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A ES for keeping , the County Poor House for the year ]8!H. will he received by thei County Board of Commissioners at ( their oftiue until the tlrst Monday in September at 12 o'clock, M. Bids must he made at a tixed sum for each inmate per month. The | County will furnish the land free of I renl I4..I.II.W. ...?i I. -1 - I will ?1ho be furnished. Houtl will be required ?f the successful applicant, | in I lie Hum of two hundred dollars, M for faithful performance of duly. ( 'l'lie li^ht to reject any ami all bids ta reserved. I,. J. PKRUY. County Supervisor. C \l The I jnixuiHter I t? liraileil Sdiiiol TlIK NKXT session of tho Lun * caster Graded School begins Septetnlier Kith, 1897.?The building has been enlarged recently and ^ Ihc teaching force augmented. ? ^ o We are now prepared to give es-1 I * vial attention to. pupils prepar-! ^ ing for a college course, or for special classes in a college course. 1 Terms reasonable. For furtb- j cr information address A. M. H ANK IN, | Su|>erintcndent. Aug 17. 1*97?lmo. r ,tl Registration Books Open. " r IN A''COIt DANCE with the Act of 1M06 providing for thw registration ofeleetors, the hooka of the Supervisor* t' of Registration will I?? open at th?* .? court hou->1* on the tir.il Monday i <> each month for the registration of?lt*c tora entitled to registration and k | ' o|ien for three successive days in eacl o month until the general election of r?9H. W. G. A. Porter, It. M. Kirk, p It. J. Flyr.n, H Board of Registration. Wov 18, 189fJ?tf. I H< SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. P (Complaint Her veil.) c ?TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, j: COUNTY OK I.ANCAH I'KR. R Court of Common Plea*. <7H Wolfe, Plaintlfl", "against r< It W Wolfe, Defendant. To the Defendant It W Wolfe : t] You are hereby summoned and re- .1 quired to answer the complaint in this , action, of which h copy is herewith u eer ved uiatn vou and to a copy of your auawer t.; the said com- *1 plaint on the 8tihacril>er at hi* office ^ at 1 anca?ter Court House, County of J>aiicuMter. and (State of South Carol!- fi na within twenty daya after the *ervlce hereof, exclusive of the day of auchaervice; und if you fail to answer () the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in tliia action will a apply to the Court for the relief de? . tnanded in the complaint. . l< Dated April 27th. 1897. t? R. K WYLIE, Plaintiffs' Attorney. ? 1 W.H.I, PORTER, ' C. C. C. L. C. tl To R W Wolfe, non-resident Defend- JJ a,,t: ti Take notice that the mimmon* and complaint in the al>ove action waa ll Hi led In the ortlee of W H I, Porter, .i clerk of the circuit oourtfor said Conn- 1 tv end Htate, at Lancaater Court ci House, on the 27th day of April 1897. Dated April 27, 1897. " R E. WYLIE, t, PlaintlflV Attorney M 21-8ir. t mm SIMTEENTH. listory of a Famous South Carolina Regiment. [CONTINI KD FROM I. \st 1ssu K. ] The history of the Seventeenth tegiraent t?y Col F W MeMustcr j p to July 1 s*?4 was published in he lust issue of tiik i.kimskk. Wo ' esume it this issue with the ATTLF. OK CltATKR, jii.Y 30, 18G4. j Before this battle Lieutenant. 'olonel Means was severely j rounded ut Boonesboro and disbled for field service, and Major 'ulp succeeded hint as Lieutenant 'olonel. Adjutant .1 W Connor i ras killed in the trenches Junej 0, 18(54, and Adjutant S K Funt j ras appointed. Two years ago I wrote a full ccount of this great battle, which rus printed in The State and the. 'harleston News. This short ketch is to show the principal huso of the disgraceful defeat of he federals. To understand it right a short account of the round must be given. (ten Beauregard, Isdng hotly iressed by Hancock's overwhel-1 ,: / i > nug nircfB, iiuiMo me line in one ight, the men digging the ditch nth their bayonets anil tin cups, 'lie next morning the enemy ' ocing an earthwork, feared to j ttack, and erected a line of ortitication nearly paralled to ur lino. The nearest approach, .'here tho mino was afterwards ug, was eighty yards. Captain l'cgratn of Col Coit's rtillory occupied the crest of the ill with four guns. These guns ere exposed to the lire of tho nemy's big guns a niilo north ml n few travesses wcro ejected, tinning l?nek from our ditch about liirtv feet. The bulge made by lie battely was called lVgram's alienl, sometimes Elliot'* sali- ! nt. The ditch widened in rear of lie hottery and was called the orge. This gorge was that day ceupied hy the Eighteenth and 'wenty-sccond regiments, many f whom, including Col Fleming' nd Adjutant