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WAR SI ;?jrrEx-Confederate In Camp Life o? A member of tho old Third South karolina regiment baa been jotting -down lately from memory and from . memoranda some incidents of the try ing days of tho sixties in the war be tween the States and permits the Newberry Observer to print them. They will be found entertaining by the veterans of the war, by their de scendants and by all who like to read .of deeds of heroism. Camp near Gordonville, Va., May 4th, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st l>ivi sion, 1st Anny Corps, Northern Vir ginia. Longstreet's corps had spent thc winter of 18G3-G1 in Mast Tennessee, and about April 1st came to Gordon ville, Va., and camped to await ordera ifrom Gen. Lee. May 1th we received orders to pack up and get ready to rv ovo. Grant had eommenoed his march to Richmond by way of thc Wilderness. .Gen. Lee had sent orders to Gen. iiOngstreot to bring hiB corps up to his support. So on the evening of May -&th ?wo started in the direction of the Wilderness, marohing till night, going rlnto camp with instructions to be ?ready to move at daylight in the morn ing. Next dsy we pressed in a foroed siiaroh all day. Late in tho evening <we could see signs of tho fight that ii ad been going on that day; saw a <wounded horse and some cavalrymen -who reported fighting at tho front. "Wo were not near enough to hear the rattle of miall arms, and no artil lery could bo used in the Wilder <noes. Wo oamped that night with in structions to bo ready to move at day (light. Before bed time a courier came ?to headquarters from tho front. Orders -were sent round for everybody to lie '-down and get what rest ho could and ?be ready to move at 4 o'clock in tho mioroing. Soon everybody but the .scamp guards were asleep, resting for .the work that was before us to mor <JTOW. Away in the night, about mid night, could bo heard the clatter of ?tho hoofs of a single horse coming in sa gallop. Soon wo heard the chal Gongings from tho guard to halt, and in a few minutes the bugle sounded to ipaok up. By the time wo were through packing the long roll was beat. Did you ever hear the long roll? Cf you have not, let me describe the feelings of a soldier when he boors *,he long roll before a battle. There is a strange feeling that begins to tug ?nd jerk at his knees and a oreeping sensation like something orawlicg up bis back to the back of hiB head, and it will push his hat up. His mind miW take him baok to his old home, for he knowB then that he is not only ?istoning to the long roll, but it may fie his last roll-as it proved to bo tiftat day to a great many. By two o'clock we were in ranks on the way to the Wilderness, where Grant had ?been pressing Lee hard all day of the 5 th. In the morning of the 6th. just ?at daylight, we reached the Wilder mess. As soon as it was light enough we could see to our right more troops going in the same direotion as we ?were-supposed to be Humphreys and Woff ord's brigades, a part of our divi sion, who fought on our right that morning. Our, that ia Kershaw's brigade was in front, followed by Bryant's brigade. .Just as the sun began to show over the tree topa wo passed Gen. Lee's wagon train. From early daylight the firing was terrific in front of us. We soon began . to meet the wounded coming back. ri?kiajg our line of march, from the i iiaiLiv/t oould hear the firing, the men * began'to't/hr ow away their cards and cohu?k bases-they did not want to <oarry fhem -in battle. This waB our first battle after the winter and these had furnished our pastime games. Af ?we ^passed uip tho plank road .'GoDS.V?vttT?baw and Longstreet, with ' t?mr wtaffis were riding in our front, ^orcn. Lee was by the roadside. As he ,-iLTit G cu. Longstreet met they hada ?hort talk. Longstreet gave Gen. Kershaw some orders, and the cen gnand was given to us to prepare for action. I have told you something about ?the long roll; but now the crucial time Siad come. I know some of you have ?heard the worls, "Lie down, militia, ? am going to popa oap." When tr oops are preparing for action every* feodyie popping eaps. The olatter of <6he 4>ayonet, es it ia being fitted on the guns, and the ringing of the steel ram tm?rs, as they load their guns, is ?pest description, and the man who fiat ?ot gos the sand will get to the crear. i Gen. Lee's right flank had been terned and pressed back on the plank road. Kershaw's brigade went up ?fie plank road. Wofford's and Hum TORIES. ncidents in tlie : the Soldiers. ? ph rey* a brigades, to our right, went I down the Fredricksburg railroad. I Bryant's brigade came up behind ! Kershaw'H brigade. Wc did not go far up the plank road till we began to form in line of battle. Before we all got in line tho Yankee? were concealed io bushes in front. They poured one of the most destruc ? tive tires into Kershaw's old brigade ' that it had ever met during thc war. j We were soon driven back. Bryant's brigade corning up to nur support, we i commenced pressing the enemy back. Wolf ord and Humphrey had swept down the railroad Unding nothing in their front, swung around in rear of tlic troops that were lighting us and charged them in the rear as we charged them in the front. Finding they were flanked they fled in wild confusion, leaving everything. We captured a great many prisoners, who said they knew Longstreet waa coming to