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COBB'S CAVALRY. Flower ol' Soutliern Chivalry in tho War. Augusta Chronicle. At thc request of some of my old i to use my arm to protect my head, comrades I have agreed to write my ] and a pretty good one on my shoulder -it tc lie rc ed e ti P ur s e e to th he rd s. sc Ie d re I he ns ?fi Gen. Stuart, kept us from- capturing, and the excitement of the mad gallop of a mile to meet an enemy we despis ed, and with Col. Deloney's (who was on my left, in the front center of the Fifth squadron) deep-voiced command, "Sabres, boys! Sabres'! No pistols!". "We were into them. Fear ? I do not believe any one of those men thought of danger, the hereafter, or of aught else save how many Yanks he could kill with .his sabre ; and they were coming for us as fast as we were going for them ; for they had driven everything before them until they struck the "Cobb Legion." As for us, we believed we could whip them ten to one ; and in that charge we did it. Whether the Yanks charged in column or squadron or reg iment I know not, for their formation was broken, their front overlaping us on either side, and their fastest horses and bravest men being the first we met. Willie Church, our allan t Ad jutant, shouted to Clanton, both by ;my side. "Jim, let's take those col ors," and with "here's at you," for the colors of the Tenth New York cavalry they went, while the "Cobb Legion,' yelling like a set of devils, pell-mell, followed, every man for himself, and the devil take the hind most. I unhorsed the first two I met very neatly, as I thought, though their heads would not come off, and then they caine so fast that it was a parry or only half-cut. with my old sabre jingling against a fellow's head as if I had struck a tree. When a barehead ed Yank and a cream pony, which was evidently running away with him, came quartering by, and the insauc idea flashed through my mind to ride him down. So slapping spurs into my horse I jumped him against the pony, which, with his rider, went rolling over. But, alas, the miserable brute, for which I had given a thoroughbred mare and $500 to boot as we were forming into line that morning, almost fell, and I could scarcely recover him for fifty yards. This caused me to get a couple of sabre welts on my left arm as I was trying with both hands to pull the brute to his feet, and had ment, as crazy as his rider. The Yank was a good one, for though he missed with his bullets he did not with his pistol, which he hurled at Jim, striking him on the shoulder ; but Clanton made no stop for that, and the last thing I saw was Jim as he raised in his stirrups over the poor devi), who was leaning over on his horse's head, trying to draw his sabre and avoid the cut. I never saw the lick-we were in their midst. So engrossed had I become with the race -I was 19 years old then-and the wonder whether Clanton would cut that fellow's head off or split him in two, that a Yankee cut me nearly off my. horse, and I knew nothing for some time. My next recollection was: "Captain Eve, rally your company; why thc hell don't you rally your com pany ?" from Colonel Young. My horse was eating apple boughs'| (nothing excited him) ; Clanton, with my hat cut nearly in haif in hand (for they had knocked him off his horse) was asking me for his hat. I reported but two nieu. "Rally the regiment, then, sir," and calling for .the Cobb Legion to rally, was forming them when a platoon, rallying under a Lieutenant, began firing upon us within 100 yards. "Let's charge the d-d scoundrels," said Clanton, just then coming up, and forgetting 1'. M. B. and his orders, and halloing to the boys to "charge 'cm." we went again and ran them over the railroad, where thc brigade was forming. They opened fire on us, making us sud enly remember our orders to rally the regi ment, and back wc put. One of our regiments coming up, we were ordered back, as we were still under fire, to form our own regiment. As we marched back across tho hill a battery opened on us at short range from its summit. As we had driven all thc Yanks from off the hill and across the railroad we were taken by surprise, but, wheeling to thc left, we were about to charge them "all in a mess" as wc were when some one cried out: "It's our battery." "Gallop up there, Church, and see who they are," ordered Colonel Young. "All right," says he, "give my love to my Augusta dewdrop and kiss the dear r girl for me-if I am killed," and w ing his sabre over his