Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAR STi The Story of ]\I Abbeville 1 It ia a o o m tn M M opinion that tho ' ? first gun fired on Fort Sumter in IStil i wa8 the beginning of thc war between I the States, but that is not the case. I The first gun was fired from necessity j i because of the bad faith and hostile j i acts of thc government at Washington, j After the secession of South Carolina ! > ihcre was an honorable understanding ! between ibo authorities at Washington and Gov. Piokens that everything in and around Charler.ion should remain at a standstill. Neither party was to make any hostile movements. Maj. i Robert Anderson commanded the gar- ? Orison at Kort Moultrie on Sullivan s ? Island, and it was understood thal he I should remain there. lie sent details ; i to Charleston and bought supplies. , ? The mails were sent regularly to him . I and there was no interference with ' i .he movement of his troops. Under J i the circumstances Gov. Pickens and onr men were incapable of a breach of good faith, and could not conceive of auch a thing on thc part of Maj. An derson, who was born and bred in old Kentucky. Their surprise is beyond description when they found that Fort Moultrie had been abandoned in the night time and Fort Sumter occu pied by Anderson and his men. This was the fi-st hostile movement, but even then our men did not begin hos tilities. Provisions wore still bought in Charleston and tho mails deliver ed. The wives of the garrison at ^Kort Sumter still remained in the city, and Mrs. Anderson, herself, was under the protection of Guv. Pickeus ut thc Mills House. The next movement of thc Wash ington government was to Bend sup plies to Fort Sumter in a vessel pro tected by several warships which came along to force an entrance into Charles ion harbor. When this convoy stool off the bar there was no longer a^y misunderstanding about the purpose of the Washington authorities. Gen. Beauregard demanded the surrender of Sumter. Anderson refused. Beau regard opened fire and compelled the surrender. The scene of active operations was changed to Washington. Lincoln ealled for 75,000 volunteers. A heavy forco was sent aoross^lho Potomac. , Tho great battle of Manassas was fought and won by our people. Mc Dowell's army fell back to Washing ton. The forces of Johnson aud Beauregard went into camp beyond Bull Kun confronting thc enemy. There were several minor engagements hut no great coniliot, aud thc fiist winter of the war passed in compara tive quiet. "When the spring-time came again Gen. McClellan, commanding the U. S. army, charged his base to Yorktown intending to reach Richmond by that ronlo. Heavy reinforcements were sent to him, but he continually called for more men. When McClellan and his troops , landed at Yorktown and took position chere was no one to resist his advance hat Gen. J. Bankhead Magruder and eight thousand men. His troops were stationed across the peninsula be tween the James and York rivers, and bj oounter ntarobing and beating of drums McClellan was lcd to believe shat there was an immense army in Iront of him, too large for bia army of .se hundred thousand men io meet. He hesitated until Johnson trancforrcd I)i3 army from Manassas to the scene <sf operations. At that time I was a private in Company "B" of the Seventh S. C. Yolunteers. Wo took our place in line OB Warwick river near Dam No. 4 and not far from Great Lebanon Churob. Little service was required of ?QB, and the only exciting time the regi ment had was when it marchcu to Land's End, about nine miles from eas?p, and at tho edge of the water. The command arrived at twilight and immediately set about making their camp fires, and so many were kindled that the whole landscape and firma ment were illuminated. Immediately the gunboats of the enemy opened fire with solid shot aud ahell. The r?gi ssent fell back in quick time and re* ,-acuraed to camp. The march to camp -was exceedingly difficult, being over a jucUfcw cut road with heavy timber on - aaeh aide and the night was dark as &Mgj$l. Nobody was hurt on this ex vpstitiOB,. whf jh was designed to de . otise the enemy as to the number of i temps oppeecd to them. At the point where we vere station* i, ai there was a forest of tottering trees , ? snsd through the woods flowering