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Come in to see us, and let us tell you all about it. We have sold this Paint for many years, and all have been pleased who used it We have a fine selection of colors, and will gladly give you a card showing them if you will call in and request same. Also, a full line of Varnishes, Stains, Floor Faints, Furniture Polish, Paint Brushes, Etc. ORR, CRAY & CO., Saxt;to Bank of Anderson. " Sellable Druggists. , WAR ST Events in the Battl< Conf ederat [This brief sketch of the first Mary land campaign was written 'jeveral years ago hy ll. K. diaries, of Dar lington, S. C., who gave some of the incidents which came directly under his observation, and especially in ref erence to (Jeu. Lee. | I will premise what I have to say i with u brief reminder of thc chief points of that brilliant campaign that preceded the battle, aud I think the military critic will agree with me in saying that this campaign alono would entitle Gen. Lee to rank as a first class general. I speak now of what is known as tho first Marylanu cam paign. It in true that wo came out of Maryland discomfited, but the most perfectly conoeived and brilliant plans (as Waterloo) may fail from minor causes. Lee bad marched from the enviions of Iliobmond northward to meet Pope; had struck him at Ma nassas and shattered his army, send ing it ekurrying to Washington. Theo was conceived the brilliant plan of the invasion of Maryland. Lee with the main army was to cross the Potomac at Leesburg, send ing Jackson in the meantime to take Harper's Ferry by a ooup do main, and then to join him ss he leisurely jour neyed toward the upper Potomac. My oompany (E, 7th South Carolina Cavalry) was detailed as scouts and couriers for Gen. Longstreet. We had seen a considerable amount of staff duty of the kind with Gen. John ston and Gen. Lee. At present Gen. Lee and Gen. Longstreet being much together, we acted as well for Gen. Lee as for Gen. Longstreet, and, br ing attached to the staff, we frequent* ly had personal intercourse with not only two generals but with all of the I subordinate commanders, and beoame personally acquainted with them. Our position as connors of the com mander in ohicf gave us a better knowledge of the movements of the army, of its personnol and strategy, than was possessed by any major gen eral. A large number of the privates of my oompany were graduates of the ! South Carolina College, and fully capable of appreciating and utilising tho splendid military training under Gen. Lee. Our old professor, Charles S. Venable, was a member of the staff with the rank of oolonel, and I always ! thought, from what I observed, that Col. Venablo was Lee's most intimate and trusted aid. But to return. We lost no time aller the bait!*? of 8-?oond Manassas, but marched direct to Leesburg, where we divested ourselves of all superflu* ons bsggsge and "impedimenta" and entered Maryland with grand eclat, amid flying banners, the playiog of ! the bauds, and the bussaa of an en thusiastic crowd of sympathisers is beautiful Frederiok City, where we supplied ourselves with many good things-by purobase, camped a day, and then took a leisurely maroh west ward over magnificent roads through Middletown, Boonsboro, and the South Mountain, and ontered Hogers* town, where we camped to await Jaokson. During the next day we re ceived news of a heavy attack on D. H. Hill at South Mountain Pass (Boonsboro). Now it had not been the intention of Gen. Lee to defend South Mountain Pass longer than to allow Jaokson to join us; but Jackson h. d, been delayed in the capture of Harper's Ferry, and moreover, Mo* Clellan soemed to have reoovered from his confusion as to our movements and, abandoning the defensive, had marched directly on us, so it became necessary to hold this pass at loast a little longer. Gen. Leo hurried his immediate command baek to the psBB by a foread maroh, and roached it some hours before sundown? And now occurred the apparently slight error that decided the first cam paign into Maryland and sent our troops baok across the Potomac dis comfited. Instead of putting the troops immediately into line of battle on tho mountain, whioh, by tho way, is a most impregnable position for de? fsnse, Gen. Les? on roaching tho foot of therpsss, had baited bia troops on the road for several hours within half 1 a mile of whare D. H. HUI was bold"'' iag the pata again Bl tho whole of Mc Clellan's amy. At last, toward sun set, Longstreet ?aa. hurried up tba pass* but it 'las too ?ate to' get into lino of battle; tba whole Federal army tria cpon na, and aa darkness carno on we withdrew? leafing tb? pass in tho ? tente ^'?