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BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAUOLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879. VOLUME XIV._NO. 44. i THE GENUINE DB. C. MoLANE'S Celebrated American WORM SPECIFIC OR VERMIFUGE. 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Has boen spoken of tho rib. Not enjoyment, aud not sorrow, Id our destined end or way; But lo act that each to-morrow Finds us nearer marriago day. Life is long, and youth is Hooting, And our hearts, though light and gay Still like pleasant drums aro beating Wedding marohes oil the way. In tho world's broad field of battle, In tho bivouac of life, He not like dumb driven cattle! Bo a horoino-a wife Trust no future, howo'er pleasant, Let. thc dead past bury its dead! Aot-uol to tho living Prcsont! Heart within und hope ahead! Lives of married folks romiud us Wo eau live our Uvea as well, And, departing, leavo behind us Such cxumplcs as shall "toll." Such examples that another, Wasting timo in idle jport, A forlorn, unmarried brother, Seeing, shall toko heart and court. Let us, thon, bo up and doing, With a lu:?>i r, un tri um pu act, Still contriving, still pursuing, And cacti ono a husband get. THE LAS r STRUGGLE. <*ou. Gordon licscribc* Mic <U losing Scene? of thc Wat*. A TO VCUING NA li RA Tl VE- TUE WEAK AND FA MINE. S TRI CA EN ARMY TEAT SURREN DERED AT APPOMATTOX. Thc latest and ono of tho most thril ling of tho war sketches published iu thc Philadelphia Times is Gcu Gordon's ac count of thc closing strugglo of thc great war which ended nt Appomattox. Thc story is more interesting bcoausc it has never beforo beon published, uo official reports having ever been made of thc Con federate operations during the memora bio fortnight preceding tho Otb of April, 1805. Gcu. Gordon, after giving a pitiublc picturo of tho condition of Lee's army, worm,ut, stretched over a linc of twenty mites end 1 tcrally starving, goes on to say: Beforo daylight ou tho morning of the 2d of Mardi, 18(35, Gen. Lee sent lor mc. I mounted my horse at once und rode to tho Gcucral's headquarters. I reached tho house ia which ho was staying at 4 o'clock in tho morning. As I cntorcd thc room to which I had boen direotcd, I found Geo. Leo aiono. I shall never forget thc scene. Tho General was standing at the fireplace, his head on his arm, leaning on tho mantel piece- thc fust time I SAW him so thorough ly dejected. A dim lamp wns buming on a small ocntro table. On the table was n muss of official reports. Gen. Leo re mained motionless for a moment after I oponed the door. He thon looked up, greeted mo with his usual courtesy, mo tioned mo to tho littlo tnblo, and draw ing up a chair sat dowu. I sat opposite him. TUE CONMTrON OP THE ARMY. "I havo sent for you, Gen. Gordon," bc said, "to moko known to you tho condition of our affairs, and to confer with you as to what wo had best do." Thc night was fearfully oold. Thc firo and lamp both burned low os Gen. Leo wont on to give us thc details of tho situa tion. "I havo herc," ho said, "reports sent in from my officers to-night. I find upon careful examination that 1 have under my command, of all arms, hardly 45,000 men. Th eso men aro starving. They aro already so weakened as to bo hardly otfioiont. Many of thom have bcoomo despcrato, reckless and disorderly as they havo never bcon before. It is difficult to control men who aro suffering for food. They aro brooking open mill,H barns and stores in scaroh of food. Almost crazed from hunger, they aro desorting from somo commands in largo numbera and going homo. My horses are iu equally bad condition. Tho supply of horses in thc country is exhausted, lt bas como to bo whore it is just ns bad for mo to have a horso killed as a man. I oannot remount a cavalryman whose horso dies. Gon. Grant oan mount ten thousand men in ton days, und move around your Hank. If bc woro to sond mo word to-morrow that I might move, out unmolested, I havo not enough horses to movo my nrtillory. Ho is not likely to sond this mcssogo, however, and yet," smiling, "he sent mo word yes terday that ho knew what I had for break fast ovory morning. I sent him word that I did uot think this could bo PO, for if he did know ho would surely