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WAR S' Stonewall ?Jackson A Hanl At the battle of Antietam or Sharps burgs, Md., in September, 18(12, Stone wall Jackson commanded the left wing of Lee's army, and on this part of thc linc the fighting was continuous and bloody from early morn till night. I read in history that General Lee instructed General Jackson to turn thc Federal right if possible, and this fact accounts for what I am about to relate. After the hard fighting of thc 17th of September MeLaw's division was "50 thc extreme left of the line of in f an try, and I was on the picket line on thc 18th, and was at the same time the extreme left picket on the line. Next to my position that day came Stewart's cavalry line of outposts, but ^oiiie distance from where I was. 1 had my post in the edge of the woods, on the outside of a fence corner. One side of the fence extended about par allel with our line of battle and lay in thc direction of the river; the other side in front and to my right extended straight toward the Yankee lines. Both sides of the fence were just out side the woods. Thc cerner of the fence where ? was stationed was the highest point any where around, and in front of mc and to my left I had a plain view of thc Yankee army, and saw them during that day, apparently busy burying their dead ollicer?, for I could see am bulances moving about followed by soldiers with their guns reversed. As well as I remember, about i) o'clock in thu morning my attention was attracted to thc noise of cavalry in motion in my rear. Turning around, I saw a squad of mounted men coming straight toward my position. When tho squad got about 50 yards from me they halted, except ono man, who rode on straight to where I was standing. Ho halted just in the edge of thc timber, apparently to escape being ob served by the enemy. I then noted that it was Stonewall Jackson. Ile had a picoe of white paper, about thc size of common note paper, in his left hand. He would consult tho paper a few minutes, and then look over the position of thc enemy. Then he would look straight at mo, and appeared to be in a deep etudy. He remained there for sotno little time, engaged in consulting whatever he had on the paper, looking .over tho Yankee lines and then at me. I wondered what he had in mind, but history states that he was simply studying the Yankee lines to seo if they could be turned at that point. He declined to make tho attompt, and I saw enough that day to see that ho aoted wisely, for there was no way to conceal a flank movement, as we would have to maneuver in an open country in our front, and then expose our .plana and our numbers, and thc latter .it was to our vital interest to keep a -secret. I exchanged no shots with the Fed eral pickets that day, nor did they make any hostile demonstrations. About midnight our picket line was relieved, or rather withdrawn, and un der orders we took the caps off our guns and silently formed as a rear guard te tho army, and when day came we were on thc south side of the Po tomac. I fell asleep that night on a hayrick by the sido of thc road, whilo we were halted on account of some obstruction ahead of us. I was tired and sleepy, as I had had no rest for threo days and nights. We marched all night on the 16th, or, at least, I did, as I was on a detail to get food out of the stores captured at Harper's Ferry. I sat up all night of thc 17th, talking to thc Yankee wounded, who lay all about us that night, and then on picket the night of the 18th. When 1 awoke 1 found thai I was alone. I realized my positiou, and 1 lit out for the river. 1 ran, and no joke. I made it and got safely across the river. The thing that I remember above all others, not excepting my flight, is tho figure of Jacks' . when he sat on hts horse at my pioxet post that morning. When ho fell at Chancellorsville I told the boys that the prayers of tho army had left us. I loved Leo; but Jackson, to my mind, was the fighter incarnae of Leo's army. From that . day to the end wo said in our hearts, "If we only had Jackson !" W. A. JOHNSON, Co. D, 2d S. C. V. Atlanta, Jane 5. -. -^"w +-f*_ The Tr-irst Assault on Wagner. TofherEdityr.q?thc Sunday News : I have bee*n requested to give my re collection of the first assault of Bat tery Wagner on the 10th of July, 1863. The participants in tho strug gles of that day are rapidly passing away; it, therefore, behooves those ?rho survive to put on record theil TORIES. on a, Reconnoisance. 'ft 'Journal. recollection of those stirriug events. I On the 10th of July the Federals made a combined attack on the south? ' ern end of Morris Island. Forty seven pieces of artillery poured an I incessant Ure upon the unfinished Confederate batteries. The monitors i Catskill, Montauk and Wehawkcn j steamed up within less than a mile and delivered enfilade their broad sides of eleven and fifteen-inch shot and shell, while four howitzer launch es opened on tho right. Under cover of this terrible bom i bardmcnt 2,500 men, under Ung. Gen. ' Strong, put out in small boats from j Folly River and landed at Oyster ' Point. Tho Confederates fought with : great determination, but their guns ! were soon disabled, and the remnant of infantry was compelled to return i before thc overwhelming force, sus taining a loss of 201; the Federals lost but 53 killed and 00 wounded. It was not until capture was immi nent tit nt the few gallant men remain ; ing, who had sustained this terrific j onslaught for three hours,.fell back, ? disputing every inch of ground. Tho '. four mo tl 1 tors steamed slowly along as near to the shore as the depth of wa ter would permit, pouring in their ; broadsides of shrapnel and shell. Thc i Federals deployed across the island from shore to shore and delivered a I murderous fire. Two companies of thc 7th battalion of the South Caro lina infantry. 