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THE HERALD ADVETISINEAT8. Advertisements inserted at the ratect I PUBLISHED - and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. EVERY THURSDAY MORNING ouaveolumn advertisements ten per - - - Notices of meetings,obiisandatibufa.' At Newberry, B.{0.o es* sae rate per suare a ordin - Special Notices in Local column 15 cen: BY TR Og. P. (IRXEKER, p" ine. Advertisements not marked with the nunia ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid Editor and Proprietor. charged Accordingly. Terms, $2.00 per .unum, Invariablyin Advance. A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets &c. the paper is stopped at the expiration of time for which it is paid. T WIT NAE AND D AU tre X mark denotes expiration or sub Vol. XVIII. NEWBERRY, S. C., TH URSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1882. No. 33. cption. IWHAT IS HOME. Home's not merely four square walls Though haung with pietures nicely gilded; Home is where affection calls, Filled with shrines the heart has builded. Rome, go watch the faithful dove, Sailing 'neath the heaven above us; Home is where we've one to love, Home is where there's one to love us. Home's not merely roof and room; Home needs something to endear it; Home is where the heart can bloom Where there's some kind heart to cheer it! What is home with none to meet, None so welcome, none to greet us? Home is sweet, and only sweet, When there's one we love to meet us. McGOWANS' BRIGADE AT TIE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS. By Capt. J. Fit James Caldwell, 1st Regi ment S. C. V., McGowan's Brigade, in Charleston Weekly News. When I sent the manuscript of my history of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade to the printer, nearly sixteen years. ago, I thought I bad written my last historical sketch in connection with the War of Secession. I had com piled a severely simple narrative of events which, with few excep tions, had occurred within my own sight. I had taken all my figares from official reports. I had compared my own recollec tions with whatever contemporan eous documents I could find in the Brigade, and with the recol lections of many of the most in telligent and observant of my comrades. I had studiously avoided all prejudice for or against any individuals or commands. I bad carefully omitted the mention of any occurrence which could tend to my own praise. I had endeav cred to be just to the Federal -soldiery opposed to us; and bav ing thus prepared my account of those times, I felt that I bad made -botwever ill-written it mii bt be -a more substantial contributior to history than I could expect to make again. And I was fearful that, if I should write again, it might be that personal feeling, or the seeming demands of the oc casion of my writing or the in distinctness of memory which ne cessarily follows tbe lapse of time, m lead me into inaccuracies ch were to be avoided in -themselves, and which would be injurious to that reputation for veracity and fairness which I1 was most anxious the book should en joy. And 1 remained of that minud until quite recently HISTORIcAL ERRORS. But there has been so mueb erro nons talking and writing in re gard to the conduct of McGowan's Brigade,and several other brigades, of Hill's Oorps, en the 6th of May, 1864, and so little has been said or wrritten in correction of these er rors, that I feel it my duty, at least in behalf of those of my com rades-in-arms who are not left amongst us to speak for them -selves, to make the effort to have the truth known. The general account in this re gard is, that the Divisions of Wil cox and Heth, after fighting the enemy courageously on the 5th -of May, were suddenly assailed on the morning of the 6th, and'driv en in confusion and panic from the field-or more accurately, through the wilderness of woods -antil Longstreet arrived with fresh troops and restored the day. Now a great deal of this version is true-lamentably true; but it is very far from being the whole tr-uth, and it does grievous injus tice to those commands. But in order to appreciate the history of that morning's mnisfor tune it is necessary to be acquaint ed with the facts and occurrences which led to it. THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. The month of May, in the year 1864, found Gen. Grant occupying the left bank of the Rapidan, and the country for miles north and west of it, with an army of about 140,000 men, and Gen. Lee with his army of a'b>ut 64,000 