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WAR SI .Ktittle ol' Sa Atlanta liefere 1 proceed to ruy subject I wish to thank you aud the other pa pers and the people of Georgia for tor their generous efforts to rebuild thc Soldier's horne, and to express thc ? hope that your lot aud theirs in time j and eternity will be as fortunato as that of the old soldiers who have received this generous help. Shalom Church is, or was, a Hard shell Baptist meeting house situated , -n the road between I'redericksburg '. and Chancellorsville. As wcii as i can recall it stood about half way be tween these two places. A road croase."; the main road ;it thc church and on thc north side of it. The . burch was situated in the southeast ..!?;??? M1 thc intersection and wa.- a -mall building, but big and old nough l i ave a name, and in thc beautiful monti? of May, I SOM, it was immortalized by the "Gray .Jackets,*' ir Confederate soldiers. When -Joe Hooker crossed thc llap pahannock river Leo's army was post ed ulong thc south side of thc river as follows: Anderson's division above I'redericksburg; McLaw's division at . thc town, ami Jackson's corps below thc town. Thc Confederate cavalry patrolled and picketed th?' various fords . and crossings. Hooker, ut the bead ol' thc main army, crossed at thc fords above i'redericksburg and left Sedgewiek with about '2G,000 men posted on the . Stafford Heights on the north ol the river and opposite the town. If my memory serves me correctly. Harks ? iale'.- brigade of Mississippians, ol' McLaw's division, were on picket duty j in tho town at thc time, ju.it as they were when Uurnside made his move, December ll, ISb'L'. Anderson's division was thc first ' Confederate infantry which llouker. encountered after crossing thc river, ; which, being very largely outnumber- i od, fell back before thc Federal lori e. . McLaw's division, leaving BnrksdaVs ' brigade in thc town, hurried, to join Anderson. General McLaws took with bim the brigades of Semines and Welford, bot li ( 'eorgia brigades, aud Kershaw".s South Carolinians, lt started early in thc morning and was followed by Jack son's corps, except thc division of ?.arly, which wns? left behind io join with Barksdale in defending our posi tion at I'redericksburg and its imm? diate vicinity. When the three brigades under Mc Laws got to Anderson's position a forward movement was made, which brought Hooker to a stop and finally compelled him or frightened him with visions of Jackson to such an extont that he fell baok or retreated to Chancellorsville Inn aud prepared to run, if thc opportunity presented itself. Chancellorsville was simply an inn or lodging house on the west side of tho road. It was a frame building around which there was a clearing, I think, of about thirty or forty acres. Ali around this clearing for some dis tance was a dense wood or rather thicket, very appropriately named the Wilderness. As Hooker fell back to tbi.-> place wo followed him until wc got within j about one mile of tho inn, when wc : halted. My regiment, tlie Second \ South Carolina, was east of the road, ' with us right, my company, resting near the road. Near here road : branched oft" from the maia read and looked like it lcd to the country south- 1 cast of tho Wilderness. This was thc , road Jackson took when he caught up with us. Soon after arriving herc one of our . batteries went into action in and across th'j main road and opened lin-. They directed their dre on thc Van ks by thc road. Think it was done to develop the Yankee position. If this was the intention it suctieeded., fo?* the ; Yanks promptly returned the Ore and ( that with deadly aim and precision. J tn a few minute? a timber chest in I our battery was blown up and in a f< w moment moro thc position was seen to be untenable and our battery with drew. T'ne artillery in tb.- Y?nkc? anny was the gamest and best branch of the service. Their infantry could outrun wild turkeys, but the artillery pretty generally stood their ground, and often in the condition of the boy ?who stood on the burning deck. They knew how to handle and shoot cannon, and no mistake. However, I am not writing about the battle of Chancellorsville, but wanted to show where T was at and how I got there. In the grand charge inaue on Mr. Hooker's army by tho Confederates, our brigade went over the Yankee b astworks in'tha clearin^ttbout tuc ino and just where they touched the maia roau. AS KOOU as wc got. jn v^e road, we were halted and moved down the road towards I'redericksburg as .' -.v.. . I ;:~ '..V *?< WRIES. lern Church. .Journal. - I fast a* wc could go. We came upon Wilcox's brigade io line of battle ut Salem Church, ind i eur brigade formed on the right of i ! Wilcox, and east of the church. We 1 get posted partly in a swamp and part ly in an old field and along the cross- i road before mentioned. On the op- 1 posi tc 'jidc of thc road from us was a 1 road. 1 When Sedgwick succeeded in getting possession of May rc'.- heights thc road to Chancellorsville was open to 1 him, with the exception of such oppo sition as Wilcox's and the remnant of Barksdaio's brigades could oller him. 1 Ile promptly took advantage of his opportunity und moved towards Chancellor-* Ile Wilcox, with his : "people, uti he culled them, made 1 stands at deferent place?', and held them until Hanked out; lie did this so ? a.