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W AK S ?irs <i I? tho summer of lStii! ? Confcdor ate cavalry force, consoling of four or t?vc rogiuieuts, was encamped nt Mc Minuvillc, Tenn. Forrest, afterwards trouerai, Imt at that time ranking only as colonel, was in command of thc brigade. Thc lld Georgia cavalry regi ment, commanded l>y Col. W\ J. Law ton, was a part of this force. In it was a company commanded hy thc ilev. .i. ii. ?'unlop, a Presbyterian minister, who had resigned th?! charge of Iii.- church in Uraiiibridge, Ga., lo buckle 11 II thc sword, and had Leen elected captain of a cavalry company, which he had been instrumental in raising and to whom his men were per fectly ile voted. At Murfret shorn was a force of Yankees, consisting of cavalry, artil lery and infantry, and considerably outnumbering the Confederates. Col. Forrest decided to surprise and cap ture thc Federals, and thus get sup plies and anns for his mon, many of whom at that time had nothing more effective than double-barrel shotguns. Accordingly wo broke camp one Sat urday and, after marching all night, reached Murfreesboro Sunday morning just at the dawn of day. The Fed eral pickets were captured without giving an alarm and our foe, all un conscious of danger, was quietly sleep ing. They were in two camps, one on thc opposite .side of the town from mr approach ajd the other to thc right as wc entered. The gallant Wharton, of thc Texas Hangers, with part of the command was ordered to attack thc camp to our right, while Forrest, with the other part, was to attack the ouc ou thc opposite sido of tho town. Wharton's, attack was a complete sur prise to the enemy. Without warn ing he and his Hangers burst into thc sleeping cami), yelling and (-Louting, drove out the terrified Federals, and for a while held possession of thc camp. Afterwards, seeing the .small force of their assailants, thc Yankees rallied, and, after a stubborn light, in which Wharton was wounded, they re gained possession of the camp. Thc part under Foirest, in which was thc 2d Georgia, were not so successful. Thc?*?oise of tho horses' hoofs striking upon thc stony ground as wc charged through the town awoke tho sleeping inhabitants, who rushed out to greet us, wildly shouting and cheering, and in their enthusiasm raising such a din us to reaoh the ears of tho sleeping camp, a short distance out of town. Then, too, another unexpected diffi culty aroso. In tho centre of thc town, direotly fronting tho street up which wo wcro chargiug, stood tho brick Court House. In this was a Federal guard, keeping watch over some prisoners. As soon as thc head of our column came in sight this guard opened fire upon us out of thc win dows of the Court House. This uo pcotcd attack delayed Forrest and frustrated II?B plan of surprising thc ?amp boyond. When we got there, anstead of taking them by surpriso, we found them drawn up in linc af battle on thc crest of u slope in an old field, having a splendid battery of six guns and a long line of infantry supporting it. Wc were tho party surprised. Under this unlooked for condition of things Forrest ordered Col. Lawton to draw up his regiment in front of tho Federal lines, in a piece of woods which sheltered us to some extent, saying that he, with thc rest of his troop, would ride around them and attaok them in thc rear, and ordering Lawton as soon as ho heard his guns in tho rear to ohurge them in front. Thus wo stood for about two hours, I suppose, waiting to hear Forrest's guns in tho rear. In tho meantime the Federals, knowing that we were in thc woods, kept up an incessant fire with their artillery, sending a con tinual stream of shot and shall scrcachiDg over our heads, cutting down the limbs of tree?, bursting over us, doing no particular damage it is true, but terrifying and demoralizing the men, most of whom had never been under fire before. Thus matters stood: Wc, with our shotguns, lis tening to thc music of thc shelis, and the Yankees having a perfect pianic in tha way of target practice; wu being the target. Finally, becoming emboldened by our continued silence, tho sharpshoot ers from the infantry crept down to the edge of the woods and, concealing themselves in the underbrush, began to pick at us with their rifles, and tho whizz of their bullets was gotting to bo uncomfortably closo to onr heada. fy"i r -_: - vui. uaniiUU) uuiiviug ?uto, u..vu?v>u his adjutant to carry a verbal order to the major to send a squadron-two companies-to charge thoso sharp shooters, drive them baok and return to the command. The adjutant, in his excitement, misunderstood the order and, riding up to the major, he said: "Ihe Cr.'onel orders that yon GRUIS. mI I 'ou fit r. M tul a squadron of mon to charge that linc nf hattie, reform thc men and charge hack. The order was delivered tn Capt. Dunlop to execute. 