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WAR S'l The Evacuatioi Margaret uieoue Norrell A MEMO KY. I April ord r.101-"Kastcrtide" ..nth its sweet music, beautiful flow ers, singing birds, and thc happy faces of men, women and children - and the : y of knowing we have cele brated :i day fuil of hope to us, bo eau.se '"The Lord has risen." What i contrast was this day of sunshine and brightness to April *',r<i, 18(>.>--when Michtnond was evac uated, and followed by a tcrible fire My thoughts, though full of this joyous season, have lcd me back to the post, and some of tho scenes I witnessed at that time, although but a little girl, just past my tenth birth day. 1 do not propose to go back any farther than thc Saturday before Rich mond was evacuated except to men tion incidentally, some little thought that comes to me, as for instance, wo children at school, would be perfectly delighted to bear the alarm bells ring -this was a signal that tho enemy were close to Richmond, the alarm would ring, then wc would have holi day, until thc dange was past, which was generally tho next day. My father was agent for the "Asso ciated Press," also connected with "Thc Richmond Whig," I had several relatives in thc war department, and my brother was a page in the Confed erate senate, or a messenger boy in 4he telegraph office. I caunot recall which of tbcae positions he held in these last days of thc Confederacy; I only know that I waB accustomed to heaT "war talk," nearly thc whole time. I heard news, wonderful and importan- news, being discussed by ?ho family, while playing with my dolls. I think now I must have becu a nuisance, for on that memorable Sunday, April 2nd, when thc whole household was in the greatest activ ity, some doing ono thing, sotno anoth er, mother sent mo to bed, very carly in thc evening, as I thought for pun ishment but I Bupposc to get me out m? ? U " - - .. VA ?UV TT ti jr . As I lay there thinking and won dering over the events of tho day, aud the tplk I had heard,-"that surely ibo city would bo evacuated on thc ?ext day,"-suddenly thoro was a sound of an explosion, and th?" whole window sash fell out on my bed. One of the gun boats on the James river had been blown up. On the day be fore, Saturday. I went shopping with an aunt of minc, who paid two hun dred and fifty dollars for a pair of shoes for me, aud twenty dollars for what wo used to call "A Nuns bon net." Theso were made of straw and usually had a silk curtain in thc back, and a ribbon and bow on top. This particular bonnet, was not mado of Bice straw, like I had been used to wearing, but was very rough and corn son, and had no trimming. I have sften wnndeicd, why it was, that as late as Saturday, we were able to buy .Jhese things, yet it Becms the people lad faith that the money would bc ?Ood, though ? had often heard my lather say: "Such and such au one, should buy gold, while tho Confed erate money was good, as after a while it. would have no value." I will go hBck now, to Sunday, April second, 1865, while President Davis, was at tending services, at St. Paul's Church, *-telegram was handed to him from General Lee, and announced his with drawal from Petersburg, and the necessity for tbc evacuation of Rich mond. I hav<3 in my scrapbook a ..slipping, from the "Riohmond Dis ...patch," with the head-line: "The Memorable Telegram." lt is address ed to the Hon. Jefferson Davis, and 3igned by General Lee, thc time it was sent was 10:30 a. m. This tele gram is in cipher and not translated. In the same dipping, is another tele gram sent by General Lee to General -..Kwell, which says tho "Dispatch," ""throws light on the situation at thc evacuation." This telegram was also sent in einher, ss was all the telegra phic correspondence of the morning, lout is translated, and is as follows: Time 5:30 p. m. y Headquarters of A. N. Va. April 2nd,'1865. Lt. Gen. B. S. Ewell, Commanding, ?te. : At daybreak tomorrow morning oom* aseace to withdraw the troops under your command, destroying all govern anent stores and bridges. Cross the James on Mayo's bridge. Gen. James XotTfgBtreet will cross on pontoon at Drewrey's Bluff, and join yon at the intersection of the Petersburg turn like, with the river road. March .along the river road, crossing the Ap pomattox river at Genito'and join me %t Amelia oourt house. ,: / R. E. Lee, General. The time of sending this telegram was 5:30 p. m., yet there oertainly rannst have been earlier information, Soi as I said before our house was in ORIES. I <J?" I ti clim o nd. I in Augusta Chronicle. 1 a Htutc of wild alarm and eonfu.-ion, ! every metuber being busy at some thing, throwing away lire anns, hiding provision* in ihr servant's care, all of j whom wore true to us, getting the tnen of the family, employed in the war department, ready l'or a hasty journey out ?'1' tlx' town. All this must, have been known or expected even before Mr. l'avis received his "official" telegram, for it seemed to ni.