200 effective, which had just landed, arrived in time to cover the retreat. Thc enemy advanced un til they came within range of the heavy guns of Fort Wagner, which opened rapidly with shot and shell. Falling back to the shelter of tho sand hills the Federal troops rested for the remainder of tho day. During the morning and evening of the 10th Morris Island was reinforced by Nelson's battaliou, 2G0 men; Col. Olmsted * command of Georgia troops, 534 mea; twonty men of Company D, 1st South Carolina infantry, 70 men of Companies IC, II and I, 1st South Carolina artillery: two hundred of thc 21st South Carolina volunteers, thc Gist Guard and Matthewes's artillery, in all 1,200 men, which constituted the Confederate force. They were ordered to bc on the alert against an impending attack and the night was passed in comparative quiet, tho ar tillery Blooping in tho gun chambers. I had command of a 32 pounder smoothbore on sea face, boaringon the beach. The total number of men allowed in the chamber was ten; all others were excluded for the sake of room. The gun was double-shotted with shrapnel and grape and pointed down the beaoh. ?U being quiet the men composed themselves to rest around tho gun. Four hours passed, but at midnight the pickets on the ridgo caught the sound of stealthy footsteps advaneiug over thc soft sand. Thc early gloaming of dawn hardly rovealod thc form of the foe; they opened a rapid fire, thus giving signal of tho assault. In a moment the S.yuth Carolinians manned tho guns on thc right and right centre of the ramparts; thc Georgians guarded the loft and left centre of the works; thc 18th battalion oooupied tho south east bastion; the 1st Georgia along thc sea front to tho left: Col. lt. F. Graham in command. Four companies of tho 17th Connec ticut, under Lieut. Col. Rodman, lod tho assault. So rapidly did they fol low upon thc heels of the retreating picket force they were at tho orest of tho Rca faed as the pickets wore en tering thc sallyport. Against thc dark sky thc dim outlines of a human figure could just bc discerned. Tho 32-poundcr was loaded and ready to fire, but before thc order was given he was challenged to know if he was friend or foe. Quick as thought tho man's gun was levelled. Tho com mand was then given to fire and tho 32-poundcr belched forth the reply. Thc whole load- passed through the man's body, cutting him in twain. This beeame thc signal for thc blast of war. The artillery opened with a murderous hail of grape and canister, while tho musketry ponred forth in a steady roll their balls, sent like wind and rain in the face of the foe. As tho light of day increased and the smoke oloared away the retreating columns of blue coats were seon mak ing for the sand hills, the remnant of the forlorn hope of the 7th Connecti cut, who had sheltered themselves against tho scarp during the terrifio j fire, now crawled in and surrendered themselves prisoners, ISO. rank ind file. Three hnndred and filthy wound? ed were carried to Hilton Head; over 100 were buried by tho Confederates , in front of Wagner; 130 prisoners ? tal-en. Thc loss in Wagner was two ; v-0 . ors and five mon killed and fifteen i wounded. r There were no cadets on the island at any timo during the siege, and it was (Jen. Itiplcy who laughingly said to the commander of the 32-pounder that he had used two much powder to kill ono man. Instead of that over fifty dead were counted in front of Wagner, killed by that gun, which was the only one able to do execution. H. C. GILCHRIST, ExCapt. Gist Guard Artillery. t A Great Electrical Inventiun. When it is positively known that Thomas A. Edison has brought his inventive genius to bear upon any par ticular problem the public is prepared to learn that thc problem will soon be solved, and an announcement that Mr. Edison has perfected this thing or that is never received with doubt nor in credulity. This wonderful inventor is eminently practical as well as suc cessful. He isa theorist who can put his ideas into practice. To a news paper man who called upon bim the other day, Mr. Kdison said he was "not a scientist." Hy this he meant that he laid no claim to that renown which is accorded the speculative or didactic scientists; the men who ex periment and investigate and put their results into books. That is not Edi son's way. ile is constantly giving to the world some valuable invention -often the outcome of years of study, investigation and experimentation. Just now it is being heralded abroad that Mr. Kdison haB perfected an elec tric storage battery that combines great potentiality, slow depreciation and inconsiderable weight. As de scribed by the Philadelphia North American by an unscientific writer the new invention is indeed a marvel, possessing qualities that almost stagger the imagination. Hut at a recent meeting of thc American Institute of Klee trica! engineers in New "Vork the new Kdison battery was for thc first time described, aad according to The Evening Post, "was vouched for by this body of experts"-which is pretty conclusive. "Thc qualities claimed for this apparatus," continues Tho Evening Post, "are little short of re volutionary, but the reception accord ed tho new invention by the Institute -a body composed of the most emi nent specialists in electrical engineer ing-goeB far towards removing any doubt as to tho ability of the inventor to substantiate his claims