1 hap pened to he near him at that time. 1 ' saw him straighten himself to his full height in thc saddle. I saw the fire ' of h atti? kindle in his eye. I ua> him \ draw his sahre and turning tn his men j he said: Forward boys!'' 'Theirs not to reason why, Tin i's ni)' tn make reply. . Thc.?S h M to do or die." Kiding down the sharpshooters, clearing ilse woods, out in thc open , Sftld they ?tere mei by u tu Iii pc tit ni j grape and canister from the artillery and id" minie balls from thc infantry. Many a gallant rider and his horse i went duwil under the storm of shot and shell. Hut nothing could stay thc headlong course of thc fearless leader. Passing between the battery and the infantry, he sabred one gun ucr, drove them all from their guo" and caused thc whole line of infantry noxt the artillery to waver. ?lad this gallant charge been follow ed immediately by that of our whole command wc undoubtedly would have won thc day at that moment. Hut it was not done. Capt. Dunlop dashed On af*er cutting through the line of battle to tho rear, aud when out of range of their shot halted to sec who Were left of his command. Seven men had followed him through, and were all that were left. Turning to them, he said, with grim humor: "Boys, thc command was to reform and charge back." One of thc men replied: "Well, Captain, wc have followed you this far, but if you are going back through that Hue of baltic you will have to go by yourself. We have had enough of it." Ol' course he had no thought of doing so. Ile wan only putting his mcu to the test. Biding around their linc and out of range of their shot, thc heroic little band re joined their commaud. It is not my intention to continue tho history of tho battle. My only purpose was to recount thc most des perate charge I ever witnessed during my four years' experienco in the war. Sufficient to say that by sundown we had captured thc whole force of tho enemy. The boys threw away their shotguns, roplacing thom with im proved anns. The battery we kept till thc war closed and good service it did against its former owners. That night wo started back for McMinn villc, halting only long enough to parole our prisoners, with whom For rest did not wish to be burdened. Wo reached our camp at McMinnvillo about noon on Monday, having been in tho saddle about forty-eight hours. That battle secured Forrest's promo tion to the rank of general, and our gallant Capt. Dunlop afterwards be came colonel of his regiment, and was loved and admired by every man in his command. Long may he live to do valiant service to the army of tho Lord of Hosts under thc leadership "f thc great Captain of our Salvation. H. T. HOYT. Harmony Grove, Ga. Strategy of a Tenth Georgia Private. It was on May t?, 18t?4, that I lost a part of my skull at thc Wilderness, which was mentioned in a former arti ste. I was detained a long while at the hospital in Lynchburg, but on June 17th I reached homo. My con dition then was such that but little hopo was entertained of my recovery. My father immediately sent for Dr. J. Thompson Dodd. Ho was a very sue ccssful practitioner, and now livea on thc Sand Mountain in Alabama. Tin der his skillful treatment and tho ten der nursing of a mother and sisters and of Aunt Chain, tho old black mammy, I was soon making fair pro gress toward health. During tho time of this convalescence, while I waa still at home, Sherman's army passed on routo from Atlanta to Jonosboro. We '.ad been expecting them, and I had intended to escape them by the strategy of running, but I was detain ed by an unexpected contingency till it was too lato to run. Mr. John Hill, a relative of the family, had come homo sick from tho war and died, and his family wanted to bury him, if possible, before the Yankees got there. Nono of thc neighbors wcro willing to leavo homo to bury him at so exoiting a time, and at the request of his family, I had taken my father'a negro eervant and gono te a noarby graveyard and was digging a grave, ?shan tho Tankee pickets ap proaching from one direotion, and the Confederates from the other, met and opened a skirmiahfire upon each other aoross our gravo that made it too dan gerous for us to remain. We Cr -ped our tools and left in avery hasty man ner. We wont by home to make some preparations for a journey, and while At home I waa informell that the Yan kees were ult around the place, though none were iu sight of the house. My only hope of escape now was in con cealing myself until the army should pa?s hy; so after having supplied my self with food, tobacco, matches and a pipe, I ran to a thick cluster of tall briers, aider hushes and vines near the corner of tuc pasture field and crawled into it. In a few minutes the Yankee prowlers were around tuc; some of them passed withiu a few steps ! of me, hut ?one of them seemed ? to suspeat that there might be a rebel j concealed there. 