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WAR SI Hampton's Splendi F. B. McDowell, in J. Shakespeare Harris, the noted ex-Confederate soldier und scout, has just returned from the Dallas, Texas, reunion. Ho was bubbling over with the memories and incidents of thc great meeting; and in talking socially to a few friends, he said in tho course of a casual conversation, that he had met his old companion Jim Sloan - that was pleasure enough. ''Tell us about thc meeting," urged his enter tainers; but he waived the request and broaohed auother sulject. "Were you comfortable on the trip?" "Yes, I was." I rode all the way there and back on a sleeper with my baby; but many of thc old soldiers toughed it out, took hard travel and went as cheaply as they could." "Baby," as he fondly calls her, is a niece, the 10-ycar old daughter of thc late Jay B. Harris, whom the uncle has adopted, reared from childhood, and who accompanies him on his trips and excursions. "There were," he continued, "thou sands of friends in Dallas. I thought half of North Carolina had gone to Texas to live. I met Jim Sloan, who moved away from this section some years ago. He kissed me and cried. I never saw him cry before; but he has seen me do so often. I cry for twa things-for joy, for sorrow. I never was known to shed tears for p"iu or fear. Well, we hugged each * h,T and laughed and slept together ? .?. whole timo." "When I attended Wade Hampton's funeral," he continued, "thore was a tremendous crowd, and when I pushed by to look at the faoe of my old commander his son told me that the old general had declared that his North Carolina regiment was com posed of the finest soldiers in his command. I broke down. I couldn't help it, and others around wept like children. "I broke down another time. It was at a great gathering of the Con federates in Richmond, and I called upon Gen. Hampton at the Jefferson hotel to pay my respects, and intro duce a party of eight friends. Hamp ton was talking to a group of ladies, but as soon as he caught sight of mc, he carno over and placed an arm around my neck. He didn't say a word, and I couldn't speak. We stood in that attitude, it must have been for five minutes, when I said, "Men, introduce yourselves, I can't call your names." Noticing tho increasing interest and enthusiasm of tao speaker his friends deftly plied questions that led him on. "Well, you ought to know about Jim Sloan," ho said. "There were four of us, all Hampton's scouts, that lived mainly in the federal lines Isaac Shadburn, of Louisiana, Solo mon Legare, of Charleston, Jim Sloan and myself, both of North Carolina. It was cold and sleety. The First MaiQa cavalry knew our whcrabuuts and determined to capture us; but when we expected them they did not como, probably on account of the weather. We had planned to bush whack them. We took supper at Col. Simmons, nine miles from Petersburg, and were to have breakfast before day. Wo slept in the shuck pen. When at breakfast a detachment of 52, under Lieut. Herrick, rode up we ran out of the back door. Legare was Bhot in tbe ankle before he got out of the yard and could run no farther. Tho rest of us escaped by dodging around the cabins and the blacksmith shop cn route to the woods. As we look down along the fence, we heard thc commanding officer call out to take no prisoners. Then Shadburn, who was in command of us, yelled, defiant ly. "Boys, give them hell." Wc leveled our double-barrelled shot guns and fired, and seven of them reeled and leaped like bull frogs from their saddles. Thc others hugged their horses closely and spurred them in the opposite direction. They soon rallied and came at us again. We fired and three fell. They were more scattering then than before. We were anxious to reach the woods. We knew they would not follow, for they feared the bush. We had on pre vious occasions stationed two along the roadside and two 100 yards be hind, and commanded a surrender. Not knowing our numbers they laid down their arms and were mighty mad after they found out how few we were. "It was arranged that Sloan and Shadburn should go together, and Le gare and myself should bo companions but the pairs were broken, for Legare had been wounded and couldn't bc with mc. As I was firing, I felt a fclow upon the baok of my neck that idled mc to the ground. It was thc eabrc biroke of a cavalryman from bo land. My neck has been stiffened ?ince, and