men, . about 55,000 infantry and artil cupying the month bank of the se river, except so far ar detached t1 cavalry or a few t odit of de- sa t-.:-hed intantry were no;rti of the river from Baruett's Furd west. fri On the 4th of May Grant was found to be crossing large bodies of troops -at Germania and Eiy's ea Fords, as if directing his narb-1 CO towards Richmond. E wel's Corps, Ce consisting of Eurly'e, Jobno:n's .t and Rodes's Divisicns, was at once la despatched down the turnpike or road, whicb ru's- from Orange a Courthouse to Fredericksburg. - and follows the course of the Rap- ou idan more nearly than any other t? highway thereabouts. A. P. Hills bu Corps, consisting at. that Lime of; a 1 Heth's and Wilcox's Divisions, th< was moved down the plank-rcad, fit which leads from Orange Court- ha house to Fredericksburg, but o'< which runs farther east than the Fc turnpike, and is about parallel 11y with it in the Wilderness. Long- W street's corps proper, which con- it3 sisted of Field's and Kershaw's he divisions, was at this time en- th camped about Gordonsville, wbere it it had been placed on its return, a ca few weeks previous, from Ten- ea nessee. Anderson's division re- an mained near its winter quarters id on the Rapidan until Longstreet wE arrived from Gordonsville, and was then added to his two divi- wt sion-s above named, and rarNhed Al with them and behind them to an wards the enemy. I know that' th Ewell's corps moved down the w: turnpike, and that our two divi. AE sions, Heth's and Wilcox's, moved ve down the plankroad, and that ho these two divisions constituted fr< Hill's wbole command that was ha present at th3 opening of the m battle on the afternoon of the 5 thjcwu on the plankroad, and that they "i were the only troops on or in ?i striking distance of the plankroad a i at daylight on the 6th. The w plankroad and the turnpike di- s; verge from caeh other at Orange alE Couri louse. and tey econverge a oc ;;+rt distaUce wes of, Chancel- E, lorsviile, ;i,d about tiree miles a east cf the point wh,re Ewell nc met the enemy on the turnpike, ha and about the same distance from an where we encountered him on the to plankroad. The two roads are an not distant from each other more - than three or three and a half rit miles at any point, probably; and ne thus it would seem, from a mere 113 inspection of the map, that Hill's tw and Ewell's two corps, marching of abreast and so little 3eparated in on space, virtually conistEtuted a body be of five divisions of troops moving op together to confront a common ba enemy who sought to march past an them towards Richmond. But be the fact is that the country which tb each command rezphed when it as arrived about Mine RBun was so wi rougn, so densely wooded, and so Bt wanting even in farm-roads run- to ning frorh one of the two main an roads to the other, that the two dia corps were thoroughly separated tit from each other-more the! ough IF, indeed, than if six or eight miles of the open country had lain an between them. I mention these a details in order to show how iso- th lated Hill's two divisions were from all other commands of thep army, until Longstreet brought br up reinforements on the morning be of the 6th. SlC M'GOWAN'S MARCU McGowan's Brigade, of about~ th eighteen hundred men, and con- or sisting of the 1st Sonth Carolina no (Gregg's) Regiment, the 12th tal Soith Carolina, the 13th South to Carolina, the 14th South Care- Ai lina, and Orr's Regiment of Ri- bh4 fle's left their camp at Orange th Courthouse on Wednesday, the fir 4th day of May, at about 11 ou o'clock in the forenoon. They wI marched through Orange Court- th house and along the plankr-oad, th until dusk, when they went into' pa bivouac with the rest of the two t divisions of the corps, in thbe for ests it which lie along the southwestern th edges of the gloomy, matted, sap- t ling covered region known as the fo; Wilderness. We neither- saw norm heard the enemy that day. We pt lear-ned that he had crossed them Rapidan, and we apprehended Ri that he was moving either to- te wards or across our line :>f march ; ro i.n en (id. not enCounter C-Cfn a cdl out that day, and the ni in e woods was calm and peact ui, v so orong, as our soi'2ler" re uined awake busied :out tleir igal supper, or iaking pre:::ra. >i for their rest upon ti* gro;, ud. The march was resumed at an rly bour the next morning, .nd Itinued witbont interruption, cept for an ocCasional brief rest, til about 4 o'clock, or a little or, in the afternoon. About 12 1 