rein force Leo, and thought the whole of Longstreet's corps was in their rear. To give you somo idea of thc sever ity of the battle old Co. C. of. the 3rd regiment, out of 'JO or 40 men, lost nine killed and mortally wounded. It was in this battle that Col. Jas. I). Nance was killed. He had been pro moted to brigadier general, but had not received his commission. It was in this battle that J. D. Saith lost hin arm, ?. J. Livingston lost his leg; Warren Peterson was crippled for life; I. H. Boulwarc lost his arm, and Ham Fellers lost his arm. For num bers engaged the 3rd regiment had the heaviest loss in killed and wounded it ever had from one battle. That btttlo has left its mark in Newberry County that can be seen to-day. Tho order of the troops as we reach ed thc Geld that morning was as fol lows : McGowan's brigade was on the left of the plank road at right angles with thc road; on the right of tho road was Scales' North Carolina brigade. These troops had been lighting all the day before and were still engaged when we carno up. McGowan's old brigade, on thc left of thc road, was holding its ground, but the North Carolinians on the right of the road gave way just beforo we got to them and came back through our ranks. They oheered us as they passed, but would not turn back and go with us. Wo were thrown into the breach wh e they had left. We did not know where the enemy were and ran right into them before we knew we were near them-they wero oonoealed by the dense under growth. We were within 10 or 15 steps of them when they fired into us. We did not fire more than two round? before we fell baok probably 40 yards. They did not come farther than where our line was when they first fired into ?B. It was at this critical moment that Brayant's brigade came to our support. We raised a yell-that old "Rebel yell" that had been heard by the Yanks on oo many battle fields before They knew we were coming Hum ph rey'3 and Wofford's brigades charging with a yell at the same time. Thc Federals did not stand to argue; they left us the battlefield with all their doad and wounded in our hands, with a ~rrat many prisoners, who just lay B0I1 and let us take them. The most of our men were killed and wounded at the first volley. Gen. Kershaw was shot through the breast pocket of his coat, thc bullet passing through a likeness of his wife. Gens. Longstreet and Jenkins rode out in front, and as they came back in front of Gen. Jenkins' men they were mis taken for Yankees-they fired on them, killing Gen. Jenkins and wounding Gen. Longstreet. The night after this battle Co. C that was my old company-had 13 men for roll call. I got permission to go baok to the field infirmary to sec a brother who was wounded that day. It was an awful sight. It seemed that nearly all my old regiment wore there wounded. Grant had been defeated and driven back on nearly the same battlefield where^'Fighting" Joe Hooker had been defeated two years before, and he would have mee the same fate if Gen. Lee had had an army sufficient to f ollow up the victory he bad won. I will venture to say if Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee had met two years soon er, when the Confederates had suffi cient men, Gen. Grant would never have been the president of the United States. He wonld have been as were Gens. McClellan, Burnsides, Hooker and Pope, who had before command ed the northern army of Virginia defeated and disgraced, j J.W.Reagin. ! i ate - ? - Any way, tho returns a man gets from his private garden are a thous and per cent, bigger then fr*, i his boy's college education. Tho Manabas Manoeuvres, Washington, I>. C., August 8.- An army of workmen, directed from Wash ington, is now engaged in preparing the trrouud for thc army manoeuvres that are to take place between the 5th and 10 of September on the battle fields of Virginia. Where the I nion and Confederate warriors struggled at Bull Hun ami Haymarket in the 'GO's camps are uuw being laid out fur the youug soidiers of to-day. When the manocuvcrs arc in full blast, it is esti mated that 25,OOO men will be en gaged. Of this number five thousand will be regular soldiers ^nd the re mainder State troop?. Three great camps will be established. The water supply fo: thc troops is one of the chief concerns of the camp builders. Camp No. 1, which is to be near Lewis Crossing, Prince William County, will be supplied with artesian wells, no less thau 25 being necessary for the purpose of camp life. Camp No. 2, near Thoroughfare, will derive its water supply from two big reservoirs, which will* he fed hy a fine spring at Thoroughfare Cap. The matter of conveying the soldiers and their out fits, the tents and provisions, and the thousand and one articles that will he needed upon the manoeuvring grounds is another great problem to be confronted. The Southern Rail way Company has this matter in charge, and is busy layiog down track? and constructing stations for tho usc of the soldiers and their friends. All told, the Government has $1,000,000 ready to spend upon the manoeuvres, if such a sum is needed, but it is not probable that it will coat as much af that. The manoeuvring area is Go, 000 acres, which, under the agree meat made with the farmers of Vir ginia, is to be leased at twenty oenti an acre. Ir/ addition to that expensi thc United States will probably b< called upon to pay a few bills for dam ages