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WAR ST Sherman in South Oai dior's Story of the Extracts' from tin Diary ol Private Cl Regiment, N v . In marching from Savannah to Co- j lanibia, the Capital of South Caro- j lina, the Union soldiers had much difBeulty io crossing the many rivers and the almost impenetrable swamps. The forces of the enemy in advance of them were sufficiently large to de stroy roads and bridges and lay torpe does in the swamps. "After destroy ing a bridge over any considerable stream," writes Ritchie, "the enemy would fortify the opposite bank and try to prevent our laying our pon toons. Then we would cross above or below them, outflank them and drive them from tbeir position. In this way some portions of Sherman's grand army were fighting and marching night and day, through swamps and rivers, in rain and mud, in sunshine and Btorm, sometimes well fed and some times with uothing to eat for days." Tho fecliog of the Yankees and of ihc people of South Carolina toward eac!; other seemed to be intense and more vengeful than in auy other State through which Sherman marched. The army experienced more difficulty in securing what they needed to eat. Tie citizens were more shrewd in securing their movable property. And the Union soldiers, feeling that the State of Calhoun had been tho real leader of the rebellion, executed a vengeance upon them that was in many eases actually cruel. Bit??aie speaks of somo of his exp?ri ence 5n hunting for oonoealedfood and clot'/.ing. "One day I was in a detali ?"T l'iad to forago for corn,"he says, ' au?l had gone a considerable distance without meeting with any success. At length wo oame upon an old darky whom we asked where he had hid his corn. 'Done got none, massa,' was ?b reply. I placed a revolver to his ear with the assurance that if he did xot show us the hiding plaoo his wool would be raised. He then said there was some down in the swamp and he showed us where there was a pen in which had been stowed away corn, women's drcBses, cloth in tho piece, ]&rdv bacon, preserves and beans. We unscrupulously appropriated all to our own use. Another ounning device resorted to in the hiding of things from the Yan kees ia mentioned by Ritchie. The people would build a box in the ahapo of one in which a coffin is placed for the burial of the dead, place in it Che olothing and valuable articles that had been in the family for centuries perhaps, and bury it among the graves of their ancestors. And at the head of this grave they would erect a tem porary wooden slab, with an inscrip tion upon it, reciting the virtues of the deoeased buried beneath. "The Yankee curiosity," writes Ritohie, "'went often below the surface and was often well paid for examining the remains." Bnt the Yankee curiosity snst at times have led the soldiers astray. We oan hardly imagine the feeling of the Southern women when tLey beheld the desecration of the gnre of husband or son or brother by the invadoio of their State. Sitchie gives many instances of the rethlesa destruction of property by the soldiers. "When a house or a villaga- was descried in the distance," 1* writes, "there was a grand rush and the battle ory was 'Every man for limself.' By the time the army jassas ehero is not as muoh as a tea saucer left. In many instances the i&uses are burned." After this gen ~ ?fat description he gives a few specific iitatanae* of cruelty that came under bis observation. "Our boys became jcry unmerciful" (these are his own vords) "-toward the dear Southern ladies that entertained such high opin ?ddj? of us. On one occasion I saw' them lug out a very fine piano and mash it up and cook their dinner with it, very much to the distaste of the high-born, aristocratic young lady that, on former occasions, had dis coursed with it her favorite airs, "The Bonnie Blu? Flog' and "I Will Livo j .?od Die in I/ixie.' " ?n another South Carolina Mansion there were many daguerreotypes on the mantel in the parlor, whieh at tracted the attention of the men. "They began the wholesale smashing of them," writes Ritchie, "when one of the ladies urged that one of the pictures in particular he spared, for it was the likeness of her only son, an offioor in Hampton's Legion, who had heon slain in defence of his mother's 2iearth. She pleaded in vain, for tho vandal said he had a brother killed by ' that same legion and- he took the pic tgre<and smashed it under bis heel." : j&itohie adds, as partial excuse for -fltioh notions, that in marching through a Country like South Carolina "there v 5s not much discipline enforced; the "-s?en are expected to keep in tbeir places, but they, nevertheless, indulge in many inproprietiea, and tho officers ?vink at them." , This may make un* 'GRIES. ?olma~A. Federal Sol-j Horrible March. Iiarlcs X. Kitchic, Company I?. 13th lerscy Volunteers. pleasant reading for u.