o'clock we had a giimpSe oi ew mounted men of the enemy ten or twelve in number-on r right, and at the distance of o hundred und fiftv Cr thnee ndred yards. These rode off in 'ew seconds, however, and we )ved on. We now began to d where the leaves in the woods d been fired, and towards three lock, or thereabouts, we saw a deral trooper, here and there, ng dead by the roadside. Thus re we admonished of the prox of the enemy. But so far we ard no firing, as I noz recall e history of that day, althotgh is said that Ewell's corps be me engaged with the enemy as rly as noon, along the turnpi:e, d not rrore thnn five or six les from the point where we 're at that time. Heth's division of four brigades Ls in front of ours-Wilo's. about 4 o'clock we-McG:w 's brigade-were marched fr.m s plankroad to the lefr, and to Lrds Ewell's point of operations. we were leaving the road, or ry soon after we left it. we ard the fire of skirmishes in mt of Heth's division, which d been *posted in line of bat tie adra;:ce of the poin;t vs here we itted the plankroad, and acr'o:s at road, at about right an-'3h:s th it. We were marched za. rile westward and as we moed heard Heth's fire gra'iu::ily ell to a continuons roar. a;nd. -e o new heard musketry and .n easional boom of' artil ! rel"'s front, with which we i ined wve were intended to r:n. et. BUt we were soon narc" :d tk rapidly to the piank r'? d our brigade was deployee in line of battle across the road d at about right angles with it the 1st Regimeut being the :ht of the brigade. 0'r's Rifles xt it. then the 12th, then 'he th, then the 14th. The f'rst o regiments were on the ri" ht the plan kroad, the other three the left of it. Now the bat tle tween Heth's division and.their' ponent.s raged fiercely, and Is whistled through our ranks d over our beads in large num es. Oue shell from a gun of a enemy exploded in the road the 1st Regiment-the one to iich I belonged-crossed it. t the ground was too flat and closely wooded for artiiiery, I I do not recollect hearing the charges of artillery from that 2e till night. THE ADVANcE. We moved forward. eheering, d passed over Heth's men. The rance was difficult through the ickly set saplings that covered c>bably several hundred acres of >und here, and over the logzs, asb and other impedimients to found in a wild forest. Be es, we could not see the ene r, and could not expect to see em beyond the distance of' fGIrty fifty yards; so that there was definite point in the great, igied, smoking, roaring wood ward which to direct a charg~e. id, ini addition to these tron is, Heth's men, mostly lying on a ground, kept up a scatte:iig e through our ranks and over, r heads, it was difficult to ar,y iieb, after we bad pa.sedin~ air front. The rer-ult. then was at our men slacke'r.ed tei ee, g'auua!ly opI" d ar e,!t e touch. aid tina;iy halted . A od w~as no doubt quite as weo I zat ey should act as theyv dd, for e place did not admiit of eba'e -any distance, inasmuch as.ri mnts soon became separate and rsued different courses, n >ved at unequal gai'. The fies bo.r'e away from ie irst, aiding more towards the plank ad. Thec First somuew bat ebug its t..ant to the right, to rely to the tremendous fusillade that was poured into them from that G!:reetion. The 12th-the most rapid and resolute command in a 'Iarge I ever saw-drove for ward through the thickest woods, and were soon lost to us in the great mxistrom of the enemy's lines; the 13th and 14th had to coutent themselves with resisting the masses hurled against them on the left. CHARACTER OF THE FIGHTING. I dislike to incur the suspicion of that contemptible wea'ness, vanily. but I can best describe the character of the fighting here by relating what befell me and those just about me. When we first halted and opened fire the range of tie enemy's balls was very higb; indeed, I remember reaching up with my sword to the scars upon the trees to show the men around me how wild our adversary's aim -was, and using thai to impress upon them the importance of low, accurate firing on our part so as to destroy the line opposed to us before they ascertained our range. But the other side soon depressed their sim to our level, and then, in spite of the sapling trunks that caught a thousand balls from us, we suffered fearful damage. We were but one line, while the ene. my, on ~account of their greatly superior numbers, were able to renew theirs more than once, so that before long we found our selves much thinned and weary as we knelt among our dead and