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WAR SrI Fr? ' V. Olds, in (. 'Haleigh, May 27.-In the North I ?Carolina Hall of History is a relic of -thc civil war of unusual interest, this 'being the laut Confed?rate Hag which j .was carried in linc of battle at Appo- . .niattox. This flag is of a very lino j silk and was first carried by the 4th i 'North Carolina regiment, which was . organised at Raleigh early in the war, and o! which Bryan Grimes was the ? colonel. Later he used this flag at his headquarters when he became brigadier general, and later still, upon Ihis promotion to major general, it waB ?used as headquarters flag. On the eventful day of thc surren .der at Appomattox Court House Gen. J (Grimes commanded all thc Conferer* : ..ate infantry ictually engaged, and , <wae, at his own request permitted to make thc attempt tc dislodge a la-ce fforcc which (?cn. Grant had during i tjho previous night massed on the j Cur the r side of Appomattox Court iEottse -to intercept Gen. Lee's pro-! t3?ees ia that direction. Thia Federal Coree had thrown up earthworks at ?bt intersection of two crossroads. ?Chat-morniug the two other divisions ?of Gordon's corps, Walker's and ivan's, were plaoed at his disposal, Ahose of Bushrod Johnson and Wise's ?brigade having been placed under his .command tho day before. Gen. .Grimes carried tho works, captured artillery and prisoners and drove thc ?Federals bick nearly a mile, with "-{wiall loss to his own force. He at once sent a courier to Gen. John H. .Gordon with uews that the road to Lynchburg was now opon, and his sur prise was extreme when an order in reply carno to withdraw. Gen. Grimes in his Btory of what occurred said that 'for the first timo in his military career <2io refused to obey orders from a su perior. He said : "I declined to withdraw ."because I supposed Gon. Gordon did (not know tho commanding position ay troops occupied. Ho conl'oued co send mo order after order to the aamo effect, whioh I still disregarded, 'being under tho impression that ho did not comprehend our commanding .position, until finally I received a ?message from him, with an additional .one coming from Gen. Lee, to fall back. I then ordered Brig. Gen. Wil liam ll. Cox to maintain his position in line of battlo and not to show him self until our rear was 100 yards diu 4ant and then fall back in line of bat tle so aa to proteot our rear and right (flank from assault. The enemy upon seeing UB move, rushed out from cover 'with a oheer, wiien Cox's brigade, dying concealed at the brow of the thill, rose and fired a volley into them, ?which drove them back into the ?woods, the brigade thou following its retreating comrades in line of battle, (unmolested. After proceeding about (half the diatanoe to tho position occu pied by us in the morning, a denso mass of tho enemy's infantry in col utan appeared on our right and ad vanced without firing towards the .earthworks captured by us in tho moraing. When my troops approach ed their position of tho morning I rode up to Gen. Gordon and asked where I ahould form lino of battlo. He re fitted, 'Anywhere you ohooso.' Struck toy the strangoneBS of this reply,! s&fked an explanation, whereupon he informed me we would bo surrendered. ? expressed very forcibly my dissent .to bfftog surrendered, and indignantly ^upbraided him for not giving me no ttioev&f Buoh intention, as I oould have escaped with my division and joined ?Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, thon in JffoTt/h Carolina. I told him further f ?hat T ehould then inform my men of *tho purpose to surrender and whoso ever desired to avoid that calamity could go with me, and I then galloped 'Off to carry that idea into effect, but ?afore reaching my troops Gen. Gor don-overtook mc and, placing his hand on my shoulder, asked me if I was .going to desert tho army and tarnish my owD honor as a soldier, saying it vwauld bo a reflection upon Gen. Lee 'ttud an 'indelible disgrace to me, that !, an officer of rank, should escape under a flag of truce, whioh, was then 'pending. 1 was in a dilemma, and ?new not what to do, but finally con 0b!?xded to say nothing on the subjeot rta roy troops. ?pon' reaching them one of the soldiers inquired if Gon. -Lee had : surrendered, and upon my ?.Aftsr<ering that 1 feared it was a faot that we had surrendered, he oast away Ens musket, holding his hands aloft, -cried in an agonised voice: 'Blow, Gabriel, blowl My GodI let him blow; tam ready to die.' We then weut Jheyond the creek at Appomattox Court House and stacked arms amid Ahe bitter tears of bronzed veterans, regretting the.necessity of capitula tion. I rode up to my old regiment <to shake hy the hand eaoh comrade ' ?fbo had followed me through four jpears of suffering, toil and privation ?RHiS. ?Vp] >omattox. 