that is the reason I look up from under my eyebrows as I do. My X)RIES. d Scout, Jim Sloan. Charlotte Observer. I hair was long and hung around my I shoulders, and was streaming with J blood. Throwing away my gut. I I seized my pistol and shot away aw the j trooper coming to finish me. I could J not tell whether my pistol fired or snapped. I had been shot in the arm, and didn't know it. He made a ?av ago stroke to sever my head. I threw up my hand to ward off thc blow aud it was split open. You can seo the ?car. He jumped upon me with both feet, stamping my face aud body and cursiug me. I ky as if I was dead. I was shot through thc leg and arm and badly wounded iu the back of thc neck. Shadburn was shot through the fleshy part of the neck and a federal soldier was about to brain him with the butt end of a gun. Sloan reached up from the ground and shot him through thc stomach. He turned pale and fell from his horse. I saw it as I was lying on the ground. Sloan dragged wounded Shadburn into the. woods, and the detachment, fearing an ambuscade, pursued no further. "Sloan wrote home to mother that I had been killed. That he saw mc shot to death and was powerless to prevent it. Capt. John R. Erwin also wrote to her that I was dead. When I arrived in Concord after the surren der, Kd McDonald drove me out homo in a buggy. Father, mother and sis ter were sitting upon tho porch. Mother and sister were dressed in mourning for me. None of them re cognized me until I stepped upon the porch. Mother never spoke for two hours. "Legare and myself were taken to prison. I could have escaped the first night, but he begged mc for God's sake not to desert him. Seeing me talking to him they suspected me and guarded me striotly, wounded as I was. Hampton through Lee sent a flag of truce to say that we were both enlisted soldiers, else we would soon have been bungas marauders or spies. ''After the mine explosion at Peters burg and the death of so many negroes 87 of ?B were placed under negro guards out of revenge and forced to throw up fortifications before Confed erate batteries. We soon learned how to watch the coming of the shells, and by lying low, dodge them success fully. They never skimm d the ground, though often covered us with dirt. They flew upward after explo sion, and killed many of the negro guards. "Legare and I were dragged from place to plaoe handcuffed together, and taken to Washington. After about two weeks of siokness from im prisonment and dysentery Legare died. They took off the handouffs that bound us together in life and placed a ball and chain upon me. i "I must go baok to Sloan and Shad j burn. They were captured shortly j after we were and condemned to death and handcuffed together and placed under guard on a vessel at City Point on the James River. During the night Sloan, who had snit!! wrists and hands, soaped his handt and slipped his handcuffs. It scraped off the skin and swelled his hand to twice the normal size. He let himself down by a rope used to draw up water irom the river. He was a good swimmer. He swan: to a boat some distance at an chor, upon which a Yankee officer and his family were staying. He lowered one of the lifeboats. Somo of the crew heard him but fearing it was the work of desperadoes, abstained from giving an alarm. He rowed back to where Shadburn lay anxiously waiting and watohing, jerked the rope as a signal, and Shadburn carno down into the boat. This was done under the flare of the ship lights, beneath the shadow of thc cannon and while a guard was pacing the deck. "When tho pursuers found the row boat floating upon tho water at sun rise, they concluded the prisoners who had been handcuffed, had been drown ed and so reported. The fugitives concealed themselves in a swamp all ; day, and marched through the federal lines at night as often they hud done before. Sloan had taken the precau tion to wrap Shadburn's handcuffs in a rag so they would neither rattle in his descent from thc boat or on his tramp through the army. His cuffs were cut off at Hampton's headquar ters; and Hampton on commenting upon tho conduct of Sloan, said that not one man in 100,000 when under sentence of death and who had gained freedom, would have jeopardized his life by voluntarily returning to liber ate a friend. It was probably tho most unselfish act of heroism that he had ever known. "Thc Washington paper of 186 contained the full details of the escape. I have forgotten thc oxact date, but I read the account in print. "Some time before all this happen cd that I have bceu telling about. Sloan and I were at the house of a : widow iu Virginia where we had ofter. 