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eorgia to help Gen. Bragg, ino %as ing pressed by Rosecrans. W em arked at Petersburg on a freight rain and to avoid the heat and crowd g, I rode on top of a car all the ay to Ringold, where we arrived ate in the afternoon, ate a hurried eal of raw bacon and mouldy corn bread, and about midnight of the 19th of September set out on a march of about twelve miles to Alexander's bridge, on the Chickamauga river, which we crossed about sunrise. There was a white frost on the river bottoms. We continued our march ee or four miles from the river d halted in a narrow skirt of woods. The battle was raging a half a mile in nt of us and bullets were falling among us. The suspense was awful while waiting for orders to advance. In a few hours a courier rode up and ordered us to the front. We advanced out of the woods and up the hill through an old field, the enemy, un der cover of woods at the top of the hill, pouring a deadly fire of minnie balls into our ranks. Wm. Evans, father of our haberdasher in Colum bia, was our color bearer. Our battal ion being the battalion of direction, and not moving exactly in the direc tion to throw the brigade squarely in front of the enemy, Gen. Kershaw stepped up and took the flag from Ev ans, who supposed the general thought he was scared, followed, and said: "General, please give me the flag and point the direction you want me to go and I'll go." The general handed it back to him and pointing, said, "You ,see that large green pine, go directly to it," and he went. As we reached the brow of the lhill my orderly, Sergt. J. W. Ashford, being at my side, caught me by the hand and said, "Lieutenant, I am shot." I replied, "Goodbye, old fellow, I must go for ward." I left him, expecting never to see him alive again. He was hit in the right side, the ball coming out near the spine. We advanced down a ravine through the woods and I must say, though I was in twenty battles and skirmishes, the balls came thick er and faster from Snodgrass Hill -than I ever witnessed before. As we -reached the bottom of the ravine I saw the enemy bringing up a field piece and I said, "Boys, they are go ing to open' a battery on us," and in stantly there was a discharge of pt or canister. Capt. Townsend, owas in com,mand of the battalion, 1 with one side of his face torn way. Evans also fell and as he lay on the ground with the colors, I pass ed near him, in commnand of my company. He .looked up and said, "Lieutenant, please take this flag." I seized it with ay right hand and held it up, and while I did so 'the flag staff was struck twice and cut nearly in twain. I felt the jar when it was hit, and presently I received a very ~severe flesh wound in the left leg and retired from the field. Our little com pany, reduced to about fifteer' men, lost about half killed and wounded. One man, William Morgan, killed out Tight, and three amputations, Matthew McGrady, Wil.liam Craig each an arm, and R. R. Mifling, a leg, besides oth ers less severely wounded. Col. El bert Bland, in command of the '7th 'regiment, was killed, also Maj. Hard. Dr. Coleman Carlisle of your county, now dead, cut the ball out of my leg and gave me an order to report to a general hospital. I camie home, and in a few days went to Columbia to the college hospital and received a 90 days' furlough from Dr. Prioleau. Ashford also receiv:ed a furlough, and when we were ready to return to the army it was camped at Russellville, East Tennessee, and we had to go around past Lynchburg, Va., and on our train weire crowds of soldiers, among them some Georgians, jolly fellows who made things lively. Away up in Western Virginia, near Bristol, a crowd stood on the depot platform, among them an old citizen, whom the soldiers were plying with questions more than the old fellow could an swer, and as he turned from one side to the other in his confusion a big Georgian came to the window pre iending sympathy and said, "Old man, you need not pay any attention to these soldie'rs, they are always run ning on with some fooL" At Wautauga river we found the bridge burned, and from there we had to foot it, the railroad being torn up. We picketed on the French Broad and Holston riv ers, when about the first of May Longstreet was ordered back to Vir ginia. We reached Gordonsville, and immediately advanced to the Wilder ness, where on May 6, at a double quick march for several miles, we met Grant's army about sunrise and after a hard day's fight, in which we lost heavily, he backed and moved tc the left to Spotsylvania Court Houise n this fight Col. James Nance, of th( rd regiment. was willed, also Brig Gen. Michael Jenkins. Capts. Doba and Baum, two of Gen. Krshaw's aides, were also killed, and Gen. T ou. street, our corps commander was -one severely and did not get bacl to the army till after I lost my arm and was retired. .Jiimmie Withers, o' our company, was killed, and Jim "Mc Cling, of the battalion. AL Spottsyl vania Court House Grant made an other desperate effort to reach Rich mond and came very near getting ahead but Gen. Lee was on the alert and met him just in time to check his advance. Here our battalion sustain ed a charge and had several men wounded with the bayonet, and but for the timely aid of the Second regiment, under Maj. Wm. Wallace, might have been all killed or captured, but the gallant Second saved us. After sev eral days of hard fighting, Grant again backed and moved to the left, and found Gen. Lee confronting him at Cold Harbor, where a terrible battle ensued and man-y were killed on both sides. Green Gibson, of our company, and Jesse Gradick were wounded. Here Col. Keitt was killed while lead ing the brigade, in a charge on Gen.. Kershaw's grey horse. He was colonel of the 20th regiment, which had just come from the coast of South Caro lina, but