- to give Lee time to help him. as he was being driven upon the rear of Lee's right wing. Thc Yankee.- had been flunking und forcing him back ali day long und 1 when ho uiade his .-tami at Salem Church, he va- attacked by Sedgwick 1 with the sume tactic- and the same confidence as before, hut Mc Laws had gotten his brigade into position in thc nick of time. In this attack Sedg wick mad?- his heaviest and moat dc - tcnuitied move in front of Semines and Welford on thc left ol' thc line: as by this he hoped to "Oh.ucct with Hooker, near thc river. Thc Yankee's were astonished at li n di ag troops on tho right and left of ' Wilcox they hud not expected to have any fighting to do ut these points. Tiny wore also surprised in front of Wilcox, for they did not expect him 1 lo flank-they thought ho would be gone as before. The Federals came pouring through the woods right un to our lines, and when they were tired intu were ciose up, so that when our lin.' fired on them they fell thick und fast. Numbers of them fell right in thc road, and only a few feet from the lines. Their loss was heavy in killed, wounded and prisoners. I saw lots ol'prisoners who could not speak a word of English, and who hud been in the United State- only thirty days. They baa joined the Yankee army, for t/nc bounty, which at this time was about $750. Wc called these fellows prisoncrs(?) of war-that is, soldicrs(V) captured in war. I have said to my self many times since this: "Oh. sol dier! how many sins have been com mitted :u your natue?" j The resistunce which they met in this attack was eu unexpected and so sudden that they never ral lied, and it put Sedgwick on the de fensive. We unidle uo general advance after this repulse, but simply maintained our position. This was necessary, as, 1 before we could advance, it was ne ee-sary to establish connection with Early on our right. While we were wailing for this to bc done, we were shelled by thc Fed eral artillery .....id as they could not see ourline because of the wood in our front, thc accuracy of their lire was a -tudy - they burst shell and .shrapnel right over and at us. If I remember correctly, the woods caught tire in front of Wilcox's bri gade and some of the Yankee wound ed wore burned. Finally, wo got in touch with Early on our right, and Kershaw'.'; brigade, with the co-opera tion of troops right aif?* left, charged the Yanks* They shelled us heavily as wc ?l?l vanccd through the timber, and while wc paid no attention to the bursting shells, we did tn thc falling limbs and tops of trees, und these were about as bad as the -hells. [lut ihe brigade pushed ahead in spite ?is sin ils and falling iiinb> r, and the opposition of thc infantry j and we forced ?hem out. into the ope? country which lay ulong tho liv er. When we had dont- thi- and bad also gotten (.ut ni the limber, thc I Yanks lit, out--infantry'', artillery and m. ... ' .'. ; ,;i . lt was in. thc afternoon. "\. o pur I sued thom towards Frodoricksburg j and also towards the river, but we I failed to catch or disable all of them: sonic got away. When night overlook us in tho fight and pursuit was impos sible, we halted at a farm house. *The moon soon rose, about thc time night should ba?-- set in, so that it was a pretty light. ? ? ? ' * ?? ? Whilo we were herc a lot of mount ed musicians rode into my regiment's linc. They were Federals, and had been ?ut during the charge, and in trying to get with their own men after night fell into our bands. We Captured a number of xonkco soldiers in thc eamc way while at this place. All of them carno into our " . . v-, ?" ? ; K ' i ' line from the direction of our right 1 and rear. We must have opened a gap between our brigade and Karly, and thus these people escaped being driven with thc others. The battle in and about Fredericks burg and Salem Church was important and is separate from the main fight at Chancellorsville, for this latter was over before that at Salem Church had begun. Hut from the way the battle ?it Salem <'burch was brought about we might consider thc fight there, at I'redericksburg and between thc two [daces, as a scholium to thc c ain pro position Chancellorsville, or ?he Wil derness. The light was lively, interesting and funny. The losses of thc Yanks uu Icr Sedgwick were greater io propor tion to the number of their opponents thun was the case around Chancellors ville. I never thought that our division und Karly's whipped Sedgwick, but when vc charged him his men thought Lee. Jucksou and the devil were after them, and they lied from them, and not from u&. for I am satisfied if this had not been the case they would have *tor,d by their guns until we got near uuough to put salt on their tails, when we would have bagged them al!. As it was. the river was their salvation. Their surprise when they charged what they thought was only Wilcox, and thc way they were handled and driven back was funny: and the way they hit the grit when we finally charged thom was funny; and the mu sic the boys made with thc instruments we got from the band was funny: and thc astonishment of the Yankee band when they fell in with uswaslikcwi.se funny. Sedgcwick's crowd was defeated by General Astonishment, in fact, 1 never think of the battle of Salem Church without smiling. 