-, I opened my eyes that Sunday, ou a day full of trouble, and one never to be forgotten. I vrish I had thc power to describe perfectly thc location (d' thc house we occupied at the eva cuation of Richmond, BO aa to convey to thfl reader how it was possible for me to sec so much from one location. Tho house stood and I suppose is still .standing at tho corner of Twenty-sixth and Franklin streets, on what wc call ed Church street, at thu point, was a very steep hill running all thc way down to Mail) stree!. Thc houso was very large, brick one, owned by an aunt, who also occupied it, with us, with quite a good sized family of her own. Besides the rna?u building there were large, bael; porches, from which wc could seo the Janies river, and a long wing in one end of which were tho servants rooms. Tho yanFwas a divided from necessity on account of being so "hilly" by several flights of steps, too high to be called ter raced. Along thc wing was a long, narrow porch on tho ground lloor. My fath er took me by the hand, on this Mon day morning, April 3rd, and lcd mc to the end of this porch to take a view of the last act in this sad drama. We had only been standing there a few minutes wheu father said: "Look!" pointing towards Main street. I be held a few horsemen, cv i in gray, galloping along for dear life up thc street. Wo watched them cross the bridge, which was soon a mass of flames. I don't know if they were carrying out tho order, "To burn all bridges" cr if the bridge w?s already on fire, when thcyBtartec ever, and wo only just then saw it, as wc look ed our last, at thc Fast disappearing soldiers in gray. Again my father called to mo to look! This time it way an army-clad in blue, coming from the sam: 'ireetion, as the gray home-men OT few minutes before. They came <( edy, and I watched ?he soldier's burning bridges and beauti ful Richmond dying, it seemed to mo, for sometime, alone. After a while father oalled to me, to oome on thc front porch to seo something I would remember all my life. From the front wa wcro looking towards the Stato Houso, and presently I saw the United States flag tako the place of tho "Bonnie Bluo," "which had floated to the breeze, so proudly until thc last, until lifo and hope had died. I cannot recall other ovents of the morn ing, except wo seemed still and quiet, as if sitting with the dead, though quito ditiercnt-soencs were going on in the business portion of tho city, .A here everything waa in flames. See i ig that wo were perfectly safe on Church hill, my father went up town, to seo how matters were getting on there, knowing that terrible things were ?joing on in thatdircction. Late in thc evening he returned, and I will never forget how frightened 1 was. When I saw him corning up Twenty sixth street, with a white blanket on him reaching to his feet, and a firo man'a helmet on his head, and a " Yan koe" '.^ioer on each side of him. I thought the Yankee's had dressed him up this way and wcro marohing him about. My fears WCTO soon allayed. I learned that the Federal officers, had come to rent the largo stables, located on our lot, and they also gavo us a speoial guard. These samo stables had boen used by tho Confederates until nearly all, if not quite, every mule, had simply died of starva tion. My mother end aa nt used frequent ly to send the mea caring for the mules a dinner, from our own table, and they told us, that so great was the pity they felt for these poor dumb croatures, they shared these meals with them. j And at Appomattox did not Gen eral Grant say to his men, when they knew that General Lee had surren dered: "Boys, don't oheer, these men are starving." Not only that, they were in rags and bare feet. Yet, when Richmond was buming, shoes, clothes and provisions were thrown in the streets for anybody. Oh, whose fault was this?. My young brother brought several pieces of nice smoked meat home, ?ad several boxes of tobaooo, which ho ind I put in little bags and sold to the federal soldiers, one ot whom refused to take the change I owed him, after he had made a purchase. The federal troops, or rather some of then, occupied a large tobacco f.. .iv riot v ry far froiii our house, ;tn-2 from i?o?oi? among lhi:iii to sell ?on tobacco they made quito, a pet of me, :?; spite of the fact that I was a great little-rebel." 1 ? nc es pecially, a dr titi m ij ir. whose name I think was Mcl'iu rson, used to talk to me a great deal, and I remember his showing mc pictures of some of his family. Once I went to walk with him, and as we passed the house of one of my m.tiller's friends, she was greatly shocked, to see a little ' rebel'' girl walking hand in hand, with a "Yankee" drum major. Togo back, now, to my fattier, and why he was dressed in the blanket and fireman's hat. All Richmond, at least the business portion, was burning, so ho ami another citizen, put on blankets and firemen's hat.