for it." To attempt a scientific description of the invention would be out of place hero and would probably only weary the avorage reader, but the following simple explanation by The Evening Post will not be uninteresting: "In brief, the new storage battery is able to do two and one-half times as much work for a given weight as the most powerful batteries at present in use in automobiles, while it shows even a larger proportion of increase in out-put for weight over batteries used in stationary work. In addition, tho simplicity and strength of its mechan ical construction, together with the nature of the ohemical reactions upon whioh its operation depends, are such that its depreciation in servioe will bo insignificant. The battery is made of steel plates, containing pockets in which are compressed mixtures of graphite and powdered iron and gra phite and nickel oxide, the liquid ele ment being a solution of oaustio pot ash." In further considering this inter esting subject, The Evening Post sum marizes the difficulties whioh it is claimed the new battery of Mr. Edi son's invention will remove, review ing the history of thc Btorage battery, as follows: "Since the invention of the storage battery by M. Plante, in 1878, there has boen an urgent demand for the perfection of this much-needed ad junct of elcotrictrioal installations. But progress has been discouragingly slow, and the accumulator has lagged far behind othor varieties of electrical ap paratus in development. It has al ways boen hampered by its great weight -an almost fatal obstado to its ap plication in automobile or traction work-its fragility, and its rapid de preciation in service. And to theso unfavorable qualities, the high initial cost of storage batteries has often pre vent d their use where othorwiso they might have been employed to advan tage. Ever since thc announcement of thc invention of M. Plante, popular inter est, no less than technical apprecia tion, has marked any progress of the storaga battery, however slow. Thc idea of boxing electricity and distri buting it, mush as milk is sent about in bottles, was from the first very fas cinating, and the eleotrio automobile appeared within a very few years alter the battery had been made "commer cially prattioable." But notwithstand ing the extraordinary advantages of cleanliness, safety, and control pos sessed by the storago-battory vehicle, its great cost and limited radius of op eration; its extreme fragility ?nd rela tively enormous depreciation, have prevented its widespread nae. For these reasons the eleotrio vehiole ia still almost exclusively an instrument ?of pleasure." So muoh for the past. As for the futuro, if Mr. Edison's battery is what it is said to be there will indeed bc a revolution io tho realm of transporta lion. Thc obliteration of thc trolley and the subtitution of thc storage battorv will bc amere incident. Elec tricity will be available for transpor tation uses to which it ii now impos sible to put it on account of the diffi culty of transmission. I'udor present conditions thc electric automobile is a vehicle of limited utility, but with a sufficient storage battery the automo bile principle can be applied to trucks, to ur&ys, struct cars, and even, per haps, to railroad trains. What this will mean is not easily conceived. Consider, for instance, the drayage in alargo city. ''In great cities," says Tho Evening Post, "the Hums ex pended annually for trucking are enor mous. It has been stated on good au thority that tho amount thus spent in New York is greater than the revenue of one of the largest railway systems entering the city. Of all forms of transportation in common usc, that by horse and truck is most expensive. If a package is shipped from Boston to New York, for example, the probabili ties aro that more than half the cost of its transportation goos to the trucking necessary for its delivery to and from the terminal railway sta tion." Anything which will decrease this expenditure is naturally to bc hailed as a benefaction, and it is be lieved that Mr. Edison's battery will "go far toward solving the problem." But this is not all. The Evening Poet presents still other possibilities based upou the asRumntinr; that the new battery "is al! i hat it is claimed to be." lt looks into the future so far as to see these revolutionary re sults: "The cart horse will disappear from our streets, because no one can afford to use so expensive a means for mov ing merchandise. Just as thc trolley car has caused the extinction of tho car horse, so is thc electric automobile dray, the delivery wagon and the phy sician's carriage. Th? horse will . be come a luxury rather than a neces sity. The greatest economony in the storage battery is found in thc appli cation of water power to the charging of the battery iu the nighttime, when thc dynamo is relieved of its ordinary load. The water then usually runs to waste, but if ita power can be turned into the storage battery during the night, it is- BO m'ich clear gain. "Electric navigation will be possible with perfect accumulators, and we may reasonably hope to see electricity tak ink the place of steam for the propul sion of most vessels running short dis tances between stopping places, such as tug boats, canal boats, ferry boats and the like. Electric torpedo boats, free from smoke, noise, and the danger of flaming funnels, low of freeboard and fearfully swift of speed, will make a coast-guard that will daunt the most formidable invader. "Electricity in bulk, so to speak, may be shipped to distances beyond the reach of power transmission lines. Power may be delivered, in convenient nnits and at high economy, to the household, the factory, the mine. Its use maybe extended to the farm, and we may yet live to see the automobile plow." This may be a perilous flight of the imagination, yet it is unsafe to doubt such predictions. No one can afford to discredit the promises of the scien tists and inventors, least of all of Edi son, and if he says he will give us an electric plow, an electric plow wo shall expect to have.