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WAR SI Tige Undersoil's I Atlanta The '.Hst day of August, 1302, dawned with a slow drizzling rain, as though weeping over the blood-stained fields of Manassas. General l'ope during the night came to thc conclu sion that Virginia, or at least that portion of it around Manassas and Groveton, was unhealthy, and in order to protect his army decided to march to Washington city by the way of Centreville and Fairfax Court House, icaving the Confederates in possession of the battlefield. General Lee's army remained on thc field the greater portion of the day . burying the dead and paroling the Federal prisoners. It was a day long to bc remembered, on account of the gruesome sights 1 saw. Karly in the morning Tige Ander son's brigade, or what there war? left of it, marched on the Federal's por tion of the battlefield. We first came to where a Federal battery had been posted the day before in au old field covered with gras.-. The ground was strewn with the dead and wounded, the grass caught fire from the dis charge of thc guns and burned all of them to a crisp. They were the most horrible looking sights I ever saw, or wish to see again. As wc moved ?m wc saw the dead in all conceivable positions, some with their bani1.- and mouths full of crackers, as though tryii!- to make away with as much <d i '.r' iain's provisions as they could br' i departing for the world to Some were .-lill holding fast to UiL-ii guns with an iron grip, their muscles never having relaxed. All of them had been nure or less deprived of their clothing, and if they had on any, the pockets had been turned wrong side out by some thief during the night. After going about one mile our brigade halted near a farm house which thc Federals were using for a field hospital. The house and yard was strewn with thc dead, and some wouuded who were unable to be moved when thc army retreated. Limbs were to be seen by the wagon load, numbers of them dying after the operation had been performed. I no ticed some that must have been dead before thc operation was completed, as thc bandages were still white and clear of blood staius. The sights would have been bad enough on a beautiful daj". but on a nasty rainy day it was simply horrible. We were not far from the famous Henry house on the first Manassas battlefield, where Mrs. Henry, who was nearly oue hundred years old and bed ridden, was killed. The first battle was fought on the 21st day of July, 1861, and on the 20th I, with several of my company, visited thc battlefield. We had the good for tune to meet on thc field a captain and several of his company from the Tenth or Eleventh Alabama regiment, who conducted us over the field to points of interest. Wo first visited the place south of the house where Generals Bee and Barlow fell, a cedar post marking the spot. Each ono chipped off a piece with his knife for a me mento, and before tho summer was over the posts had been chipped away by others for the same purpose. We next went to thc Henry house, made of round skinned poles. I don't re collect whether it was a one or two room house. Our troops had been driveu south of the house, and the Federals took a position around it, making it so hot for our forces they had to turu their artillery on thc house, completely honey-combing it with cannon balls. Mrs. Henry was on the bed and her daughter and a negro woman were un derneath the bed. A cannon ball knocked out the bead and footboard, iud -ix minnie bills struck Mrs. Hoa ry, killing her, but the two under the bed escaped unharmed. Mrs. Henry was buried in ber garden and at the second battle three Federal soldiers fell across her grave. Between the house and thc Manassas road, a trench was dug six feet wide, six feet deep and about 00 feet long, where thc Confederates were buried. I was told with a heave and a swing the boys were pitched to their last resting placo. Tho Federals were covered over with dirt wherever found and barely covered at that. We next went to a piece of woods west of the road and south of the house, the captain showing us where Colonel Williams, of his regiment, was killed by a Fed eral sharpshooter. The colonel had dismounted from his horse in front of his regiment and was tying his bridlo reins to a limb when thc Federal sharpshooter, some 40 yards distant in the bushes, fired and killed him. As he wheeled and dashed to his reai 30 v<-companies of tho regiment fired a volley at him. Ono of the captain V men / was with us and said he could find him, and proceeded to hunt foi him while the rest of us entered ac old fiold and went to picking black DRIES. ?ricraclo ut Ox Mill. Journal. ! berries. It was not long after that j bofore he called and we went to him, ; and sure enough there he was strctck i ed at full length on his back, with six ball holes in him that we could sec. Some ono had deprived him of every j tiling except his shirt, pants and 1 socks, but did not think enough of the j poor fellow to give him decent burial, ! and I doubt his ever being buried. [ We decided he must have been a very brave man or a fool, to shoot down thc colonel in front of his regiment when he knew it would bc certain death to ' him. Tige Anderson's brigade was on ; its old camping ground, having rc : wained around Manassas