scud mo some thing bettor. But now lot us look at tho figuros. I havo, ns I IIDVO shown you, not quito 46,000 men. My mon aro starved, cxhaustod, siok. His tnou aro in tho best condition possible. But beyond this thorp is Hancock, at Winchester, with a foroo of probably not less than 18,000 mou. To oppose this foroo I havo not a solitary violette. Sheridan, with his terrible cavalry lins marched almost unmolested and unop posed along tho James, cutting tho railroads and oatml. Thomas is approaching from Knoxvillo with a force I estimate at 30,000, and to oppose him I havo a fow brigades of badly disciplined cavalry, amounting to probably 8,000 io oil. Gen. Sherman is in North Garoliun, and, with Schofield's forces, will have 65,000 men. As to what I havo to'oppose this force, I submit tho following telegram from Gen. Johnston. Tho tclc grom roads: *Gou. Beauregard telegraphed you a fow days ago that, with Gov. Vance's Homo Guards, wo could carry 20,000 men into battle. 1 find, upon oloso inspection, that wc en ti ti ot muster over 13,000 mon." (This, Gen. Gordon said, was os nearly as he could recollect Gen. Johnston's toicgram.) "So there is tho situation. L have hero say 40,000 mon ablo for duty, though nono of my poor fellows aro in good condition. They oro opposed dircotly by an nrtuy of 100,000 strong und confident mon, nnd converging on my littlo force four separate armies numbering in tho aggregate 130,000 more men. This forco, added to General Grant's, makes over a quarter of a million. To prevent those from uniting for my do afr net iou thcro nrc hardly 60,000 men available. My men aro growing weaker duy by day. Their sufferings aro terrible and exhausting, my horses aro broken down and impotent. 1 nm apprehensive thal (?on. (?rant may press around my flank und out our solo remaining line of supplies. Now, General, ho said, looking mc straight in thc taco, what is to bo done?" Wit. this he laid his paper down and leaned baot in his chair. WHAT IS TO 15R DONK? I replied: "Since you have done inc th? honor to p:ik my opinion, I will give it Tho situation, ,.s you portray it, is infinite); ?volSc tba" i had >iteamed it was. I camm doubt I but your information is cor.rcct. j um confident of thc opinion, thcroforc, tba only two thing.? should bo done, nod u i once. Wo must either treat with th United States Government for tho bes terms possible, or wc should concentrate al our strength nt ono point of Grant's lino scleoiing Eouio point on tho right flank c tho Appomattox-oFBault him, brcu through bis linos, destroy bis pontoons, an then turn full upon thc flank of bis Iel wing, sweep down upon it, and destroy i if possible and then join Gen. Johnston i North Carolina by forced marches, nn combining our urmy with his, full upo Sherman.'' "And what then?" "If wo beat him or succeed in making considerable battle, then treat at ouco ft terms. I nm forced to tho conclusion froi what you say, sir, that wc have no time fi delny." "So thot is your opinion, is it?" bo nskc in a tone that sent thc blood to my face, ought to have remembered that it was way Gon. Lee hud of testing tho sinocri of a man's opinion by appearing to discrcd it. "lt is, sir," I replied; "but I should n have ventured it hud it not been asked; ot since you serin to differ from tho opinion bold, moy I ask you what your opinion is] At once his manner changed, and leann forward, bo said blandly: "I entirely ngrco with you, General." "Do President D.ivis und thc Congre know these facts? Have you expressed i opinion ns to tho propriety of making teri to President Davis and tho Congress?" Gen. Loo roplicd to this question: "Gon. Gordon, I oin a s/idicr. It is t duty to obey orders." "Ye?," I replied, "but if you read t papers, Gen. Lee, you cnu't shut your oj lo thc fuct that thc hopes of tho Southe people aro centred in and on your aru and if wo wait until wo aro beaton u OOnttcrcd into tho mountains before wo mo an effort at terms tho people will not satisfied. Beside, wc will simply inv thc enemy to hunt us down all over I country, devastating it wherever they gi Gen, Leo suid nolhing to this for BO timo, but paced thc floor in silence, whit sut gloomy enough us you may know nt I fearful prospect, Ho lind doubtless