1 been kindly and hospitably cared for. Thc house was on a high knoll in thc midst of extensive cleared grounds. Her 10-year-old son saw the Yankees creeping up from the bottoms, and gave us warning. We ran, and the Yankees in pursuit, the bullets whist ling near our heads; but we blazed back as wc ran, and it increased the distance between us and lessened the gait of the Yankees. A man can pur sue mighty fast when the fleer has co weapon, but this thing of popping back takes tho enthusiasm out of the pursuit. When we reached the woods about half mile away they let us alone. We were dressed in blue and that was why we could go with comparative safety through the Yankee camps at night. "We saw them return to the house from which they had run us; and after they left we went baok, fearing that they hal set fire to the premises. We found tho lady in hysterics crying out that they had taken away her boy. She was distressed beyond measure. Sloan quieted her as best he could by promising to return him. When we left, 1 said, 'Sloan, how could you tell that woman such a lie? You know you can't return the boy?' 'Well,' he replied, she was crying and crazed and I had to promise her someth.ng.' "About two weeks after this, as we were riding along the road in Loudon county, the Yankees suddenly tired upon us. Sloan's horse was killed and a whole company rode down upon him. I made my escape. Sloan was taken to Point Lookout and there he found among the other prisoners our friend, the 10-year-old boy. A cer tain distance was staked off in the bay in which thc prisoners were permitted to battle. The prisoners were per mitted to bathe. The prisoners were also allowed half barrels for the pur pose of washing their clothes. Sloan placed the boy with himself under a barrel and walked nine miles in water of varying depths, often swimming out of deep places. When the boy became tired and started to cry, Sloan would quiet him with the threat of drowning if he made further noise. When exhausted, they reached a house in Maryland whose owner was a Con federate sympathizer. They were given plenty of provisions and an old pistol that was out of fix and wouldn't fire. They found a negro fishing, and drawing the pistol, Sloan commanded him to turn over the boat. The negro was so terrified that he fell flat upon tire bottom of the boat and it floated beyond their reach. They soon found another boat looked to a tree, and prizing out the staple got possession and escaped into Virginia. In sis weeks from the time Sloan promised to restore the lady her son, he fulfilled his promise. The boy often went with us in the day time afterwards as a pilot and could shoot as well as s man. Sloan has his name and I have it too, if I can lay my hands upon m j memoranda. He is living now. "Sol Legare was a royal fellow, ( gentleman by birth and son of a large planter who lived near Charleston. J have told how he died. "Shadburn was a Catholio. I hav< often seen him pray and oouot hil beads. He was as brave a man as eve lived. He was io oharge of our squad but he didn't begin to know as Sloai did, how to extrioate himself whei trapped or in a real dangerous posi tion. Sloan was the best I ever knev about such strategems. When oap tured Sbadburn was as helpless as ; child, but Sloan was a devil all th time. He never gave up, and neve failed to outwit his captors or ene mies. "Shadburn was from Louisiana am was educated in Kentucky. He i The bather sometimes finds the sand soft and yielding to his feet. . It do? not trouble him and he goes on until presently he sinks to MPCTrTTffCTTTTTW his knees and dis- V.iaLl?r })<O(<-CY covers to his horror ^Sr^(*^l'^ftr The first symptoms j '. 'JHB Bt'V do not cause auxi- . >\ ^j^ffi^^^wj' the body grows I^A?LfN^/T W weak through lack ll]iy|uMyffl of nourishment iud 'MtiJtJBflBM^m disease of the ?'.om- -?gSE? of heart, lungs, liver jgLjWB ^^FjBB or kidneys, the snf- *^Efflr^ff9w ferer realises his j9Bja ll danger and seeks for - n^?