and Ccntcr villc from the first battle in July un i til thc Sill of Marth, 18G2, during the ' time building winter quarters near ; Mantissas Junction. The regulars had i done picket duty all over thc country, . as far oui as Accotink (.'reek and Mun ? son's hill, where we saw our lirst blue coats and did our first outpost duty in j Virginia. i While at Falls Church under Hriga j dior General James Longstreet and jColonelJ. K.M. Stewart, of thc fa i mous "Black Horse" regiment, thc ; regulars stuck their lirst powder at a small village called Lcwinsvillc, near . chain bridge, ?m the Potomac. Thc second battle of Manassas was j brought on by General Pope ordering General I'ortcr to turn Jackson's right ; Hank twenty seven hours after Long ? street had arrived ?ind taken position on the field. Coming in contact with Longstreet, he did not succeed, and General 1'ope, having to place thc blame for his defeat on someone, had I General Porter, after the battle, court martialed and cashiered for failing to accomplish an impossibility. At thc same time he gave Longstreet one of the hardest tights it was ever my good fortuue to participate in. (Many years after the war Congress reinsta ted General Porter with full rank and pay, a noble deed.) Some of General Lawton's men in Johnston's command told mc that at 12 o'clock Friday they were in thc railroad cut near Grovc lou, with thc Federal linc confronting them, without a single gun being tired on the line. When Longstreet ar rived, "Long Tom," a famous rille piece captured from Sherman' battery at thc lirst battle ?if Manassas, was at the head of the column and opened Ure on thc enemy. The echoes cd' the lirst gun had tu>t ceased reverberating over tho hills b . fore every mau in tho Federal lines was on his feet, ?nd it could be heard all along the line, "Longstreet has arrived"-they knew by tho sound of the gun. It has always been a mys tery to me why the famous G encrai Pope did not kuow of Longstreet's ar rival as well as his men. Lawton's men were charged in tho railroad cut by Billie Wilson's zouaves, coming up near enough to wave their flags over tho Confederates' heads. They left on less than one acre of ground 300 of their dead. While Anderson's brigade was near "the Federal hospital, I saw General Lee walking about with his arm iu a sling. Report said that morning he had been wounded by a spent ball fired by some cowardly soldier who failed to shoo^off his gun in the bat tle the day before. Let that bc as it may, the general rode in the ambu lance thc most of thc trip through Maryland. 1 have never seen or ex pect to sec another soldier or man that will compare with li. E. Lee. ile must have been something over six feet in height, with an erect mili tary Ggurc, weighing somewhere be tween 1G0 and 17? pounds. His hair in youth must have been black, bat at that time was f.?st turning gray. Ile wore a closely*cropped full beard and mustache His eyes were l/ack ami as piercing as those of au eagle. He had the grandest, most command ing appearance of any man I ever saw. A9 his boys would say, "Look at Mars Robert; he looks like he was born to command ibo world." There was nothing put on about him. I have seen corporals put on more frills; in other words, General Lee's overcoat with capo thrown in would not have made thc flap on the vest pocket of some of our small fry offi cers. Ile was tho idol of his men, they having the same confidence iu him that a child has in its parents. You could hear one soldier ask au othcr: "Where do you think wc arc going now?" The answer would in variably bc: "I don't know, and don't care, as long as Mart1 Robert is in com mand." I Somothing strange, I was with his : army seven months and during that i time he defeated four of the grand i armies of the Potomao, but I never I heard him cheered by bia soldiers. ' As some writer has expressed it, the i soldiers' feeling for General Lee was - too deep for expression. While Gen i ....... . \ . ... .A_?x, v . . i eral Jackson caused them to go wild and hubble over. (Jenora! Lee was un ideal of a perfect mat:, a man who passed from his cradle to his grave, without spot or blemish, in other words, there was nothing small about him but his little lingers. Wheo mounted on his favorite battle horse, "Travelor," he made a superb picture. Traveler shared the admiration and affection of thc soldiers with his fa mous rider, and his name will bc hand ed dowe lo generations yet unborn. Ile was a very dark iron gray, tail and well proportioned, with a beautiful head and neck. I never saw him moviug out of a walk. The general rode him home after the surrender at Appomattox and at the general's death i ' followed the hearse to the grave with saddle and holsters, led by an ex-Confederate soldier on either side of him. At his death his ride was prepared by n. taxidermist and to-day at Lexington, Ya., Traveler and Lit tle .Sorrel, Jackson's famous war horse, stand side by side, as natural as in lifo. It has becu nearly thirty three years ago since I saw our two most famous generals mounted on their favorite war steeds, but the sight of those famous horses would cause nie to shed tears quicker than anything cbc on this green earth. Late in the evening Tige Anderson's brigade again hit the grit,-crossing Cool Hun at the