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WAR SI Banner -Hatti A. J. Mc Jil hiv, in On thc 18th of November, 18(12, thc Tenth Georgia infantry regiment marched from their camp near Cu! pepper Court louse towards Freder icksburg, Va. ; a chilling rain poured down on us nearly all the way. As we tramped along the muddy way we met a great many women, children aud old men who were leaving their homes to escape thc threatened shelling of Frcdericksburg. We went uto camp near t ho Te! > r:i jill road, about two miles to the rear of Marye's Heights, where (General Longstreet says that "General McLaws with 5,000 men against 10 OOO, put moro than double hts defending forces hors du combat, thus making for his numbers the best hattie of the war." About the 10th of December much activity was observed in thc Yankee camp*; on thc 11th and 12th our pick ets, Barksdalc's gallant M issi: sippians, were hotly engaged most of the time resist og the efforts of the enemy to put down pot) jn bridges and cross thc Rappahannock; about 'A o'clock on thc morning of the 13th, the long roll called us to arm" and thc Tenth Georgia double quicked to the heights, since known as Len's Hill, where we were held in reserve. Wc could dis tinctly hear the commands of thc Federal officers, but on account of the dense fog, could see only a few yards. Wc thought at the time thoy were very closo to us and that tho battle would soon be on. About 10 o'clock tho fog be an to disappear and in a short time thc bright sun had reveal ed to our view a splendid scene; a lino of battle heveral miles long was plain ly in view and rapidly advancing. Tho music of a hundred bands encouraged the troops; banner streaming, neigh ing horses, shouting captaius, rattling musketry, roaring cannon told that a mighty struggle was on between tho contending host.,, tho beautiful Kap pahannock flowed peacefully on to thc sea, its lovely valleys being drenched with fratornal blood. The Yankees did not advance against tho immediate front of thc Tenth Georgia so that from our lofty eminence we looked at thc mighty struggle going on on our right and left. General Leo and Longstreet woro on our lino most of tho day; they had many narrow escapes as the Yan kees shelled our position nearly all ?day long. We could soo thc white puffs of smoke on Stafford Heights rising from among tho tulip poplars standing around tho old Chatham mansion, where General Robert E. Lee courted and won bis wife, and then oould as plainly seo tho immense shells coming over in our dircotion; wo would dodge down behind tho para pet till thoy bad plunged into tho hillside in front or passed over us; very few of them struck our breast works or exploded near us; tho Tenth did not have a man hurt; ouc shell struck very noar General Leo as he s^.t on the parapet surrounded by his staff, but no ono was hurt; two or three of our largo guns exploded dur ing tho day giving all of us some frightfully closo calls. During tho afternoon some one who wanted tho Tenth to get into the thick of the fight worse than I did, ordered us to relieve one of the regiments behind tho stone wall; we marohed in quiok time just after we crossed Hazel Run, just bolow Wolford's Mill, we were halted and ordered to march back to Lee's Hill as none of '.he regiments wanted to bo relieved. While wo wero standing near the mill, the litter bear ors passed us bearing thc body of General Cobb, who had just been woundod by a shell. A deathly pallor was on his face and ho seemed to be ic great pain. Some cowardly mis creant bas lately tried to defamo Gen eral Cobb. I hesitato to oven men tion the cur's anonymous attack. All truo men will hold in utter contempt tho statement of a being who after 34 years would confess himself to hoing a sneaking, cowardly murderer. In this connection, tho Journal has in hand thc statements of General Cobb's brigade surgeon, Dr. E. J. F'.Jrige; his regimental surgeon, Dr E. D. Newton, and his favorite courier, Mr. John W. Clark, all of whom arc still living and were with him. I havo also, through tho courtesy of Judge Howell Cobb and Mr. A. L. Hull, of Athens,.been permitted to read a let ter from his pastor, Rev. R. K. Por ter, who was supporting his head when he died. This letter was written January 9, 1863. In addition to all this the ststemen* of our well known citizen, Mr. W. M. Crumley, who so signally distinguished himself in many battles, ?eaves no sort of doubt as to the nature of General Cobb'o wound. He suffered -intone pain for a short time after reaching the hospital and,, then in tu red ll ilea uve, while ino very earth was trembling beneath the shock of contending hosts, as the POKIES. Le ol the War. A Manta Journal. twilight wa fading into tho gloom of night, thc great heart of Thomas lt. ll. Cobb, Georgia's