thou) of all I said long beforo and had dnci; probably on bis course boforc ho sent mc. I don't wish you to understand tho nm vain enough to believe for a mom that anything I said induced him to gc Richmond tho next day. As I said boh ho had doubtless deoided upon that nlrcn and only feigned a diffcronoo of opinion hesitation in order to sec with what pei nnoity I hold my own. Ho did go to Ru mond, and on his return sent for mo ngt and in reply to my question as to what I occurred, bo rcpliod: A FIGHT DETERMINED ON. "Sir, it is enough to turn a man's 1 gray to spend ono night in that Congr Tho mombors aro pntriotio and earnest, they will neither toko tho responsibility noting nor will they clotho mo with nutho to act. As for Mr. Davis, ho is unwill to do anything short of independo,ice, feels that it is useless to try to treat on t bnsis Indeed, ho says that, having fa: in one ovorturo at Hampton Roads, lu not deposed to try another." "Then," eaid t, "thoro is nothing lofl but to fight and tho ooonor wo fight bettor, for evory day woakcus ui and strengthens our opponents." It was tiloso two oonforcnocs that led to tho desporoto and almost hopeless attaok I made on tho 25th of Maroh on fi ran t's lino ot Fort Steadman ond Hero's Hill, ia front of Potorsburg. After giving tho details of the last des Scrate und partially successful assault on train's linos, which ended in tho with drawn! of the half starved viotors from tho captured works, Generr.t Gordou con tinues: And then tho death struggle began. Grant hurled his masses upon our starved and broken down veterans. His main attaok WOB mado upon our left, A. P. Hill's corps. Grant's objcot was to turn our flanks, got botween us end North Carolina. Tho fighting was fearful and continuous. It was a miracio that we hold our lines for n single day. With bardy 6,000 men 1 was holding six miles of linc. I had just 1,000 men to tho milo or about one to every two yards. Hill and Longstreet were in not much bettor trim and some part of this thin lino was boing foroed continually. Tho main fight was ou my lino and Hill's, as Gen. Longstreet was nearer Hiohmond. Heavy masses of troops woro hurled upon our lino and wo would hovo to rally our forces at a certain point to moot tho attaok. By tho limo wc would repel it wo would find another point attacked and would hurry to defond that. Of course, withdrawing men from one part of tho lino would leave it exposed and tho enemy would rush in. Then wo would drive them out and rc-cs tablish our linc. Thus thc battle raged day aftor day. Our lino would bend and twist and swell and break and close again, only to bo battered ogninst once more. Our people performed prodigi o of valor. How they ondurcd through those terrible, hope less, bloody days, I do not know. They fought desperately and heroically, although they were so weakened through hunger aud work that they could scarcely stand upon their feet and totter from one point to another. Hut they never complained. They fought sternly, grimly-as men who had mndo up their minds to dio. And wo held our lines. Somehow or other-God only knows how-we managed day by day to wrest from the Fed?ralo tho last ?ooh of our lines. Then thc mon, dropping in thc tronches, would cat their scanty rations, try to forget their hunger and snatoh an hour Or two of sleep. THE EVACUATION OF PETER8nURO. Our picket lines Were attaoked some where, every night; This thing went on till tho morning of tho 2d of April. Early that day it became evident that tho supreme moment had come. The enemy attaoked in unusually heavy force, and along the linc of mino Ond Hill's corps. It bc arno absolutely necessary to concentrate men nt a few points along my lino, in order to make a determined resistance. This left great gups in my linc of breastworks uoprotcotcd by anythiug save a vidctto or two. Of course, thc Fcdornls broke through these undefended passes, and established them selves in my breastworks. At length, having repulsed tho forces attacking tho points I defended, I began re-establishing my lino. My men fought with a' valor and a desperate courage that han been rarely equalled, in my opinion, in military annals. Wo recaptured position after position, and by 4 o'clock in tho afternoon 1 had