- Northerner.", but :!' we are to understand the atti tude of the Southerners towards us immediately after the war we must ni.t shut our eyes against the facts, especially when these facts are re cited by one of our own soldiers, who saw the actions about which he writes. Ritchie describes the destruction of Columbia, the Capital of South Caro lina, with unusual glee. There was a considerable rivalry among the various army corps to see which one should first apply the torch "to the halls of chivalry and obliterate the precious volumes that contained the glorious doctrines of State rights by throwing them in 'he mud." The gallant John A. Logan, with the 17th army corps, was the first to reach the river, to lay his pontoons, to cross the stream and enter the city. "And on the evening of February '22, 1805, as we were wait ing for the construction of our bridge, writes Ritchie, "Brig. Gen. Robinson announced to us that Columbia was ours and as we cast our eyes in that direction the heavens were illuminated as bright as day; the halls of the great Calhoun were in flames and the Union prisoners released." The army did not delay here; it marched as rapidly as the euemy would permit it north into North Carolina. Here orde s were issued by Geu. Slocum. commanding the left wiug of the army that the men were to be "more lenient toward tho peo ple, as this State did not willingly secede, but was forced into revolt by her sister State." But Ritchie says he saw little difference; "with the ex ception of the burning of private dwellings, which was not carried on to the extent it had been in South Caro lina. In tho foraging there was little difference, except that there was more to be got in this State thaffcin the kingdom of the nulifiers. In this State, Gen. Johnston with reinforcements from Charleston, Wil mington and somo other garrisons, attacked Sherman's forces at Aiken Run and at Bentonvillc. Johnston's purpose now was to retard the progress of Sherman's army as much as pos sible until Lee could escape from Grant and effect a union of the two Confederate armies. These armies, it was planned, would then defeat Sherman and turn upon Grant. From the middle of March to the middle of April, 1865, the 13th New Jersey regiment saw some very hard service. On the 16th of Maroh John ston began skirmishing with the caval ry and "finally got Gen. Kilpatrick, at Aiken Run, in a mix from which ho oould not extricate himself." Ritchie's brigade was ordered to his support. Although they had marched all day in the rain through the pine forests of North Carolina and had just laid their weavy bodies on their tent floors to rest, in ten minutes after the orders were reoeived they were on the road to go to the aid of "Little Kil," as Gen. Kilpatrick was oalled. "The roads were so bad," writes Ritchie, "that it took us four hours to maroh, or. rather, swim five miles." The next morning the cavalry was driven back by Johnston and "the fight fell on the infantry, as it always does," Ritchie declares. Ritchie's division, too, began to retreat; after ward it was reinforoed by several divisions and was at last able-to drivo Johnston's forces out of their strong position. The Union forces followed Johnston, skirmishing with his rear guard. Ritchie was on the skir mish line on this occasion and had his canteen shot through while it hung at his side. He says: "I was in the advance about twenty yards, whioh gave the enemy a flank shot at me. They fired five shots at me de liberately, the fifth shot passing through my canteen edgewise. There was some very close shooting in this swamp, and we attribute it to the fact that there were many hunters in Johnston's army, picked up in differ ent parts of the State without regard to age. At one time I saw an old gray-haired man lying oold in death, grasping his rifle, which was of a pat tern known as a squirrel gun." Johnston attaoked the Union foroos agaigyjgtBentonville with great fury, tho f.'try of a losing cause. The 14ih army corps was in the advance and r?o?^w?; with great loss the savage otjti?juf?, The 13th New Jersy regi meu'ifcg^in'distinguished itself. "In ! the engagement that followed our regiment, writes Ritchie, "held a sort of picket position apart from the others, flanked by a little.underbrush ravine on the right and in the rear, and one time the 2nd brigade of the 2nd division of the 14th army eorps got panio stricken, and broke ic u?n f asion over us. No persuasion and no force could induce them to stand, so they left the little 13th New Jersey alone in their glory to encounter a whole division of Confederates, but there was no flinching." The army, without further inter- i ruptioa of a serious nature, arrived at j Raleigh on the 10th of April. "We j remained here in encampment nearly j two weeks," writes Ritchie, ' when the glorious news reached of Gen. Robert lv Lce'a surrender to Gen. Grant. And it was not long before the negotiations between Sherman and .Johnson came to a satisfactory end and peace from the State of Maine to the Rio Grande was announced to the army. Deafening shouts that rent the air told how anxious the troops were for peace." Then came the march to Washing ton. When they set foot again on tho soil of Virginia the men began to talk of home aud to wonder how things would appear there. "This waB the first talk of the kind I had heard in nearly three years," writes Ritchie, "for soldiers, though as tender as any one else, think it a weakness to in dulge in home talk." They saw every where in the Old Dominion ruin and desolation. Richmond wan one mass of ruins; of the splendid Mayo bridge over the James River nothing was left but the stone abutments to mark whero it stood but a short time before. "I well remember our crossing of Virginia," writes Ritchie, "for it seemed to us like a graveyard from end to end." The troops were encamped several weeks near Bladensburg, just outside of Washington, before they were mus tered out of service This delay was very irritating. -Many of the men were sick and were anxious to return home, in fact, Richie is authority for the statement that there was noL a sound man in Sherman's army as it finished its infamous campaign. And, besides, the rations were very poor. The private soldiers did not get. the goods intended for them by the sani tary commission. "Here wo starved for three weeks," Ritchie asserts, for our officers appropriated our sanitary goods."