Havelock, ceased ] to beat. Streamings of celestial light ? hurst upon his enraptured vision; thc J din and roar of battle was hushed by ! heavenly harmonies and one of Time's purest, tenderest, knightliest souls went to an immortal home. The Tenth Georgia, with but little exposure to danger, witnessed the many bluudy assaults made by thc Yankees against the stone wall and against Jackson's men in thc open fields to our right; at night the flash ing musketry looked like myriads of Sro flic ; stretched away to thc right and along Stafford Heights and the Rappahannock, for many miles the j campfires of the enemy and nearer the ! flickering lights of the pickets, as the j noise of the camps and the music of the bands of ei.her army died away. Suddenly between ll) and ll o'clock the northern sky was illuminated by an extended aurora borealis sheddiug a baleful reddish ligbt.which seemed a fit ending to thc bloody strife aud carnage. Thc Yankees remained compara tively quiet all day Sunday, December 11th. Tho battle was over, and all day long lay in expectation of a re newal of thc strife; there was some hot skirmishing, but no general move ment. About 4 o'clook Sunday even ing, December 14th, tho Tenth Geor gia marched from Lee's Hill to the stone and fence and reliovcd the Twenty-fourth Georgia regiment which had covered itself with glory in the banner battle of thc war; we had con siderable skirmishing that night and next day. but no serious move was made; on the night of tho 16th the Federals recrossed tho river and the boys of tho Tenth were on picket on the banks of tho river, where thc Mis sissippians had fought so fiercely ; ou tho lGch or 17th a beautiful lady, ac companied by a Yankco officer in charge of a fatigue party of ten or twclvo private soldiers, came over with a flag of truco to recover tho body of hor husband, who, as I remember, was a professor in Yale or Harvard Coll ego; I was ordorcd to take charge of tho party and give such informa tion and help as was proper. The officor and soldiers who carno with her, thought they could looate his body; it was one of thc saddest duties I over performed. Wo oxhumcd a groat many bodies; every member of the Tenth, who was near, joined in the search; tho slekening orders nearly overcame us; tho dead woro piled on each other in a long, deep ditch, and as the men raked tho dirt oh! thom, they present ed a gruesome sight. After a long and fruitless search, we sadly gave it up, tho sorrowing wifo was loth to go; it was a pathetic sight. I will novcr forget her look of despair or thc tear stained cheeks of the Confederate and Federal soldiers. ' Not bato but glory made these chiefs contend, For at heart each bravo hero was a friend." In company with Captain C. C. Kibboe, who was afterwards promoted to lieutenant colonel of tho louth for skill and valor ou tho field, I conduct ed the truoe party across the river. Wo were received and entertained by Lieutenant Colonel Morrison, of the Seventy-ninth New York regiment. Ho gave us an excollont lunch, s me fino old Bourbon and cigars. While we wore enjoying ourselves, suddenly tho Yankees oponed a rapid artillery fire on somo wagon trains on our sido. It developed that tho commander of the battery did not know of tho truco. His one-sided battlo was quiokly stopped. We guyed Coionol Morrison good-naturedly and told him that wo had left sufficient force on our sido to take care of our trains; his experience tho past few days doubtless couvinced him wc were eorreot. Of thc.numberless daring deeds of tho war nono can exceed in reckless valor thoso of the young South Caro linian Kirkland, who begged leave to oarry water to the wounded yankees in front of the stone fence, the shell* and bullets so thick that it seemed that a bird oould not escape thom; with two or three canteens filled with water ho jumped over tho wall and running from OuO woundod Yankco to anothor, he gave them water; tho Yankee sharpshooters at first fired at him, but discovering his mission of mercy, both armies burst into loud oherring. No less dariog was the rides across Maryes Heights of oar fellow townsman. William M. Cram ley, or the daring rcconnoieance of Henry L. P. King, who after many deeds of dariog was riddled with bul* lets on Marcy's Hill and his body found on the 16th. On the night Captain King was first missing Gen oral McLaws had a brave Mississippi WM boy u a tu vd George B>iwt-u a> courier bleeping a hi* leo >o ht- uti>fiic bu Ht ot un any errand quick. At day light George jumped up and Haid: "General, have you found Captatu King?" Thc geueral told him "no." Then baid Bowen: "I must have dreamed it. I thought be came iuto thia tent last night, stooping down to get in and you spoke lo him saying, 'Captain, I have been looking for vou; 1 am glad to