brick house, and marching to Sudlcy's mills on Bull Bun. where we bivouacked for the night. Karly on the morning of Sep tember 1st we crossed Bull Hun and took up the line of march on the trail or flank of the enemy, keeping up a lively tramp throughout the day. About sunset the regiments in thc brigade filed out of thc road to our right. Just after wo broke ranks their- was a heavy shower of rain and while still raining we heard to our right the music of small arms, said to have been in General Druyton's Geor gia brigade. The order was to fall tn, arms were taken aud we struck out at thc double quick down the road, in thc direction which we had been marching before .ve were halted for the night. We had not gone far before we could hear in the distance deep roar of cannon and muskets, and, as somo of the boys expressed it, hell had broke loose again. Wc went over a mile, when we were halted in a lane and ordered by the right flank. Jumping the fence, wc moved in line of battle through a Held. The roar of battle was to our left, we being on Jackson's right. In our front the Federals had several batteries of artillery and gave us what Teddy gave the drum. Wc certainly stuck might}' close to Moth er Marth while the shells were trying to lop off thc tree tops over our heads. We could not decide which was most io be feared, the shells or the limbs that came crashing down. We re mained there for some time under lire. Night had spread ber mantle over the earth; il was pitch dark, aud the flashes of light from the bursting shells made it look like the regions of the lost. But all tbiugs come to and end. About 10 o'clock, after quiet had again resumed her sway, the brigade was marched back to the road, where we built fires with fenoo rails and dried our wet clothing, remaining there tho remainder of tho night. Jackson had again overtaken General Pope, and had a right lively battlo with his forces at aplace called Ox Hill, near Fairfax Court House. About 1 o'clock I was ordered by Lieutenant Hutson to take a detail of men and go back after our baggage where we had first stopped for the night. On our arrival at the camp we found a good many stragglers with their camp fires. While at ono of the fires I saw approaching a litter borne by Piecing. That's a word which may not be in the dictionary in this sense of its use, but which is in very common use in some sections of the country. n She's always piecing'' they say of the woman who runs to the cupboard at irregular hours and eats a piece of pie, cake, or some other dainty. This irregular eating is one of thc chief causes of dyspepsia and " weak " stomach. Diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition are completely cured by the use of Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It increases the supply of rich, pure blood, and gives the body vitality and vigor. "A year apo I won reeling very badly," writes Mr*. Linie Abrams, of 15S Johnson Avtnue. nrooklyn, N. Y. ? ?tad n very poor appeUte and when f s .-it down at the table I could not eat, but would have to po ?way without even tasUng the food. Chancing to hear from a friend who used your ' Golden Medical Discovery ! for a disease similar to mine, I thought 1 would give th? medicine a trial, and I can hardly express the benefit received from it. The first dose seemed to do mc good. My appetite re turned and I was able to eat heartily. I have Improved so much since taking the 'Golden Medical Discovery1 I do not look like the same person. Am to-day well and strong-the result of taking six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery."" Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, ?. Y. lour mou on their shoulders, with a I lieutenant in command. Un reaching ' tho tire they placed the litter on the j ground, and I saw lying on it a soldier j wearing thc uniform of a general in the l.'nitcd States army, with one arm and an empty sleeve folded across his breast. Thc litter-bearers, from some cause, were mum, refusing to give us any information as to who the officer was. While we were standing around him three Federal prisoners were brought up who had been captured while out foraging for their suppers, one sergeant and two privates. Thc sergeant informed us that thc dead soldier was General Phil Kearny, of Mexican war fame, who at the time of his death was in command of a di vision, and one of the bravest officers in thc Federal army. The sergeant also showed us a rent in his empty sleeve where it had been torn by a piece of shell on Saturday at Manas sas. The general and his staff in the darkness, had ridden near Jackson's men through mistake, and on seeing their error, wheeled and made a dash for life, but too late, as the Confed erates recognized them and fired a volley, the general being shot from his horse. His remains were carried to General Lee's headquarters, and j the next morning, in an ambulance, ' under a flag of truce, ho was returned to the Federal lines. We secured our baggage and returned to the regiment, where we remained during thc rest of the night, on the soft sido of a fence rail to keej) out of thc mud. W. II. Andrews. Short Skirts Urged. Dr. Henry H. Hopkins, president of the New York State Medical So ciety and vice president of the So ciety for tho Pr?vention of Tubercu