vines ? ?asi ?mt scanted shrubs oharmed the , Muser. Th? samp duties and drilling war? light. York river oysters oould ] be had in great abu rid an oe and it was ( a common thing to see the messes , around the little fires roasting them in , Athe abell by the bushel. The term of service of the 7th S. O. i Volunteers, enlisted for twelvemonths, j ORIES. ul berry J^oint* Medium. *as about to end. Many were anx ous to get home, but the majority felt :hat it would be disgraceful to turn .heir backs on the enemy who were ?rowdisg the peninsula with reinforce ment' to capture Richmond. A chance was gi ve a the men to reaffirm their determination to stan! by their couu try to the end. Nearly every mau re Lahsled for three years of tho war. Som;!, however, had enough of it and were not to he influenced by persua sion nr argument. So they gave up [heir guns ami were marched away to i mulberry grove on thc .lames river ind wen', into camp to awt.it trauspor talion to Richmond hy boal. They remained in camp severa' days and somehow the commissary missed get Ling any rations to them and they got \H hungry as could bc. The boat did not come to take them cn board and they Bat near their tent? among tho mulberry trees in forlorn spirits when a Yankee gun boat coming around a point down the river opened a broad side upon the homeward bound. Th? tents were knocked down, the mul berry trees torn to pieces and great holes plowed in the ground with shells j and solid shot, and in a few minutes the men from the mulberries came iuto the camp of thc 7th S. C. on a full run. They came in from all sides, from tho direction of Yorktown, of Richmond, of tho .lames and of York river. Up to that date no such fast timo had been made, and after getting back to the regiment the reinforce ment from thc mulberry grove re mained with tlie commmand. To this day it is not safe to say any thing to the mulberry crowd about ,Tiis inek'ent. How the 20th Fought. Maj. Robert Stiles has written a book entitled "Four Years Under Marse Robert," giving a narrativo of what passed ! j ore him during the war. He gives thu following descrip tion of thc action of the 20th S. C. regiment in the battle of Cold Harbor in 18??l. There arc some survivors in this county and it may interest thom to seo how they are going down in his tory : "The first de?uitc recollection I have, artcr what 1 have just related, is of tho breaking of Col. Lawrence M. Keitt's big South Carolina regiment, which had just como to the army and been entered in Kershaw'sold brigade, and probably outnumbered all the balance of that command. General Kershaw had put this and another of hin brigades into action not far from where we had burned the house to dislodge thc skirmishers. Keitt's men ga70 them ground, and in attempting to rally their colonel fell mortally wounded. Thereupon the regiment went to pieces in abject rout and threatened to overwhelm tLo rest of the brigp.de. I have never seen any body of troops in such a condition of uttev demoralization; they actually groveled upon the ground and attempt ed to burrow under each other in holes and depressions. Major Goggin, the stalwart adjutant general of the divi sion, was attempting to rally them, and I did what 1 could to help him. It was of no avail. We actually spur red our horses upon them, and seem ed to hear their very bones crack, bu", it did no good; if compelled to wrig gle cut of one hole they wriggled into another." Rapid Fire Guns. From tho old flint lock guns, whioh were still in use fifty or sixty years ago, to the Maxim gun is surely a long step forward. This Maxim rapid-fire gun continues to shoot as long as pressure on the trigger is kept up and the supply of cartridges holds out. Those cartrid ges are fed to tho Maxim gun auto matically from a belt, and thc rate is set down at four hundred to thc min ute. An expert soldior armed with a Maxim gun oould soon finish up a regiment of the enemy. The nine teenth century witnessed AS many changes in military operations as in any other lines of invention and im provement. Breech-loading guns were not in ase by the South daring the Civil War. I never shall forget my first sight of a Spenoer repeating rifle. After the surrender we had a guard from General Wilson's oommand near Macon and he iras equipped with a