crippled comrades. There seemed, at first, to be other Confederate troops on our right, not greatly separated from us, who appeared to keep back the enemy in that quarter. But aft3r half an hour or more I heard no firing there that seemed to rroceed from a continuation of Our line, bat heard the fire of the enemy on that flank gradually iproach towards and centre up oU us, attracted no doubt by the firing of our regiment. Pretty on this cross firing became most confusing and disastrous, so much ,o that Lieut-Col. Shooter, con manding the First Regiment, yielded to my urgency and moved the regiment a little back and faced it so as to front pretty well both fires. Orr's Rifles had in the mean time con pected with our left. Then some other command -niot of our brigade-moved out [rom the direction of the plank road to oar assistance and on our right, but the impetus of the on ward pressing e'nemy on that right flank pressed back every. thing, so that we had to align ourselves along the plankroad with our front at right angles with our former front. The troops on the left of the road were not subjected to so much of this flanking process, but, after being withdrawn a space, held their ground very wvell, especially after Thomas's georgia Brigade, of our division, were sent in upon their left. There was at one time a demon. stration made to the left of Thom ts, but skirmishers were sufficient to stop this, aided as they were, perhaps, by an open space there commanded by several pieces of our artillery. Scales's Brigade, of our division, was put in on the right of the plankroad. The two regiments there gave place to them, and then all five regiments -the Twelfth having already rought its way back into our lines -were placed on the left of the road and fought up to a point a little beyond where the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteeth had first begun their movement in line. And thus the battle raged Lad swayed, neither line making ary material alteration as regards distance from the po.i tion it oc en pied a!. the beginnii ng r.f the fray. The son set and tUe ta'i light fell, and still the tumult and earnage went on, 'till darkness at length enveloped the great forest and men lay down weary, sullen, powder stained, blood stained, to sleep and wait the renewal of day and battle. LOSSES THAT DAY. We had upwards of four hun-, dred men killed in this battle of1 nearly four hours' duration. Tbere had been upwards of a hundred men, out of not more than chree btndred in all, killed and wound ed in the First Regiment. Gen. McGowan's assistant adjutant general. Capt. Langdon C. Has kell, had his horse killed under him; Lieut. Geo. Allen Wardlaw, the Generai's aide de-camp had his horse killed under him. Col. John L. Miller of the Twelfth Regiment, had been killed ; Lieut. Col. Bookter, of the same regi ment, bad been wounded, it was then thought. mortally. Six or seven other officers in the brigade had been killed, and at least twen ty more wounded and put hors de combat. There was scarcely a man of us who had not been bruised by spent balls, but we did not count these contusions ae wounds. THE POSITION AT NIGHT. Now, while we lay confronting our adversaries, the posture of affairs was about this: Ewell's Corps, after fighting at least dou ble their numbers from noon till night, held about the same posi tion as at the beginning, and were lying down against the ene my; as we may say, across the turnpike road, and not yet stretch ed far enough to reach our line. The troops in front of us consisted of Hancock's Corps, (2d) which embraced four divisions, and also Getty's Division of Sedgwick's Corps. Col. Taylor, in his 'Four Years with Gen. Lee,, estimates the force of the five divisions un der Hancock at 45,000 men. We had about 15,000 men in the two divisions of Wilcox and Heth. Hancock bad upon crossing the Rapidan on the 4th marched past Chanccllorsville, and about ten miles northeast by east from his present position towards Shady Grove Church, clear to the right of the f'ankroad. When recalled towards the plankroad on the morning of the 5th, he had moved along the Brock road and tbus came to the plankroad from the right. He, therefore, naturally struck the right of our line as we were deployed straigbt across the road. As fresh bodies of his troops came up into action they naturally came on our right, and almost clear upon that flank. The result was that the pressure was much the gre'atest on the right end of our line, and so great, by overlapping, as