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WAR SI Recollections of Thin year the day of thc week falls on the same day of the month as in ! 18V)\\. At this date soldiers who par- j ticipated in thc battle of Chancellors- i ville are apt to thiuk of that memora ble* battle. After the battle of Fredericksburg . in December, 1802, McGowan's Uri- j gade encamped between Guineas' ?Sta- ? tioi and the Rappahannock River and did picket duty on that river. They named it Camp Gregg inincm ory of Gen. Gregg who was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. On Wednesday, April 2U, McGow ans' Brigade received orders* to bc ready to inarch at a moment's warn- J ing. Before auy other preparations j could be made, except packing knap ' Sacka, orders came to move out. Our j regiment, thc 13th, was left that day j on picket on thc Rappahannock. Gen. . Hooker in command of thc Federal ! army encamped on the N. bank of the ? Rappahannock, wus crossing a part of i his army at Fredericksburg. By mu- i tuai agreement the Confederate and j Federal pickets on their respective banks of tho -Rappahannock wero on friendly terms, conversed with each other and did a little trading on the sly by means of canteens. Often greeted each other across tho river witk a friendly salutation aud inquiry as to how they fared at dawn after a severely cold night. While we were on picket on thc riv er on Wednesday, April29th, we could he .> tho heavy shelling by tho Feder? ui battened up thc river. Tho fight ing had begun but still we kept our truce. Ono of our meu on picket hal lowed across to tho Federal picket and asked what tho Federal cannonading up the river meant. Ho replied, "no harm at all, only practicing a little." On Thursday ovening our regiment joined tho other regiments of tho bri gade at Hamilton's Crossing, near Fredericksburg. On this rapid march I noticed au amusing soeno. Near tho road side high up in a tree, far out on the limbs, two soldiers after a Squirrel. As wo approached nearer I saw two other soldiers with oxes chopping down tho trco and had it nearly out through and the tree scorn ed tottering to fall. I remarked to Capt. Charles Potty, who was near mo, as wc passed tho tree: "Captain, isn't that dangerous business, thoso men high up in that treo and it ready to fall?" The captain replied : "Oh, I reckon not. I guess that is the woy they were raised." On Friday morning. May 1? before day we were marched out from bivouao at Hamilton's Crossing and rapidly in the direction of Chancel lorsville. The Federal balloons ou the north of the river were all the while in sight. Four or ?ve miles from Fredorioks burg Generals Lee and Jaokson pass ed us on the march and received the oheers of tho army. We could hear cannonading in front and began to no tice evidences of battle on tho road side. At dusk the brigade filed off to the right of tho road into tho woods. Here the brigade encountered the Federal piokets who greeted our com ing with a volley of minnio bullets. A Confederate battery attaohed to the brigade opened a furious fire on them and they ceased firing immediately. We were then in easy range of the Federal batteries on the Chancellors ville Heights but they did not reply. Their wagon trains on the heights ,weire exposed. At dawn'Saturday, May 2, wo be hold threo lines of blue in our front. Everything was astir, and rapid prep aration foT the desperate conflict, whioh all felt was imminent. Gen. Jackson galloped along the linc. Then a Confederate battery close by our Regiment opened fire on the Federals. This was returned by the Federals .with a terrific fire. Soon white smoke and dobris shot high into tho air, one of the Confederate caissons of ammu nition was exploded. Just at that time when the Confederates were ex pecting to receive the command to ad vance on those strongly fortified heights of. Chancellorsville,, Generals Lee, Jaokson and Stewart had arrang ed a different plan. Gen. Stuart had kept Gen. Lee well posted on the movements and the forces of the Fed eral Army. Gen. Joe Hooker, called *'fighting Joe;" was in command of the Federal army, composed of seven corps in splendid condition, under tho corps commanders, Reynolds, Couch, Sickles, .Meade, Sedgwiok, Howard and Slooum, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand men. Gen. Lee had Jackson's corps, a part of Longstreet's and inoludipg what calvary he had there, nearly sixty thousand men. , Gen. Sedgwiok was crossing . kt Fredericksburg with nearly fifty thou 'ORIES. Chancellorsville. Hand men, and Gen. Hooker at Chan cellorsville with about one hundred thousand, made it look pretty -squally for the Confederates. Jackson took three Divisions, viz., Jackson's old Division under Gen. Colston, D. H. Hill's division under Gen. Rodes, and A. I*. Hill's division, and a small force of calvary, in all about thirty thousand tuen. AboutS o'clock