^-mt^y-'-'^y^ ' Why thia delay of Oas. Lee I could never divine; for lt wo had gona into line of battle on tho mou&tain ? j M we arrived, tba whole Federal oould not have dtslodgod us from such a position. Aa we rod? down the to faUWiWlW. Venable, "aid said to Wm: ^?olQnel, tht8 ?a ba*."* He| replied: "Nb, lt U of no consequence: ORIES. 3 of Frederickaburg. o Veteran. Jackson bas taken Harper's Ferry and will join us to morrow." We baited at the foot of the mountain and Gen. Lee had a tent pitched. In a few mo menta a detail of six men were called for to report to (Jen. Lee's teul. I w-s ono of the six; and when we re ported, (icu. Lee called us into the teut. lie asked us how wo were mounted and what we had in our hav ersacks. Ho then Baid to us: '.Gen tlemen, I am oending you to-night to Gen. Jackson, who ie on his way from Harper's Ferry io join us. Ile is coming on l?.a Virginia sido of tho Potomac, and you will find him on the road. You go from hore to Sharps burg and croes the river at that point, thence down the river toward Harper's Ferry. It is more than probable that you will fall in with the enemy to night, but yon must make your way through by some means. If the bearer of the dispatch is captured, he must immediately destroy the dispatch; by no means let it fall into the hands of the enemy. It is of great importanoo that it be delivered to Gen. Jackson with all speed." Gen. Lee was evidently muoh de pressed, the first and only time I ever saw anything of the Icind in him. We immediately set out, and in half an hour had run into the enemy in the streets of Sharpsburg. This body of the enemy turned out to be the four hundred oavalry that had esoapod from Harper's Ferry, and were making their way up the north side of the river. They were resting in Sharps burg when we ran into them, and evi dently thought that the whole of Stuart's oavalry wea upon them. In fact, Stuart's oavalry was only a mile away, and they had good reason to think so; at least, they scampered oft at a headlong gait and left us masters of Sharpsburg, and Jaokson matched on the field of Sharpsburg early the next morning. This body of oavalry was the same that struck Leo's un garded ammunition train on the Wil liamsport rosd after they had left Sharpsburg, and it has always been a historical query why they did not ctp ture the train instead or riding through it and leaving the whole train to esoape over the river. The explana tion has always been simple to me. They were fleeing from Harper's Fer ry and expecting every moment to en counter Stuart*o oavalry; and when the little adventure I have related, oc curred, they were snre the whole of Stuart's oavalry waa upon them.' The battle of Sharpsburg, which oe ourred the next day, is a matter of history. After that battle we were concentrated at Cooper & H. Oes. Bornside was now in command of the Federal army, and Lee, uncertain an to what move he Would make, had as sumed a masterly strategy, ready to meet any possible contingency,, As is well known. Gen. Burnside deter mined to merah upon Blohmood by way of Frederieksburg. Scarcely had he commenced his movement when Lee broke camp and, marching three miles to his one, whipped around over the Bappahannoek and faced him at Frederiokeburg with his concentrated army. Gen. Burnside . spent, three weeks recovering from the surprise cf finding Lee iji his front when he thought he had left him up at Gul poper 0. H., and then commenced orossing, having bombarded and burnt a large portion of the city, preparatory thereto. ' , . The linc of battle of the Oonfeder* ates waa on a range of hills about a mile and a half from the river sod parallel to it. Between this range of hills and the river is a level plateau I about four miles long. Upon, this the Federal army formed, near thc river and below, the city, the city being their extreme right. Opposite and ? forming the Confederate left was Ma rya's Hill. Around the. front of Maiyo's Hill ran a road and a stone fence, or wall, some four feet thick and about four and one-half feet high. Behind thia stone -wail were massed two brigades in triple lines. Oa the top of Marye'a Hill, Jost ab?te the stone wall, was the ; battalion of the Washington Artillery of New .Or leans, under Lieut. Col. Welton. Marya's Hill rises immediately from the road and stone wall, and is quit* ateep. llxe cawy had abo^b ^ hus&sd pieces ox artillery ca? Staf ford's Heights, just across thc river, assaults made on it were tlse most gal lant, hercio, and Asperate in thc whole history of the war. Th*'charge > pass it ;cT'--sros^l|' ' ???ViS?t?