1 ?aw them take thc [ horses, then they drove out the cattle i and carried them off; they had killed thc hogs already and I was congratu lating myself upon my good fortune in having no safe a position, when sonic of them began to entertaiu rac with a performance that was very annoying. They drove about 30 sheep into that corner of the field near mc, and two young men with guns took such a po sition that the sheep were exactly be tween them and me; then they pro ceeded to shoot ;>t thc sheep. They were very poor marksmen and about two thirds ol' the bullets missed the sheep and came crashing through the foliage around my head with a sound that was appalling. I could not leave my place lo try to find a safer one, for any shaking of the bushes would re veal my position and lead to my cap ture. My only defense was simply an effort to flatten myself out on the ground iu such a shape as to allow the least possible exposure of myself to tho passing bullets. I felt mueh re lieved when I saw the last sheep fall, and hoped that thc worst was now over. I had iutended trying to escape that night under oovcr of the dark ness, but there were so many camp fires all around, it looked like a solid, unbroken ring of fire with myself in the center, so I thought it best to hold on to my position, especially as I hoped they might move on in tho muming and perhaps leave me; but next morning instead of moving on, they resumed their foraging, and be cause tho sand around me showed a great many hog tracks, they made a careful search in those hushes for hogs. Hut instead of hogs they found a Johnny. They carried nie to Jones boro, and while the battle at that place was being fought, several Con federate bomb shells passed over mc; they captured many other prisoners at Joneaboro, and after tho battle was over they marched us to Atlanta; from Atlanta they shipped us by freight to Nashville, consigned to "The Tennes see penitentiary," and the cargo was delivered in apparently satisfactory condition. In tho penitentiary wo suffered many privations; the daily allowance of food consisted of a slice of bread, one fifth of a pound loaf, and about ono ounce of boiled bacen. We got scarcely enough of water for drinking, and washed our banda and faces only when it rained. Many of us had no blanket to sleep on, and wo were badly infested with vermin; be cause of these discomforts, I excused myself of a vory wioked deed I com mitted in un effort to get away from that plaoc. After having suffered so for about a month, a young mao came in one morning, and after he had opened a gate in the wall, ?ailed the roll. He required ns to answer to our names by calling out the names of the command to which we belonged. Some when called were ordered to pass out through the gate, others to remain inside, and it seemed that our chances of getting out depended on our an swer. I did not know the object of this proceeding, but thought it might mean an exchange of prisoners, and I was anxious to pass through the gate. Many of them when called answered Fifth Georgia regiment, and I notioed that all Fifth Georgia regiment men passed out, and I determined to make that answer myself, although as a mat ter of fact, I belonged to the Tenth Georgia regiment in the Virginia army. When my name was called I answer ed with calm independence: Company E, Fifth Georgia regiment, Jackson's brigade, Chcatham'B division. I pass ed out, although as I afterwards learn ed, the stipulation had been agreed to, that men of Hood's army only wore to be exchanged, and that roll oall had for its objeet tue identification of Hood's men. We carno back on a freight train to Hough and Ready station on the Central railroad in Cl ?yton County, Georgia, only esvm miles from my borne, and were ex changed. Tko guards that brought tho Yankee prisoners had instructions to carry every man of us to the army near Palmetto, but I escaped them j and went homo.-D. I. Walden, in ! Atlanta Journal. Northerner Praises Kcrshaw's Brigade. Just at this time, as the monument on Chiokamauga battlefield is about to bo unvoiled, Kersbaw's brigade is ?uuOh IS th? p??bi?v Gjr?, tu?i organisa tion having figured so conspicuously in that bloody struggle. The follow ing about the brigade from a Northern soldier is consequently of speoial in terest; it comes from Augustus C. Euell, of Cramp ?Sb 80ns, shipbuilding company, Philadelphia, hoing contain ed in a letter of inquiry as to Dick erl's History of Kershaw's brigade, a opy of which he wishes to secure. "My acquaintance with Kershaw's old brigade was as intimate as was possible for a Northern soldier, and on two occasions, entirely too inti-. mate for comfort. The battery to which I belonged (M, Fifth U. S.) was I taken at Cedar Creek by the Eighth, \ and, I think, tho Fifteenth, South Carolina, and immediately retaken by thc Second, Fifth and Sixth Vermont of the old Vermont brigade, Second division, Sixth corps. "This contest over thc battery be tween Vermont and South Caroliua re sulted, among other things, in ll) men of both sides being killed or desper ately wounded on thc battery front by the bayonet alone. There were sev eral others, myself included, slightly wounded by bayonet thrusts-mino only heine a flesh wound in the left arm. I am bound to say to thc credit of thc South Carolinians on that occa sion that when attacked by the Ver monters they were badly blown from double quickicg a long distance and al?o ? much disorder, ? 