?Newark News. An Honor to Gen. Mi can Jenkins. The members of Gen. Micah Jen kins' brigade will be gratified to learn that a movement is on foot to honor the memory of their beloved command er, and that arrangements are now being made to prooure i\n oil portrait of the gallant Jenkins to be placed in the ball of the Houso of Representa tives. The work was? initiated by Mrs. S. Reed Stoney, of Columbia, a relative of the Jenkins family, and has been taken up by surviving mem bers of the brigade, who will contri bute to the fund necessary to procure the portrait in time for presentation to the General Assembly at its next sitting. It is also announced that Col. John P. Thomas is preparing an interesting sketch of Gen. Jenkins, who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness on the 6th of May, 1864, under the mistaken fire of a Vir ginia regiment when Gen. Longstreet was wounded by a minie ball pass ing through his throat and right shoulder. Mioah Jenkins was not yet thirty years of age when his brilliant oareer was ended, and the tribute of Gen. Longstreet in describing the event of his death is at onoe truthful and beautiful. It is in these words: "He nao bue ui tue UlUDi onmuici ble char acters of the army. His taste and talent were for military aervioe. He was intelligent, quick, untiring, at tentive, zealous ia disohtrge of duty, truly faithful to official obligations abreast with the foremost in battle, and with all a humble, noble Chris tian. In a moment o'. highest earth ly hope he was transported to serenest heavenly joy; to that life beyond that knows no bugle call, beat of drum or olash of steel. May his beautiful spirit, through the mercy of God, rest in peaceI" These words of his commanding general, who had watohed Jenkins' oareer from the beginning of the war, are echoed by the survivors of his brigade wherever they may be found, and the men of Abbeville, Anderson, Ooonee, Fiokens, Greenville, Spartan* burg, Cherokee, Union, York Lan caster, Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Sumter, Barnwell, Orangeburg, Lex ington, Laurons and Fdgefield, who went with him from Williamsburg to the Wilderness, gladly will join in this testimonial to their faithful and skillful oommauder, a horn soldier and chiv.drio gentleman.?The Gre iville Mountaineer. Sonth Carolina is Not In It. Chicago, Aug. 20.?A dispatch to The Reoord-Herald from New Orleans says: The organization of the South ern Textile company, a combine of southern cotton yarn mills, has been practically completed, and the mills will soon be taken over. This is the largest ootton merger that has ever taken plaoe. The company, whioh is capitalised at $14,000,000, will take over about 70 mills in North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi^ Vlabama and Tennessee. ? It's queer what a splendid effect on the brain spanking on an et.tirely different place has. INDIAN BATTLE. I)jewitnes9 Tells of Thrill in;: Encounter. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 22.?One of the most interesting characters in Ne braska history is Johu W. William son, of Genoa, whose memory of events lias made possible this account of one of the great Indian tragedies of the Western plains. Mr. Williamson came to Nebraska from Wisconsin and became assistant | farmer for the Pawnees at Genoa in 1872. This was two years before the removal of the Pawnees to their new reservation in Oklahoma. In the summer of 1873 the Iodians in the reservation at Gcuoa asked per mission to take an old-time buffalo hunt. They had given up their right to all the vast buffalo plains of Kansas and Nebraska, and this territory was rapidly filling with settlers. The old-time spirit of savagery al ways seemed to return to the Indians during the exciting adventures of the chase and the settlers were never safe from depredations during euch ahunt. Accordingly, in granting permission to the Indians to go on the hunt, the Government Agent, William Bur gess, commissioned Mr. Williamson to accompany them in the capacity of trail agent. Tbe trail agent was expected to re strain the Indians from any lawless ness, but his authority was only advi sory, as the various chiefs who accom panied the expedition selected one of the company as supreme commander from time to time. The authority of bis chief became absolute during the time for which he was choson, and every movement was directed by him. The start was made from the reser vation on July 2, 1873. Mr. William son wa3 the only white man in the ex pedition save one, a Mr. Lester Platte, nephew of Mrs. Alvira G. Platte, who lived among the Pawnees for many years as a missionary. Mr. Platte had just arrived from the East; and, wishing to see some real Western life, asked permission to ac company the