$\ burg or Eugotnont to Waterloo, Oas I historian oharocterUes it as "thc most I frightful charge in the a?nala of war," and John Esten Cooke, a Southern, historian, Bays, "It is doubtful if in any battle ever fought by any troops men displayed greater gallantry" than the Federal troops who made these charges. On December 12 the enemy crooned over under the smoke of tho burning city. Gen. Lee stood on Lee's Hill, and occasionally a shell would be sent among them to show that we were not inviting them over; but the general attitude o? Gen. Leo seemed to be, .'Walk into my parlor, said tb.6 spider to the fly," and they walked in. It was manifest that the battle royal must take placo tho next day, for Burnside could not occupy his present position except to fight. On the next morning (IStb) Lee and Longstreet, with tiieir respective stall olhcers and couriers, rodo together along Long street's line of battle. They stopped at a residence just at the foot of Lee's Hill and to the right called, I think, the "Randolph Mansion," took break fast, and then rode up on Lee's Hill, A dense fog and smoke covered the plateau and the ene^y. Nothing could be seen and nothing heard, ex oept that indescribable buzz, like th? distant and uncertain noise of bees that BO plainly tells the trained soldiei that an army is going into lino of bat tie. On the hill were Lee and staff Longstreet and staff, Col. Freemantle of the British army, as an observer and about one hundred others, officer and oouriors. Gen. Jackson rode u and said a few words to Gen. Lee, an thon went off and leaned against pine, looking on the ground. H seemed to be a little ashamed of splendid new uniform ho wore, an pretty soon he rode off to the righi Gen. Stuart, who had been making reoonnoiasanoe into the fog, trotte up the hill whistling (he would wbi tie; it was the only serious crime 1 was guilty of). Wilco* rode u awhile, and MoLaws and Col. Waite came over from Marya's Hill, just our left. Lee looked at his watt several times. Gen. Kershaw, who: brigade was at tho time in reserve h tween Lee's and Maryo's Hills, oat up and talked with Longstrees, and the hours wore on. It was near t o'olook when suddenly three hea guns on our line, immediately to o right, boomed out in quiok nucoeaaic "There she goes, boys!" said Stua and, leaping on his horse, oantered to the right, and the other, brigadu and major generals followed suit their respective commands. It v Lee's signal battle. Gen. Lee seemed io know that i fog would clear up ia a few mina and that the enemy would imm?diat attack, and s ? it turned out? In 1 than ten minutes the fog began whirl upward, and In ?ess time inst takes to tell it the whole cloud ourt rolled away, rovealiag the grand panorama I have ever seen-an ax of nearly one hundred th on o and r in battle array. A dosen field glaa > swept the plateau from right to I although the whole field waa vie! to tho naked eye*' The enemy did delay their move; their left;wing j Franklin's grand division) Jmere ont against bnr right wing. ' word ran around: "?h^y are goinj attaek Jackson!" On" they went, ; there lay Jackson with twenty ti sand of the finest infantry a old "the world baa. ever seen aa silent aa terrible as the tiger eat on crouch. And on they want. ? denly a line of . smoke about a i long ran along Jackson's front, l another, and another (we could hear a sound, the wind .-wis hf?j in that direction). Soon the arti] on both aides opened with fei vigor, o ur a playing on the Inf a with canister. The Federal lit battle was hurled back. They ra and charged again, and again : buried back. Again they rallied charged, and again were hailed I This time Jackson's men obarged, the Federal line, raked by Stuart twenty pieces of field artillery at flank, were doubled upland fe back to the river nader the prot?t of their heavy gun?. Simultaneously with the def et their left they commenced an at ir? their^ right-on Marya's Hill tremendous cannonade wes ope ne the hilt from tho Stafford Heigh ti Other, points and a division cht gallantly, but was repulsed wit! m?ndeos slaughter, ? .'second sault; more formidable than the was about to bo made by anothi vision in columns of brigades. l?