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MIGHTY CAVA .A. 3?rrvate Soldier o Stai The following is the story of one of the bloodiest cavalry battles the world ever saw. It was given to Camp Hampton's (Columbia) members last week hy Capt. U. R. Brooks under the title "Observations of a Private Sol dier at the Battle of Trevalian Station ll and 12th of June, 1864, and recol lections of some subsequent events relating to the 'Lost Cause.' " "Memory crowds and the shadows luminous and grey file before me." lime is always snatching something from us; its fleeting moments pass as quickly as they come, never, never more to return, as water which is gone from its source runs to it no more. The Confederate soldier's course is almost run out, the past time appears as a shadow; so will that which is now to come when it shall be once over, .and no tears, no entreaties, no endeav ors can recall the least moment we have already let slip unimproved; therefore, it is our duty to record the -gallant deeds of our brave comrades who fell - on the bloody fields of strife, battling under the Confederate flag which waved so proudly over our -south land for four long years. Should we fail to do this then why find fault with those who fought us so hard and 40 long for not giving us justice in writing up the part they took in this terrible strife. "Every heroic virtue^ grew in the matchless inspiration of the war. Every noble quality flourished in the stern ?and splendid discipline of these unrelenting years. Courage, patience, sentiment, devotion, duty, unselfish ness and deathless patriotism flashed like radiant stars across the gloom and darkness of the time. Men learned there to lore their country better than themselves and to pledge their loyalty freely with their lives. Wo men raised in luxury forgot their sel fish comforts in their solemn duties, and the white hands of fashion swept the ?looms of labor and fastened the bandages of blood with a self-denying heroism that was indeed sublime. "When triumphs came, they re joiced with reverent gratitude-they met disasters in their turn with dig nity." Comrades, let me tell you to-night of the bloodiest cavalry fight that ever occurred on this continent: On Wednesday, the 8th of June, 1864, oar scouts, Shadbnrne, Shod bred, Scott and others, reported to Gens. Hampton and Butler, on the Chiek&hominy, that a' large body of federal cavalry had moved out from behind their lines at Gold Harbor and was crossing the Pamunkey at a point heading northward. Butler's division, consisting of his old South Carolina Brigade, Young's?Georgia brigade and Bosser's Virginia brigade, halted at Meehaniesville, five miles from Rich > mond, to draw three days rations, which consisted of about one and one half pounds of hard-tack and one-half nouna of meat which they ate raw. Butler's men never unsaddled their horses for eight days and nights. Gen. Hampton, as senior major gen eral of cavalry, immediately pat the division of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in mo tion to join Butler who was already on the direct road leading from Richmond to Gordonsville, "And they rode forth so glorious in ar ray. So mannerly and full of gentle grace That every tongue would be compelled to say They were the noblest of a noble race." Hampton rightly divining that the movement of the Federal cavalry was directed to the destruction of the rail road connection north of Richmood, and to co-operate with the Federal Gen. Hunter, ? then operating against Lynchburg. On Friday evening, 10th June, Hampton's column had placed itself squarely on the left flank of the Fed eral cavalry under Sheridan. Butler's division occupied the extreme left and encamped near Tresillian Station, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee had halted and camped near Louisa Conrt House some six miles south. Early on Saturday morning, 11th June, our scouts having located Sheri dan's forcea at a point some three miles east of Trevillian, dispositions were at once made to attack: Fitz hugh Lee was directed by Gen. Hamp ton to advance from Louisa Court House and to support Butler's right while the latter opened the attack in front. For some reason, never explained, Fitzhugh Lee stood motionless, dis obeying the order, "adding neither glory to his reputation nor lustre to his profession." Butler opened the fight and after he had been seriously engaged for some hours with his own brigade of the 4th, 5th, 6th S. C. C., to which Hart's bat tery was also attached, the whole line was surprised by an attack in their rear, made with great dash and spirit by Custer's Federal division. Custer had discovered the gap on Butler's right, caused by