Quattlchum, were ntomhed. Company A of the seventeenth was in the northern ortion of the (Jorge and was not eriously injured by the explo? ion. Near 5 o'clock a m 8,0001 ounds of powder blew up the rest of the hill, overwhelming 'egram's battery, the Eighteenth nd the Twenty second, leaving, ne Twenty-third cut oil from the list of the brigade. Eighteen lousand of the enemy crossed tieir breastworks that day. Some i i- ? *? juusHuuH occupied mo crater and iany thousands were piled like irdinen on the front of our breast rorks. At least fourteen beautinl banners floated in tho crater. j (ien Klliott, with Col. Smith f the Twenty-sixth, in about half ri hour came up to the crater and jld mo to follow Smith; he in- j inded to charge the enemy out f the crater. Then he and Smith dth a few men gallantly climbed | lie counter-scar]) of the ditch, ; '.lliott leading. In a very short me ho was shot through tho houldor, was drawn down in*o lie ditch and with wonderful alinncss ordered mo to take com land. Mr ranking colonels, lienow and Wallace, who ranked me, ^ere both absent on account of sickness. ve I ordered (V,! Smith to take his tr< regiment, with Captain Crawford, an Seventeenth, with Companies B, \v< II and K. The detachment of th< the Seventeenth contained 100 A1 men and 1 ho Twenty-sixth regi- eei 7 ? ment about200. th Smith was ordered to go down ve the trench, turn to the left to 'm Elliott's headquarters on a spring ^ branch 150 yards to the rear of sft our line; then to turn to the left again and follow up a ravine or dr swale until he came to the break by in the line made by the crater, yvl keep concealed as much as possi ba ble, to lie down, and when ncces- wi sary to rise up and resist all ef forts of the enemy to pass down sit the hill. At this time the only wr gap iti our line was the crater. cJi The covered way ran by El Se liott's quarters, and had the cne wt my passed Smith's men they could j br have gotten behind our artillery . an and easily captured Petersburg j >v< and the left wing of Beauregard's; ga corps. at Smith was in position about t? o'clock a. m. The enemy occu- nil pied the crater and the small part A?( of the gorge which was not blown ; *,r up. Those who attacked the I ? unnt kiii-n . C 1 jFill l ?11 imr unewerei"1 easily repelled l?y the Twentythird with the assistance of a part' " of Wise's brigade, and the few brave men on the left oi the erater who attempted to bounee our Wl breastworks were l>ayoneted. j ^Cl Now notice that the court of p"1 inquiry which was called by the federals to whip out their dis- ctt graceful defeiU at the crater 111 brought to ligTit that Meade or- ce r.. ... <iere<l liurnsKJo, immediately after 10 the exposition, to rush his men to Ml'1 Cemetery hill, nhout S00 yards |en northwest from the orator. Ear- lls ly in the morning Meade sent < I ispatches to Hurnsule: 'l'ush on to Cemetery hill!' 'Why don't , s" you push 011 to Cemetery hillC s 'Why <lo you not push on?' 'I P' understand that none of your men are beyond the orator.' l?urn-iNNJ side became so irritated bv the dispatches, which came so thick NV! and fs>t, that he sent back an in n'' suiting answer. Major Poweil, who was in the crater, gives a graphic account of l'' the men there. The heat was in- ^ tense men with tongues hanging out, packed like herrings, Sic. ' Not more than 1(H) could use their guns towards the west. The guns or were mu/./.Ie loading. The sides were slanting and the men had to W1 lie down to shoot, and then turn on their backs to load. The commands were so mixed it was difficult to get the men to- *r' gether. However, in the court of inquiry, it was proven by four or or five officers that at least three or four charges were made down co the hill. One high officer said he charged and 200 or 400 men rose ^' from a breastwork nn<l drove his men back. Smith and Crawford 11 informed me after the battle that v" they made four or tive charges, U'ltPtl f liotr - ?' * 1 ? ^ ....... viiv?j ttinim nxt1, sjivo mom W a volley, and would run back. These repulses saved Petersburg, ' beyond doubt. The enemy, finding it impossi- m' blc to get* into the swale, '>ogan to direct their efforts to the left flunk of the Seventeenth, and their superior force was no Advantage w there. Not more than four or five be j men could fight at a time there, ot When they reached a traverse al I twenty-five or thirty could be en- th gaged. Karly in the fight a tra K rat was cut oil by forcing ?o|ts down the ?lit?rli a few d twenty-seven ??f eompnii ire captured; 11 few jumped < B traverse and saved theinsoi II tiling of artillery and iufai used, except occasional gin e trench. The men in the rse would guy each other, tl youcnts and lumps of clay, was the laziest lighting 1 w; it seemed a petty skirn The whole distance we ' ivert down the ditch, measi ' Mr Bcrnnrk of Peters!) lojgrote aline history ol ttle from a Virginia stamlpi is only 100 yards. About N:30 a m the enemy le the breastworks set "net ike up and made a ten urge on the left part ol ve?