-, to protect them from the .-parks falling in every direc tion, and worked for hours to ?ave th< "Whig" building, a:id were thus en abled to issue a paper thc day aftei thcevacuation containing afull aecouni of the terrible fire. Those were sad days in beautiful Richmond; hope: wrecked, fortunes gone, and broken hearts by the thousand. My mothei lost a beloved brother who wem through the entire war and was killet at the very last battle, leaving a wife and three children. His wife, fo days and days would go to hospita after hospital, thinking to find him a the wounded were brought in. She had great hope that he migh be a prisoner, until that hope died A comrade had seen him fall at hi gun-he belonged to an artillery com pany-and several months afterward his body was recovered, being identi Ged by the dark blurt he wore, whic! his wife had made, on his last brie visit home. One little incident occur to me,that will serve to show, that goo order was being enforced in llichuion military rule. Tor some offense uude against law and order-I heard that i was because bc was ordered to "halt, and would not-a negro man had bee placed in an upright position in coffin, molasses and flour smeared o his face, and there he stayed unt late in the eveuiug, a wagon drove uj and thc negro was placed in it, an taken away, it was said, to be burie alive. I have no idea that such thing was done; I suppose he wi used ns an example to make othei observe the law. I only kno I saw the negro in the coflio, and saw him taken away, for we childrc went several times to take a look i him. Many years havo passed no siuee these events, but nothing seeu so stamped on my memory those few days, cotinectcd with tl evacuation of Richmond. The Ric mond of lSt?T?, the Richmond in as es and smoke, can scarcely be cot pared to Richmond of to day, rebui and restored, the beautiful city on tl Janies. .Th-; Supreme court of Alaban has declared the State oil tag tax u constitutional. Thc law required th all oil should be tested and a t placed on the packages showing t standard. - Tweuty of the corporations Fall River, Mass., engaged in a ma ufacture of print cloths, controllii t>5 mills, have entered into an agrt meat to curtail production by sh? ting down two weeks. Thousands mill hands are affected. - A young man and young lady Water Valley, Miss., had arranged elope, when ber father appeared the scene, and the young man sk aud killed him. The daughter c doavored to escape, when the you man fired at her with deadly effect. - United States Senator J. R. Rt ton, of Kansas, was sentenced to ? months' imprisonment in jail anc fino of $2,500 for using his influen before thc postoffice department in 1 half of a St. Louis company. He ga bond and has appealed to the Unit States court. ONE. STEP MORE Will be fatal to the sleep-walker. W he draw back or will he take the fin fntal step? A great many people are Seril like the sleep-walker. They t iseased. The disease is progress! day by day. The time comes when c more step away from health ?9 fat The man who hn9 suffered from in ggf* gestion or gastric troul fBr^ goes some night to ,rfC/V7 dinner and returns ho: (?j/M f l last step from hea which can never be Xx fjjjjj/jl j I en back. Wu ?ll /i?Kk ?' indigestion or so l*n /// Ir r& otner form of storm lill III ///] fl trouble is dangerous? Mil /// III 1* k 11180 inexcusable. JW {?i 3 Pierce's Golden Medi j/fl " Discovery cures disea jil ll1 j of the stomach and ot! If// Iii ?l ??gans of digestion 1 4WLt Itt W. nutrition. It putt ! l^SiiyXJ the blood, stimulates ? m m.nil ui ^^Ssliver, cures biliousm *i^-?"aBBB*and eliminates bili poisons from the c !? tem. _ "The praise I would ' SSSSS to Riv? your ' Golden Med .''iWW Discovery ' I cannot uttei BBB BT words or describe with rx BBB* writes Jas B. Ambrose, V BP of 1205 X Mlfflin St.. ll ^m {ogdon. Pa. "I waa ta with what our physicians said was indigest I doctored with the best around here and fo no relief. I wrote you. and you advised m use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery took three boUles and I felt so good th stopr rd-being cured. I have no symptom gastric trouble or indigestion now." If you ask your dealer for ?Gol? Medical Discovery0 because you h confidence in its cures, do not al yourself to be switched off to a medic claimed to be "just as good," but wb ?ou did not ask for and of which ; now nothing. 4 You can get the People's Come Sense Medical Adviser. 