the failure of Fitz ugh Lee to occupy the position as LRY CONFLICT. n Battle of Tresillian Hon. signed him, and he (Ouster) promptly rode in with his'division, capturing some of our men, horses and wagons. Two of the men were the bravest of the brave-oouriersfor Gen. Hampton -Wade Manning and Aler. Taylor. What might have been the result of the unlooked for attack in the rear, it is not pleasant to contemplate. Gen. Rosser held the left of (Butler's line with his brigade, covering the road Sheridan must move on to reach Gor donville, farther north, and as soon as apprised of the situation, Bosser led his gallant Virginians in a pell mell rebel yell charge. Among the fore most in this dashing charge were Pri vate Chas. B. Rou ss, Capt. McGuire, Capt. Hatcher, Col. E. V. White, Maj. P. B. Winston, Maj. Holmes Conrad and Gen. T. L. Rosser. Of the United States nrmy were Color Sergt. John Nash, Col. Clark, Gen, R. A. Alger and Gen. Custer. When Maj. Conrad shot1 Color i Sergt. John Nash Gen. Custer saw him falling with the United States flag, and rushed forward and seized it. Rosser and Custer were near enough to shoot eaoh other at this critical moment. Rosset's Confederate flag Vas flash ing in the Southern eky "On to death and glory dubing, On, where sword* wen clanging, clash ing/ On, where balla were 0rushing, crashing, And Rosser7* men won it, routed and riven Reeled the foeman's proud array ; They had straggled haid sud striven, Blood in torrents they Ihsd given Bat their ranks, discerned and driven, Fled in sullenness away." Thus. Bosser routed Custer cai tur ing his ambulances, wagons and the caissons of his battery and many pro visions, besides recapturing every thing (-aster had captured from us. Gol. Hugh Aiken, of the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry, had been shot through the right lang; Sergt. Maj. Oscar Sheppard was mortally wound ed; Capt. James Gregg of Co. B, Sixth South Carolina, was shot in the arm; Wiley Mover waa' killed; Abner Bushnell shot in the hip; Dick Berry, while trying to show me a Yankee ia the thicket, was shot through the arm. Why he did not first shoot the Yankee and then show him to me I never could understand. Lieut. Joan Bauskctt took command of Co. B imm?diat sly after 0apt. Gregg was shot and behaved most gal lantly. Lieut. Col. L. P. Miller of the Sixth Cavalry was not in this fight, having ! been left in charge of some dismounted men near Richmond. Maj. Tom Fer guson commanded the regiment after the gallant Aiken fell, as we thought then mortally wounded, but thank God, he recovered and did much ha d service afterwards. Eampton rode up to the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry and ordered Maj. Ferguson to mount his men and follow him. We were surrounded and had to cat our way out. Hampton led the charge in per son. The enemy's line was broken. Fighting continued until the afternoon when Hampton withdrew Butler's division to the line of the Central Railroad, where they dismounted and remained in line pf battle all night, filling up the angle at the crossing. Just before sundown Hampton and Butler rode by our line and some of the men said: "General, we gave them hell to-day." "Oh, yes," he said, "but you mu;3t do better to morrow." We then began to realize that they had given us "hell." On Sunday mornin.?, June 12, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's division wa9 brought around from Louisa Court House and placed in reserve on our left. The main road leading to Charlottsville was covered by Butler's brigade, com manded by the late and gallant Col. B. H. Rutledge of the Fourth South Car olina Cavalry. Rosser's brigade oc cupied the right and Young's gallant Georgia brigade was on the left of the division, commanded by that brave and gallant Col. Gid Wright of the Cobb legion. Gens. Young and John Dunovant were both suffering from wounds received at the battle of Hawe's Shop and in consequence of which were unable tc take part in the fight. "The old Bald Eai;le," den. M. W. Gary was left to watch the right of Grant's army below Richmond. It was not until shortly after 12 o'clock that Sheridan decided to at tack. His force, asuras expected, fell upon the division commanded by But ler, and principally upon the South Carolina troops. These were dis mounted and posted in front of the T/est side of *,he railroad, and the men had made temporary breastworks of fence rails covering their front. A large farm house and numerous out buildings (Denny's) stood beyond the railroad in our front. Thc Fourth South Caroliua occupied the left of this brigade line, the Sixth thc centre and the Fifth the right. Near its centre, the line made au obtuse angle