The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 28, 1926, Image 6
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IV? 8urr?uder
In a recent contest sponsored by
the local chapter president of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
many essays were submitted upon
"The Surrender of Lee," the prize*
winning ones being xubmitted to The
Chronicle for publication. The second
and concluding essay appears herewith
as the work of Miss Molly
iilackwell, a, student of the Camden
high school:
"AVell," ftuld grand mother, as a he
wet tied herself more coniXoxlabiy ?ixt
the big, easy chair, "1 will do my
very best to give you the story of
Leu's surrender; although it in an
incident which brings back sad mim
ories, Now listen closely, chickens,
and 1 will toil you all that was told
me.
"It was about sixty years ago that
lien oral Lee surrendered to (Jcncral
(Jrunt at Appomattox Court House
and all the hopes of the South were
crushed. I think a great responsibility
rested on Leeds shoulders he
mum 1J ,,,J"i jXi 111
cause he had to show how brave men
go down to defeat while on the other
hand Grant allowed how they met
with victory. There la no scene which
will remain in the hearts of the
people, as that enacted April 11, 1865.
"X: can tell you we were proud of
the way Lee drank his cup of bitterness
without a murmur.
"Your grandfather, chicks, who
was present, told me that one of the
officers asked Lee what history would
say to this surrender and he replied*
'Yes, 1 know they will say hard things
of us; they will not understand that
we were overwhelmed by numbers;
bui-Uut .14 aiut Goirrnrrt;"!
The question is, Is it right to sur
j coder thi,i aimy? If it is right, then
J will take all the responsibility.'
"lie was right in the end. The
surrender might have been postponed,
it is true, indefinitely, hut the stand
that Lee took made this impossible,
lie knew there was no ue to fight
longer, because our spirit, the spirit
of the South, was already broken,
Her people had lost heart and tht^
Army of Northern Virginia had*
dwindled down to a mere handful.
In the last days of his retreat from
Richmond, Leo had no more than
.40,000 men while Grant's forces numbered
over 150,000. And then, Grant's
men were fresh and in the pink of
condition ' while our men were
exhausted and starving.
"Lee's men were desperate. Your
(grandfather told me that the1 men
were in such u starving condition that
they would wander from the line of
march in search of food. Many ate
grass or leaves and marched on determined
to hold out to the end. Here
and there one got possession of an
ear of dried corn and considered it as
a three days' ration. Pasture fields
where wild onions were growing
were despoiled of their fruitage by
famishing men. The bursting buds
of the forest trees were eaten; even
haystacks?when they were infrequently
found?were devoured as
human food for lack of anything
better.
"There was no other road beside
that of surrender on which our army
could travel. Resistance was futile;
escape impossible. At last the
rugged, shoeless, unfed remnant of
the Army of Northern Virginia found
themselves walled in by an army of
blue. Lee sent his message to Grant.
A meeting was arranged upon and
those who were left of a once magnificent
army laid down their arms
to fight no more."
Here grandmother hastily wiped
away a tear which had gathered;
then, with a plucky little smile resumed
her story.
"1 have always admired Grant for
(he way lie acted about the victory
of his army. Instead of being domineering,
ho acted in a manner which
.befitted a true gentleman and soldier.
Ho permitted no demonstrations of
any kind on the part of the victorious
army. When he knew that our men
were starving he fed them. He allowed
them to keep their firearms
and horses.
"When IjOv left the McClean house
where the treaties had been signed he
mounted Traveler, his horse, and rode
slowly toward our army. The men
were grouped about the hills. Their
j last hopes had been blasted. Their
| abasement was complete. They were
weary, footsore, ill; exhausted in
I mind, bydy and spirit. Yet when they
| saw ' their old commander on his
familiar gray horse all these things
were forgotten. Only their love for
him. a love founded on perfect confidence
and respect, was remembered.
In an instant they were about him,
bareheaded, with tear-wet faces;
thronging him, kissing his hands, his
boots, his saddle; weeping; cheering
him amid their tears, shouting his
name to the very skieS.
"When order was restored Lee said,
'Men, we have fought through the
war together. I have done my best
j for you. My heart is too. full to say
! more.' "
j With this grandmother, who had
been staring in the fire, looked up.
"That is all," she said, "Now run got
in hisl. chicks, and think no more
about it."
(?."> Accidents Last Month
j t'oiumbia, May III.?According to
| reports received by the state highway
department there were 65 accidents
, iii'i ui ring on state highways in April.
| Seven persons were killed, LI were
j severely injured and I" received
I minor injuries.