'harlottc < ?hsorver. ofteu worse than death, and to hid then; a fica!, affectionate aud iu many instances an eternal farewell. A ca daverous, ragged, barefooted man grasped mo by tho hand and, choking with sobs, Haid. ;'Goud-bye, General; ? God bless you! We will go hume aud I make three more crops and try them , again.' We surrendered moro to grim I famine than to the power of our ene j mies. The next day we stacked arms in an old cornfield and each man \ sought his home as best he might. Gen. Gordon, the corps-commander, ; hears me out iu my statement, and ! moreover says I volunteered my ser vices and made the last charge by the infantry at Appomattox." This flag was in the last charg e It ! was flying the next day in Gen. I G rimes'a headquarters and was cut j down by Sherwood Badger, one of I Gen. Grimes's couriers, the day after the surrender and after the troops had io largo part marched off. Badger wrappei it around his own body and tramped with it all the way back to Raleigh. The Grimes family, tvhioh treasures it with the greatest regard, has placed it in the Hall of History as one of the relics of that gallant offi cer, who escaped death amid all the horrors of the war only to bo shot by a concealed assassin many years after. The assassin was acquitted after hav ing several times confessed that he was hired to dD the deed. Some years later the assassin, meeting his well deserved fate, was lynched by being hanged from a bridge at Wash ton, N. C. Many years after tho tvarGen. John B. Gordon wrote to Gen. Grimes about his ordering the latter to withdraw after his advance on the enemy at Ap pomattox. Gen. Gordon said: "I knew more of the situation than you did and knew a flag of truce was in ex istence between Gens. Lee and Grant. I was notified by Gen. Lee, ordered you to the rear and notified Gen. Sheridan of the existence ol' the flag of truce. Ile insisted upon the sepa rate surrender of my command to him, which I refused. It was at this time you asked me what was che meaning of instructions to yoe *o put your men anywhere you chose, auJ you suggest ed that I permit you to return to the front. I was touohed by your indis position to meet this dreaded ordeal, but it was all over, and the escape of troops would have been charged as treachery. The flag is of fine silk and admirably made. In fact, the writer has never seen one so handsome. It is oonsid ererably faded,but is otherwise wonder fully well preserved. About thia "last flag at Appomattox" Capt. W. T. Jenkins, of Aureliao Springs, writes an interesting letter and says that Brig. -Gen. William R. Cox will bear him out in regard to what he says aa to the claims of Nouth Caro lina. Ile ppys that the flag referred to, that of the 4th North Carolina troops, were the last in line of battle at Appomattox, and that they were waviug over their regiments after all the other troops had retired from the field, He says ; "Geo. Cox's brigade of Grimes's division was OD the left of the Lynchburg road and on the ex treme left of the advancing- column, and had to contend with thc enemy on the left, as well as in front; but notwithstanding all this, Cox pressed forward with such rapidity and force as to advance beyond the troops on the road, and would have driven the enemy from the field had he not re ? ceived orders to fall baok. When the North Carolinians attempted to obey this order and fall back they found the enemy on their right, trying to out off their retreat, and immediately faoed the enemy, charged desperately, and drove them back into tho woods. When they had done this they found another colnmn of the enemy coming up in their rear, faced about and fired one volley at the enemy, then con tinued to retreat in the direction of the road near the point where they had formed line of battle that morn ing. On reaching the Lynchburg road they found all the Confederate troops had passed along it in tho di rection of Appomattox Court House and also found a battery of artillery, without horses, the latter having bren sent to the rear for protection. Cox halted his brigade io order to see what it was best to do, but the enemy waa pressing on him so rapidly and hard that his deoision was quiokly made. Gen. Cox road up to Capt. Jenkins and ordered him to take the 14th regi ment, of whieh he then had command,1 and also the 4th regiment, and push them down the road and hold the ene my in oheok until Cox could get the other part of his command to the rear, send baok the horses and save tho battery. We immediately formed line of battle, the 4th regiment on the right of the road, the 14th on the left, anti were .juiekly cit gu g cd by ?!... nd vance ?ii l.t.- ct,i ii,}-. 