to bend back our right towards the road. And this was the object of his attack, to double back oar lines from the right, so as to get between us and Richmond. Gen. Lee, with his usual sagacity, quickly divined this scheme of Grant, and there fore he sent Longstreet out to wards the right or east, so as to enable him to fall upon Haucock from that side and crowd batck Lhe Federal army to the iRapidan. DID LONGsTREET LOITER. Longstreet; therefore, did not follow us down the plankroad but struck out from it eastward, so as to get around Hancock's left and strike him on the Brock Road. When did Gen. Lee expect him to strike that blow ? Was he ex pected to move more rapidly tban be did? Was he to be so ad. vanced as to be able to deliver his blow at daylight on the 6th ? And did he linger non as he had lbngered just before he lost Lee the battle of Gettysburg and sacrifiued all those gallant soldiers in vain assaults against almost im pregnable positions ? And was it this loitering of Longstreet that caused Lee to change bis order during the night of the 5th and direct Longstreet to come to the reinforcement of Hill? Or was the change made simply because Lee found that Hill's two divi sions were about to be overpow ered and must be reinforced upon their own, line ? I cannot answers these questions ; but my belief is that all of them arc to be an swered in the affirmative, except the last, and that in the negative. And my reasons are as follows: the best metbod to assist Hill's corps was to strike Hancock on his left, for that would not only disable him from using that left to envelop and crush us, b-ut, ifthe stroke was: swift and hot enough, it would no doubt force him to reinforce that point by taking troops from our front. If Longstreet could have struck Hancock's left at daylight, or at sunrise, on the 6tb of May, I have no idea we should have en countered even a skirmisher's at tack from him that day. Besides, there was no prospect for a vie tory if Hill and Longstreet were merely to push at the front of Grant's huge army. Our force, so excessively inferior in num bers, being little more than one. third of Grant's must strike some vital spot of his line, flank or rear, so as to roll up the lines upon themselves, derange the calcula tions of their generals, and crowd them together in confusion and dismay. And, as I have said, this was unquestionably Lee's plan at the outset. However, we read that. Longstreet roused his men at two o'clock on the morn ing of the 6th, and marched them toward our position on the plank road. During the night McGow an's Brigade was gathered in bivouac (except pickets who were out in front) on the left of the road, and immediately against it, about the place where the left half of the brigade began its ad vance in line in the afternoon. Some of them remained for apart of one night further advanced with Thomas's Brigade ; but I believe that all of us, except such of the Battalion of Sharpshooters as were on picket, collected at the point above indicated before day. light. THE MORNING OF MAY SIXTH. The dawn of day discovered us lying in bivouac, and therefore without regular 'arrangement, along the left and northwest of the road, while the greater por tion of Heth's Division, Thomas's Brigade, of our division, and per haps Scales's Brigade, also of Wil cox's Division, lay in the same condition on the right or south east side of the road. The enemy were quiet, except that here and there a rifle was fired along the picket line some little distance in the woods in front. Gen. McGowan began, as soon as it was light enough to see well, to have his regiments collected together so as to establish his line again, and Gen. Thomas set about the same thing just across the road from us. When our division commander, Gen. Wilcox, rode up to us, G-en. McGowan informed him what he was doing, and asked himi what direction he had to give as to the place and direction of alignment. He agreed that Gen. McGowan's idea of resting his right on the plankroad was proper, and that the line should run out about right angles with the road. But he added thationg street was expected to be on the spot in a few minutes with 25,000 fresh troops, and that it was not to be expected that Grant would rene w the attack before 10 o'clock. And these two opinions were by no means confined to G-en. Wil cox. So these two brigades were formed abreast of each other, Thomas's stretching out from the plankroad to'ethe right, and ours reaching from the plankroad to the