re-er tablished my whole line except at ono point. This was very Strongly defended, but L profcrred to assault it. I notified Genora) Leo of my purposo und of thc situation, when ho sent mo a messsge, telling ino that Hill's lino had been broken and that Gen. Hill himself had been killed. Ho ordered, therefore, that I should make no further fight, but prepare for tho evacuation, which bo bad determined to make that night That night wo left Petersburg. HiIPe Corps, terribly shattered aud Without iti oommandcr, crossed thc Tiver first, and J followed, having orders from Gen. Leo tc cover tho retreat. Wo spent tho night ir marching, and carly the next morning th< enemy rushed upon us. Wo had to turi and beat thom back. Then began the mos heroic and desperate struggle ever sustained by troops-a worn and exhausted forco o hardly 4,000, men, with a VJ ut and victo rious army, fresh ond strong, pressing upot our hcols! Wo turned upon evory hill tor to meet thom and give our wagon train? and artillery limo to get ahead. Instantly they would strike us. Wo invariably repulsed them. They novcr broke throng! my dauntless heroes, but after wo ha< fought for on hour or two wo would fini hugo masaos of men pressing down ou flunks, and to koop from being surroundoi i I would havo to withdraw my mon. W , always retreated in good order, thougl always undor fire. As wo rotroatod w would whoo) and fire, or ropol a rush, am stagger on to the noxt hill top or vantog ground, where a now fight would bo made and so on through tho entire day. A night my mon had no rest. Wo mardie through tho night in order to get a littl respite from fighting. All night long , would seo my poor follows hobbling along prying wagons or artillery out of tho mud and suppl om on ti og tho work of our broker > down horsen. At down, though, tho would bo in lino ready for battle, and the would fight with tho steadiness and valor c tho Old Guard. THE I,AST COUNCIL OP WAR. This hinted until tho night of tho 7th < April. Tho rotroat of Loo's army was li up with tho firo and flash of battle,, i which my bravo men moved about lilt demigods for live days and night?, Thc we wore- sent to the front for a reot end Longstreet was ordered to oovor the rott eat iog army. OD the ovoning of the 8th, wheo I hod rcDohed the front, my scout, George, brought mo two men in Confederate uniform, who, ho said, he believed belonged to the cnomy, as he had soon them count ing our men as they filed past. ? had tho men brought to my oampfire qed examined them. They mode a most plausible defence, but George was positive they were spies, and I ordered them searohed. He failed to find anything, when I ordered him to ex amino their boots. In the bottom of one of the boots I found an order from Gen. Grant to Gen. Ord, telling him to move by forced marohes toward Lynchburg and out off Gen. Lee's retreat. Tho men then confessed that they were "Jesse's" and belonged to Gen. Sheridan. They stated that they knew that tho penalty of their course was death, but asked that I should not kill thom, os the war could only last a few days longer, anyhow. 1 kept thom prisoners and turned thom over to Gen. Sheridan after tho surrender. I at once soot the information to Gen. hoe and a short time afterward reooived orders to go to his head quarters. That night waa held Leo's last council of war. Thero was present General Leo, Gen. Fitzhugh Leo, as head of the o?valry, and Pendleton, as chief of artillery and myself. Gen. Longstreet was, I think, too busily cugoged to attend. Gen. Leo then exhibited to us tho correspondence he had had with Gen. Grant that day and asked our opinion of the situation. It seemed that eui render ?as inevitable. Tho only chance, of csoape was that I could cut a way for tho army through the lines in front of mo. Gen. Lee asked me if I could do this. I replied that I did not know what forocs woro ia front of mc; that if Gen. Ord had not arrived-as wo thought theo ho had not-with his heavy masses of infantry, 1 could out through. I guaran teed that my men would out a w&y through all the cavalry that could bo massed in front of thom. Tho oouneil finally dis solved with tho understanding that thc army should bo surrendered if I discovered thc next morning, ofter feeling tho enemy's lino, that tho iofantry had arrived in such force that I could not oat my way through. My men were drawn up in tho little town of Appomattox that night. I still had about 4,000 meo under mc, as thc army had been divided into two commands and given to Gen. Longstreet and myself. Early on tho morning of the Otb I prepared for tho assault upon tho enemy's lino and began tho last fighting done in Virginia. My men rushed forward gamely and broke tho line of tho enemy and captured two pieces of artillery. 