- The State. Maryland Witches. Over the great copper kettle one nightan old man remarked, as he stirred its seething, wholesome con tents, that we did not hear much of witohoraft nowadays, but when he was young theie was a good deal of that business geing on. Hie ern father had been changed into a horse an? ridden to the witches' ball. All the witches, as they arrived, turned into beautiful ladies, but he remained a horse, and so far and so fast was he ridden, and so sore and bruised was he the next day in his own proper per son, that he could not do a stroke of work for two weeks. Aunt Susan well remembered this adven*are of her father-in-law. Her own lather always kept a big bunch of sweet-brier switches hanging at the head of his bed. And many a night she had hoard his "slashing away at the old witches that woulden't let him sleep." Progressive farming has about im proved the sweet-brier off the faoe cf the earth. Bot old beliefs are not so easily uprooted, as the following story will testify: Whoa Gr ndmo'her Eller was young she had a oow of a er own raising, of which she was very orond. One even ing at milking time ? certain woman passed through the barn yard, stopped and looked the oow all over. "I was foolish enough to tell hor all abont tho cow, how gentle the waa, how muoh milk abo was giving, and all that, and she eaid I certainly had a fine oow. Well, th? next morning that eow couldn't stand on her feet, and there she lay in |lw stable till father came borne from tho mountains, where he was catting wood. He said it was all plain enough, when I told him every thing, but no wondered i hadn't had better sense. However, he knew juat what to do. He robbed the oow all over with asafoetida, saying words all the time. And tho next day, when I went into the barn, there she Btood on her four legs, eating liko a hound. Witches can't stand asafoe tida."- American Fnlk-Lort, Liquor's Effects. "There have been acores of chap ters written in the medical books as to why alcoholie liquors undermine and ultimately destroy a man's sys tem, or, in other words, 'drink killed him,' but the precise reason why they kill oue man and not another is uot satisfactorily explained," said a prom inent specialist. "I noticed a dispatch reoently of the death of a centenarian who had been a steady drinker all his life. I have had patients who were moderate drinkers succumb in from five to ten years. The mystery lies in this: Two men of apparently equal physical strength, for a man's soundness can not always be determined, will each drink an equal quantity of liquor daily, say half a pint to a pint of whiskey, or from five to twenty aver agedsized drinks distributed through ?v.s> A~.~ -. - .1 Q?Qni&? ss - **' t\? 'nish* cap,' just before retiring. Tens of thousands of men average this quan tity daily. "One of these steady drinkers ?viii die inside of ten years, perhaps five, and the other will live to be 80. The death of the first can be traced by a medical man directly to the use of the steady doses of alooholio poison upon thc heart, stomach or kidneys; the man would not havo died of the disease given in the death certificate. It may truthfully be said, then, that he dried cf drink, though the imme diate cause of death was heart disease, appoplexy or any othei of the sudden or lingering diseases. The other-man may die an accidentai death at a ripe old age. "The general effect of alcohol upon the organs of the human system is too well known to be recited, but it is the opposite way it affects the systems of different men that constitutes the in teresting point. My theory of alco holic death, as it were, is the deadly effect of the poison upon the excre tory organs, especially the skin, which it clogs and destroys, both its life and that of the muscles and the organs it encases. In fact its continued effect is to practically decay the human sys tem, and thc bodies of the 'old soaks,' or men who have died of alcoholism in the great cities, and whioh have afterward been cut up in the dissect ing rooms of the medical colleges, are practically a mass of putrid organism. When, therefore, alcohol attacks a certain weak organ of the body, that organ succumbs to the attacks, as doeB also the patient, to put it in unteoh nical terms, and he passes. "Since men will continue to drink to the end of time, I'd say this to the steady drinker: "Let up entirely at stated occasions. Go for two weeks, or longer, without a drop, to give the system a chance to rest. It becomes tired of oft-repeated defensive efforts to overcome, counteract and fight against the assaults of the stimulant and the corresponding strain. Many men who are hard and steady drink ers are conscious of their ultimate self-destruction, but are powerless to resist the temptation. They make it a practice to 'let up,' as they say, and when they begin again the system has been rested and strengthened, and renews the battle of counteraction and recovery with added vigor, and the man's lifo is prolonged. Just so long as the vital organs can fight against and overoome the destructive effects of aloohol a man will live. 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