Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAR SI Tile Confederate Sc At lauft When Leo's army invaded Mary land, my command was halted and camped a few miles southeast of Fred erick City. Wc were camped in the woods on the cast side of the road and on the opposite side of thc road was an apple orchard, which extended nearly to the city. Near the side of thc orchard nearest Frederick City was a residence, occupied by a woman, thc owner, aud a widow, in this house Gen. D. H. Hill had his head quarters. Myself and a comrade got a pass one day to visit the city. We found the streets deserted by all except the Con federate soldier guards. On the stores there were placards reading thus: "Sold out." This was the case all over the place. We went to hunt for some grub but got none. Returning to camp we conoludcd to take a short cut to camp by going through the apple orchard, and in doing so passed quito near the house. Wc found that somo of thc trees had apples on them, and being truo be lievers in the adage, "Necessity is the mother of digestion," we com menced to thrash tho apple? off tho trees. About the timo wo were fully under headway wo wore interrupted by the command, "Halt, there!" Looking behind us we saw three Con federate soldiers advancing, and arm ed. When they reached us the "boss," a corporal, notified us that we were under arrest; that General Hill's orders were to arrest any one molest ing thc apples. We were conducted into the baak yacd of the premises where we found quite a number of vic tims to the "necessity of digestion." In a few minutes a well dressed angu lar and rather shrivelled up kind of a woman came to the rear door of the house; eyed us a few moments and then flirted into thc house ejaculating, "The nasty, dirty rebels, I am going to make General Hill put them in the cow lot!" "Tho cow lot!" I said to myself. I looked toward thc outhouses and there, sure enough was the cow lot and the filth in it about half knee deep. Noon time and thc hot Sep tember sun just a frying it. I then determined that, I for one, would not go in there. The party who would undertake to put mo in the cow lot was just about as great an enemy as a Yank. I so expressed myself to the crowd. Of course the guards felt about as we did about it, ana only wanted a good excuso to prevent the exeoution of the woman's threat. Directly an officer in Confederate uni form appeared and stated the woman .complained of our presence in the yard and wanted us put in the cow lot. I told him, as spokesman for tho .crowd, that wo had decided not to go .there. He said he did not blame us .and SB she was so unreasonable we ?had better go to our commuods. We made a break for the gr ce and did not forget thc apples when we got out. "Put us in thecow lot! Not muoh!" She was wiser by several degrees whon we got through with the apples on tho trees. Apples and green corn was our fav orito diet those days. Bread and meat were delicacies we could not afford for an everyday diet. These were side dishes which we re served for special occasions, that is, from the Second Msnassas till after Antietam. Tho next day after thc apple epi sode, myself and Ami net Pinson, of my company, got passeB to visit tho town. We walked about the stroetB the whole day until late in thc after noon when we were invited into a house, and the inmates seemed to bc anxious for a little closer inspection of a rebel than seeing us walk the streets. We got along harmoniously and thej filled our haversacks with pears. Wc asked for grub, but were polite ly informed that grub was contraband, With profuso thanks for this informa tion wc left thc house. It was just sunset, and hungry and tired we start cd for camp. Roaching thc corner of the blook w< met a little boy about 8 years of age and wo stopped him and inquired ol him if ho knew a place where w< could get something to eat. II? pointed to a brick house about om and a half blocks away and stated tha the gentleman who lived there ewnei a large flouring mill and would fr ?d us he thought. Thankful for the newe wo pulled out for the house. It wa getting twilight now, and when abou thc middle of the block three nioel dressed young ladies cama out of doorway just ahead of ps and came u > Se street, meeting us. As the i c.chcd us the one on the outsit tucked in her dress un j pushed til other tv. o against the house, so as I avoid having ber drcBB touch us, ev deotly ??rd exclaimed: "The nast; X)RIES. >ldier as a Curiosity. ( Journal. dirty rebel*. I wish the boys io blue would come and run them out of town !" Wc laughed and sho looked daggers. I was satisfied sho was not the author of "Maryland, My Maryland." Wc reached