to crops, buildings and stock The amount of damages to be paid th? farmers will bc determined after tin manoeuvres are over by a board o adjudication. This hoard will consis of three members, who aro to be ap pointed respectively by Gen. Corbin by the Governor of Virginia and b; the farmers. Tho Southern Railwa; Company is spending $25,000 in lay iug tracks about thc camps. On Sep tomber 10, which will probably b the gala day of the manoeuvres, thor will be a parade and review of the en tire force by President Roosevelt an Gen. Corbin, commanding thc depart ment of the EiBt. Then there will b sham battles almost every day of th six between State troops or Stat troops and regulars upon some po] tion of the great quadrangle, whio stretches ils length and breadth ove 100 square mileB of territory. The Confederate Strength. - s (Springfield Renublican.) Charles E. Benton lays too muo stress upon real or reported "boas iog" of individuals during the war < just preceding it. There was a goc deal of loose wild talk on both side Mr. f vard was quoted tit) prediatin a 6. u?/s! fight, and the men wt went forth to the first Bull Bun batt indulged in considerable swagge Gen. Thomas was held responsible f< saying that he "would drink all tl blood that would be shed," but 1 denied having made any such utte anoe. John Randolph used to e olaim, "All the bastard wit of tl country is fathered on me!" Judi Rice, of Montgomery, Ala., a gre wag, was oharged with the ?tateme that "We (Southern men) oan wh the Yankees with pop guns." Aft the war, twitted with it, he roare "Wo could; but you would cot fig that way!" Perhaps the South wou have suoooeded if only Yankees hi confronted her; but I think that o Yankee brethren had many thous&n of European recruits to help thei I am reluctantly compelled, after yea of examination, to believe that it w not so much disparity of numbe that wasted the South, but inco petent civil authorities at Biohmor They blighted the real generals a wise statesmen. In Gen. Longs tree official record of the Confederate fort at Gettysburg, tho total is 75,000, a tho oavalry 5,000, Where does K Benton got his 10,000? If Mr. Bonton desires to know wt prodigios cavalry performed, when 1 by the greatest saldier oh either su let him carefully pursue the biograp of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, was not eduoated in the literary military schools, but he was, li Clive, "a heaven-born general." ', had some serious defeots of hat though virtuous in many ways, wh* some great commanders are faulty, history, but if the war produced general who knew how to win v.tatoi and how to utilise them signally E rast, I think, heads the list. I must say, in conclusion, thal South has no distinctive monopolj superiority io boas tl og. Sha surpi es tbs North in several mattara, as North sar passes her in other thii In the close of the 20th century is apt to surpass the North, for etanee, in cotton manufacture as i aeonltureof that produot. She i surpass tho North in ooo serva' forces to boat baok the rising of S i al ir tu. I judge that she sur passes the natives of thc North ia large fatuities. Mr. Henton need not get excited over such discussions. They have BOLUC elements that arc neither klohild i?h" nor v?ioglorious. Jam s H. Randall. Augusta, Ga., July !8, 11)04. Story of a Hoy's Bravery. The story of a litL; " "ir boy who refused to betray * ' . even on tho threat of death */ Major Seely, M. P., a? > (ion of deeply rooted h and of country. It t during the Boer war. "I was afcked," said Major Seely. "to get some volunteers, and try to capture a commandant at a place some tweuty miles away. I got the men readily and wc set out. It was-a rather dcAperate enterprise, but wc got there all right. I can sec the little place yet, thc valley and the farm ncu6e, and I can hear the clatter of the horses' hoofs. The Boer gen eral had got away, but where had he gone? It was even a question of the general catching us and not us catch ing the general. Wo rode down to tho farm house and there wu saw a good looking Boer bey and some yeo men. I asked tho boy if the com mandant had been there, and he said in Dutch, taken by surprise, 'Yes.' 'Where has he gone?' I said, and the boy became suspicious. He aaswered 'I don't know.' "I deoided then to do a thing for whioh I hope I may he forgiven, be cause my men's lives were in danger. I threatened the boy with death if he would not disclose the whereabouts of the general. He still refused, and I put him against tho wall and said I would have him shot. At the same time I whispered to my men 'For Heaven's sake don't shoot.' The boy still refused, although I could see he believe d I was going to have bim shot. I ordered tho men to 'Aim.' Every ri?e was levelled at the boy. 11 'Now,' I said, 'before I give the word, whioh way has the general gone?' I remember thc look in the boy's face-a look such as I have never seen but onee. Ho was trans figured before me. Something greater almost than anything human shone from his eyes. He threw back his head, and said in Dutch, 'I will not say.' There was nothing for it but to shake hands with the boy and go away."