Spenoer breech loading rifle, whioh oar ried six car tridges at a time. One day as he was mounting his horse to go over to Maoon to see his aomrades, he brought the rifle to me and told me to "shoot at anything that bothered me" in his abBenoe. He explained its workings,, so that I might use it if occasion was needed, for he was in earnest and BO was I. lu the Austro Prussian war wc (i:^t li ea rd of''needle guns" and small artus wore all constructed as breech loaders. The Gatling gun I saw io the Wash ington city uavy yard and it seemed to me that, a regiment would not need more than a half dozen or suuh matter to clean up the enemy. It fired 450 rounds to thc minute. Later improve ments gave a firing capacity of 1,200 to the minute. Now we hear a good deal of the Nor denfclt aa well ad tho Mazim rapid fire gun. When the war broke out in Cuba and the United StateB soldiers were being hurried to Tampa, a Nebraska regiment wad halted one afternoon at Carterville until way was made for a clear track to Atlanta. A young man with Bmooth face and bright eyes at tracted me and wo begun to chat about lots of things pertaining to the war. I liad a paper sack of nice fruit in my hand and when wo parted ho and I had a kind little exchange of good wishes, especially when I said I must love him a little bit for his mother's pake and that he must be a good boy for his own sake, etc.. etc. His eyes swam in tears as I pressed the fruit into his hands, and he ev tracted from his pants' pocket two long, slim cartridges, the newest in vention for the finest gun for the United States troops at that time, and gave them too me to remember him by when he was gone. As long as I saw him on the moving train he was watch ing for me and I for him. I never think of those two long cartridges without wondering what beoamo of that handsome Vebraska boy on his way to the front. I had never seen such cartridges before and surely the weapon must be a deadly one that carries such a bullet for its rapid fire work. With heavy guoB solid shot were used a quarter of a oentury ago. Great heaps of theso solid projectiles were scon all about in the navy yard at Washington in tho '70s, but now ooni cal shells in rifled guns are used with greater weight of metal and increased bursting capacity in the charge. Gun cotton was used largely by ar tillery in I860, but smokeless powder is comparatively a late necessity in warfare. Thopcoounts of the destruc tiveness of what was oalled lyddite in the South African war were dreadful to read about, but of all the dreadful things certainly submarine mines head tho list. We heard a little about diem in tho Crimean and tho Civil War, but their uso io thc present Russo-J ap??ese war shows they are as apt to c-xplodo under one's own ships as those of the enemy. Taken altogether modern fire armB should always suggest a peace arbitra tion to put tho earliest possible stop to hostilities, thc new inventions are SD deadly and devastating in their methods.-Mrs. W. H. Felton in At lanta Journal. Figured out a Pro.1t in the Pig. A Pennsylvania railroad officer has a stock farm on the outskirts of Phil adelphia, says the Philadelphia Led ger, and at a recent dinner of the Clever Club a friend of the railroader spoke of it, saying: "He runs it on a businesslike basis. Sometimes he makes money out of it. Last year he bought a pig for $27, fed it forty bushels of oom at $1 a bushel, and then sold it for $31.50. " '1 mads $4 50 out of that pig,' he remarked to me the day after the ani mal was taken away. " 'But,' I protested, 'how about the forty bushels of corn, at $1 a bushel, that you fed him?' " 'Oh,' commented the gentleman farmer, 'I didn't ezpeot to make any thing on the corn.' " There was a cry in the streets. People rushed from their doors and strained their eyes on the struggling balloonist fighting for life. Even the poor, pant ing sufferer in the sick room waa for gotten while the fam ily gazed breathless at thia Strange tragedy of the air. Then they went back to the sick room to tell of the terrible struggle for life they had just witnessed. It did not occur to them that under their very eyes a more terrible, more pathetic struggle was going on daily. There can be nothing more pitiful than the struggle the consumptive makes against disease. The greatest help in this struggle is gained by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. It curer obstinate cougha, weak and bleeding lunge, emaciation, and other ailments which if neglected or unskillfully treated find a fatal tamine tion in consumption. ?In iSoBon?ol ny daeefeltrswassalteriasen account of a severe cowan, hectic fem. wasVag of flesh sod other symptom* of elites td lonrs? writes Rev. Joseph H. VespmMtt, of faussas ftpriDfi*. Ired?lt Co . N. C ?I promptty ?