being the ranking colonel he took command, Gen. Kershaw hav ing been promoted to major general. The 20th regiment had more men, at the time of joining us, than all the 'balance of the brigade, and was dub bed by the brigade the 20th army corps. After the fight at Cold Harbor, Grant again moved to the left, and was met at North Anna and Hanover Junction and retreated to cover of his gunboats on the James River. It is a histori cal fact that Grant lost more men from the Wilderness to James River than Lee had in his entire army. Comment is unnecessary. If Lee had had the men and means that Grant had he could have gone North, stayed as long as he pleased, and come back when he got ready. Grant's next aggres sive move was against Petersburg, where 'he came very near getting into the city, but by a forced march, Ker shaw's, now Kennedy's brigade, reach ed the city and met him beyond the cemetery, just in time to check his advance. We had a heavy skirmish in which C. R. Holmes Kershaw's adjutant 'general, received a flesh wound in the leg. It fell to my lot to be in command of part of the skir mish lines in front of our forces, and when the enemy's skirmish lines ad vanced, we were between the two fires, Dat no one eise was wounded or kill ed, to my recollection. Here we en trenched and remained about a month, being relieved by other troops and camped at the water works until in July. Here Grant lhalted and entrenched and mined and kept up a continuous sharpshooting and shelling the city until the last of August, when he made a desperate effort to capture the city by a combin-ed attack on our works. The famous mine was sprung with terrible results to his own army. His attack proved a veritable boomerang, resulting in a great slaughter of his own men. The Confederates suffered heavily, too, but the movement on his part was a most complete and disas trous failure. The mine was sprung almost exactly where our brigade 'had a fe days before occupied the trenches. From our position near the waterworks our brigade was moved in July across to the north side of the James river on a pontoon bridge near Drury's Bluff. We moved down the river to Deep Bottom, where we hastily threw up some light breast works, but were shelled out of the swamp from the Yankee gunboats, and on the 2Sth of July, 1864, in con nection with McGowan/'s South Caro lina and Lane's North Carolina bri gades, we engaged a body of Federal cavalry, dismounted, and fighting as inantry at New Market Heights, near Fussel's Mill. Emerging trom a wilderness, we found the enemy be hind a rail fence, and drove them a short distance, but they did not give back as we wished they would, but stopped and exchanged shots with us. it was a hot place, but we stood our ground and won the day. 3IcGowan's ~brigade c'aptured two pieces of artil ery. Having detailed a man to bring water to the company, I took his gun and was using it, though I was in command of two companies, our own and Capt. Mille:'s, whos-e only com missioned officer, Lieut. Bob Kirk. land, had from sickness dropped out of the ranks in the morning. While thus engaged in firing and loadingI was struck with a minnie ball just above the elbow, which broke the bone all to pieces and bruised the ar tery. I turned around and started from the field, when my broken arm dangling and the bone grinding gay' me such pain, I gathered it up in U right hand to steady it and met thi ltter corps about ~0 yards hack fron the firinig iine. George Eleazer, of Lex ington county, in charge. I was sum prised and rejoiced to meet them st cose to the front. They took me -U and care-d me back to the advances V ~ ball out of m' ..* m , Cueamauga, was - haige. 2 He adminisered morphine in two C large doses, which deadened the pain, r and sent me back to the field iL1 firrnary in an ambulance, where Dr. r Simon Baruch, a Hebrew doctor, our t battalion surgeon. examined my arm I and found it necessary to amputate it. S I slept on the ground that night and v next morning, the 29th of July, 1864. h I was taken to Jackson hospital ini: Richmond, where I lay all through the r long hot month of August. It was, o there that I heard the explosion of t Grant's mine at Petersburg, 22 miles t away. There were no trained nurses f in the hospital, and my nurse was David Gladney, a man detailed from t our company on account of sickness, 6 whom I shall never forget for his C kindness to me. He was as gentlc T with me as a wor.an al as kind as a brother. t On the first of September I was able, to leav'& the hospital, and reached c t home on the thi.rd. My arm was a good while in healing, and before it t was entirely well I made two trips to Richmond and Petersburg to bring home three of my dead neigh bor boys, Butler McConnell, Oscar i Bookman, and James Lyles, who lost their lives in the service of their coun-:, try. Thus ended my military caree'r. It There were many other incidents in my soldier life of wbich I might speak, but I fear my address is al ready too long. In conclusion, let me say: One of the evil effects of war is the harden ing of men's hearts so that they be come so callous that the sight of a1I dead man has no more effect than a dead horse. I look back on the past I and shudder at the thought. While I feel that we were in the right and; Abraham Lincoln and his advisoX were responsible for the inception and! continuance of the war, yet to my mind it was horrible in the extreme!, to think that we were forced into such brutality. He set the n'Egroes free by a stroke of his pen, which he had no right to do, and with the aid't of Gen. B. F. Butler put guns into their hands to kill their masters. A war measure, it was called; a wicked and diabolical msure it was, there being. no reason r such acts, unless it was to humiliate the South, for they had plenty of white men to replenish tneir