the goal of our hopes, thc brick house. I rapped on thc door and u stylish, upperish colored lady, dressed in the fashion, answered the "knock." We asked for the gen tleman of the house. She left us and in a few moments a rather slender but finely featured, well dressed and cul tured gentleman faced us in thc door way. Wo requested food. With a "Yes, certainly," and a smile he in vited us iu the house. We were con ducted into an elegantly furnished room on the right of tho entrance and invited to be scated until our food wad ready. Ile stated that there was only some cold food in the house, but that we should be welcome. Ile left us thou and myself and Pinson were congratu lating ourselves on our luck and in such a stylish mansion, when, horror of horrors, a young lady entered the room. Beautiful-so beautiful. I turned red and redder, as I thought of the contrast between us in personal appearances. Pinson and myself were dirty, sure, and she eyed usas though Barnum had employed us to travel with the Confederate army, as some specimen rf the genus homo from an other wonu. I felt so abashed that I started to leave, but Pinson caught me by thc arm and persuaded me to keep my seat. I then tried to talk to her, as a means of relief and distrac tion from our personal appearances, but sho would not talk, but she "look ed." Kvidently we were curiosities. The fame of thc Confederate soldier had no doubt excited her admiration, and tho rusty appearance of tho two before hor had turnod her admiration into wonderment, for she, no doubt, could not reconcile her idea of glory as clad in dirt and rags. She had evidently concluded that thc rebels were an army of tramps, beggars, mendicants, fit only for cu rios. Her lipB were sealed. I sat there, perhaps an hour, in suspense. I would rather havo boon ruminating on an empty stomach in camp. After awhile tho gentleman, father of the lady, appeared at the door and invited us in to supper. The girl sat near the dining room door and doggodly kept her seat as we passed by, so as to see how we looked from the rear. I was all shame and blushes, for she then saw, not the Confedeiate banner, but the white (or rather yellow) badge of a woary Willie. As soon as we passed her, sho got up and aoted as file oloier that is, followed on behind. We passed around the dining table to the right, faced tho grub and took our seats. The lady faced the grub and took a seat directly opposite to us. No doubt she expected to seo us help oursolvos with our hands and uso our fingers for tongs and forks. She soon saw that we were used to the oiviliaed way of using spoons, knives and for!'4. She then eyed us closely as we helped ourselves from the different articles of food, for we bsd evidently convinced her that ss esters we were not ordinary tramps. I had got to the point that I intended to rebuts-her for having taken us for heathens, by making her face a famine for twelve months. I intended to, if possible, eat up all they had, or would give us, and then ask for more. We emptied our platos in a hurry, and the gentle man who sat at the head of tho table kept the lady of color busy visiting tho kitchen and the pantry. She stirred about lively, and we ato ditto, and wo had no intention of getting tired. Finally our hearts softened. It would bc base ingratitude to eat them out of house and home, and besides wc would need some stomach spaco to hold air to keep us upright so that wo could get back to camp. As wc bsd eaten up all there was on II thc table and all that had been brought in from the kitchen we start ed to leave. Tho head of the family requested uo to let him have oui haversacks, which wo did, and he f I made the lady in black fill them tc the brim. With many thanks wo lefl the house, and the young lady watch' od until our "cotton tails" faded awaj in tho darkness. i Not long after this wo camped jual ii outside Middleton, Md. Late in tin ii afternoon we received a ration of om s pound of flour per man. The nox it morning Geo. MoKensie, my chum y and myself went into tho town abott a sunrise to get the flour of our mcofi o p four men made into bread. We ha? y thus four pounds of flour. The house: le were all dosed, doors and windon ie blinds. We saw no one except < .0 countryman standing with one foot oi i- tho door sill of a store, on which wer ir, scated two Confederate soldiers. After walking about a little we espied .smoke issuing from the chim ney of a small frame house on thc r?Kht of au alley as we faced it, while on the left of the alley was evidently tho dwelling. Wc walked up to the house and found tho window on tho alley side open, and looking in, wo saw a woman, two girls and a negro