1 Was still unablo to toll what I was fighting. I did not know whether I was ?triking infantry or dis mounted cavalry. 1 only knew that my men were driving them back, and were get ting further and further through. Just, then I had a message from Gen. Leo, tol ling mo that a flag of truce was in existence, leaving mo to my discretion as to what course to pursue. My men were still push ing their way on. I Bent at onoo to hoer from Gon. Longstreet, feeling that if ho wan marohing towards me, we might still out through and carry tho army forward. I learned that ho was about two miles off, with his men faced just opposite to minc, fighting for his life. I thus ssw the case WOK hopeless. Tho further oaoh of us drovo the enemy tho further wo drifted apart and the moro exposed Wo left OUT wagon trains and artillery, whioh Was parked between us. Every tiree either of us broke only opened tho gap the wider. I saw plainly that tho Federals would soon rush between us, and thoo there would- havo been no army. I therefore determined to pend o flag of truce. I called Major Hun ter, uf my Btoff, to mo and told him that 1 wanted him to carry a Sag of truce forward. He replied; '.General, I have no flag of truco." I told him to got one. Ho replied: "General, wo have no flog of truoo in our command." Then said I: "Then get your handker chief, put it on a Ktick and go forward." "I have no handkerchief, Goneral." '.Thon borrow one nud go forward with it.'? Ho tried, and reported to mo that thore was no handkerchief io my staff. "Then Major, uso your shirt!" "You seo, General, that wo all hove on flanael shirts." At last, 1 believe, wo found a man who had a while shirt. Ho gave it to us and I toro off tho buck and tail, and rigging this to a Ktick, Major Hunter wont out toward tho enemy's line's. I instructed him to simply soy to Gen. Sheridan that Gon. Loo had written mo that a flag of truoo hod boen sont from his and Grant's headquarters, and that ho oould act as ho thought best on this information. Ia a fow moments he oamo book with Major-, of Sheridan's staff. This officer said: "Goo. Sheridan requested me to present his compliments to you and to demand the unconditional surrender of your army." "Major, you will please return my com pliments to Gen. Sheridan, and tay that 1 will not surrender." "Hut, General, ho will annihilate you.' "I am perfectly well< a woro of my situa tion. I simply gave Gen. Sheridan nomi information on which he may or moy no desire to not." Til K FLAG OV TRUCE. ITo wont baok to his linos and in a shon timo (?orv. Sheridan oamo galloping for ware on an immense, horse and' attendod by < very large staff. Just her? atv inoidont oe curred that caine near having n serious end ing. AH Gen. Sheridan was approaching I ? notiocd one of my sharpshooters drawing his riflo down upon him) I nt onco called to him ?'Put down your gun, sir; that is a flag of truce!" Hut ho never raised it. ile simply settled it to Iiis shoulder and was drawing ti bead on Sheri dan, when I leaned forward and jerked his gun. He struggled with me, but L Anally raised it. I then loosed it and ho started to aim again. I caught it nguiu, when be turned his stern, white face, all broken with grief and streaming with tears, up to me and said: "Well, General, then lot him keep on his own side!" The fighting hod continued up to this point. Indeed, ofter thc flag of truce; a regiment of my meu, who had been fighting their way through towards where wo were, and who did not know of a flag of truce, fired into some of Geo. Sheridan's cavalry. This was speedily Btoppcd, however. 