\|eenth, which by this is beaten down to Kausi igiulc. The tiring was ten d the North Carolinians, ;re crazy to get into the ti ,vc volleys which emulated t Big Manassas. A judgi y seemed to come to the ijgers, and three thousar inn ran back, jumping over i east works and carrying it rnado :it least uthousand ol lite; troops. Major Powell says at eade issued jK>sitive order trnside to withdraw his tr out the crater; hut huri intcd to wait until night, h nrful tliat it would donior e army. Just after this great repi used hy Hansom's right unc^Ctd .the Seventh, ,ti ased. Bushrod Johnson i i!ii3 in coiue 10 iMIiott s li miters. 1 turned over the teentll to Captain Steele, 1 got to headquarters Mai me up. After lieing in trod him, 1 pointed out Smi mil squad at the head ol w a I e as the o n aee to form his command, ort time a magnificent eh is made. Our men jumped o ditch and let loose the doi ir, and they devoured the ] groes. Nearly the wholi u ditch was recovered. In cecssive charges the halam 0 ditch and the crater wen n. Mahone had (ieorgia hihama troops with him. A o'clock the crater was captu Mahone was made Major < al and Captain (Jirardy lhig: eneral two days afterwards, ithstanding the Y ankees hippe<l before they came up At .the court of inquiry ief of ordnance said he hat nuble with his S4 guns tosil e enemy's guns; but four j 1 his right he had not prof r before the battle, and uldn't locate them during ittle. Tho little gun (M ibl>es's gun) 1 knew of b< e attack, but as soon as oops readied the crater ould send a squad and ca] The four gun batter" >necttled by woods. They "right's guns under Co rait. At the time of the battle (! Imitted a loss of 5,000, our as estimated at 1 500. >KT HTEADMAN, MARCH 25, 1 Another experience uni ith regiments occurred at ittle. The seventeenth, her troops, captured the >out daybreak. We rem) ero about three hours, unworn ordered (ion Wallac our; send his strongest regiment over I feet n sharp hill elose by, in rear ??f h y 1> the fort. 1 sent the men left in over front. As 1 crossed the top of h ves. the liill 1 met Capt Edwards com- 1 ntry ing out with u severe wound in ' is in his shoulder. As I struck the j 4 tra- | road 1 saw the men lying down, * irow Georgia troops being on our &c. right. 1 saw a two gun battery t ever shooting up the road leading from < lish. | the new line of the enemy. 1 I were sent Adjutant Fanttothe general. ( ired ' requesting permission to ehaige t urg, 'the battery, as 1 could capture it 1 F tho easily. He replied that orders ?. >int, | were to remain in my place. I < sent the second time and got the i out Isli,MO reply. Seven men were ( j . ] killed, and we were notable to re- 1 ible l)'-v* mcn were getting de r f ^|u, moralized, and I sent the third c time time. Gen Wallace replied: < >nrs 4<Gen ^j(>? s,iyK you must not \ rific ' niove il foot." " a who 't was appalling to be shot ' gilt without the ability to return tliei* hose j t,rc- An incident in French his- 1 nent|t?ry then occurred t'> my mind. t poor Eonaparto said to an olliecr:jt al of | "General, take your brigade to ( their that pass and drive the Mamadukes i the hack. You and your men will be j f the killed, but you will save the I honor of France." The general', 9:30 replied: "Yes, sire." And the; s to gallant soldier pulled out an old s oops !M'lver watch and said: "Sire, lside|N*nd that to my wife." The in | lein" c'dent is romantic, but not at all | . ft t t alize comforting to me under the circumstances, ilse, The cannon ceased to lire and . i regi- the infantry began to pour out l?y irinij .fours and double-ouicked^ast our j sent* left. Major Avery y lu n.r<| j end- and told 1110 we all would be ( Sev- captured. I replied: "(ion Lee and has ordered mo not to move a| lione j step, (ioback to your place and need tire at the column as best you ran." j ith s Shortly Adjutant (iomlcloek of I the (ion Wallace'- stall", ran over to ' V mo and ordered me to take mv I" !l men as rapidly as possible. As I arire followed mv men, "Old l'hillips," mto|(,f Company I, my faithful courier | 's of at the crater, came to me and said poor |1(. was fearful ot my being shot, ' . jind lie would go with inc. Soon we came across a boy of Company j (,f (i, named Hush, with a broken i ta- |,?g. ]!,. begged me not to leave] und him t?? the Yankees. I ordered bout ('apt Neely to lu-lp Phillips. In a 1 tred. moment a lilue coat presented his *en- musket and ordered nie to surrend. 