losis, said in a recent address before a woman's club of BulFalo: "The idea that consumption is caused by exposure to thc cold or that most of it is heredity has been proven to bc fallacious. Scientific investi gation has demonstrated that tubercu losis germs are spreading the disease. A persistent campaign of education is necessary. The people must be made to realize the danger and the fact that they can help to eheck the ravages of thc disease, and then it will be pos sible to abolish the tuberculosis as nearly as yellow fever and cholera have been banished. Both these dis eases were regular and expected visi tors at one time, but sience has un folded their mysteries, and the medi cal world has been able almost wholly tomaster them by purdy precautionary measures." The doctor said that he hoped the members of the New York State Medical Society, when the time came, would take steps to sec that paper money was put out of usc, so far as il and $2 denominations were con cerned. When these bills arc new there is little danger of spreading tuberculosis germs, but when thoy get old they absorb them and conse quently are the cause of more than one person dying of consumption. He hoped that women would wear short skirts, especially on the street. He said that long skirts picked up all the germs there were on the sidewalk, carefully rolled them together and dropped them on the carpets at home. The lecturer urged the use of small rugs instead of carpets, as wood can be kept clean so much more easily and it is little trouble to cleanse rugs of small dimensions. Ho spoke strong ly against thc increasing use of grill work in handsome houses, saying that thc numerous small interstices form resting places from which it is almost impjssible to dislodge thc j dust, and germs flourish where dust is. Dr. Hopkins protested against al j lowing babies to be kissed and against 1 thc common practice of kissing among women. In no way can disease germs be more readily communicated, he said. In one case within his knowl edge a mother had her baby out it its carriage one afternoon and mel several friends, who kissed it. The in fant soon developed tuberculosis which was directly traceable to one ol thc kisses. Alargo proportion of th< victims of the disease acquire it no from heredity, but from germs tha are easily avoidable if proper precau tions are used. The law against spit ting in public places, said thc doctor should be made more stringent am should be strictly enforced.-Nev York Tribune. Whooping Cough. A woman who has had experiene with this disease, tells how to proven any dangerous consequences from it She says: Our three children too! whooping cough last Summer, ou baby boy being only three months old and owing to our giving them Cham j berlain's Cough Remedy,they lost non I of their plumpness and came out i j much better health than other chi dred whose parents did not use thi 1 remedy. Our oldest little girl woul j call lustily for cough syrup betwee whoops.-JESSIE PINKEY HALI I Springville, Ala. This remedy is f< sale by Orr-Gray Drug Co. - Some men aro so stingy the won't even give advice. Harrows, Cultivators, And Weeders, Seasonable Goods for the Farmers. 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HOES !-Just received a Car Load of Hoes, all sizes and kinds, and prices are low enough. Big stock of Gardeu Rakes and other tools for the gardener. Builders' Hardware, Nails and Barb Wire always on hand. BROCK HARDWARE COMPANY, Successors to Brock Brothers. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VANDIVER, VANDIVER BROS., MERCHANTS, ANDERSON, S. C., APRIL 9, 1902. BIG LINE SAMPLE SHOES JUST IN AT GREAT BARGAINS. STAPLE LINE DRY GOODS AT RIGHT PRICES. ' We can make you the CHEAPEST price in this section on Flour, Bacon. Molasses) Lard, Bice. Coffee and Tobacco. Your trade is appreciated. _VANDIVER BROS. D. 8= VANDIVER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVEB Vandiver Bros. & Major., - DEALERS IN - BUGGIES, SUBRIES, PHAETONS, WAGONS Harness, Lap Robes, Whips, Etc. ANDERSON, 8. C., AritiL 9, 1902. t&* WE have a large and beautiful line to select from and our PRICE ARE RIGHT. , COME TO SEE US. VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. 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OUR ORGAN DEPARTMENT is running over with good things. You should see them and get prices. A few special bargains if you come at once. OUR SEWING MACHINE DEPARTMENT is by far the largest in the State, and more Standard varieties are here to select from. Here are bar? gainB in second-hand Machines that you ought to pick up. Come in when in town, and we will take pleasure in showing you through. THE C. A. BEEB MUSIC HOUSE. ? Well Furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensive!j furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some; even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay not that we deni in knocked-together, mnde-tocell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture Our best witness ?B the Goods them? Yours truly . G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, S. C. A. G. STRICKLAND, DENTIST. OFFICE-Front Rooms over Farm eiv and Merchants Bank. The opposite "ant illustrates Con tinuous Gum Teeth. 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