head wit "good-bye, boys." at full speed fellow dashed into their smoke, dering them to cease firing, not km ing whether they were friend or f or but that the next shot would bl him into ''kingdom come." For natcly, it was cur battery, It \ said Church killed three men with abre that day. But this article is long, and '"thc half has never yet bi told." The enemy fought well-sulle retiring before our general advance along the line, and crossed the Hap bannock. "Wc lost very h ca vi Among others Senator, then Colon Butler, one of our most gallant ": breurs." lost his leg j Lieutenant onel Frank Hampton, Senator lian ton's brother, was killed in thc gie ous fight made by their regiment, i Second South Carolina cavalry, wh was badly cut up. An infantry c onel, who was on a visit to thc "Fig ing First North Carolina (Tar Hec cavalry," and who went in with th to sec if there was any light in I cavalry, was also killed. Our rc men* lost 54 out of 120. Mycompa had 13 killed, 22 men out of thc who went in either killed or wounch captured or their horses killed, l crs' company, from Burke County, t other company of my squadron, v also cut to pieces. Being but a t at the time, I remember but little sa what was impressed on me at the u ment. Yet it does seem strange tl the charge that saved thc field a was the turning point of the greati cavalry battle of the war has ne\ been "written up," although ackno ed at thc time. Wc had no infant: and fought Slocum's corps of infant and all the Federal cavalry from dc light until dark-a charge that frc its results achieved as much aa ai charge, as up to that time they wc crowding us in all directions, h broken through our lines at Steven burg and captured General Stuart headquarters, near the center of tl semi-circle of our line of fight. General Stuart had between 12,0 and 15,000 cavalry and horse artiller the enemy between 25,000 and 30,0l cavalry, artillery and infantry. Hood division of 10,000 muskets at Culpe per, C. H., was not called for, althoui offered to General Stuart. This engagement was caused by reconnoissance by the enemy to ui mask General Lee's movements ar ascertain his wherabouts, which w: defeated and foiled by the cavalry, : again at Upp^rville and again an again, until the armies "butted up against each other at Gettysburg caused by the absence of our cavah who were off on a raid for "Pennsy vania buttermilk," our infantry saie Gettysburg would never have bee fought had the cavalry been wit General Lee, for they would have ker him posted "as to thc movements of th enemy, Do not think I am writing cavalry history. Yet a few facts cor cerning our commissariat and quartei master departments as well as ordi nance are apropos. First, we had to mount ourselves and if a poor devil got his horse kille or disabled, and was unable to buy o capture one, he had to go afoot. Second, I do not believe thai; i: any year of the war had we regula rations furnished us for three month of the year (I know it would not a rei I age that,) and it was weeks at a tim I that we did not see our wagon servant or baggage. As for tents-,, we ha< none-"three soft fence rails a luxury a smooth rock for a pillow, a god send." Third, we had inferior equipment: : of all kinds ; miserable saddles tha ruined our horses' backs ; rottet leather for bridles and straps: "til sabres;" patched up firearms, indif feront ammunition, whenever we coule get any from llichmond, and all thai was any good was what we captured Fourth, our service on the Sharps burg and Gettysburg campaigns nota bly was an almost daily and ofter nightly fight, and our poor horses die not have the saddles off their backs sometimes for over a week at a time as the enemy were all around us-and with nothing to eat but green apples, roasting cars, and what we could for agi ."or. While against us were picked men mounted on selected horses from Ken tucky, Illinois-aye. the whole world to choose 'ruin belonging to a govern ment that equipped them in thc most approved, effective style, and within a few hours of their supply depots, armed with the best-tempered sabres and thc -most destructive firearms, that we "poor robs'' had never even heard of till we killed thc Yank and got his gun. "Cu. K. ' Note-The Cobb Legion had live companies dismounted lighting Slo cum's infantry, and one company de tailed with General A. L\ Hill, so wc had but "skeleton squadrons," if I may use the expression. Thc theory of O'eneral Stuart and other officers, on account