woman getting breakfast. On seeing us, they were evidently alarmed, but we quietly asked the lady if she would cook four pounds of flour for us. She roplied that she would. This assured her that we were peaceful. I inquir ed of her why all the houses were so tightly closed and nobody vicible. She replied that thc Yankees had been io the town ahead of us, and had told thc people that the rebels had but one eye aud a horn, both in the middle of the forehead, and that they lived on women and children. I was amazed and asked her if they believed it. She replied that they did. While the bread wa? being cocked the negro wo man just "let out on thc Southern people and accused them of everything but good. She got hotter and hotter. Wc stood by thc window nome time, and other rambling soldiers increased our crowd considerably. They got hot, too, and if I had not pleaded for her because of the kindness of the lady of tho house, they would have taken her from tho house and learned her a lesson in common sense. The people seemed t J have such an outlandish opinion of us that I did not think it good policy to treat their misguided opinions other than the re sult of false teachings, for which they were not really responsible. I learned this valuable lesson from my visit as a rebel to Maryland, that all wars are caused by lies told to stupid people. Tho heathens offered up sacrifices to appease thc anger of their gods. In the valleys of tho South Mountain, in Maryland, they lined the fence with wheaten bread, covered about an inoh thick with apple butter, to appease our anger. For once I was thankful to be numbered with tho gods. W. A. JOHNSON, Co. D, 2d S. C. V. How Stonewall Jackson Fell. In view of the recent discussion whothor Frank S. Rosenthal, of Car rollton, Mo., a "Louisiana Tiger," is the man who fired the shot which re sulted in thc death of Stonewall -Jack son, a review of the facts in the case may prove interesting. Gen. Clement A. Evans, who was a colonel in Gen. Jackson's command at the time, and who later was promoted to thc command of the famous Stone wall hiigade, when told of Mr. Bor be thal's fears that ho was the particular man who fired the fatal shot, said the idea of any ono man thinking he was responsible for Jackson's death was ridiculous. "There were three distinct wounds," said Gen. Evans, "and to the best of my recollection the shots were fired by North Carolina troops." Gen. Evans referred the Daily News representative to "Memoirs of Stone wall Jackson," by bis widow, Mary Anna Jackson. This gives a complete acoount of the untimely accident which took from the Soulhern forces their most brilliant leader. Col. Augustus Choate Hamlin, in this work, names the 33d and 18th North Carolina regiments as the ones immediately adjacent to the. spot where Gen. Jackson was shot, and the 18th is named as firing the fatal shots. Mrs. Jackson's account of the acci dent, in her work on tho life of her husband, is as follows: "Gen. Jackson, accompanied by a part of his staff and several couriers, advanced on the turnpike in the direc tion of the enemy about a hundred yards, when he was fired upon by a volley of musketry from his right front. The bullets whistled among the party and struck several hor^s. This fire was evidently from the ene my, and one of his men caught his bridle rein and said to him: 'Goo. Jackson, you should cot expose your self so much.' 'There is no danger/ he replied, 'the enemy is routed. Go back and tell Gen. Hill to press on.' But in order to screen himself from the flying bullets, he rode from the road to the left and rear. The small trees md brushwood being very dense, it was difficult to effect a passage on horseback. While riding as rapidly as possible to the rear, he came io . front of his own line of battle, who, , having no idea that he, or any one bul , the enemy, was in their front, and, . mistaking the party for a body ol . Federal . cavalry, opened a sharp fir? r upon them. From this volley Gen. Jackson received his mortal wounds, b "His right arm was pieroed by c J bullet, his left arm was shattered bj i two balls, one above and one belo?, t the elbow, breaking the bones one ii severing the main artery. His horse t "Little Sorrel," terrified by the near f ness and suddenness o: the fire, dash 1 ed off in the direction of the enemy B and it was with great difficulty thai ? he could control him-his bridle bani s being helpless, and the t&ngled brush a wood, through which he was borne e almost dragging him from his seat But he .seized the reins with his righ hand, and, arresting the fiight of the horse, brought him baek into bis own lines, where, almost fainting, he was assisted to