be allowed to vote on the ?u?stion would be an untenable po sition, one that the wise and prudent servant of the people will not .take. \ "There is a tide in the affairs of men . finch taken at the flo.-jd Meads on to fortune; mittedi-allth-voi^. ^ir-Hfe. bound in shallows ancf miseries. " As with men, so with a State. These lines from Shakespeare are apropos at this juncture in that there is alaw-enforcement, anti-whiskey wave sweeping South Carolina, and if we fail to turn this opportunity to profitable account by voting out whiskey altogether, the future voy age of the proud old Ship of State may be hopelessly "bound in shallows and in miseries." As dispensary sales in some small towns in "wet" counties are said to be almost as large as the sales of grocery stores, dry good stores and drug stores combined, it is probable that the people in those counties viii welcome an opportunity to vote out the temptation. As long as there is a dispensary in easy reach, appetites for whiskey will be grati fied, even if, owing to the reduced income incident to the financial stringency, comforts and necessities for the family have to be curtailed. There has been a perceptible revulsion of sentiment concerning the right of a dispensary county to demoralize adjacent counties through the sale of whiskey. There are many persons who believe that Lexing ton county should not be permitted to establish a dispensary at Bates burg to the demoralization of the people of Saluda. Why is it that the question of local or county option is seldom or neyer raised except with reference to whiskey? The eleven dispensary counties that claim the right to sell whiskey to the disregard of the other part of the State did not demand that they had a right to plant their usual acreage in cotton next year when the recent cotton reduction acreage law was enacted. :. Their planting a normal acreage next year would militate against the interests of farmers of adjoining counties; hence they were very properly denied that right and included in the State-wide law. But at present they are allowed to sell whiskey to the injury of farmers' sons and laborers in adjoining counties. See the manifest injustice of county option as at present applied? Let's come nearer home. The abatement of the whiskey evil is not the only thing which requires a State-wide law. We already have hun dreds of State-wide prohibitory laws on the statute books, among them being a law to prohibit the purchase of seed cotton except at certain sea sons. Suppose Aikm county should claim the right to purchase seed cot ton ad libitum and were permitted to do so under the law. Through the exercise of this right or privilege, Aiken citizens (purchasers of seed cotton) would cause farmers of Edgelield county untold annoyance and loss by having their cotton stolen and carried to Aiken under cover of darkness. Would not Edgefield farmers and merchants who hold mortgages of negroes' cotton rise en masse and demand that Aiken county be included in the State-wide law, and denied the right or privilege of purchasing seed cotton to the injury of EJgefield? Aiken is now under the State-wide prohibition law with reference to seed cotton, consequently our people do not suffer. The object of the prohibition movement is to put Aiken and the other dispensary counties under a State-wide law with reference to whiskey, so Edgefield and other counties will not suffer from whiskey. If we would rise in our might to protect and promote our material interests, should not the people of Edgefield county be all the more ac tive in stamping out that which does infinitely more than injure our peo ple materially? Being a member of the prohibition executive committee from Edge field, it becomes my duty to have the petitions circulated in every sec tion of the county. In a few days these petitions will be placed in the hands of one or more persons in your community, and I very earnestly invite the hearty co-operation of all who are interested in the cause of temperance, to the end that Edgefield send up a large petition to the legislature. I appeal especially to the members of the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union, who are always ready to lend a helping hand in the matter of winning prohibition territory. Discuss the prohibition movement with your friends as you chance to meet them, and urge them to sign a petition whenever an opportunity is given them, thereby making it easier for those who will take upon them selves the work of circulating the petitions. J. L. MIMS. TRENTON TOPICS. D. ?. R Feast Thoroughly En joyed. Parade a Pleasing Feature of Thanksgiving Day- School Sociable. Th? 'Thanksgiving dinrer gi vpn, by the D. A. R. Chapter wa3 a suo sess 'sociably and financially and a nice sum was added to the funds al ready on hand, with which the Daughters hope atan early date to build a hall with a library in con nection. The parade of baby car-, nages, wagons, bicycles and ponies was a much enjoyed feature of the afternoon and brought out a large number of interested spectators. The beautifully dressed babies, in their beautifully decorated carriages presented a picture of perfect love liness, and when the decision was made by the judges, Mrs. Leila Leppard, Mrs. Bettis Cantelou and Miss Lucile Cul lum, it was found that the prige bad been awarded the carriage with decoration* of yellow and white, the occupant be ing pretty little Mamie Frances Miller, baby of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Miller. This is Trenton's first at tempt along this line and it is only a beginning of what promises to be undertaken on a larger scale another year. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Leppard have returned to their home in Co lumbia, after having spent the week end with friends and relatives here. Mrs. L. D. Crouch with ber ex pression class and several well train ed choruses gave an entertainment atthe8chool house on Friday eve ning that again evidenced her abili te as a teacher. Each girl did her self proud and showed careful train ing, but special applause was given little Eloise Crouch who at the age of four made her appearince on the stage and gave a perfectly dear lit tle speech. After the program was . concluded Mrs. Crouch served re freshing supper to the large num ber :of guescs-preser^--- . - - Mrs. A. C. Penn who has had such a long spell of sickness is con valescing to the delight of those who know and like ther. During her sickness the attentions from her friends have been exceptionally ten der and beautiful. Mr. and Mrs. Garland Coleman are enjoying the pleasures that a beautiful new Ford is capable of giving. Mr. and Mrs. John Bryan gave a delightful dining on Thanksgiving day, to which were bidden quite a number of congenial friends. Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse were the honored guests from Edgefield. A Tribute to Confederate Sol dier. I have known Mr. J. H. A. Wil liams nearly forty years. The first time that I ever met him, I was then drawn to him as with hooks of steel, and I always found him the same congenial spirit. He lived it seemed all the time on the sunny side of life. But he has crossed to the other shore, and we are satis fied that he met his Pilot face to face at the crossing. How he will be missed at home, at church and in the community. He was a man with clean hands, pure lips and a heart full of the milk of human kindness. All of his dealings with his fellowman was done "on the level by the square." He was a gal lant Confederate soldier of Co. A. lUth South Carolina regiment and was called the peacemaker of the company. When any of the bo\s would get into a scrap' he would quell it. He was i man who loved his country, his convictions were strong, based upon truth and hon or and he had the manhood to stand by those convictions. May his mantle fall on some one who will as worthily wear it. His life is an open book that may be read of all men. He has fought a good fight and kept the faith. In life he was pa tient, kind, generous, humble, cour teous, unselfish and sincere; even to the last wearing the ornaments of a meek and quiet spirit. He has fought the fight, his armor has been laid aside, his warfare has ended, the victory has Jbeen won, and his memory is blessed. In this my last tribute let me say farewell. From afar I salute my friend, who still lives in my heart, who still in spires my life. J. Russell Wright. JOHNSTON LETTER. . Mr. Hart Caught in Gin, Died of Injuries. Visited County Home. Thanksgiving Service. On Sa turd ayjaf tern oonjMr. Clar ence Hart had his arm caught in the gin in east Johnston and suffer ed a fatal injury, the arm being almost seyered. He was taken to the home of Mr. Witt, and medical aid immediately summoned, and it was found that amputation would be necessary. From loss of blood he was too weak for this, and it was decided to await the operation until Sunday afternoon but his strength ebbed fast, and in the early after noon he died. Mr. Hart was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hart, of near town. About 4 years ago, he married Miss Miss Bruce of Wards and his widow and two little chil dren survive him. Mr. Hart was a noble Christian young man with many traits of character; he was always a dutiful son, and was a kind, loving husband. His death is a most deplorable one-one so young, so full of promise, to be suddenly taken. The brother and sisters are Mr. Julian Hart, of Syl vania, Ga., Mesdames Mary Ida Brannon, of Spartanbnrg; J. P. Kneece, of Batesburg; Teague Price, of Florida; J. S. Rambo, of North Augusta, and Kathleen Hart. The interment was made 1 ti the Mt. of Olives cemetery where other mem bers of this family are- at rest. About a year or more ago, Mrs. A. P. Lott, as missionary work, would have the tenants of their farm gather on Sunday afternoon out under the shade tress, and she would Tead the scripture to them, H giving kindly advice, and teach the truths of God*! word. This work developed and soon the or ganization grew so large, that they began to use. an out , building to '. gather in and were.,aoie to conduct the services. ' The interest grew and ' soon a church was wanted*, so Mr. Lott very generously gave the site for tne building and the negroes went to work getting the material ready during spare time. A negro preacher, who was a carpenter and at work here grew- interested and when the schoel building was com pleted, went out to help his breth ren without any remuneration, preaching for them on Sunday. The church was dedicated on last Sun day and it was a happy day for all who had labored so faithfully. Dr. W. S. Stokes with several of the white friends were present he preaching the sermon. Mrs. Lott spoke of the work and of the good that she expected would be accora plished. Mrs. M. A. Huiet and Miss Kl iza Mims presented a beautilul pulpit Bible for the church, which was highly appreciated. According to their custom, the members of the Mary Ann Buie chapter, D. of C., packed a large Thanksgiving basket on Friday morning which they carried out to the County Home and spread for the inmates. The arrival was eager ly expected and when the feast was spread each had two plates, one fill ed with substantials and another with sweets, also a bag of oranges, apples and bananas was given each one. The fruit was contributed by the school children of the grades taught by Mebdames M. A. Huiet, L. C. Latimer. After they had en joyed their feast, visits were made to each home to see those who were not able to get about, and later, all that could went to the little chapel nearby and a service was conducted by Rev. M. L. Kester. He told gos pel truths in a sweet simple manner so that each might grasp a thought. During the year at intervals, Rev. Kester has been coming out and preachiug to these unfortunates. As steward of the County Home, Mr. Scurry is an ideal one. Each inmate spoke of how good he and his wife were to them and how they loved him. Mr. M. T. Turner who has been ill with typhoid fever for several weeks is still in a very critical state. As is the case in fever of this na ture, there are favorable appear ances only to drop back to the con tinued high fever. His condition was alarming on Sunday and Dr. ~ Houston, of Augusta, under whose treatment he has been all thc sum mer was with him during the dav. (Continued on Fourth Page)