left, the order from the road being as follows: First, the T welfth Regiment, then the Fourteenth, then the Iirst, then the Thir. teenth, then Orr's Rifles, which was separated from us and placed some distance to the left. If there was another brigade or another regiment in line on this tront of the army I do not know it. I know that I could see no other line than that formed by these two brigades, and I know that I saw a considerable number of men, just in rear of Thomas's brigade, crowded together with cut apparent organization and just as they had bivouacked, partly ying, partly sitting, partly stand ing' among the trees. These I supposed to be a portion of Heth's Division, but I never knew who they were. Where the remain ing two- brigades of Wilcox's Division were I do not know. There may have been some line on Gen. Thomas's right, but I saw none. THOMAS BEATEN BACK. Very soon after Gen. Wilcox lef as the scattering fire, which had bee going on along the picket line som hundred and fifty yards in our front became much more rapid, and by the time our line of battle was establisbe< it increased to dimensions which as ured me that a line of battle was at tackint our. pickets. Our sharp hootera, though deployed as skir mishers and therefore making a ver; scattered line, met this Sre with thei laal coolness and-dctermnination, and though vastly outnumbered and heavi ly pressed, gave back but slowly anc iring to the main line. Just as this body was comin1 ubrough our line and we, havins 'one of our own people in danger o being shot in our front, were pre )aring-possibly, in a few instances beginning-to return the enemy' ire, though we could not see then hrough the thick growth, I heard s reat noise of men and the disoharg( )f rifles on the right of the plankroad md looking thither saw the un trranged mass of men in Thomas'; rear beating a rapid retreat, partly ;hrough the woods and partly up th 3lankroad. Thomas's men stood thei ground for a time, firing, it seemed t< ne, at some ememny in front ; bu ;hen I saw them gradually give bacl from the right towards the left, unti inally they seemed to be pushed clea: ff their ground,*and I saw a densa Alue line of the enemy sweep fron :he right up to and along the road [ thought at once that the enem; bad struck Thomas's flank and hi front at the same time, and that wE bad now but a renewal of that effor o double back on. our right fan which had been so strenuously bu Lbortively attempted thIe evening be fore. sat, be that as it may, it i rvery certain that a line of the enem; ;warmed up and along the plankroat )n our right at the same time th ine in front of us engaged us. M'GOWAN FLANKED. These occurrences occupied a ver ~ew minutes-the gathering of th enemy at the plankroad but a fe1 Jeconds, perhaps--but I remembe itaring with astonishment at th ,ause those flankers made as the3 ound themselves upon the flank a >ur brigade. I did not think s( hen, for I supposed they stoppe< with surprise at seeing an organizec >ody of Confederates where they ha< xpected to find either no soldiers a mIl or else only fugitives ; but I hay mince concluded that these Federa oldiers felt and yielded to an admi -ation for the calm devotion to dut; txhibited by a line of Confederate ?acing deliberately a line of battl urging up against their front, and a he same time standing in full rang, fa fire from flank and rear-an ad niration quite of a kind with tha which awed the bands of Brennus it he presence of the Roman Senate. An< oubtless they felt pity for us, doom d,as we seemed to be, to destrue ion, yet so steadfast to our duty. An< heir words indicated that they de mired to spare us, for more than oni f them called to the men o he Twelfth, bidding them throv lown their arms aud save their livej y sur,ender, and adding, as I havy ieard, that they did not wish ti laughter them. A WITHERING VOLLEY. I, of course, could- not hear an: words that passed between thes< odies of men, for I was distant fron hem the length of~ more than tw egiments, but I watched the paune with intense interest, for I knev hat the result must greatly affect th< whole brigade, to say nothing of thi xciting character of the spectacle ii tself. The right wing of the Twelfti eemed to wheel gradually to th< ight so as to front the enemy, an~ when this appeared to have been ac omplished by one or two companies hese fired an almost simultaneon volley right in the face of the assail uts, under which their line for onsiderable distance seemed to stag ~er and