the ground by Capt. Wel bourne, his signal officer. "By this Sro several of his escort were killed acd wounded; among thc former was the gallant Capt. Boswell, and every horse which was not shot down wheeled back in terror, bearing his rider towards thc advancing cac ia j . The firing was arrested by Lieut. Morrison, who. after his horse was killed under him, ran to the front of thc fiting line, and with much diffi culty in making himself heard, told them they were firing into their own men. "As soon as this was effected he re turned to find his general lying pros trate upon the ground, with Capt. Wilbournc and Mr. Winn by his side. He was wearing at the time an india rubber overcoat over his uniform, as a protection from the dampness of the night. This Wilbturne was ripping up with a pen knife to get at the wound ed arm and stanch its bleeding. "Gen. A. P. Hill, who was near by, was speedily informed of the disaster and came at once. Dismounting from his horse, he bent down and asked: 'General, are you much hurt?' He re plied: 'Yes, general, I think i am, and all my wounds were from my own men. I believe my arm is broken; it gives me severe pain/ 'Are you hurt elsewhere, general?' he was asked. 'Yes, in my right hand.' But when asked afterwards if it should be bound up, he said: No, never mind; it is a trifle.' "-Atlanta News. Rapid Transit Without Tracks. A dispatch from Winstoo-Salem, N. C., reports that arrangements have been completed to establish aa auto mobile Hoe in Greensboro, and to run on the principal streets a regular half hour schedule from tho depot to Prox imity and to South Greensboro. Another line will be operated to Wia 8ton-Salem, with a branoh at Kerners villo for High Point. A large order has been placed for vehicles for the service, which will have the latest im proved electric device-the Edison (steel) storage battery. They will have each a carrying capacity of twen ty-five passengers, besides express packages aod baggage. It is expected that Che service will be in operation by the end of next month. Trips will be made every two hours each way between Winston and Greensboro, and the rate of speed will be twenty miles an hour. It is a very notable enterprise for the towns and villages oonoerned in it, and some of the marked advantages are worthy of careful consideration by communities this side of the North Carolina line. In the first place, it will he seen, Greensboro gains practi cally a street car service on its princi pal streets without the expense of lay ing and maintaining tracks for the cars; and in the second place, the ser vice extends out of the town to two or more outlying villages, on the same economical basis, making them ia ef fect surburbs of the town and giv ing to their residents all the privileges and advantages of town life without its disadvantages. In the third place, the system answers all the purposes of a railway betweoo Winston and Greensboro, with the advantages o - a railway, again, that no tracks or trolley plants have to be laid and maintained, and that trips between the two places will be made' every two hours, instead of onoe or twice a day -with every house and farm on the way a "station" for the convenience of the country residents along the line. The country between the two plaoes should hs speedily and highly "developed" in snob conditions to the treat benefit of the business and other interests of both places. The progressive example set by our near neighbors is well worthy of the careful consideration of some of our towus-people in South Carolina, cer tainly. Where a town in this State is not oonneoted by rail with one or more of its near neighbors, with whioh ready and rapid communication would bo desirable, or whore a popu lous and thriving country district has no rail communication with a town or oity, suoh a eervioe as that described would tako tho plaoe of railroad ser vice for many purposes, and, what is the first consideration, could bo es tablished where a railroad could not be thought of on account of its ex 1 pense. A self-propelled car running i twenty miles an hour and carrying sa ' many as twenty-five passengers a . need, besides express and baggage; 01 : carrying st any time freight equiva 1 lent in bulk and weight to twenty 1 five passengers with . heir baggage; . would be s great "development" foi i more than one village or scattered r community in the State, whioh is noa r dependent for communication with I the rest of the world on horse or mule , drawn wagons and mail carts moving si - three or four miles an hour. Of course reasonably smooth and , firm roads are a condition precedent tc t suoh service, but it would really seen L that the manifest and mmy advan - tages of suoh ssrricc would indue* , any community to construct suoh . roads ss are required to cjvpmand it. t Every good thing has its imitations and evco au automobile wagoo car riage or car cannot rush ulong through deep sand or loog mud holes and beds, or over corduroy? asd roots, where a steer can scar joly pull a "lightwood cart."