&. A medicinal aid. ! "^%^^^V M Dr. Pierce's Gold- ??3ffiS*^^ A" en Medical Diccov- ^SSSIR/J&SEW cry cures diseases of A?fflft* the stomach and ^Jf&k tw^^r j other organs of di- mtmmmc^^^^^, ? creation and nutrition. It cures diseasesc heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc, whe these diseases have their origin in di ease of the stomach and its allied organ: Thomas A. Swart?, of Sub-Station C. Coluc bus, Ohio. Hox loj. writes : " I was taten wit severe headache, then era mn 4 irtSthe stomac' and my food would not digest, thea kidney ai liver trouble, and my back got weak co ll cou scarcely get around. At last I had all the coi plnlnts at once, and the more I doctored tl worse I got until six years passed. I had b come so poorly 1 could only walk In the hon by the aid of a chair, and I got PO thin 1 hi Sven up to die. Then a neighbor said, 1 Tal r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and mal a nev men out of yourself.' The first bott helped mc so I thought I would get anotht and aller I had taken eight bottles, in about s weeks. 1 was weighed and found I had gaini twenty-seven (7*\ pouuds. I have done mo hard work tn the past eleven months than I ? in two years before, and I am as stout ai healthy to<Iay, 1 think, as I ever waa." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medic Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free < receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay e pense of mailing only. Address Dt.*i V. Tierce, Buffalo, N. Y. DOW living in San Francisco, and is re- J ported to be quite wealthy. Sloan married a sister of Conner Davidson of Iredell county, ami now li ves in Texas, ile has a family of rive children. I tell him he is too good-hearted and liberal and doesn't know how many cents are in a dollar. When he left North Carolina I divided my ready money with him, and I divided again when I met him in Dallas. Hampton always said that the things Jim Sloan did ought to be put in book form. As a brilliant, daring scout, he had no j match. I used to go to see Gen. Hampton nearly every year and the j old commander never tired of talking about the clever tricks and thrilling adventures of Jim Sloan." Mr. Harris was told be would be excused from further talk, if he would only tell of his last ambush of the enemy after the war. "Oh, yes," he said, "that was after the surrender. A garrison of federal troops were sta tioned in Concord and they had been terrorizing the people, depredating and stealing nightly nearly everything they could find. One Sunday they came to our house near Poplar Tent, thinking there was no one at home. Father, mother, sister and Brother Jay, had gone to church. I caught three of them in the act of stealing and marching them to the house at the jj.. s toi ' s point I made them pull off their coats, I took a cow-hide in one hand and a pistol in the other and gave each one 100 lashes. They cried for pain and offered to pay any price to be let off. Brother Charles who had been asleep was awakened by the noise. I was exhausted, and he then laid on the rawhide while I continued to cover them with thc pistol. The shirt of every one of them was red when they left, and no Yankee or freedman ever stole anything from us for four years afterwards. "Father, fearing they would take my life for the chastisement, went to consult Gen. D. H. Hill, who was then editing 'The Land We Love' in Charlotte. Gen. Hill laughed till he ^cak, a?d assured father that depredators would not trouble us again, and they didn't. It is just to Mr. Harris to say that he will be surprised to see this artiole in print. Shakespeare Harris is a modest man, and can rarely be pre vailed upon to talk about himself, and when he does, be always minimises his share in the exploit or battle. I have just discovered the "open sesame" to his heart. Start the con versation about Jim Sloan, the friend and sharer of his privations and dan gers, he will incidentally . introduoe the parts he also played in important dramas. He could not do otherwise, for the lives of Sloan and himself are interwoven in the same crimsoned warp and woof. My explanation to Mr. Harris for thus publishing a private conversation is that he possesses the knowledge of much that should be made history in the recital of the leading events and foroes of the civil oonfliot. Wade Hampton, in discussing his troops in action, once told a friend that if he had "a battalion composed of men like Shakespeare Harris and Jim Sloan, he could whip the largest army in the world." South Carolinians in Texas. Mr. S. H. pps, Sr., of this county, is a Confederate veteran