army, and the ports of the world were open to them. This in-. justice to ,the poor darky was nothings short of a crime, but it was in keep ing with the policy of reconstruction, which followed the close of the war, Iby which an effort was made to put the negro's heel on our necks. I do not mean to be-unfair to our Northern brothers, I am only stating facts which must go down in history. Supplementary, I append a few; names of the Third regiment with whom I was familiar. There are many others whose names have escaped my memory: Col. .James D. Nance, killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 18S64; Wm. Drayton Rutherford, when I first saw at old Mt. Pleasant camp grounds, in Richland county, before the war, when he went down to make a speech to Capt. Bookter's company. He was first adjutant, theu promoted to ma jor, lieutenant colonel, and colonel, wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., De-: 'cember 12, 1S62; killed at Strasburg,' October 13, 1864. Young John Pope, adjutan.t of 3rd regiment, wound-ed at' Fredericksburg December 12, 1862, at Gettysburg three wounds, July, 1863, seriously at Chickamauga September, 1863, shot in the mouth at Berryville,1 '1864, lost an eye at Cedar Creek, Va. November. 1864. Elected chief justice of South Carolina after the war, died recently. Capt. Goggans, Calpt. Dick ert. Capt. Chesley Herbert. Tom Paysinger, the noted scout. Capt John K. Nance, who at Deep Botton. Virginia, lui command of~ the picket line at night, captured a squad of Yankees and a captain or~ lieutenant, with a fine sword. I won de r if any of his family has that sword. Andrew Kilgor:e. Lieut. Thomas S. Moorman. There were quite a number of others, whose names I have forgotten, al .gallant soldiers ot that brigade (Kershaw 's) a name that will go down in hi.tor: with honor. I would be untrue to :y sentiments and a sense of justice if I did not mention the name of our; brave Capt. B. M. Whitner, who was killed at Cedar Creek, in the valley 'of Virginia, in November, after I was retired from the army. Perhaps no braver mian ever drew sword in de fense of his country. A strange incident. of the war I had' forgotten to relate: At the battle of' South Mountain, on September 14, 86G2, a man by the name of Jones (he -was called big Jim Jones), from Lau rens, was shot through the :emple and fell against my leg, and his blood andi some of his brains spattered my pants lcog, and when we retreated he wa:s eft lying on the field hollering. I wajs sure he would die in a snort time.' Strange to say, he lived for about~ 2 ears after the war, but was al-! m~s: blind and lost his sense of tastel ond smell in a great measure, so Bapt. urnside of the Battalion told Siice writing the foregoing, I have ead Comrade F. M. Mixon's well writ en little book, "Reminiscences of a >rivate," with interest, and as Ker haw's brigade and Jenkins' brigade ,-ere both in Longstreet's corps, I aAe a distinct recollection of several ncidents related by him. Like all aen who write of the war from mem ry, my friend has made several mis akes, to two of which I call his at ention: I am sure he meant no re ection of Kershaw's gallai;t men, ;here on Page 67, he writes, anent he battle of the Wilderness, on the th of May, 1864: "Just as we had leared enough roorn the command ras given, left flank: This threw us n line of battle. We were ordered o halt in this position. We had al eady stopped when Kershaw's men ame tilting back closely followed by he enemy. No one semed to know hat we were there. When Kershaw's nen discoveredL us by running into s, they were happy and rallied of heir own accord, and the way we did >ut it to those Yankees." I saw no ackward movement of any of our rigade, but we pressed Into the thick st of the fight, our left resting across he plank road. I was in position to ee, and my mind was clear and my yes wide open, for I was in command f our company, and felt the responsi ility of my position. If any of our aen ran out they must have been vounded men and were hunting the Ield infirmary. The troops that were ngaged the day before were over owered and forced to retreat and rar hrough our lines, as well as .enk.ns' irigade, and had we not been baan d troops there would have been a tampede, but Jenkins' and Kershaw's aved the day. Again on page 99, in peaking of Deep Bottom. .he says: We again took up our regular rou ine of duties and had no more dis urbances from this quarter. Every hing remained quiet over here. We vere about the last of September or he first of October taken back to Pet rsburg and again went into the renches. We were placed where the >low up afterwards took place, and vhile we were 'here our engineers were countersinking shafts, endeav >ing to discover where the enemy's nine struck our fortifications." This s a mistake only as regards the time. :was in Jackson hospital in Rich nond, and heard the explosion on the A"h t.f July so it coult not ha.ve tak 'ni p' i. he- .le f.ra~ :f Oct.ober. I mly call attention to these little er -rs because these Confederate stories nust go down in history and it is uim 9rtant to keep the records straight. Brother Mixon will excuse me, I am ure. No reflection on his splendid ittle history is intenAded. That troops -an into Jenkins', I have no doubt, i,T they were not Kershaw's. I am sure. WINTHROP COLLEGE scoarshIip and Entrance Examina tion. The examination for the award of acant scholarships in Winthrop col ege and for the admission of new ~tudents will be held at the county ~ourt house on Friday, July 7, at 9 L. 91. Applicants must be not less :han fifteen years of age. When schol rships are vacant after July 7 they vill be awarded to those making the iighest average at this examination, rovided they meet the conditions - erning the award. 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