1 enjoyed Comrade Melinde's ac count of it, and merely add to his be cause I think that something from every brigade ought to be written so that the readers of Thc .tournai can have a history of the battle. Some accounts from the following commands ought to be given, the bri gades of Itark^dale, Wilcox. Cobb or Wofford, and the brigades of Karly's division. Especially should some survivor of Wilcox's Alabamians and Harksdale's Mississippians write of it, for around ?l?ese two center the most important and interesting his tories of the events which led io the battle. Dou't grumble because the Yankee says he whipped us. but tell the pub lic how wc licked them. One individual cannot tell all that uta unguut; um, uevjauae uucu regi ment was a distinct organization, and ralli?e and advanced over dif ferent ground and followed different flags. To be exact, then, each regimer/t ought to have a historian, and such historian should send his communica tions to Thu Journal. In this way we will have compiled a history of illS pages in a year. I have a little grandson who says that wb ..v General Jackson got after the Y aol'eos that they were scared to death; they ran a3 fast as turkeys, with their hair standing straight up on their bead;,, and that ho would like to have been after them. He says he is going to keep these short , call* in The Journal and write a true history when bc is big enough.. So, comrades, The Journal is not only publishing history, but is mak bistoriaus for the future. W. A. JOHNSON, Co. 1>, 2nd S. C. V. Atlanta. Ga., Oct. S, 1901. In the Wilderness. At the NYilderness five Yankees were taken prisoners with empty guns on the morning of May ti, 1SG1, as Wofford's Georgia brigade was return ing from Tennessee.to Virginia. The brigade was composed of thc Eighteenth, Twenty-fourth and Six teenth, Phillips' and Cobb's Logion, Third < Icorgia battalion sharpshooters, The brigade came to tho .Wilderness on the plank road at double-quick time; where A. I'. Hill had been fight ing the d.?y before. There was heavy skirmishing going on. Tho battalion was in front by thc r.'ght Hank, rear resting On the plauk road , remainder I of brigade went by the left flank, rear brigade rostingon battalion. Colonel .V L. Hutchins gave the order: "Front! Load! Forward*!" and as thc brigade advanced Hill's men?ame out. Wo advanced a short distance, occasionally shooting, then we halted. The enemy was going by thc left flank and saw the brigade como marching by the tight flank and that threw tho battalion in thc rear of brigade. Wo marched about two miles and came to j an old railroad. The rails had never been laid. We went down this road for somo distance, halted and fronted to 'he left and were ordered to for ward. Thc battalion on the extreme left deployed out from eight to ten feet. Tho brigade struck thc enemy on tho flunk and broke their lino. Captain Strickland wKs in contraband.of thpfbut' tallou. J said to bim: "1 sec their - linc of battle; they are lying down." Captain Strickland gave the command to charge at thc very top of his voice, j Thc boys raised tho old rebel yell and ] went on them like a duck on a June < bug. S oin," ic* ol them fired, and a I good many of them ran, throwing down ? their guns as they w nt; some lay flit ] OD the ground. ] I came upon five in front of mes I 1 ordered them to get up, and as they j were obeying I noticed one with a gun j in hand. I threw my empty gun on him ? and told him to throw down that gun. < It dropped. j ? One of them said to me: "\\ here is ? your line of battle?" I told him, 41 You saw all the line we had;" ? "Well," he ?aid, "you are the d-st j meu to fight I ever sa?/." ! By this time I was loading my gun, ! and he inquired if it had been empty j at the time of attack. I told him that 1 it could make no differeuce to him. to j keep moving. The Yankees had another line of temporary works, and they made an- ? other stand. The .Johnnies made no | , halt at all, and the enemy fied before ! them as they had doue a short time j before. There was ono who would ' not surrender. His gun was empty, ! and he stood directly iu front of J. ? W. Kirk, whose gun was likewise ! empty, though Kirk had some advau tage in loading. Both of them were J doing their best to load quickly-it I was a race of life and death. When Kirk, who was the first to load, fired I on the Yankee, they were standing not more than five feet apart. The ramrod and ball went clear through his adversary's bod}', making a hole as big as a man's fist. That ended ! the fighting with the old Georgia bri- ? gado, in thc Wilderness, on thc Gth ! day of May. Kirk was from Cotnpa- ! ny C. Third (ieorgiu battalion A. J. McWmr.TKtt, (Jo. C, L?rd (ia. BatA Sha~ps'uOC?te.i'S. : Harmony Grove, Cia. Prickly A?ih Hitters cures disease ; of the kid .cys. cleanses and strength- ; ens the liver, stomach and bowels. Evans Pharmacy. ( , Didn't Like the Company. I Oue concrete illustration is often ? worth more than a hour's logical and ? reasonable discourse in the abstract. The Lewiston. 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