seo you,' anc* ho went and sat on the bed beside you." Gen eral McLaws had Bowen to repeat it, because be had the same dream in every particular. "Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, Both when wo wake and when wc sleep." The men of the Tenth Georgia soon were on the best of terms with theil friends the enemy. Lively trafficking in tobacco, paper , magazines, coffee, eic, was carried on beiweem iheuj and many a fishing frolic was had by both parties. The Yankees would neinc on their hide, the Johnnies on theirs, all of them dressed in the same gart Adam aud lave were in before ihej found the fig leaves. There was a sandbar very near the Yankee side ol thc river and really was their territory but it was a convenient, easy place tc drag the seine upon after a haul, sc tlie boys of thc Tenth encroached or it. The Yankees stood it for a day oi two and then protested aod told th Tenth georgians they must stay or their side; that General Burnside or dered. The men of the Tenth an swore d that they were not in ibu habit of obeying General Burnside's orders Thc Yank JCS said they would plaut * battery and enforce thc order. Th< Georgians told them if they placed : battery there they would charge it anc capture it. Many interesting incidenti occurred. The great snow battle: must be described by others. I wai not engaged in them, but suffering from broken arm and fractured rib, '. was being tenderly nursed at tho hos pitablo mai ion of Mrs. French nea Frederioksburg, where convalescing spent som* joyous days with th Murat of the South, General Jeb Stewart, Colonel John Esten Cool and Major Heros Yon Borcke, re counting the toils and dangers of th past, speculating as to the future o listening to tho inspiring musi o Sweeny's banjo. _:c-r m ? ? Ben ni rig's Brigade. Editor Atlanta Journal : Wo o Benning's brigado, in common wit! others, had many "close calls" durin, the war, but I think as a cominan tho closest grapple we had with deatl was on the morning of May 6, 1864, a tho Wilderness. As we were arriving on the field o battlo, wc met Wilcox's brigado of A P. Hill's corps flying from the field having been put to flight by the sn perior numbers of the enemy. Bu though routed and scattered, the were far from boing p r.ic Strieker; Every one of them seemed to b in high spirits and good humor, read, to be quiokly reformed. They wer hastening to tho rear with a kind c satisfied air, as if feeling conscious c having damaged the enamy woric tha they were damaged hy the cnemj And so wo found it to be thc eas later in tho day after tho enemy ha retired from tho field. General Lee was on tho front wit us, whilo Longstreet was quiokl placing us in position and starting i forward to meet the victorious an advancing foo. The opposing lines < battle commenced firing on eaoh oth< as soon as they cam* ia sight cf cac other, eaoh side continuing to advaoc until they oame within twenty y rc of eaoh other and then both lim staggered and stood their ground. 1 a little while the enemy were re-it foroed with a fresh lino of battle ar then with a third line. As wo had i re-enforcements, if they had rnshi on us instead of standiog so near firii on us, they could have easily ran ov us with less damage to themselves, i there were PO many more of them thc of us. There was nothing we cou do but remain whero we were lying ( the ground, loading and firing i rapidly as possible. Retreat was it po8Hible, for if wo had roso and turin our baok to them they would hi' killed every ono of ns, thoy were near. Nor oould we havo surrender if wo had desired to do so. The was no way to propose it. The wero no commands given after tl deadly contest began. Ihey cou not havo been heard. Tho only w to surrender would be for eaoh inc vidual to aot for himself, throw dov his gun and run into tho enemj linos, and that would he almost o< tain death. As we could neither i vaneo, being too weak, nor retreat, n surrender, wo could only remain as * were and do tho enemy as muoh da age as possible as rapidly as possit) The most experienced troops dori the oxcitoinent of battle aro inelin to aim too high. The ground whi the enemy staggered and stood slightly higher thea it was where c line was, and as were lying down a they remained standing, the balls fr those of ns who aimed a little too hi struok them abont right, while 1 balls from those of the enemy ( 3 utuie<J u little too high passed thc higher ever us, which was all tha:. saved us from annihilation. Finally the enemy ceased to receive re en forcements and all of them that were not killed gave back a half mile or more. We found among their dead in the most advanced position thsy oc cupied a major general. 