pointing on the railroad. In front of the angle thus made was Thomson's Virginia battery < guns, Harts battery was plac ther to the right with Rosser's b It was here that Sheridan mounted columns were concei for attack. Supported by st batteries on their right and lef enfiladed the branches of this ai Butler's lines, they advanced 12:30 o'clock p. m., but were rep Just before the attack Butler o Capt. Humphries of the second i ron, Co's. B. and F of the Sixtl airy, to move across the railrot to retreat to our lines as soon tacked, and in recrossing the ra the sharpshooters of Sheridan's mand who were posted up the ra fired on these two companies ant ed, among "others, Private Wh: Butler Brooks. "Firm as the firmest, where dnty h He hnrried without a falter ; Bold as the boldest he fought and bl And the day was won-but the fiel red And the blood of bis fresh young wan shed On his country's hallowed altar." Lieut. Bauskett, after the me; into the railroad cut, halted thei a moment and it was then tba sharpshooters got in their deadly v Lieut. J. J. Bunch of the same pany, "one of nature's noblem says of Lieut.- Bauskett, who manded the company in the "bl angle." "Gen. Butler sent us i to hold our position at all haz* Lieut. Bauskett sent this mess 'Send us ammunition, general, am will do it." Lieut. Bauskett w brave and skillful officer, leading company in many battles, was 1 and generous to his men who great respect and love for him. had the entire confidence of the i ment and brigade." Among the wounded were Sam ld and Bud Bountree. Just as the ? began Sergt. Andrew Giles was or ed to Denny's house to do shi shooting with a squad of men, but fore reaching the house he was n tally wounded. Bill Claxton 1 Eddie Padgett were killed and s after this Matt Moss and John M were killed. The enemy were so impressed w young Padgett's youth that they gc pillow from the house and placee under his head in order to allevi his pain. He was shot in the stomi and died before the fight was over. "On the trampled breast of the ba plain Where the foremost ranks had wrestl On bia pale, pore face not a mark pain, (His mother dreams they will m again) The Airest form amid all the slain, Like a child asleep he nestled." Of the wounded, I remember I Bush, Pres Williams, Jim Quatt baum and Henry Quattlebaum. 1 of these belonged to Co. B, Six South Carolina Cavalry. In this "bloody angle" I rememb seeing two gallant boys shot in Co. '. the cadet oompany-Lieut. Alfred A drich and Robert Aldrich, adjutant the Sixth Cavalry. When the fighting began Saturdi morning Co. B had 64 men and by o'clock Sunday night 37 had bee killed and wounded. Assault after assault was mad Seven distinct charges were made aE repulsed. There was a gallant maj< who led these charges and about sui down while leading his last chargi while almost near enough to be toucl ed with a bayonet, Corporal Joh Briggs and Private Abe Broadwate of Co. B, Sixth South Carolina ca\ airy, shot him and this ended th career of one of the most gallant me in the Federal army. I wish I knei his name. Their dead and wounde and our dead and wounded were lyin, close together between the railroai irons, and just across the railroai where so many charges had been madi by this gallant major, were the dea< bodies of about 300 of Sheridan's mei just in front of the second squadroi of the Sixth South Carolina, Aiken'; Regiment. Thomson's battery had been silenc ed and his surviving men ordered tc be withdrawn. The losses in the South Carolina Regiments had beec heavy, especially where exposed tc the enfilade fire of the enemy's bat ; teries and small arms. Worse still I their ammunition was exhausted, when near sunset it was seen that Sheridan had concentrated stronger and heavier columns for another as sault. Gen. Butler dispatched one of his staff (Nat Butler who I think was the handsomest boy in the army of north ern Virginia) for Hart's battery to come to the centre. This battery came at a gallop and unlimbered its pieces in the missile torn angle beside Thomson's gilent guns. An ammuni tion wagon was carried at a gallop along Butler's linc, the gallant ord nance sergeant, Grant, of the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry (living now near Chester, S. C.,) pitching cases of rifle cartridges from the rear end of his bullet-riddled wagon as it galloped on its dangerous mission. Thc cases were soon broken open and thc men supplied. Just before thc wagon ar rived, however, every man in Com pany B, Sixth South Carolina Cavalry, 1 had fired his last cartridge and a j young private soldier. Bill Turo this company, volunteered to go ammunition and was wounded, other boy volunteered which li like