1008 pages, per covers, free hy sending ai one-c stamps, to pay expense of mailing ot Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. CASI: OF KKTAL1ATION. A Tragic Incident of Sherman's .March j Through This state. j Wytheville, Va., correspondence in Richmond Times-Dispatch. Most any Saturday or court day there can be seen on the streets of Wytheville two farmers, simple and retiring in their tastes and habits, who were called upon to uudergo as trying ordeal during the War Be tween the States as any soldier on either side ol' that memorable strug gie. At the several Confederate reunions which have taken p];?oe in Wythe ville during the past three years it lias been thc pleasure and privilege of these tillers of the soil to take an humble and unpretentious part in thc exercises as "foot cavalrymen," and it was by a mere accident that your correspondent learned of the notable event which he narrates be low: The old Confeds to whom 1 refer are Mr. Joseph Ileadrick, as 1 have stated, a funner, who lives on and owns a comfortable country estate lying on the waters of Stoney Fork, nine miles west of Wytheville, and Mr. Jackson Grubb, likewise the pro fessor of a goodly country home a few miles south of town. They, like thousands of othci young mountaineers of southwest Vir ginia, answerd promptly to Virginia's call for volunteers in''?31, and latci became numbers of the Sixty-third Virginia regiment, which was after wards assigned to and became a part of Gen. Palmer's brigade in Gen Hood's army, and while in that com mand they were captured by some o Gen. W. T. Sherman's men at Mid way Station, nine etiles west o Branchville, in South Carolina. Tha was on the 7th day of February 1865 Some days after their capture federal Boldier was found dead i the swf.mps not far from Orange burg, in that State. There were mark upon his person which indicated thc he had been beaten tr? death wit clubs. A hasty conference of thc federi officers was held, and they determii cd upon retaliation; so 101) of thc 41 Confederate prisoners in iheir charg were marched out, and Joseph Heac rick and Jackson Grubb were wit them. Three federal officers accompanie them, and without any cxplanatic the prisoners of war were lint up. The three federal officers toi position at a short distance, one them holding above his head a cig box, while the other two acted guards. The Confederate soldiers j were then commanded to march one j by one between the guards and by the 1 one holding the cigar box aud draw therefrom a hlip of paper. Then, for the first time, did it dawn Upon the prisoners what was being ex acted of them. The ordeal of that moment eau bet ter be imagined or pictured than told. Familiar 6cenes of dear old home, many of them far away, and of kindly faces of loved ones came rapidly be fore them, and with thc possible chance of ever being permitted to see them again. The fearful agony and ?train which W of the soldiers eudured was soon over with, for the orders were soon executed and the "die was cast." Jackson (?rubb was fortunate in that he was among thc first to draw and he drew a white ballot, which evidently meant life, home and loved oues in old Virginia again. Joseph Ilcadrick was not quite so fortunate, being late to draw, 75th in number, but he drew a white ballot also. The one ^ho paid the awful penalty was number 81 to draw. As eooc as he drew the black ballot he was halt ed, told to step asido and the drawing ceased. He was at once marohed ?S to Gen. Sherman's headquarters and in an hour or so afterwards gun shots were heard and the fullest terms of war retaliation had been met and sat isfied. It is said that the prisoner who was shot made a manly plea for his life when he appeared before Gen. Sher man to be sentenced, but that mere; which blesses twice, "Him that givet and him that takes," was not meted out to him, and as Robert Kinniel said: "Thc man dies but his memorj lives." Mr. Ileadrick in speaking of th< event to the writer, said that h< never learned the name of the sol dior who paid the sacrifice with hil life, for an act, thc killing of a fed eral soldier, which was never prove? to have been that of a Confederad soldier, but that he was from Soutl Carolina, and was the father of sevci daughters. When Mr. Ilcadrick recalled to mt the events of that moment tears cami into his eyes, and he said that ho ha< often faced cennon loaded with all o the deadly missiles of war; that fo four days and nights he had heel exposed to tho shot and shell of th federals before Nashville, but tha none of them wero as trying aB whe he fno(*r\ thsi ci^ET box with its 10 ballots on that spring morning i 1SG5. Ile added that even to this da] now HS years huve passed, that h never sees a cigar box that memorh of Oraogoburg arc not vividly rt called. Twelve Hundred Dozen HOES! The largest lot of Hoes ever brought to Anderson in one Beason. These Hoes are the Celebrated Smith, Harper Co's, line, generally conceded to be the best on the market. The Blade? aiid Shu ilks are forged from highest grade steel. The Handles are from select, well-seasoned timber. Each Hoe is perfectly set and properly tempered. We have these Hoes in all styles and sizes. Heel Sweeps. 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