|ln cf ohella On Marya's HUS wa doubled, Gen. Leo senfc Gen. .haw with his hrigsdo to reen!ore atone vrai! and a few more plot opened : On with double charges of canister, a jug aw*y ^ plat?t?f^^^^^ fire into them. The ?i^ line. ^ sibilated, taUhe others kept ct o^'&^fc^ half of them wero killed or lay* disa bled on the field before t .:v gallant men would consent to '..'./eat; but, cut to pieces as they were, it was im possible to do otherwise; and when they at last ?tired, we thought the battle of Frederiosburg was over. The sun was about two hours high and the center of the armies had not been seriously engaged, still we thought that the repulse of the right and left wings was so bloody and ter rible that they would not venture to renew the contest. But not so, as we soon discovered. Another assault ou Marye, even more formidable than tho first two, was making ready. Fivo lines of battle were to throw them selves headlong upon it. Twenty pieces of field artillery were brought to bear upon the stonewall in the open plateau at point-blank range to tear it to pieces with solid shot. A hundred guns were raining sholl on the hill preparatory to the ohargo. Lee had sent another brigade to re-en force the stone wall, and now they could present quintuple lines. An other battery was sent to the hill, i Just at this time Gen. Lee desired I to send a dispatoh through Longstreet to Gen. Kershaw, behind the eton? j wall, at the foot of Moryo'o Hill. I was a desperate mission, for the cou I rier would have to ride over Marye* I Hill, through the tornado of shell down to the stone wall that was bein, pounded by twenty pieces of artillor and about to be charged by five lino of battle, but it seems it was of pres! ing importance. What the dispato was, of course, I never knew, but was quickly tolled off by the orderl as tho courier lo take it. I 'wi splendidly mounted on a horse I ha reoently purchased. The dispatoh wt quickly prepared and handed to m with instructions that I would fie Gen. Kershaw behind the stone wal I was ready to start when Gen. L himself turned to us and said: "L another oourier mount and follow tl first. Let the first courier hold tl dispatoh in his righi hand in pla view, and if one falls let the otb take it.?' Henry. Smith, of Ker eh? Gounty, was named as the seco courier, and immediately mounted, had touohed my spirited horse for t go, when I saw by a glance that Gc Lee was in the act of saluting i The compliment was so absolutely t usual, and, in faot, unheard of befo that I was taken abaok. i realized a moment, however, that it was prol bl y in recognition of the impor tai and peril of my mission, and, reini my horse back on his haunch es j I turned with thrilled emphasis the % sonal salute of my commander chief, as did my - comrade, and ) next moment'we wera flying down hill toward Marys. There was a military road beiw Lee's and Marya's Hills connect the telegraph toad> with tho' Ora plank road io the rear of Marya's 1 and crossing Rssel SUD. I ?hin was originally mada for a raili t? j,\with embankments. Just at ruvwas a larga old mill house, an? wo passed this a shell went thro i t, sc a tteri o g boards immediately, hind us, In a few leaps ire over! au ammunition wegon ranking ita over . nuder whip and spur. A s took of! the two lead mulastswoej them of? th?-? embankment. In a* moments we were on Marya. I Just ahead of me Gol. Walton cn black horse with Ms battalion knew the Colonel well, and ha s me? for I had often carried him patches. I shouted to bim a* ] proaobed: "Colonel, where eau ? Gen. Kershaw?'' He pointed, at I flew past him I heard his yoi? from a long distanoe say: MAt foot,of vtho hill, but you will c rasoh him." ?? ; : Under ordinary circumstance slight havd oheoked up at this v ing, but the words of Gan. Lea ? lo me, "If ona falls, the, other Uke it," and without drawing roi shat down ; the deep declivity, f Gan. Kershaw behind the stone delivered the dispatch, took thai receipt (the envelope), and U] went again and through the batt< Tho brave Louisiana boys (thirty o? ?hom were killed or wounded t found time to; give us ? wild h and tho noble o?d Walton ? no? ntonurcd; took oft his htit to.es i ifl?W;f Pj?f viiW N?ithor of .in>:r'oo?i^^TOtt a? The top/^ ot? e?'