1 showed Gen. Sheridan Gen. Lee's note, and ho determined to await events. He dismounted, and I did tho some. Thon for tho first time, tho mon seemed to understand what it all meant. And then tho poor fellows broko down. Tho men cried like children. Woro, starved and bleeding as they were, they hod rather havodicd than have surrendered. At ono word from mo they would havo hurled themselves ou thc enemy and hnvo cut their woy through or have fallen to a a mau with their guns in their hands. But I could not permit it. Thc grand drama hod boen played to its end. But men aro seldom permitted to look upon such a sceno as tho otic presented there. That these men should havo wept at surrendering so unequal a fight; ot bciug taken out of this constant carnage and storm; at bring soot back to their families, that they should havo wept nt having their starved and wasted forms lifted out of thc jaws of death and placed onco moro before their hearth stones, was an exhibition of fortitude and patriotism that might set on examples for oil time. THE END. Ahl sir, every ragged soldier that si r rendered thnt day, from tho highest to tho lowest, from thc old veteran to thc beard less boy, evory one of them, 6ir, carried n heart of gold in bis breast. It made my heart bleed for them, and sent tho tears streaming down my faoo, as I saw them surrender the poor, riddled, battle stained flags that they had followed so often, and that; had been made sacred with the blood of their comrades. Thc poor fellows would step forward, give up tho soanty rag that they had held so precious through so many long and wen ry years, and thsn turn and wring their empty hands io an agony of grief. Their sobs and thc sobs of thoir comrads could be heard for yards around. Othors would tear tho flags from tho staff and hide tho precious rag in their bosoms and hold it there As Gen. Leo rode down tho lines with mo and saw thc men crying, and heard them cheering "Uuolc ltobort" with their simple but pathetic remarks, he turned to mo and said, in a broken voice: "Oh, General, if it bod only been my lot to havo fallen in our battles, to have given my lifo to this oauso that wo could not save" I told him that ho should not fool that woy, that ho had dono all that mortal man could do, acd that every man and woman in tho South would feel this and moko him feel it. "No! no!" he said, "there will bo many who will blame me. But, General) I havo tho consolation of knowing that my conscience approves what I havo done, aud that my army sustains mc." In a few hours thc army was scattered, and tho mon wont back to their ruined nod dismantled homes, many of them walking all tho way to Georgia and Alabama, nil of them penniless, wornout nnd well nigh heart broken. Thus passed nway's Loo's army; thus were its last battles fought; thus was it surrendered, and thus was tho great Amcricon trogedy dosed, let us all hopo, forever. Belton, Williamston and Easloy Railroad. Wo had thc ploasuro Inst Thursday of meeting Capt. Kirk, Superintendent ond civil engineer of tho obovo projected road, and to learn very many interesting facts in regard thereto. Tho Captain is very hope ful and says tho road will certainly bc built. Already offers have boon made to grade tho tho road to Bolton from Easloy, 25 milos, for 8325 por milo, but tho offor was not ao-> ooptod, as it is thought that tho work can bo dono oven cheaper than that, as tho road ls very level, and with 100 mon ho could grado half a milo per day. Thc company already has enough money to grado thc road I to Bolton, and with thc addition of tho amount raised by taxation, 86,000 it can, i bo graded to tho mountains, 15 miles North of Kasley. Ho says ho can roach tho top of Bluo Hidgc with a grado of only 75 feet por milo, by a thoroughly praotioal route, and ffom tho top of tho mountains to Asheville, the oountry is no worso than that through whioh tho Air Lino passes around Green ville KeepoDsiblo railroad oflioiaia havo offered to iron tho track and run tho road as soon os thc grading is finished. Wo have groat faith in believing that this road will bo built, andr as it will provo of inestimable value to South Carolina, will watch its progress with interest. Captain Kirk is indefatigable and thoroughly io earnest, besides hoing a very competent; railroad man having had largo experience in that linio.- Greenville Advertiser.