-Singapore Straits Budget. - - % - - The Impractical Inventor. "Inventors, with all their original ity and brilliance, are often naive, childlike and impractical," said Gen eral Wallaoe F. Randolph, of thc gen eral staff of the army. "An inventor called on me one day to talk about an explosive he had originated. " 'It is the most powerful explosive the world has overseen,' he said, 'and it is my idea to send it up in a bal loon, with a lighted fuse attaobed to it. The balloon will be sent over the camp of the enemy, the explosive will go off, and viotory will be ours.' " 'Yes,' said I, 'but suppose a ouv rent of air should blow the balloon baok over our own army? What then? "'Then,' said the inventor, laying his hand on my arm, 'I tell you what it is, geoeral, our army would have to get up and run for all it was worth.' " Quick Witted Indian. The late Clement Scott, theEaglish dramatic critic, took a profound inter est in the Amerioan Indian. He had at his tongue's tip a hundred inci dents wherewith to illustrate odd phases of the Indian's character. "As a rule," he once said, "we're gard the Indian as a straightforward, frank, blunt follow. We don't GBOO oiate with him any idea of wiles, or craft, or subtle humor. As a matter of faut, though, the Amerioan Indian is very often full of moan trioks and jokes. ' "There was a farmer in the west one summer who was hard put to it for help upon his farm. Indians were plentiful in the neighborhood, bnt they wero poor workmen. Always tired they would put down the hoe or the.rako as soon as the master's baok was turned, and selecting a o o ol spot they would lie down on the grass and sleep the day away. "But one morning a very tall, ro bust Indian asked the farmer to giv him work. " 'No/ said the white mao. 'Yon will get tired. Yon Indians are al ways getting tired.' " 'Oh, no,* said the other. 'This Injun never get tired. This Injun not like the rest,' , " .Well.ril try you,' ?aid the farmer, and he engaged the man. He pot him to work io a wheat field; then he away for an hoar or two. Wheo returned he found tho Indian under a tree. " 'Here, wake up, here/ hs oried . You told me yon never got tired.1 " 'Ugh,' ?aid tho other, yawning 'this Ia jun don't. But if he not down often he would get tired, the same as the rest, i Scared Out of Her Wits. "Take ruy advice and don't try to frighten a person," said a well known physician thc other day, acording to tho New Orleans Times-Deinocrat. "I have seen some serious and often times irremediable consequence follow these foolish antios. I couldn't bet ter impress this faot on you than by relating a story whieh has oaat a shadow over my whole life. You will have no reason to doubt me when I tell you that my own sister today is a mental wreck because of my youthful propensity for having fun at the ex pense of others. To use a hackneyed expression, I frightened her out of her senses. "That was nigh on to thirty years ago, and memory brings the unfortu nate incident as vividly before my mind this evening as if it happened only an hour ago. I remember only too well the day I returned home with all the pride of one who had just been graduated in medicine During a con versation among the family cirole a a great deal of what I had seen as a prospectivo graduate in medicine was spoken of. Thc talk drifted on about dead people and then about ghosts, all in a playful way. "My sister, who was a young wo man full of courage, laughed at the idea of spooks and said she would have to seo one and speak to it before she would ever believe in visitations from the other world. I was full of fun then and would go out of my way for a laugh at the expense of another. I determined to try her courage con cerning spirits, and what should come to my mind but the idea of rigging up a skeleton and putting it in the way that led to her room. Oblivious to every thought but that of causing a good joke, I improvised a fleshless fright and fixed it where she would have to meet it. "She did meet it, too, and the sight of it has never left her. "We heard her give one loud sore am and that was all. Rushing to the hallway, we found her staring at the skeleton with a grin on her face. She could not move and was taken away. The oest attention money could give her failed to benefit her. That same stare and that pieoe of foolishness has never left her, and today she is in a retreat a hopeless mental wreck. That is why I say the common expression 'she was frightened out of her wits' has a truth ful origin." An Awkward Moment. The late Samel M. J ones, the Golden Rule Mayor of Toledo, was once dis cussing, in a political address, awk ward moments. "The most awkward moment I know of," he said fmiling, "carno in the ex perience of a worthy old Presbyterian minister of Columbus. I have heard this minister desoribe the moment more than once, and I am sure it must have been very awkward, indeed. "It seems that th? o?d gentleman dined with a brother olergyman in the oountry, and after diuner walked in the garden with his host till rather late. The host, finally, asked him to stay all night and he coneented. "They went baok to the house to gether to arrange about the aparo ohm.der and so on, and afterward they took another turn about the gar den. " 1 Weii," said the host at last, 'suppose we turn in. Yonder is the hallway. Just go in there and hang up your hat and wait for me. I want to speak to the gardner and I'll join you in a minute/ "So the guest, alone, entered the hall. He grouped his way, for it was very dark. By the door stood the wife of his host. 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