1 - ?op found that wo would be surrounded in a short lime and not wishing io lose ?'ur '. dors, I uct.i personally tu WL'I, cd?.r bearer and order? d them to take their tUgs to the rear, ami told the men to keep cool arid to retire in good order. I then eall'd for volunteers from the 14th regiment to take position behind nome houses on toe righi of the road and hold thc enemy in check until our men could get out of dauger. About 25 volunteered and we took a position behind the houses and maintained a lively lire until the enemy entirely surrounded us and took us prisoners. We never surrendered, but were taken fightiug. Some of our men would fire from the corser of the house when the enemy would come around the other. We were captured by Geo. Phil Sheri dan's men and were taken back over the field where the fighting had been dose that morning. We remained in the Federal camp, under a small guard, until late io the afternoon, when we were sent back to camp at Appomat tox. This was the last fighting done and I never saw more gallantry dis played by any command luring the entire war. We were treated very kindly by our captors, and were offer ed dinner by them, but were in too much trouble to partake of their hos pitality. One otl?er claim I make for North Carolina, this being that Com pany A, 14th regiment, North Caro lina troops, was the first organized for the defence of the South. On the 15th of November, I860, it was an nounced from the platform of the rail way at Littleton by Mr. Timberlake, the conductor of a Raleigh and Gaston train, that it was thought Abraham Lincoln had been elected President. The young men immediately organized a company of which I was the second lieutenant, for defence." A Son of Carolina Illustrious .u War and Peace. Io the Abbeville Medium, Gen. R. R. H em ph i 11 writes aa follows: At tho recent Confederate reunion in Nashville, Gen. Stephen D. Lee was elected commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans to suc ceed the late Geo. John B. Gordon. No better choice could have been made and no survivor of the war is more entitled to the honor. He was the most accomplished soldier of South Carolina in the war between the States, gaining great distinction in each branch of tho service. He was born in Charleston in 1833 but came to Abbeville County when a boy. He received his primary education at the old Clear Springs Aoademy, a famous 'school a half century ago on the Sa vannah side of the oounty. Later on the family removed to Anderson County and he received an appoint ive ut to Weat Point from Hon. James L. Orr, a member of Congress. After graduation he served six years as sec ond lieutenant in the artillery on the frontier. Wheo the war began he was a first lieutenant at Fort Randal in Nebraska. He resigned and entered the Confed erate army aa oaptain and by merit alone rose to the rank of Lieutenant General without any outside influ ence. He was aide to Gen. Beaure gard when Fort Summer was taken. Then he served as commissary, quar termaster and engineer officer around Charleston until he was elected oap I tain of a battery of artillery in Hamp ton's Legion. He was in the Penin sular campaign and in the battles around Riohmond, commanding six batteries at Malvern Hill. After Malvern Hill he was placed in command .of the 4th Virginia Cav alry and remained with it until the army moved to Northern Virginia, when he was made colonel and put in command of a battalion of artillery. His cavalry regiment was highly com plimented by Gen. Robert E. Lee. At Seoond Manassas he had twenty guua and turned the tido of battle. At Sharpsburg he lost 100 men and 90 horses out of four batteries. Promoted to the rank of brigadier general be was transferred to the Western army and took command of a brigade of infantry near Vicksburg. He defeated Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou and his force was drawn into Vicksburg, and in addition to his in fantry ho was put in charge of all the heavy artillery defending the oity. At the battle of Baker's Creek Gen. Loo again distinguished himself with his infantry and some idea of the hot place he was io may be imagined when it is ?tated that he had three horses shot nnd?r hi?a in twenty minutes. Goo. Lee surrendered with Vicks burg? bm wm soon exchanged, promo ted to major general and assigned to the oomraand of all tho oavalry in I Mississippi At the battle of Harris I burg, with 6.000 oavalry, he drove baok Gen A J. Smith with 16,000 in fantry and n-tvalry combined. He had been made lieutenant general. Gen Lfe waa in tho battle of At lanta, ai Jo n os boro, and with Hood io his TonfifHsee campaign. Ho fought al Nashville and at Franklin. He commanded the rear guard on Hood' s roi rt???, and wa& painfully wouti it.u >i i r foot. Re rejoined the ooiiioiaj ! -. S; o-. r^ Carolina and Mjrr? fuir i''1 wit!i <?.n ,)<>'* Johnstob 1 at I ? rt un ??boin. (icu. !.'.<.? i a.'.! ii| the great agricul- ? turc college ;?t ( olumbus, Mississip pi, since tilt' w.u Hid life has boco a useful and honored one. Ile has beeu equal to every euiergency. rre.sidentJeffer.-ion Davis said "I have tried Stepheu D. Lee in cavalry, infantry and artillery and fouod him uot on.