of the success of our charge was that had they (the Federals) de pended upon thc sabre they wculd have "atc us up," but after firing pis tols and carbines they were practically disarmed and demoralized by our gleaming sabres, fiendish yells and celerity of our horses, and but few of them used their sabres, but rctrea to reload, which threw them into c fusion, and thc rapid advance of reinforcements, visible in the country for miles around, deter them from another charge to ree ture Hill's headquarters. Let whisper a great secret known to good cavalry men : Whenever n drop, steel to light with powder s ball we know that they have lost c iidencc-not in the steel, but in thc selves-and if we crowd them wo \ '"whip 'cm.'' Any way, they did not "cuni dar moro dat day." CAPTAIN F. E. EVE. Company 1\ Called Hogs Loudly. In his younger days Senator V was fond of telling stories in regard thc subterfuges resorted to by cert; .Republicans, mostly of thc "Pawn Militia" variety, to prevent Democr from voting immediately following ! close of the war. This is one of I stories he has frequently told : An old Howard County farmer, w was entirely too old to have enlist in thc war even if he had been so d posed, and who never harmed a s< in his life, was suspected by a "tn loyal" neighbor, who had never sc any service himself, of being a Den erat. Thc neighbor ut once protcsl against thc old man exercising t right of citizenship on the ground tl he had been disloyal during the w Thc old farmer appealed to thc reg tration officers, and in due course time he was called before thc boc for examination, and his ncight promptly appeared against him. "Did you ever hear this old m make any remarks of disloyalty 1 wards the Government?" asked t registration officer of the meddlesoi neighbor. "Can't say that I have," replied t neighbor. "You lived near him during thc w did you not ?" "Yes." "Do you know of his rendering ai aid to the rebels ?" "Can't say that I do." "Then if you never heard him s; anything against the Governmea lived near him during thc war, ar have no knowledge that he ever fu nished any aid to thc rebels, wh makes you think he is a disloyal cit zen ?" The meddlesome neighbor reflecte a moment, and then replied: "Well, I always noticed that in tl war the old man called his hogs in much louder voice every morning af ti news had been received of a reb< victory, than at any other time."-S Lout's Republic. Picked Out the Eggs Herself. The other day a woman went into grocer's and said. "I want two doze hen'si eggs. They must all be egg laid hy black hens." Thc grocer said, "Madam, lam will ing to accommodate you ; but you hav got the best of me this time. I don' know how to tell the egg of a blacl hen from those of a speckled or whit one. She said, "I can tell the diff rend mighty quick." "If that is so, madam, you wil kindly pick out the eggs for yourself!' She did so; and'when the two dozei were counted into her basket, the gro cer looked at them and 'said, sugges tively, "Well, madam, it seems ai though the black hens laid all the bi| eggs." "Yes," she said, "that's the wa] you tell them." mt nt m A Household Remedy. And it never fails to cure Rheuma tism, Catarrh, Pimples, Blotches, anc all diseases ar'sing from impure blood is Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B/ Thousands endorse it as the best rem edy ever offered to mankind. Th* thousand of cures performed by i;his remedy are almost miraculous. Try it, only 1.00 per large bottle. A PHYSICIAN'S EVIDENCE-AN HON EST DOCTOR. Although a practitioner of near twenty years, my mother influenced me to procure Botanic Blood Balm, B. B. B., for her. She had been son fined to her bed several months with Rheumatism, which had stubbornly resisted all the usual remedies. With in twenty-four hours after commencing B. B. B., I observed marked relief. She has just commenced her third bottle, and is nearly as active as ever, and has been in the front yard with "rake in hand," cleaning up. Her improvement is truly wonderful and immensely gratifying. C. H. MONTGOMERY, M. D., Jacksonville, Ala. For sale by druggists._ TWO FOR ONE. BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WE OFFER HOME AND FARM In combination with the ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER for $1.55, being thc price of our paper alone. That is, for all new or old subscribers renewing and paying in advance, we send HOME AND FARM one year free. HOME AND FARM has for many years been the leading agricultural journal of thc South and Southwest, made by farm ers for farmers. Its Home Depart ment, conducted by Aunt Jane, its Children's Department, and its Dairy Department are brighter and better than ever. Renew now and get this great journal for thc home and the farm-FRKK. Mr. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshfield. Mo., writes: "For six years I have been a sufferer from a scrofulous affection of the glands of ruy neck, and all efforts of physicians iii Washington, D. C.. Springfield, 111., and St. Louis failed to reduce the enlargement. After sis: months' constant treatment here, my physician urged me to submit to a re moval of thc gland. At this critical mo ment a friend recommended S.S.3., and laving aside a deep-rooted preju dice against all patent medici uer., 1 hz gan its use. Befcre I had used oue bot tle thc enlargement began Lo disappear, and now it is entirely gone, though I am not through with my second bottle yet. Had I only used your S.S.S. long ago, I would have escaped years of misery and paved over $150." This experience is like that of all who suffer with deep-seated blood troubles. The doctors can do no good, and even their resorts to the knife prove either 1 fruitless or fatal. 3.S.S. is thc only real bicod remedy; it gels at tuc root of the disease and forces it out perma nently. S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) A. R^iil Blood Remedy* \ a blood remedy iorrcal b oodtvouoles; l., cir: 3 Ilia mest obstinate cases pf Scrofula. VCancer; Ilhsi nalisr.!, eic,: which -oilier 50-caiIed bicod reme dies feii lc S.S.S. gets at thc '/".ci bf iliC di..:;..-.-: u:i 1 forces it out ;>er ::::.::e-il!y. Valuable boohs ?.viii ar.y ed ress H $ *% ' 7 iC .'.'".'. ' ".. -.- :\ "--'X ^ciGcTcor.Ar- -\ S^ Notice to Trespassers. ALL persons are hereby nnti. ed not to hunt, cut timber or otherwise tres pass on lands owned by the undersigned, either by daj or night. Every person who disregards tois notice will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. T. S. HARRISON. Nov 10, 1S 7 20 3* Administrator's Sale. THE undersigned will expo.'e for pale at the late residence of Cant. M. B. Williams, deceased, on Friday, November 10, 1897, one G-horse Tozer Engine, Gins, Grist Mill. Saw Mill, Cotton Presses, and a lot of Corn, Fodder, Cotton Seed, etc. . Terms of 8ale-Cash. M. BERRY WILLIAMS, Adm'r. Nov 10, 1897_20_2_ FOR SALE. ACRES OF LAND, one and three quarter miles from Public Square, on the Pendleton Road, adjoining land of E. A. Bsll and others. There is a beauti ful lot fora dwelling, and the land bas been brought up to a high stute for culti vation. Tnis will be an ideal place for truck and dairy farming, as it is only f short distance from Factory Town and there are two streams running through it Apply to R. 8. McCULLY. ' at McCully Bros. Nov 10 1807 20 Judge of Probate's Hale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY 07 ANDERSON. LI he Court Common- Fleas. Hellen David and John W. David, by their Guardian ad litera, vs- Mamie M. Campbell, Thomas A. Campbell, et al. Complaint for Partition and Relief. IN pursuance of the order of sale grant ed in the above stated case, I will sell on Salesday in December next, in front of the Court House in the City of Anderson. S. C., All tbafe certain Lot or Parcel of Land, containing eigbt-tenths of .rn acre, more or Jess, sifuate in the City o Andsreon, S. C., on the Westside of Pendleton street or road, adjoining lands of Mrs. D.. M. Stephens, F. M. Butler and others. Terms-One-half cash, balance with-in terest in twelve months, secured by bond and mortgage, with leave to pay all cash. Purchaser to pBy for papers. B. M. BTJRRIS3, Probate Judge, as Special Referee.. Nov 10, 3997_ 20 4 Judge of Probate's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ANDERSON COUNTY. In the Court of Common Pleas. Alexander McCullough, Plaintiff, vs. S. T. McCullough nd R. J. Rogers, De fendants.