-News and Courier. Shredded Corn Stalks. "By shredding his corn stalks, a man gets about twice as much rough ness off an aere as bj the old plan, and pound for pound, it is pretty near ly as valuable.'; This is the opinion that Mr. J). M. Hall expressed to the reporter in an swer to questions on Thursday, and as Mr. Hall has had about three years, experience with the old method, he ought to be pretty well informed on tho subject. "Yes, you can say shredding is tho thing," he oontiuued, "and that the man ho follows up the old way is wasting his time and money." Mr. Hall devotes more or less atten tion to cattle feeding, often having on hand as many as 25 or 30 head at one time. He pastures duriog tho summer and feeds on roughness during the winter Last winter he used noth ing but stover. On this subject he says: "Up to last winter. I used a gieat many cotton seed hulls; but the price last fall was rather higher than I oared to pay, and I fed nothing but stover. The cattle came through in better con dition than with cotton seed hulls, and I have no hesitation in saying that, pound for pound, stover is much the better feed." "What would you say would be the value of stover for oattle as compared with fodder?" "Never fed fodder to cattle, and ii it had not been for stover, could not ha re fed them at all last year," Mr. Hall replied. "Well, would you say that 750 pounds of fodder would go as far as 1,000 pounds of stover?" "No, it would not. Of course, storer canaot be as valuable as first class fodder; but it is hard to estimate the difference. In fodder pulling you often lose the boot, which is the best part of the blade; and in corn pulling you often lose the slip shuck. When you harvest for shredding, you get everything, and it is all of food value exeept possibly the pith, which can't be worth much. Of course, the value of your stover is going to depend upon your treatment of the crop. "iou must harvest at the right time-about ten days after fodder is ready to pull and you must be careful to see that the corn is well shocked. Then you must not let it stay in the field too long. If you get your corn up in good shredder, your stover ought to be all right." "Does the corn cure aa well under the new method of harvesting as under the old method?" "Every bit as well, if not a little better. My corn is as sound and as plump as you ever saw." Mr. Hall said that last year he shredded about 45 acres of corn, and the roughness from it fed 14 head of horses and mules, and about 25 head of cattle up to the 10th of the present mouth. He gave the horses and mules no other kind of roughness, and Le did not give tbs cattle, except milk cows, anything else but rough ness. All of the stock have done well, and Mr. Hall is satisfied that the farmer who fails to shred, loses fully half the roughness he should get from hi.5 corn orop.-YorhviUe En quirer. _.__ - Three hundred persous in Lon don earn a living-and several of them are growing rioh-by providing meals for the cats of the metropolis, which they deliver regularly once, twice and thrice a day, as may suit the owners of the ferline pets. Wt FIRST STEP to baby's health most be taken before baby's birth. The child can have no more health than the mother gives it. A healthy mother, strong of body and cheerful of mind, will endow the child with her own phy sical health and cheerful disposi tion. Many a wife who had dreaded motherhood be cause of past ex periences of pre natal misery of mind and body has found a new. era open to her with the use of Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescrip tion. It gives physical strength, scathes the nerves, and induces re freshing sleep. It gives vigor and elasticity to. the organs of mater nity, so that the birth hour ia practically without pain or euffering. It enables the mother to provide a plentiful supply of healthful nourishment for the healthy child. It makes weak women stnres and sick women well. There ls no alcohol in f Favorite Pre scription " and lt is absolutely frc* from opium, cocaine, and all other narcotics. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter free of charge. All cor respondence strictly private and sacredly conndenuai. Address ur. x. v. tierce, Buffalo, N. Y. MU^S^ambettwdMCol. 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