> serviceable, but superior in all." _ A Legend. There is an old legend of a man who sold his soul to Satan. Th?; conditions were: For a certain number of years this man was to have all his desires gratified, at the expiration of which his ooul was forfeited. When the time agreed upon had ex pired, this man was unwilling to fulfill his part of the contract, and asked Sa tan upon what terms he oould be re leased. The reply was: "If you will curse God I will release you." I "No," said the man, "I oaonot curse the Being whose nature is love. Oiv? me something leBs fearfully wicked." I "Then kill your father," replied Sa- | tan, "and you go free." j "No," answered thc mau, "that is | too horrible to think of. I will not 1 commit so great a crime. Are there no other conditions?" "One more," roplied the tempter. "You must get drunk." "That is a very easy thing to do," the man answered, "and I aooept your proposition. I cannot kill my father, I will not curse my God, but I oao get drunk, and when I become sober all will be well." Accordingly he got drunk, end when in this oondition he happened to meet his father, who upbraided him, which so excited the ire of the drunken and half crazed man, that he slew his fa ther, oursed his God, then fell down dead, and Satan had him without fail. Only a legend, this particules case, but how true to the facts regarding the liquor curse.-National Advocate. -Political prinoiple is one thing aod political interest quite another. - A woman's idea of a wise man is one who makes a fool of himself over her. Only Olio Awake Thc Rev. Floyd Tompkins, in de li veri og t . ouQinencement address the other day, when the temperature in the room was anything but comfort able, told the graduating class that he had come to keep them awake. "But," he said, "I don't wish to have the same experience tha? a min- ! iater ia Scotland had one very hot day. "He had been speaking for half au hour wheo be noticed that his hear ers were nearly all asleep. " .Cornel' ho shouted,' wake up! You ought to be ashamed of your selves to Vail asleep in church. Look ; at the poor idiot in the gallery. He io the only one in the house who didn't go to sleep.' "At this one of the ohuroh mem bers, who had been aroused from a comfortable nap, stretohed himself and said: " 'Yes, and if he had any sense he would be asleep too.' "-Philadelphia Press. Consider Himself Dead. Mr. L., a good natured German, was the proprietor of a olothing business in a oountry town, says the Youth's Companion. He had in his employ one John S. whom he had advanced from oash boy to head olerk. Since promotion John had several times asked for an increase of salary, and oaoh time his request had been granted. One morning he again appeared at the old merchant's desk with another request foran i nc renee of $10 a mo .th. j "Vy, Shon," said Mr. L., "I '.ink I bays you poo ty well already; vat for j I bays you more?" "Well," replied John, confidently, "I am your principal help here. I know every detail of the business, and indeed, I think that you could not get along without me." "Is dot so? Vy, Shon, 70t would I do suppose you vas to die?" "Well, I suppose that you would i have to get along without me then." I The old Teuton took several whiffs from his big pipe and finally said: I "Well, Shon, I guess you better con sider yourself dead." Tho Kind Toa Have Always Bought, and which lian beam in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature cf ^mty - ac d has been made under his per? i^^jd^T^V /^i? sonal supervision since its infancy. 'coccA^ti Allow no one to deceive you lu this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good" are hufc Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health ot Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment? What is CASTOR IA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare* Corio. Drops and Soothing Syrup*? It ls Pleasant? 16 contains neither Opium, Morphine nor othor Narcotic ?substance. Its age is its guarantee* It dos troys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cure? Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep? The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend? GENUINE ? CASTORIA Bears th? Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TN? O BN TA'J fl COMPANY, TT MUMMT BTW ? CT. H MV TOOP. CJTY. LETTER TO EVANS PHARMACY I wish to say 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. S. L. RUSSELL. Anderson, S. C., Feb. 24, 1904. ON HAND AND TO ARRIVE... Two O ai? Loads of FARM WA.GK>]SrS. AJUIu SIZES. Two Oars of Carriages, Buggies? Phaetons* All the leading makes. Everything in onr line at prices and on terms to suit our customers. FRET WELL - HANKS CO. ANDERSON", S, C. D. S. VANDIVBR. J. J. MAJOR. E. P.| VANDIVER. VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR, -DEALEBS IN -J Carriages. Buggies. "Wagons and Harness. 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