-Complaint for Partition, Re lief, tte. T3URSUANT to the order of sale grant JL7 ed in this case, I will sell on Sales day in Decembpr next, In fro at of the Court House Building, the lands described as follows, to wit : All that certain piece, parcel or lot uf Land situate,- lying and being Sn Corner Township, in County and State aforesaid, on waters of Wilsou Creek, adjoining lands of A. W. McCullough, Margaret Barton, R. Homer Newell, J. W. Spear man and otbsrs, and containing 71 acres, more or less, and being the same convey ed to Thomas McCullough by Bartley Tacker by Deed dated February '.Uh, 1825, less 22 acres, conveyed to German I. Bur ton 4th March, 187 Terms-One half cash, balance in twelve months, with interest, secured by bond and mortgage, with leave to anticipate payment. Purchaser to pav for papers. R. M. BURRISS, Probate Judge, as Special Referee. Nov lu, 189C 2o 4 NOTICE. VT ILL be let to the lowfst responsible bidder On the 2-ith day ol' November, inst., at ll o'clock a. m., the repairing or rebuild ing of the Bridge over Beaverdaru Creek at tho "Jack Rogers" place. Reserving the right to reject any or all bids. Plans and specifications made known on day of letting. W. P. SNELGROVE. Supervisor A. C., S. C. Nov 1U 18*>7 _ 20 2 _ MOTBCE. /OkUR Clients will take notice that we \J> have remove:! our office from roar of Farmers it Merchmns Bank to the Town send Building nn East side of Main Street, ust North of Post Office Our otlice is in rear up Btiirs rooms, next to Railroad Cat. We now occupy three rooms, and have better facilities for transacting busi ness with dispatch. TKIBBLE <t PRINCE, Attorneys at Law. An de rf on, S. C. 19-4 NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the late A. S. Stephens, or to the Firm of Reed it Ste phens, either by Note or open Account, are hereby notified that (hey must be set tled at once, or they will be placed in the hands of an officer for collection. PAUL E. STEPHENS, Administrator, Oct 27v ISO! 18 When Cotton is worth 5 l-2c, and everybody is talking about hard times, is when our trade is host. WHY 18 THIS ? Mon and Women \vh > are looking, for a place to make a dollar go furtherest. Our Prices ure paralyzers. . Tliey arc strictly in lino with Five Cents Cotton ! - All wc ask is a - .Comparison of Prices with any House in the City. If we can't save jon from 7 to 15 per cent on STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES and GROCERIES, Wc don't ask you tn buy from us. Yours truly, SCALES' INTKOIHON AND LIVER PILLS I 100 for 25c. Why pay 25c. for 25 Pills when you can get 100 just as good or bet- v ter for the same price. SMALL.SAFE.EFFICIENT. Any time-day or night. HILL-ORR DRUG CO ANDERSON, S. C. TREED AT LAST ! A LL successful Bossu m-hunters bave been fooled ; so are we this time. Oar game, . in its desperation, puts up the customary nauseating defense, hops from limb to limb, winks one eye to itself, and in tones that bespeak the un gui sh of ita stricken heart, wails to the sighing winds-at Cost! at Cost ! ! at Cost ! ! ! Now, ain't that a pretty mouth to put up. People of Anderson County, believe it or not, as yon will, the fact xemains that never in our experience have we ever bad such a large trade aa now. We are not com plaining about bard times. We are buying our share of the Cotton, and of coarse we are going to have our share of the trade We hardly ever do sellout at Cost,.and sometimes we don't ; therefore, we don't have to do it now, because we haveot the ' slightest idea of going out of business-besides our Goods are going out fast enough at , a reasonable pro fi t. When Christmas stops coming once yest, when we can't sell more Dean's Patent I Flour than any other grade sold in Anderson County and prove it; when we can't beat the town on Shoes, and when the good people of old Anderson County say to os that we have imposed upon them and duped them, then, and not till then, will your bumble servants throw up the sponge and close out at Cost. Until then you can set what you want-Dry Goods, 3oots, Shots, Hate, Jeans, Flonr and other Groceries, and Canned Meats as cheap at our 8tore as anywhere else, but you'll not get them at Cost. DEAN & RATLIFFE, Cotton Buyers, Guano Dealers and Bargain Vendora to the Trade. Footwear ! A good opportunity to fit up the Family with desirable, well-fitting and good wearing Shoes. IT is our pleasure to announce that we have spared neither neither pains or money to make our linc of FALL GOODS the most desi r rablc and serviceable in the State, and we feel confidesi that our! [^^patrons will appreciate the fact that oiir^_Gooils^jire_^manufactured, expressly to suit thc taste and fancies of this community. Every detail is carefully carried out with the intention of furnishing the public with a superb line of SHOES. We also carry a good linc of TFUMSCS, And our prices are right. Give us a cull when in need of auythiug in our line, and be con vinced of what we say. Tte Tates Shoe Co. Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. C.