madness on his part-cannon and minnie balls were flying thiel faat just over our heads and sti and plowing up the ground behin but Tom Sego went through this i of lead and got as much ammuc as he could carry and returned in for us to repulse another charg by the gallant major mentioned al Tom Sego's daring deed was o the bravest of the war. He was k 10th March, 1865, when Butler's had ridden the third time over patrick's sleeping troopers, whei now sleeps in "A grave in the woods with grass < grown, A grave in the heart of his mother His clay in the one lies lifeless and 1 There is not a name, there is not a e And only the voice of the wind ma moan O'er the grave where never a flow Btrown, ?nt his memory lives in the other." Maj. Hart took all the spare i and artillery drivers he could gai and manned two of Thomson's g and with these and his own openec the large house in front, from the per rooms of which a heavy fire being delivered over. the sha! breastworks of rails upon the So Carolina brigade at a distance of yards. In less than five minutes ploding shells from Hart's guns the house burning and the Fed? troops scampering out. Hart's g were then directed upon the Fed* battery toward the enemy's left, wh had been pouring upon the Si: South Carolina Cavalry such a feai Are. This battery was imm?diat silenced and driven off. There was artillery officer on either side who haved -more gallantly than did < hero, Maj. James F. Hart, at Tra lian. With a fresh supply of ammuniti the South Carolina brigade rene* its fire with great effect. The Fi eral troops formed for the last assai advanced right into the railroad c and were driven off with heavy loi Gen. Hampton had led Fits Lee's * vision to our left, and while the ever just narrated were taking place, Lei mounted columns were observed frc our position moving toward the fed< al right flank. Our artillery, und the gallant Hart, now command every point from which an at ta could be made, and our troops hi just realized the faot that Sherid; oould not move, but that we we going to move him right quickly fro his strong position. It was then th Sheridan concluded that he did n want to go to Charlottsville ai Lynohburg, after all; that he cou! not effect a junction with Gen. Hun ti beeause of the latter's tardiness.au that having encountered a large fore of Confederate infantry, in additio to Hampton's cavalry, he would witl draw and return to the cover c Grant's lines near Bichmond. Thu he officially explained bis defeat. There was not a man from the ic fantry in this battle on either side. Sheridan's retreat began at dark an so rapid was it, lest Hampton woul overtake him, that he had crossed th North Anna River, fifteen miles away before 2 o'clock the next morning The Confederate Cavalry, without foi age for horses or rations for men fros Friday evening to Monday evening and exhausted by two days of fighting were not able to pursue before morn ing. Sheridan moved rapidly to thi cover of his gunboats at White Housi landing on the York River, when Hampton attempted to draw him ou and engage him on Monday, the 20tt of June. On Friday, the 24th ol June, Gregg's Federal division, cov ering Sheridan's flank as he crossed from the York to the James River, was encountered by Butler's men ai Samaria Church and driven several miles, but Sheridan's main force suc ceeded in reaching the rear of Grant's lines behind Petersburg, where it re mained ineffective for some weeks. Butler had in his division about 2,420 men; Fitz Lee had in his division about 3,000 men; making a total of about 5,420 men; and three batteries carrying altogether 12 guns. Sheridan's Federal forces consisted of twenty-two regiments and four bat teries of horse artillery, 24 guns and 11,337 men. See war records. Thirty four long years have come and gone since this terrible conflict, and at least three-fourths of us who wore the blue and the grey in this bloody fight have crossed over the river. "Some time, some day our eyes shall see The faces kept io memory ; Some day their hands shall clasp our hands Just over in the morning lands. Some day our ears shall hear the Bong Of triumph over sin and wrong ; Some time, some time,' but ah not yet, Still we will wait and not forget That some time all these things shall be, And reBt be given to you and me ; So let us wait, though years move slow, That glad some time will come we know." Thc generals who participated in this fight were Wade Hampton, who was thc only lieutenant general of cavalry in thc Confederate States anny, twice elected governor, and twice elected United States Senator and appointed United States Railroad Commissioner, now retired to private life in his 81st year ; M. C. Butler, who went from captain to major gen eral of cavalry in the Confederate States Army, and elected three times United States Senator, and is now Major General of the United States Volunteers, and a member of the Cu ban Peace Commission; T. L. Bosser, Brigadier General Confederate States Army and now Brigadier General of the United States Volunteers; Fitz hugh L?e, Major Generai Confederate States Army, elected Governor of Vir ginia, United States Consul to Cuba and now Major General United States Volunteers. Gen. Phil Sheridan, United States Army, is dead; Gen. Custer was kill ed by the Indians in 1876; Gen. Alger is now Secretary of War of the United States; Gen. Coppinger was twice elected Governor of Michigan and now Major General United States Volun teers; Maj. Merritt is now Major General United States Volunteers at Manila. In the language of John L. Mc laurin "Weean thank God that we are now a united people and that our house is no longer divided against itself. "From the rock-bound coast of Maine to Pacific's Golden Gate; from Superior's crystal waters to the ever green shores of the Mexican sea, brothers are we all, proud of the Stars and Stripes, whether we come from the rising or the setting sun, from the bleak prairies of the Dakotas or the sunny slopes of the Carolinas, content to rest beneath its folds from the dawning of the morning when the earth is wrapped in gray into the eventide when the skies have donned the blue," Mr. Wm. li. Loyall, one of Virgin ginia's most gifted sons, in presenting a portrait of Gen. M. C. Butler to the B. E. Lee camp at Bichmond, October 8,1897, said this of him when he was a colonel on the 9th of June, the day he lost his leg: "One of the most dashing figures seen that day was Col. M. C. Butler at the head of his regi ment,, the Second South Carolina Cavalry. Twenty-seven years of age, moulded like an Apollo, with a face as sweet and handsome as that of any god of old, he sat on his horse like a typical South Carolina cavalier; gen tle as any fawn when comrades were assembled in social converse, fierce as a veteran grenadier when the foe was to be met face to face ***** But he lost with his leg none of that unconquerable dash and spirit that made him a very paladin in the cav alry corps of the army of Northern Virginia. 1 Beturning to his command as quickly as his wound would permit, he was at once made Brigadier Gen eral of oavalry, and from that time to the end of the war his plume always showed in the lead where the calm judgment of a soldier was needed or the dash of a knight ready to face any odds was called for." In the exciting days of 1876 Judge Jno E. Bacon introduced Gen. Butler to an Edgefield audience as the young hero of Trev il li an. In his speech at Orangeburg, April 12, 1892; Gen. But ler concluded with these words: "And now my countrymen, before these ceremonies are brought to a conclu sion, let me implore you by all our sacrifices of the past, the grave prob lems of the present and the hopes of the future, to keep pure and undefiled the fountains from which the stream and flow of our liberties emanated. Stand fast to the doctrine of home rule, local self-government, domestic order and tranquility and enlightened progress. We did not lose or forfeit these in the arbitrament of war. We did lose slavery by force of arms, but by a determined, united, yet conserva tive and humane course of conduct we may convert that loss into a blessing for our children and for those who come after us. Let us banish resent ments from our hearts, if any remain, discharge our whole duty to the coun try and turn our faces to the future, stopping now and again to place a flower of affectionate remembrance on the tombs of our heroic dead." President McKinley deserves the well done of the American people for appointing Gen. M. C. Butler a Major General in the United States Army. No More Black Powder. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Probably the navy has fought its last war with black powder. Bids were opened to day at the navy department for sup plying the new war ships with one million pounds of smokeless powder, a quantity sufficient to supply at least thc secondary batteries of all the ships in the service, and this supply will be augmented from time to time until within thc course of a year or two all thc black powder will have been re tired, except possibly some that will be retained for saluting purposes. There were six bids received to-day at the department, and opened by Judge Advocate Lemly, in the presence of representatives of most of thc bidders, prominent among them being Mrs. Maria Pittman-, head of the powder concern bearing her name. The bids on