and attend ed the recent reunion at Dallas, Texas. He returned home last week, and has some interesting stories to tell about the mammoth crowd of visitors pres ent and the consequent inconvenience suffered by many of them. Among other things he said that he stood in line for two or three days while there in the hope of reaching the railroad validating office and finally abandoned the attempt, being apparently no near er success when he gave up than when he started. Ho said that the railroads gave notice that they would reoognize tickets that had not been validated, and this was why he did not hold out to the end. Mr. Epps relates a story something like this: "The train stopped at a small town near the line between Indian territory and Texas, and while standing there, a man past middle ago, rushed up to one of the cars and called out: "Is there anybody in this train from old South Carolina? If there is I want to see him." It so happened that the man stopped near whore Mr. Zaok Bailes, of Fort Mill township,, in this county, and who was traveling with me, was sitting, and Mr. Bailes told the inquirer that he was from South Carolina. Just about this time I came D. 8. VANDIVEP.. J. J. ? Vandiver Br : - DEAL BUGGIES, SURRIBS, Harness, Lap Bo ? Z6y WE have a large and beautii ARE RIGHT. COME T( YANDIN? up and Mr. Bailes told thc stratiger that I was from South Carolina, and then it was that the stranger told why he was inquiring for South Carolin ians. Ile said: "Men I am a native of the old State, and although I have been out here for years, my heart goes back to the land of my birth," and then tears commenced to flow down his cheeks, "and I long to have a good long talk with somebody who knows it as it is. I want you men to get right off this train and spend awhile with me-just r.s long as you will. I am the owner of the hotel here, and if you'll stop with me I will ' feed you on the best this country af- ] fords and nothing shall cost you a oent. Please stop just a little while with me." Mr. Epps said the appeal was very touching and the man's re quest hard to refuse; but, owing to the fact that their time was limited, he and Mr. Bailes were foroed to de cline. Mr. Epps told of another man who left Fort Mill when a boy and soon after the close of the war, who found out where he and Mr. Bailes were from, and followed them about from place to place for several days. Yorkvillo correspondence of the News and Courier. Babylonian Bricks. When M. Morgan opens his exhibi tion at the Grand .Palais on May 1 of the results of his excavations at Susa it will be to give a very fairly com plete history of the Kingdom of Elam as it was nearly 2000 years before Christ. Sculptures, bronzes, enamels and numbers of terra-cotta tiles bearing cuneiform inscriptions relative to deeds, treaties and bills of sales have been brought to light by M. Morgan and his companions, and the majority have been translated. * The most interesting discovery is a pillar about 8 feet high, sculptured out of hard stone and containing the original text of several laws framed by Khammourabi, King of Babylon, in the twentieth century before Christ, with a portrait of that monarch, who was a contemporary of Abraham's. Here is an extract of the laws as quoted by the Matin: "If a fire breaks out in a house, and any one having oome to the aid of the landlord commits a theft, he is thrown into the fire. "If any one breaks into a bouse to steal and is oaught he shall be killed and buried before the spot where he broke in. "If any one, without the owner's permission, outs down a tree in an orohard, he shall be fined half a nina of silver. "If a husband conveys house, field or orohard to his wife by a title deed after the husband's death the children shall respect the title deed and the wife shall retain her property, leaving it after death to her favorite son. "If any one has hired an ox and ill treats it so that it dies, he shall re store it ox for ox to the landlord. "If, without witness or contract, any one makes a deposit of any goods, ead disputes arise, there is no re course to justiae."-Paris Dispatch to London Leader. A Wellington Story. The Duke of Wellington onoe met by acoident an ofiicer in a state of ine briety. "Look here, sir," said the Iron Dake, "what would you do if you met one of your men in the con dition in which I find you." 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