1 r idier it.r. I shouted at hiui so fiercely not- that the soldier seemed paralyzed. I svero Luckily for me, Capt S () Tyler j slapjw'd his hand on my shoulder ; the j and said: "Colonel, don't get j ' no i excited. You see we have your |i once works." I looked and saw over! guns 500 men in Fort Steadman. The. aired otiicers, Capt Tyler and Major ? I he of Cum Wheaton's staff,! the ! courteously declined to take my I' lajor ; sword, but I requested Capt Tyler I; jfore j to keep it for mo, which he prom- | our j is?d to do and return it to me|' they Uifter the war. The sword blade j dure'had been struck with a fragment ' was i ,,f a shell and the scabbard warred | were with two minie balls in different lonel j battles. 1 was tearful the bum-j. mors would take it from mo when mint | got to the rear. I wrote to (Jen loss Whoaton twice after tlio war to j tin<l Capt Tyler's address, but the S65. letters were returned. The seeisual rotary of war politely informed this nie that Tyler canio from Her- ' with keimer county, N Y., but I could fort n?f lin<l him. nined When I was in prison 1 was in- i Gen dignant at the sacritice of my re e to giment, and on my return home i . - w >' I UJv in?Juirt*?i of (Jon Wallace how it appened, and In: told me when ie reported to (Jen Hanson that le hud ordered Col MeMastor to ake his command, which was the argest regiment, Hansom replied: 'I am sorry for poor Col Me daster; he will he sacrificed.'* Lee's plan was a good one, hut ho Fates were against him. He irdered (Jen Beauregard to take *ort. Steadinnn hy daylight and Jen Pickett to leave sentinels on lis lines from Richmond and 'etersburg, and to join Beauregard's men soon after the fort was laptured, and with his 10,000 neu cut otr the left wing of irant's army. But the railroad iroke down ami he was unahle to each Petersburg. Lee wasalarni (I for fear the onemv would barge his lines, which were dcileted in taking Fort Steadman, aid it was necessary to relill them ?efore he could recall his troops. Ience he had to gain time by hreatening (Jrant. This caused he enemy to move slowly, and his was the cause of the sacrifice >f the seventecnt h. FOKT sr.MTKU. The regiment had another item >f interest in its history. Capt i It Mills of Company K had 20o lien of the ficvnntpfiil li ?? WV.fi iunitor for two weeks during its everest bombardment in 1S63, miler Major Klliott, and only wo men were killed. These experiences of the seven oenth will, 1 hope, l>c of some nterest to old soldiers. If it will ncite other olHcers to sketch the listory of their commands, it will K? a pi ?do ? oriau. \ Principally for the survivors of he seventeenth theso short sketches i < vn;u 11 tuiyi-, (jui un^amer, told mo n good anecdote of tho [?1 uck of the Confederates. At Appomatox his command, consisting of 200 men, were drawn up in line and tho order was given to charge innumerable odds. A part [>f his men came to a muddy place; some nifui picked thoir way. There was one tall, gaunt private, with a tattered Yankee overcoat. The man looked like he hadn't a pint of blood in his body. Parched corn is not a fattening diet. When the word "Charge" was given, bedashed through the mud, raised his gun and fired at the enemy, turned round to his comrades, waved his old wool hat, and shouted: "Come on, gentlemen we aro giving tbcm hell." A this moment a courier came gal loping by, waving a white flag Gen Wallace unluckily did not ge^ the name of this noble soldier. F. W. McM. nu niiui.ii. i am proud 1 was he successor of the jjooil ami loblo Col .1 A Means, ami 1 am iroml of having commamleil the seventeenth for three ami a half rears of its history. F. \V. McMasler, ('oloncl 1 Tth S. ('. V. 1\ S. ?After lnv capture, the ie vent cent h in its retreat from 'eterslmvir was in the battle at .1atelier's Run. At Five Forks he regiment was attacked by at east men ami partially sur'oumled. Lieutenant Colonel ,'ulp was shot in the head, and he iml a majority of the men were :aptured. Sailor's Creek was the lext battle. Then came the ejniotl innle \iiiiiini?tnv llir> /!..?- /.f -1 "II * .* "* mrrender. Near 50 men of the ogiment were there, and Major \very, Cnpt Steele of Company 1 md Adjutant Kant were each severely wounded. I I.... ur?li ? L-..:.? M