a. m., Saturday morning, May '.I, our?Brigade started on this memorable march around the Federal army. Following devious country roads, on they marched, some times through an almost unbroken wilderness of woods. Jackson's order v?as continually repeated along thc line of march. "Press on, press right on. ' Pretty soon wo crossed a creek on which were ir.m works. Herc a Federal Battery from au eminence on thc Federal libo shellod our linc of march, as they passed a certain point in the ravine. Here wo noticed that it was natural for a fellow to duck his head when a shell shrioks close by. The skirmish line marched along pa rallel with tho linc of march and next to tho enemy. Major D. R. Duncan was on this skirmish linc. I noticed one of these shells strike the ground just in front of him, scattering the dirt and grass over his feet. The major looked at it with that quizical look us if he wautcd to say something funny about such a salute but said nothing. Wo marched rapidly until about an hour before sunset. Then we rested a little while. We all felt sure that wo would soon bo engaged in battle, and danger and maybe death, but here the boys had a hoarty laugh all the same. Gue of our members was a raw recruit and not acquainted with all tho implements of war. Just then the pioneer corps, whose duty is to construct bridges and clear out the way for tho passage of the army, rushed by carrying their axes in leath er sheaths. The fellow exclaimed, "Look, lookl what in the world are those fellows going to do with thoso leather axes?" Soon we struck the plank road we had left in the morning about four miles from the position we had left, after a circuit of fifteen miles to get there, but the Federal army was between us and tho point wc left. Wc rested a little while at the plank road while Jaokson was closing up his lino and preparing for action. Here we noticed that our company had no litters on which to bear off the wounded, so the boys detailed for this service cut two green chestnut poles. I had a good blanket which I had rolled up tightly doubled back in a loop, tied at the ends thrown over my shoulders and carried during the march. This they took, tied it to the poles and carried it on their shoul ders through the exciting scenes of that night, and tho next day. Rodes' Division was in front, Colston's noxt, and Hill's next. Gen. Howard's corps extended along the plank road in the direction of Orange CH. Suddenly artillery opened in front of us, and. soon, the rattle of small arms. Soon the firing receded from us, the rebel cheer and a peal of sins ketry, showing a running fight and rapid retreat of the Federals. Our Brigade inarched rapidly down the road. Federal arms and .accoutre ments and th J dead and wounded were scattered along . the road. About dusk our Brigade caught up with the second line of battle. Piles of Fed oral knapsacks and arms of every de scription now strewed the way. Ju?t before dark we could soe far ahead on the rond which is vory straight, the bursting of sholls thrown from Feder al batteries on our right. These shells, though coming at an angle, struck with great accuracy, bursting within a few yards of the road and scattering its deadly fragments around. Night carno on. Our Brigade was fronted and advanced to the right of the road. Howard's corps had been routod and driven in, but wo were now close on the main body of the -Federal army. Soon a firing pf small arms sprang up in.out front' and di rectly the Federal batteries opened furiously bearing directly .upon us. The scene was terrible beyond descrip tion. The roar of artillery and mus- - ketry, tho fierce cheers of the Confed erate..' and loud huzzas of the Feder als. Officers shouted at the top of their voices but oould not be heard, in a wilderness of trees and undergrowth, the roar of artillery and bursting of shelis, the fragment? striking trees and knocking off limbs. Most of tho shells were exploded by fuse. The I great number thrown by the batteries with the streamers of fire sparkling from them through the air made a display of fireworks awfully -sublimo. The works the Confederates woro attacking were earried and the carnage subsided. At this time word camel along the Hue that Jackson was wounded. Our Brigade was then car ried to the front next to tho Federals to attack early next morning. No word was allowed to bc spoken above a whisper. Then we lay on our mili tary arms and listened to tho sound of the Federal axes fortifying their lines. At dawn we arose, the skirmishers sent forward and our Brigade in line of battle advanced immediately. The following was the order of Regiments I think. Orr's Regiment of Rifles on thc right. Then the First Regiment, next the Thirteenth, noxt the Four teenth. Col. JamcB M. Perrin commanded thc Rifles. Col. 1). H. Hamilton commanded the F ir .st. Col. O. E. Edwards commanded the Thirteenth. Col. Abner Perrin