-w-eara ;te/ hoar on that sida for ? waek, bat and how il happened ? never re bered, My companion had his 'b'atd so dented that he could n cater his Mba?, *Jj^a? we \lat? tba wail, ike g Seeder*, jin nve^nasot battle, on the charge. I have sines ie that this wai Humphrey's Divis; {St? of cue line. Then mt qnktupl rose frote ?sh?n? iliA fttoae. wa ^i^t^ttt';tee?*c^ ^:dveri^;d?id ^aad\%5^ :o fermer ?i*nr??t iee&arc the"%?a? have mado a more impetuous charge; s but for cool, persistent courago the?1? is no instance in the whole history of the war that surpasses this oharge of Humphrey's. At last their formatipn is broken, they are torn to pieces, ?y* there is nothing left to rally on, end^SE the wreck of the magnificent division falls bsok. The guns cease at the otone wall, and then the artillery on both sides becomes silent, and the battle of Frederioksburg is ended victory. It ;s now just dark. Gen. Lee and his staff and couriers mount and ride baok to camp, enjoying that exquisite feeling that comes over tho soldier after the battle. As I threw myself on my pallet of straw I began to think, as I always did under the circumstances, of a lov ing and anxious and idolized mother away down in South Carolina, who was probably at that moment praying fer me, and how hardly it would have fallen on her happiness and life if she had lost her boy that day, and I fell to sleep with tears rolling down my face. Tho day after the night ' on whioh the Federal army recrossed the river I waa 2?nt by Gen. Leo with a flag of truce to Gen. Burnside oonoerning the parole of some four thousand prison ers we had taken. I rode into Fred j erioksburg hy the road that ran bo ; tween Marje and the stone wall, and just at ?hat fatal point I halted to I iook up on the left at Marye. There I was hardly a twig as big as the little finger that was not norato tied by a mis sile; in one thin telegraph pole I counted thirteen Minie balla. And then I looked to tho right over tho wall. The Federal dead lay thara, un touched, as they had fallen. I was amazed. I had been in and overall the great battlefields up to thia timo -Savon Pines, MeohaniosviUe, Fra zer's Farm, Gaines's Mill, Cold Har bor, Malvern Hill, Manasseh ?outh Mountain, Sharpsnurg--bat* I.stood before that ' "somber, fatal, terrible stone wall" utterly amazed at tho ex tent of the slaughter. The line of dead began about fifty yards from the wall, piled upon eaoh other, and thenoe extended baok for aeres, and the mutilation of the bodies was o! the roost terrible description, showing the havoo of grape and canister. Uncle 8am ?s a Teacher. Norfolk, Ve., Hay 25.-While the g Jamestown exposition, to beheld near B Norfolk, Ya., next year, will bo pri- B m ari ly ? great international military fl and naval display and a historio?! ex- fl position, it will also have many exhi- R bi tiona of practical industrial and 1 commercial processes and will bring to fl light much of publio benefit. The Bj United States government, is takiog H great iuiuroBB io ih!? ?&p???tio? and Sj will hove an able corps of mineralog- Bj Uta and .geologists on the grounds to fl demonstrate tho utility of the pro- g ducts of the earth at the exposition. fl Bf. David T. Day, a mining expert, fl who baa been connected with every H exposition ia whioh tho United States B baa made a mineral exhibit for the fl past decade, is arranging for an inter- fi eating and useful exhibit at the fl Jamestown exposition. It- will be I mado by li noie Baa, under directions m o? Dr- Day, for the pubiio good. Iron A '<^>'wh??hli: so. extensively found in 1 thc Ststcs near the 'exposition, i? tb lg ba smelted by electricity in an open |? ; arena, where the crowds c?n witness fl it end ? so tho progress whioh hes been fi mad? in tho way of handling orea dor- fi{ lng the past few years. - Stooltera will fi1 be operatedrjby electricity in plain fi* view ot ; th'?j"pubHe^;an^-ir?n?o& will fi* bo transfer med into hardened steel by fi tho most improved processes. , Bj Dr. Day intends ?lao to take up the BJ ocean sands, which are.to be found inB^ auohquantity along th o bosches near j? the exposition grounds, and show theirgfjQ oommaroial value. 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