expedition. There were 600 Pawnees in the expedition including squaws and pa pooses. The first buffalo seen on this hunt was a lone bull north of Arapahoe, on a small Creek. He was killed and then there was a great feast. The first surround was made eight or ten miles south of Arapahoe, and they succeeded in killing all of the herd, to the number of 150 or so. Some white men were' stalking this herd from the South, but on seeing the Indians they took to their horseB and fled, doubtless thinking that the Indians were hostile. Several times in the course of the journey white hunters had come in to the Indian camp with some story cal culated to turn the Indians back, told doubtless for the purpose of saving the game for the whites. On the evening of August 3 some white men came into the oamp and told Mr. Williamson that Sioux In? dians had been watching tbe Pawnee band for several days, and had run their buffalo herd into the region as a deooy. In the midst of the attack on the buffalo the Sioux intended to attaok the Pawness. After so many attempts to deoeive them the Indians were not willing to believe the story, and de termined to make the surround of the buffaloes oarly in the next morning as planned. Mr. Williamson, however, conclud ed from the manner of the hunters that they were telling the truth, and tried by every means in his power to have the Indians abandon tho chase. They already had all the game and pelts they could oa?ry home, and there was no good reason for slaugh tering another herd, but the Indians could not resist the pleasure of anoth er ohaae. Sky Chief was tbe leader in supreme command in this chase. He insisted that the white men were lying, and when advised by Mr. Williamson to abandon' the chase grew angry and said: "Buckskin, you are afraid. Many Sioux have I killed, and many more will bite the dust if I meet them. No, we will make the chase. You shall stay with the women if the Sioux come.7 All arguments having proved un availing, Mr. Williamson started with the hunters. They located the herd about six miles west of where Culbertaon now stands, and almost half way between the Republican' and Frenchman forks. Thrre or four miles from oamp stray buffalo were seen coming southeast, as if they were being chased, but no signs of Sioux were seen. The straggling buffalo were cut out and a few killed. Sky Chief and another Jndian took after a bunoh which went east, while the rest of the band, keeping an easy paoo until more buffalo should'be sighted, were strung out over more than half a mile. As the straggling buffalo wore chased into the rolling country, the Pawnee forces became badly scattered. 4 Presently," says Mr. Williamson, in relating the story, "I saw signs of excitement among tbe Pawnees up id j front, aD(i a young buck came ridi?g toward me. When he came up to where I was he cried out that the Sioux were coming. I rode forward and s-oon saw a band of Sioux ou a rise of ground about a mile and a half northwest of us holding a coun cil and making war signs to the Paw- I nee.*. j "Terre e-cocks, a Skeedee Chief, j was near me and I asked him what we would better do. 'What do you say?' he asked, I suggested that we fall back to a clump of cottonwoods about two miles down the canyon. The Skeedee Chief agreed to this, but, the Kit-ke Hawki-i chiefs wanted to fight, and Sky Chief was a Kit-ke Hawki-i. ''In hia absence the chief* of his band tried to assume authority and thing;) were thrown into confuoion. A Kit-ke-Hawki-i Chief said there was only a small band and that he could whip them if they came. When we got on higher ground, however, we saw that the hills were fairly black with Sioux, of whom there were probably a thousand. Things looked discouraging. "They were not prepared to meet ?"oh a formidable foe, and some began to Weaken. At this point Sun Chief, who was head chief of the whole band of Pawnees, took command, and the discord which had existed was over come. "The Sioux was moving rapidly to ward our liac when Sun Chief asked me to ride out toward them with a white flag, in hopes that the Sioux had a trail agent with them and that he would hold them back when he saw a white man with the Pawnees. "It was a pretty bard th'mg for one man to ride out and face a band of 1,000 Sioux ready for battle, and I did not like to do it. Howeve-, I told the interpreter who was in citi zens' clothes, that if he would go with me we would go to meet the advancing Sioux. We rode to within eighty rods of them, and I waved a white handker chief as a signal to the trail agent, if there should happen to be one, but no attention was paid. "Now the enemy ceased riding in circles, and, lying flat on their ponies, made a dash. We wheeled and raced for our lives to the Pawnee position. This opened the battle. The Pawnee braves'had gathered on the hills at the brow of the canyon while the squaws and pack horses were in the canyon be low. "The squaws were chanting a mournful song and danced a slow measure in long lines or half circles, to instill bravery into their warriors. The outnumbered Pawnees could not stand long against the attack of the Sioux. The fight immediately became very close, almost hand to hand, and the Sioux gained a position where they could shoot down into the can yon on the defenseless squaws and children. 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