commanded the Fourteenth. G cu. McGowan commanded thu Brigade. Soon we came upon a for midable abatis of felled trees. Scram bling through this about one hundred yards was the breast. workB of logs. Wc expected to see the Federals rise up from behind this and pour a volley in our faces, but only some skirmish ers were there, who fled at our ap proach. The Brigade scaled this with a yell, and about one hundred yards further came in CIOEC-range to thc first battle line of thc Federals. Simultaneous ly both lines opened fire. The morn ing was somewhat foggy and the smoke from the cannons and small arms made it difficult to see the enemy, their colors or anything very far. We were in close range and they were pouring grapo shot, canister and a terrific fire from small arms on our lino. Hero the writer was wounded and borne from the field on that blank et we tied to tho green poles tho even ing before. While two comrades were bearing mo off the battlefield we met tho Stonewall Brigade under General Colston coming io to take part in the struggle. Gen. McGowan was wounded that morning, and Col. Edwards of the 13th Regiment oame into oommand. Col. Edwards was wounded and Col. Abner Perrin of the 14th Regiment took oommand of the Brigade and in conjunction with other troops by 10 a. m. that morning tho victory was won by the Confederates. Tho im mense number killed and wounded that Sunday morning, May 3, 1863, to 10 a. m. show the desperate character of the conflict.-B. B. C., in Spartan burg Herald. " , Glorious Tribute to the Dead. The following editorial from Tho* Chester Standard, published many years ago, will be read with great in terest by the Veterans and others: "When this great war shall ho over -When the last army is mustered out of service, and the last wreath of smoke has curled up from the last bat tle field-when the long excitement shall give place to peace and calm re flection-one of the first impulses .of the nation will be to count ber graves." "Washed by rains, cracked and baked by the sun, frozen hard in win ter, or with the soanty green which spring strews over their red or gray earth, scorched away to ashes by the summer heats-everywhere, cyery where are graves. . '*Ey the blue Potomac the long trench with its confused heapingB of the slain; the systematic field dotted regularly with hillocks; the little mound in tho dark shadow of the wood or in the broad belt of moonlight cf 'the picket off duty forever'-by the Rapidan and t'av James; and in the tangled swamps of the Chickahominy; on the historio hills of Riohmond, and amid the passes of Western Virginia | -in Maryland, my Maryland, and in j Pennsylvania-in tho plains and by tho rivers of Tennessee, and tho pass es and lowlands of Kentuoky-under j the monumental shadows of the great rock that looks on Chattanooga, and amid the lovely vales of Georgia-at Shiloh and Murfroesboro-by the sluggish waves of that river of death (Yazoo) ; by the broad yellow floor of the mighty Mississippi, and under the historic shadows of tho hills of Vioks- ! burg and Port Hudson-on the grand prairies of the West-everywhere, everywhere are graves. "Not a lonely hillock in the dark, wet swamp; not a dry, red mound on the Bunpaoked hill; not a flower gar landed spot in the beautiful 'city of the dead'; not a bleaching parcel of unburied bones, nor a marble shaft, nor a toar washed urn, but is linked with human hearts, human tears, hu man love,, human homes. "Not & human heart that ha? oeased to beat, but has throbbed with young life against somo mother's breast. "Not a ma'uiy arm has decayed, but has clasped the waist of sister, wife or ohild? or other one-beloved. "No death but is linked with life; no fall but causes tears; no burial without mourners somewhere; no lips turned to ashes tl.at have not been kissed; no eyes closed ?forever that have not brightened with love. "And thcae human hecatombs, these sacrifices to liberty, of . which the eternal hills are the altars, and ? I j (linease and frost and battle aro the high priest, are not to bo numbered among all those millions of earth who die because they are not immortal these are Hero Dead. "For none the ICSH heroes were they that they wero obscure, for they will bave a monument that will outlast granite and marble, grander than the arch of Titus or the brazen column of Napoleon-that holy, silent ahrino in iue hearts of the people inscribed 'To the Unknown Dead.' "Yet the ashes in those graves are not always unknown, for sometimes a little patch of earth, a slab of marble, or spot of flowers, is linked to a great name. "Some were national, some local, some military, some civil names and some both. "Albert Sidney Johnson, Barks dale, Gill, Tilghmau, Maxoy Gregg, Zollicoffer, Bartow, Green, Thomas ll, R. Cobb, Lomax, Stonewall Jack son, Gladden, Stuart, Tracy, Pelham, aro some of tho names that honor has written plainly on her roll. "But