*vt her Dr. a. v. Herat's Ooldea Medical HscoSery with mUrying- success, and the now enjoys excellent health. This bein* trae, X hersey hen rt (ly endone your medicines." Accept no substitute for "Golden Med ical Discovery." There ia nothing "just as good " for diseases of the stomach, blood and lungs. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets assist thf action ol the ? Discovery." Tili: MIK? OF KDUCATION. i KJitors Anderson Intelligencer: I An interesting editorial in a South ern magazine relates to thc advance tuent made by Virginia educators to ward improved facilities in sohools in the State of Virgioia. A reader, one who thinks, cannot help being im pressed by tbe need of such a move ment on the part of educators in the State of South Carolina. Of oourse, at first glanoe, comparisons between a State who obviously needed improved educational ideas and a Stato who did not, would be unnecessary and mere than impertinent. Here they are : Virginia, the mother of Presidents, and South Carolina thc mother of He roes ! Virginia applying advanced ideas of education, and South Caro lina weil, wrapped in the ancestral j mantle of distinguished recollections, I what further need of facilities than tradition ? Scholars recall the time when certain countries in ancient days had no public "facilities" whatever, and bardb traversed tho distances, re calling in song and story the valiant deeds of tho oountry's sepulchered sires ; there were no need of schools, for the people's glory lay in what had been, and not in what then was. So i with South Carolina ! Is not her his I . ry in the past, a green, spreading bree of undying exploits and military heroism ? Therein can she rest. Her bards, her veterana recalls the past what of the present ? It is not well, perhaps, to condemn grown persons for the faults of thc ohild, but decision is so rendered. South Carolina may revel in itt "glory," but what of Anderson Coun ty ? Now, there-Virginia, not dwell ing upon the public plague-spots whether the calamity ia whole or ii parts, that is, looal, her educators ar< at work universally throughout thi State, and the remedy is applied BI that no place shall bo neglected. Thi is tho model-Virginia the mother o Presidents for South Carolina mothe of heroes. Her veterans, those bard of lyrical recollections, are fast BUG oumbing to the mould of inactive sei vice ; they are impatient for the ban that has gone before to the spear-hun hall of Valhal. There are many obi! dren who, if matters are not improv ed, will grow up unable to read histt ry. There are sections of Anderso County, five and six miles long, thi for throe yearB have not had a sohoo Tho ohildren, many of them, kno how to read and write, but are forge ting. Children who were ?ix years < age then are now nine, and precious their help to a hard-working father their opportunities are gone and goin, People are known to have moved id joining counties and schools, and a gentleman paid $37.00 for public .uition, hoping the County would con- j tioue education to an enrollment of 40 : shildren, but the man has been out of bis money and the ohiJdren out of any Further publio education. Still all ?re taxable to school funds. Rumor han been made that in a seo* lion over eiz miles from sohool to school a portion of personal land prop* orty will be sold to negroes, two lots donated for the ereotion of church and school, and instead of a sohool for white people which they will not, the County will supply a school for blacks, whioh it must. There are school sections with their school buildings abandoned as though a storm swept them away, not, it must be said in kindness to the illustrious State, owing to legislation, but to petty legislation. Why will not our educators look at this ? or are they aware of the facts ? The school buildings