1 ? y a imuueuL to a rapid charge, besides being in ferior in numbers-about as 2 is to 3. I am sure that Comrade Dickcrt's book is not only interesting but of first rate historical value. "On the occasion referred to I was gunner of No. 1 piece, centre section. Four out of six cannoncrs that I had were put 'hors de combat'-two killed and two badly wourded. I shot with my revolver at the lieutenant who was lending the charge immediately upon our gun. He had on a hat that was too largo for him and be had put some paper under the sweat-band to make it flt. He had the hat pulled down close to his eyes and my bullet struck a little to the right and was deflected by the paper wadding. However, it knocked him down and almost at the same moment, or perhaps while fall ing, he had hs ankle shattered by a bullet from the Vermont iufautry. After the battle I had the opportunity to aid him in getting his wounds dressed and putting him into a house just across Meadow Brook near thc Pike."-The State. General Lee Under Fire. In September, 180-4, the Atlanta (Leyden)-artillery, Ninth Georgia bat talion, was in charge of thc artillery from Cham n's farm on the James Uiver to For! Gilmer, ou Charles City Hoad. One afternoon, thc 19th, about 4 or 5 o'clock tho Federal artillery began a furious cannonading on our entire front. Major Leyden, who was in com mand, was preparing to reply, when General Lee rode in hurriedly alone; he dismounted and told the major not to reply at present, but keep his men ooncealed, as he did not understand what it meant. He immediately mounted the fort at its highest point and under a heavy fire in order that he might watoh the effect of their ar tillery on our fortifications. To us this seemed u long time and obi how many silent prayers went up from our met* for his safety. At last he re turned and soot me with a verbal mes sage to General Longstreet, who was on our left that be (General Lee), had returned.to his headquarters. The next morning the mystery was solved, the war department at Wash ington had just heard of General Sheridan's famous victory ia the Yal ley of Virginia and had ordered Gen eral.Grant to fire a shotted salute in honor of that event. I have often wondered if the Federal troops knew who that soMtary soldier was on that memorable sftemooo. Respectfully, JOUN W. WOODRUFF. The Whisky Pitcher. A pitcher of corn whisky, two empty glasses, a pistol with one chamber empty and a corpse in a pool of blood! Major B. B. Evans is in jail. Here we are promised something in tho bloody line equal to the Rice mur der trial in New York or even the ghastly Guldensuppo mystery.. Major Evans says that Griffin killed himself! n"i ?L . -?..i__#_ _i. : -I_ii. - wui tus JMLUIKJI ui vuiu rr moa jr, mu two empty glasses and thc pistol on the table are thc witnesses! What will they say? What have they ever said-tho pitcher of whisky, thc empty glasses and the pistol? Major Evans is reported as not be ing "himself" when drinking, wbiob means drunk. What does our State offer its young men as its first State institution but the dispensary? There is no crime charged to Major Evans in whose room the corpse was found with tho pitcher and the empty glasses and the pistol. Major Evans says that Griffin killed himself. Whether Griffin's hand turned the pistol to his own breast or Evans' put the lead into him we blame The Pitcher and tho Two Empty Glasses! The State of South Carolina and the human mind that first saw tho benefit of the dispensary as a political institution are accessories before the fact. The politics in this State are at their dregs when it put tho son of a distin guished soldier and gentleman behind the prison bars with the Pitcher and the Two Empty Glasses as Witnesses against him!-Greenville Netos, Sun day. Cures Contagious Blood Poison. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-It is es pecially thc deep-seated, obstinate cases that B. B. B. cures. It matters not if the doctors or patient medicine have failed to cure, B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) always promptly reaches the poison and roots out and drains it from the system, heals every sore or pimple, stops hair from falling out, and cures tho di sease so the symptoms can never return. B. B. B. cured K. P. B. 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