who has beeu present when tho angels of God have called the roh' of the dead-who saw the muster roils of the spirit laud-who witnessed the grand review of the glorious slain as their ranks stretch out along the banks of Death's dark river, whoo the In spector General of the Universe takes His stand by the unfurled banners of heaven? And yet for ever; grave or bundle of bleaching bones there has gone a soul to God.' "Various have been the plans to do them honor. Some propose that a va6t artificial hill, like the lion-crown ed hill of Waterloo, bo erected. "Some States gather their names into a book and place the roll of honor ic the archives of the State. Some propose that a grand templo be built upon the heights of Vicksburg, in sight of the river-which is the artery of a world, and its blood, its com merce-that the staiui of the greatest of the fallen shall glorify the shrine and shine in the deathless purity oi marble, while the walls shall beal among their pilasters ana wreaths vast tablets covered with all the nampB ol all the dead. But how can human endeavor do proper honor to the dead? "Stonewall Jaokson was the na tion's idol; but were Stone mountain ont into a statue of him, would the I grateful people say to the soul of the hero: 'See! we have done enough 1 Wo think not. ' Should we cut the Alleghanief into catacombs, how save the sacr?e dust from the spoilers of a thousand years henoe, from the fate of Egypt' i and ' Syria's and Rome's buriec kings ? T j "Could we wrest the northern lakei from the foe, and carving the namoi of the Hero Dead on the walls of Nia I gara, let the thunder of the oataraci sound their eternal requiem, and tin ' rainbow that spans its gulf tell in it sunbeams and tears of their glory for ! ever: still all the drops of the over lasting flood could not weep away th widowhood and orphanage of the land or wash the sorrow from brokei hearts. ^ "Soletas remember them only The crests of the Blue Ridge are th fittest monuments to the sentry whoa bleeding feet trod their virgin, snow.? "The long grass will stay the sui beams that would too ardently kit their feet, the amber floods of tl rivers will murmur to them, and in tb mysterious whisperings in the tops < bending pines, we may imagino tl angels to be talking low to eaoh otho and saying: 'There he fell and thei his grave.' " The Confederate Bazaar. Every one interested in the Confe erato bazaar, just closed, in Richman will be delighted to hear that it h boen most successful. No official r port has been published yet, but fro private letters it is learned tli $20,000 was cleared, of which aa 015,000 goes to the monument of Prc ident Davis and $5,000 to the Confe erate Museum. All the tables did well. The Sou Carolina table was conceded to be t prettiest and stood third in the st of money made. Virginia naturally made the mo: $3,000. The Solid South table, rc resenting the chapters in New Yoi Ohio, Illinois, Indiarra, Califori aud other States no* of the Confc eraoy, came next with a little o\ $1,600. South Carolina caine thi with over $1,500. 'Hiose who worked so hard to tl good end have every right to be i only satisfied but proud and v< grateful to the Richmond Indica, bc Carolinians and Virginians, who, their seal, perseverauoo and gc management, accomplished so. mu< A Peculiar Accldant. Charlotte, N. C., May 6.-Mrs. Leo, a wealthy woman of Buffalo, YM died at the Buford holel in t, city at 9 o'clock this morning from i effects of a chicken bone hoing lodj in her throat. She waa on her way home from Fi ida and was accompanied by her h band. The bone bocarao lodged her throat yesterday, at noon ot dining car. Friday is a Lucky Day? Contrary to the tradition and to .tho firm belief of the civilized world, Friday is the luckiest day of the week. Such is the conclusion reached by a competent and painstaking statisti cian , the results of whose labors are exploited in the Chicago Tribune. 'After a thorough search of statisti cal tables, he discovered that for great calamities and disasters Monday is the most unlucky day and Friday is the luckiest. A summary of the results shows the following: The worst day for murders-Sun day. " The worst day for fires-Monday. Tho wo|st day for shipwreoxs Thursday. % The worst day for railroad accidents -Friday. . The worst day for floods-Saturday. il will lo seen that the fears of those who refrain from beginning a journey on Friday are to some extent justified. But in nothing but railroad accidents does Friday sustain its repu tation, having a'very small record for shipwrecks, murders and fires. A table of averages for the various days of the week shows that 10:23 per cent of the disasters took place on a Friday -the normal averages would have been over 14 per cent-that 10.56 per cent occurred on Tuesday, 14 1-2 per cent on both Saturday and Sunday, and 13 2-3 per cent on Monday. Wednesday seems to be the best