1 think his name was Sedgewick, from New York. The enemy had so many men on the field and stood so long and so near us that their loss in killed waa simply terrible. But I did not see any wounded they left behind when they retired. While General Lee was present with us when we advanced, I feel eure he did not advance or attempt to advance with us. At that moment he bad too much to look after. Just as we wero being started on the advance oome one brought his attention toa body ot troops io motion far to our left. The uncertainty a io what troops they were, together with the victorious enemy so near in the immediate front and we not quite ready to receive them, seemed to somewhat disturb him, and he handed his glasses to one of his staff and to determine the body of troopB asked him to "look quick," as I supposed to determine whether the body of troops on the left wero friends^ or foes. At that moment we started forward to meet the advancing enemy and had only ad vanced a short space when thc deadly conflict began. I saw no more of General Lee all that day, though ho may have been near by without my knowing it, or his presence may bav'j become necessary on some other part of thc line, nor did lever learn wheth er thc body of troops in motion on thc left proved to be friends or foes. GEORGE MCRAE. The Relic Room. Columbia iSUitv. An important meeting of the ladies of tho relic room committee of the United Daughtors of the Confederaey wns held at noon yesterday in the relic room at tho State house. Arrangements were made for keep ing tho room open to visitors during tho three days of tho reunion. A picture of tho first martyr of the cause was presented to the chapter by one of tho members of tho commit tee The history of tho picture is inter esting and was thus given to the meet ing. Madam President and Ladies of the Wade Hampton Chapter, . D. C. : In behalf of my aunt, Miss Fannie H. Earle, of Anderson, I desire to pro Kent to you this portrait of her lament ed brother, Wilton Robinson Earle. It is thonght that he was onr first martyr to the cause, and in that con nection a brief outline of his lifo and of tho circumstances attending his death may be of interest to your chap ter. Yon will recognize his name as be longing to a family that has served the State in peaco and in war since the beginning of her history. Ie was the eldest son of Mr. Elias Earle, cf An derson, S. C., whose large fortune as well as the services of his two boys were freely given to the caneo of the Confederacy. Wilton was bnt 22 when the war be gan. He had just returned from the University of Virginia, where he went to complete his studies after graduat ing at the South Carolina College. His fine literary taste at that carly age is ovidenced by a collection of rare books which he had made as a nucleus for a private library. His disposition was frank, generous and impulsive. Ho was exceedingly handsome in appear ance and so gentle and courteous in manner that he was a general favorite wherever he went. "Ho was a gentleman and a soldier," writes his commander, "and wasgreatly loved by all his comrades." When the volunteers were organiz ing to go to the front his father offer ed to equip a company of which he might go ont as captain.. He became impatient, however, at the length of ! timo necessary for thc organization of bi company, and feuriugthat he would bo too lat for the war, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth regiment com manded by Col. J. H. E. Sloan. The regiment went imo action at the ! First Battle of Manassas. "Our regi ment w e atatined," writes Mr. B. E. ; Sloan of Pendleton, "near the atone . bridge and Wilton was killed by a shell supposed to have been fired from Long Tom, which yon know has the credit of . giving the first shot from the enemies' j side." i The young man fell but the wound though mortal was not immediately fatal. There being no ambulance in the sen ice nt that time he waa left to lie upon the field all day and though suffering great agony had only such assistance as could to rendered bim by his body servant. Late in the after noon a rude litter waa constructed and he was carried to Cul pepper CH. Where he again had to ait his turn among the wounded to have his wound dressed. That night he was taken into tho home cf souic li uu earLed Virginians who tenderly cared for him until his death tho following Sunday. Such was the tragic and untimely death of this noble yoong man so en thusiastically devoted to the cause of his country, and though the opportu nity was denied him to win fame upon the battlefield, shall we not write his name high upon the list > those who gave their lives for the State. Respectfully submitted, Harriet Earle Sloan. Letters were produced from Col. J. B. E. Sloan of Charleston and Mr. R. R. E. Sloan of Pendleton substantiat ing the facts as stated. 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