an average were about the same as thc navy is now paying for its powder, and slightly below thc figure paid by the army under the emergency created by thc war. Do Spirits J'rotect as S Our respected contemporary, the Waterbury American, quotes some of the oases cited by the Times to prove the inaccuracy of the Hartford Cou rant'a contention that no case of spirit communication has erer occurred which was not trivial or made up of circumstances already known to the recipient or to some one present. The fact in these cases that we cited were very certainly not known to any one present, nor could they be, for two of them saved the recipients from being killed, one by the bursting of a big gun, the other by a steamboat explo sion, while the third case revealed to a father in Rhode Island the death of his son in California, which had oc curred only three days before the mes sage (purporting to be from the son) was given in Providence, and it required, in those days, at least three weeks to hear from California. But the Amer ican proceeds to say: "Giving to the Times's claims and illustrations all the weight they seem entitled to, they seem by their rarity and average insufficiency to prove rather than disprove the Courant's contention." This is like the Arkansas lawyer's arguments .for his client, that whereas only one witness had testified to see ing the prisoner in the act of robbery, all the other witnesses had not seen him in the act-therefore he must be judged innocent. The "rarity" of an actual occurrence, if that occurrence is sustained by actual proof, does not impair its force. It outweighs a thou sands negative testimonials. In the remarkable California case (in 1851, we think',) the witness was United States Senator James F. Simmons, of Rhode Island, who, though disbelieving the message, took means to decide the matter, and the body of his son was actually found, hidden in the hollow log, where the giver of the message, that had been spelt out in Rhode Is land only three days after the murder, had said it was placed. Of the "in sufficiency" of such a case every can did mind can judge. The witness in the case of life-sav ing in the bursting of the "Peace maker," on board the United States steamer Princeton, on the Potomac, February 28,1844, was United States Senator Talmadge, of New York. It was his life that was saved, and the man who took T.'s place near the big gun, after Mr. Talmadge had been forced away for the third time by an invisible power, was cut in two by a fragment of the gun. In the case of the steamboat explosion at St. Louis, the witness was Judge J. W. Edmonds, of the New York Supreme Court. Judge Edmonds said he was led to turn back when on his way to the steamer's dock and abandon his trip to Cincinnati, by a voice that seemed speaking in his ear, and told him to go back to his hotel and not to go near the steamer. He added that the ex plosion occurred just at; the time he would have been likely to have reached the steamer, and he was convinced that he owed his life to that mysteri ous warning voice. Do such cases amount to nothing simply because peo ple who do not know about them call them trivial and false? The Amer ican says: "We understand that the greater number of this kind of experiences can be explained on natural grounds, and that the few apparently authentic and otherwise inexplicable cases are only exceptions, which prove the rule that supernatural agencies of such pro found possibilities, if active at all, are not, so far as most of us can see, doing anything worth while." If our Waterbury friends can "ex plain ou. natural grounds'' such occur rences as these-and there are scores, if not hundreds, of similar impressive interventions that have saved life the field is all open to him to go ahead and make such an explanation. The attempt to make it, has already chang ed the attitude of such men of science as Oliver Lodge, the ex-president of the British Scientific Asociation; Sir William Crooks, the present president of the Psychical Research Society of England, and prospective head of the Royal Society; Alfred Russell Wallace, the eminent author and scientists; Dr. Hodgson, and others not less widely known. These gentlemen, who were "Agnostics" all, now recognize the great reality of another life, and the fact of communication between that life and the life here on earth. It all looks as if the other world were indeed doing something "worth while." The Waterbury American concludes its re marks with this saving clause: "This is not saying that such com munication is impossible or ".hat the apparent failur? may not be due to human deficiency." 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