day on which to begin a journey. .We are reminded also >,hat Colum bus started on his voyage of discovery on a Friday, first sighted land on a Friday, and discovered,the American, continent on a Friday. This day is certainly a luoky one in Amerioan ?sietory. The battle of Bunker Hill was fought on a Friday, the motion of J John Adams that the United States are and ought to be independent was made on a Friday, Saratoga was sur rendered on a Friday and the Merri mac was sunk in Santiago harbor on o Friday. - x We might add that the Mayflower landed on a Friday and that? George Washington was born Friday, Febru ary 22, 1732. The anti-Friday superstition* X is probably due to the fact that Christ was crucified on that day. .Fast re cords, however, seem to establish be yond a question that Friday is notan unluoky ?iy, but one of good omen. Atlanta Journal. I - Ao editor ofv a North Carolina paper recently stated that he had been kissed by one of the most beautiful married women in town. He promis ed to tell her name in the first , issue of his paper the next month. In two weeks the circulation of his news paper doubled. But when he gave the name of his wife he had to leav town. - The Methodists of Greenville are taking time by the forelook and are making preparations for the meeting of the South Carolina conference in December next. The Buncombe street church where :b.e conference will hold its meetings has raised $600 for the improvement of their house of worship. - A mob of negroes at Laurel, Del., made the mistake of attacking a circus hand whoso history they did not know. He had been a soldier in the Philippines and now four of the mob are dead. - If the average man had the same success with his business as with his summer garden bis permanent address would bo the poorhouse. Each of the chief 1 Y"*"y / organs of the body is a \ >L^S/ link in the chain of life. AJt\ A chain ia no stronger I f??*\ \ than its weakest .link, I I the body no stronger I IM I | than its weakest organ. I I SSs I I If there is weakness of-1 I*, I / heart or lunga., liver or V\yBg/ / kidneys, there is a weak ?VX^^/ link in the cV of life V which may suap at any / \ time. Often this so- I IQ?\ \ called "weakness* is l l t?_r I 1 I caused by lack of nutri- I I J I lion, the result ?J disease I 1 fmZm J I of the stomach and other 1 |c-1/ I organs of digestion and X/^J J nutrition. Diseases of y >y^A the stomach and its allied / fSmt\ \ organs are cured by the fv f g~jt | use cf Dr. Pierce's Golden I I I I Medical Discovery. I I 1 I When the diseased atom? I | pSy| J ach ia cured, diseases of . 1 I 1 J other organs which -seem \ \kj*$l / remote from th? stomach \ ^LJr J but which have their ^?-^ origin in a diseased conditio? of tho stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, are cured also. ~ ?I waa in poor health when t commenced: ?a?dng- Doctor Pierce* xnedkioea," vrtitta Mt. lamer Lawler, of Vole?, Tefferaon Ox, lad, <*? had stortuj-b, Vidaey, heart, and rang trouble?. Wa? not able 'JO do ?ny work. !. bad a acrere? cough and baaofrhage of the lusjga, nat -afters using your medicine a while r commence*) f? sain in strength and wwi, ???? trooped cotrg?. tog right away. T?ik ebo-at aix^SbUeiKOf A Golden Medical JW ?covery.'. I ?Wi ZS? * diffcr ent perron, x gladly reconnu end your medicino to ail sufferer*, foi I know it eared, me." The use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Bellet? will' cure that foul breath. .-- - . V I similaUngtte Food andBeguIa- Mr* .0 M . twg&eStoiaaiteajxlB^ M J388JS t?l6 M 1 j B^y^.^^^i;<w,?"M Sig?iature jr s?v \ Promotes Dig?sUon.CheerfAir- f? ^ .?r ll? ness aiuiRest.Contains neither na , : ni* Jv Jr a Je Opium.Morphine nor ruinerai. [Ml Ul JrWiYlT NOT "NARC OTIC . m ?vVlli* f\inipA?n Seed'" x KH \ W ^ l?xMM&d*- ? PS ?m* Lt 1 . l iv jp* I? ?rjcrfecIrte?aedyforCons?M- H ? ?[ fl* Wv y Hon, Sour Stomach?DiarThofea W I l&T ~ " Worms.Convuisions.Feverish- gi lp CAW fl BC AB 1 ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. |H.\t/* Tuf ll VUS _NEW'TORK. is I fi I ny Y68rs EXACT COPY'QF-WRAPPC^ ^^.^m^ THC CCHTAUH COMPANY. ?CW YQHR CITY. BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS. Are you going to bay. a Baggy, Wagon or Set of Harness soon? If you aro, it will pay you to inspect my stock and get prices if you don't buy. I have the largest stock to select from in the State. ALL THE LEADING- MAXES. I CAN SAVE. YOU MONEY. Be sore and give me a call before buying? I Car Milburn Wagons just received. We have al'out Twenty Excellent SECOND-HAND ORGANS, In perfect condition, better goods than many of the Cheap new ones, at $25,00 np. Kew ones, such as- ' MASON <& HAMLIN, ESTEYf ? *5 CROWN and F 4 RK AND. AU the v&rf highest quality, at prices we have no ver boen able to give. Come and'see our Stock ; we may have just'what you have been hunting? 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