recoil. Whether calculatinI ipon this effect or not, the~ Twelfti lowly moved back, and this move nent extended gradually through th bhree remaining regiments of th4 >rigade which were on that line. Th mnemy in front egtinued their ap. >ro eh, but slowly. We did not fo Smoment think of yielding to thei ressure merely, for we felt confiden four ability to shatter any one lie hey could muster against us ; and, in deed, they never caused any damage t amongst us which we would have re- E garded sufficient to justify a retire-,= went before them, but our veteraa soldiers knew as well as any genera in the army that the onward sweep: of the line upon our flank would-At, least give them the mqst murderous enfilade fire conceivable dow 'our, ranks, and indeed in our rear, even ifr they did not pursue their course far enough to cut us off from the rest of the army. I say now, as I said then : that it would have been nothing short- of suicidal maduess for our men to stay there. It was plain that there were no troops at hand to drive back these liees on the flank, and that th could in the space of a minute or two almost utterly destroy us. Under s . a fire no troops could be mananvau into a ehange of front to meet them and, if such a change could-have bees effected, we should then have those who now fronted us pouring tbeir volleys into our left flank and ear We had met a somewhat sinsi z flanking party at Fredericksburg, asd successfully, but there was not at the time a line opposed to our front ti . whom we had to turn our flankmi changing front. If we had fronted but a part of the brigade in the n direction, we should then have be < und-er a cross fire of the most catar character. FALLING BACK TO THE GUNS. So the men gradually moved bac. i saying-and I heard this from a go -r many in the ranks--that we would re= establish our line on the pieces f artillery, (Poague's Battery or a part of Poague's Battalion) which stooC.d about two hundred yards in our rear,'; on the only open ground up there and t beginning at about thirty or itbr yards from the plankroad. The mep did not run. I do:not remember seeing one moving at eves I the double-quick. I know I did not double-quick or run a step, and yet. L, kept pace with my company. They did. not march in order, of coure-_ this was no drill-ground-but they went coolly apd steadily. -And if a' man went ten yards to the rear of the r artillery I did nc' see him. The-Riea_ on the left marched to us in line... battle, cheering as they came, andI am inclined to think that this cheer ing had the effect of persuading.the enemy that reinforcements were cor ing in, and therefore of causing both-. the line in front and that on the right flank to pause and heoltate, and haps to stop and await. from our side. Th -to the artillery. given this distance i istory of the brigade - as t .undred yards; and the ac-1 count there was written within ten months of the battle, when my recol lection was so clear and positive that I was ready to make oath to the ~statement. I now question whether the distance was quite so great ; T ar sure that it was not greater, and I think that I have about as accurate an - eye for distances on.land as any man of my acquaintance. Of course, it is 2possible that I am mistaken-thatlt am mistaken to the extent of as much as fifty' or sixty yards, but the man who convinces me of such a mistake must bring me a more accurate meas urement than that of his eye. HILL AND LEE. The line was speedily,. reformed. Everybody seemed anxious to be ready to meet any of the enemy who; - would come to us. Gen. A. P. Hill rode up to us. He was a man of dar ing gallantry, and not patient*with runaways, yet he saw no occasion to 2 reprove us. I stood in tfiirty feet of him. He only bade us align our selves as rapidly and accurately as possible. Gen. Lee galloped up from the rear. He did scold us, but he knew nothing of the circums which had compelled our retirement, and I afterwards heard that he ex pressed regret fobr having chiddenu s as he did. KERSHAW'S BRIGADE. From the time we abandoned our -former line there was only a scatter ing fire from the enemy on the left'of the plankroad. There was more firing on the right of the road-the general firing through the woods which Fedi eral soldiers so often indulged in aftz . abeing once engaged, whether they could see a Confederate or not. About the time our line was rearranged, the 2d South Carolina Regiment, of Ker, shaw's Brigade filed Qut oftb7 aplankroad, prl idh .road, and partly just . to