were not hid in acorner, and tho murmurers arc not silent. Petty legislation, that is, the mob, not Pi late or C:usar, is at fault for many a crucifixion of a noble deed. This is only a word to the educators of South Carolina whoever and, in deed, wherever thc gentlemen maybe. It were better to make the State, in stead of an emblem of bottles and pistols, a friend of books. R. R. L. Bad to Pass on Stairs. Mollie Shawler believes in omens, says the Topeka State Journal. She works for Mrs. Jeff Sizemore, of Mar ion, Ind., or did until recently. Mrs, Sizemore also believes in omens and signs and things. Mrs. Sizemore was up stairs. She started down. At the same time Mol lie started up. "Go back!" shouted Mrs. Size more. "It'o bad luok to pass on a stairway." "I wont go baok," answered Mol lie. "It's bad luck to turn back after you start up stairs." "I say you will go back," said Mrs. Sizemore in a threatening voice. "I say I will not go baok," retorted Mollie. They "mixed." When the breeze had blown over and the police took Mollie to jail, where she displayed a badly disfigured countenance, she said: "I wouldn't turn back for her. I turned back once before for a wo man in Louisville, where I worked, and the next day my husband got a divorce from me." j - The little a man wants here be low is usually just a little more than he gets. * MOVED * INTO OUR tn South Street This Boom is splendidly fitted for the transaction I of our business. We invite yon to call on ne in our Hew Quarter*. mu r??^T <>?:.'>? ?HBBB1 m ' Abgetaute Preoarationfor Asr sir?ilating the Food andBeguTa ling the Stomachs andBowels of lNh A.N 1S/('H1U)K1 ? Promotes Digeslion.CheerFuI ness and Rest .Contains neither Opium.Morpliine nor Mineral. NOT "NARC OTIC . J?ttpe af Old ?rS?KUELPtTCJOR /Confian Seul' \ Mx.Smntt ? 1 RodulUSzlit- I Anise Sn-d * 1 Wnp Sad- \ Cfanktd Su?? M?iajr*?~ f?sicr. / For Infante and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature A perfect Hemed)' forConsti|-a Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness an J LOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of KEW YORK. _' A I b' 111 out l i *i v* ? 11| tl Vt S - ? vi i N 1 S EXACT COPYOILWRAPPERj Ose For Over Thirty Years CASTOR? TM? CCNTAUfl eOMHNT, HfW VOA* CITY. Flooring, Ceiling. Siding, Framing, Shingles, Lime, Cement, Lathes, Brick, Doors, Sash, Blinds, ? Mantels, Turned and Scroll Work, Devoe's Paint, Lead, Oil, Turpentine, Hard Oil, Glass, Putty, Etc. EVERYTHING THE BUILDER. FOR TBS IMPORTANT ! INVESTIGATE when in need of any kind of BUILDING MATERIAL. See me. If I don't sell you I'll make the other fellow SELL YOU RIGHT. "W. L. BRISSBT, ANDERSON, S. C. LETTER TO EVANS PHARMACY. I wish to eay that your LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS are better than anything of the kind I have ever used. They do all that a remedy of this nature could do. I I have been using EVANS' LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS for seven or eight years. 8. L. RUSSELL. Anderson, S. C., Feb. 24, 1904. ON HAND AND TO ARRIVES... Two ? ax* Loads of ALL8?ZE8. Two Oars of Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons. All the leading makes. Everything in our line, at priceB and on terms to snit our customers. co. ANDERSON, .S. C. 'St A. C. STRICKLAND, DENTIST. Qihue aver Farmers and Merchants Bank. SPECIAL attention given to the higher olaeana of Dental work. Crowns, Bridgea and Po rectal n Inlays, such aa are done in the larger cities. AU kinda of Platea made; Gold Pill ings lu artificial teeth any time'after Plates are made. 11 Oxygen Gas and Local Anaesthetics given for the Pain losa Extraction of teeth. - Blooding and diseased gums treated. ? All calla to the country and near by Towna fer th? Palalana Extraction of Teeth promptly attended to by a compe tent assistant. * A L?M? LOOK AHEA? A man thinka it ia when *he matter of |if<a . insurance suggests itsolf-but r?rcumatan oes ot late have ahown how life hangs by a . thread when war, flood, hurricane and fire suddenly ovei-tekee ^.a^&eonly w :;H;V Mawr that *o%r family ia protected ia of c&la"?ty overtaking; you is to te? in a aoLd Company like ie Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go? Drop in and aee tia about it, M. MATTISON, STAT? A6EKT, Peoples' Bank Build rnj?, ANPERSO NV