There were 17 collisions between
j motor ears, one of them being parked
---four with other vehicles, and ten
j w.ith other objects.
I Twenty-three cars were overturned,
j IS weie driven off road, 49 were seri
ously damaged, 16 were lightly damt
aged, and one other vehicle was dam;
aged.
There weir two accidents at rad
way grade crossings, two at public
load crossings, and two on or at
; bridge*.
Tbirty-thlee of the accidents occurred
m the daytime and .".'J after
dark. Furtyeight were on straight
road-. ir. on curves, live on paved
r<>ads and o'J on unpaved roads.
Death of Little Ray Drakeford
Ka\ Columbus, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kit bard Bryan Drakeford, of Cantcy
i Hill, aged one year and nine months,
I died on Friday of last week. He was
i
| sick only a very few days. The burial
\ took place on Saturday morning at
! the family burying ground.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOT ICR
All parties indebted to the estate of
Mrs. Sallie Nunnery are hereby notified
to make payment to the undersigned,
and all parties, if any, havI
ing claims against the said estate will
present them duly attested within the
time prescribed by law.
A. L. McLFX)I).
Administrator.
Camden, S. C., May 20, 1926.
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FISH MIGRATIONS
fussle Helwtltta Who Study thf
Habits of Pinny Tribe*.
Two fish mysteries'were mentioned
recently in The Daily Mai), one the
problem of where herrings go in
winter, the other a point that has always
puzzled salmon angleh^namely,
why fish will take a fly grimily
one day while on the next, or for
many days afterwards, they cannot
he persuaded to look at any kind of
ore, writes a naturalist in the London
Daily Mail.
Fish history is Indeed full of puzzles,
many of which seem beyond solution.
Why, for instance, is it that
urbpt always wear their eyes upon
'.he left side of their head, while soles
nvariably have them upon the right'/ j
Flounders, however, while they j
usually have their eyes on the right,
occasionally wear tifam on the left,
. The migrations of fish prevent
many puzzles. Shoals of herrings
come into the North Sea from the
Atlantic and swim southwards until
apparently they vanish. At any rata
they are not caught beyond a certain
point. It has beerj#*fl(uggeste<i
that the reason why they are no longer
netted is simply that they sink to
greater depths because they do not
iike the sun-warmed surface water.
All over the seas of the world great
! shoals of fish migrate, and some with
clock-like regularity. One such'
swarm of fish forms the occasion of'
urv annual holiday and feast at;
Samoa. The fish is not unlike white-;
bait, and each year vast numbers ar- |
rive at the island on the same day in 1
the montji of October, remain for a
day or at most two days, and then
- I ,i - , I p?I ----vanish,
not to be seen again until tha
name date in the following year.
To return to salmon, why is it that
the salmon of the Great Northwest
never return from their up-river J
spawning expeditions? , From the
moment u spawning salmon enters
the Columbia, the Fraser, or ar.y of
the rivers furiously upwards, and no {
salmon, great or small, ever heads j
down stream unless hunted or fright-,
ened. All these splendid fish, once)
their mission is accomplished and
their eggs laid and fertilised, die die
in such millions that the banks
are poisoned for miles with the j
stench of their rotting carcasses. :
fOven the common brown trout offe/s
u puzzle to every angler. Over
and over again 1 have caught good
trout in Scottish mountain burns
which were cut off from other
stretches of the river by falls far too
high for any fiah to negotiate. Only
last August I took several fine fish
in a deep pool between two twentyfoot
falls. A trout can come down
a fell, but it cannot go up. Yet, in
order to spawn, a trout must visit
the headwaters of its stream. How
then do trout not only live but ever
multiply between falls?
Leavea Money to Sons
Spartanburg, Muy 20.-AccordiiiK
to the will probated today all the
property of Jesse F. Cleveland, who
died recently, was left to his four
sons, John Z., Robert B., Arthur F.,
and Conrad J\ Cleveland, all of this
city. The estate is roughly estimated
to be worth $1,500,000 to $2,000,000.
Harmonicas for the Eskimos were
taken North recently by members of
a polar expedition.
The
BULL'S EYE
'Editor and Qentra/Manaqtr
WILL ROOIRJ *
Another" Bull" Durham ad ver|)
llicmtnl by WMI Kogara, Zlag- II
II l?ld KollltiMd icrMn fUr,ind | '
| landing American humorist. I j
Morecoming. Witdllortbeffl. J*
No Governorship
For Mine
My good old friend the Governor
of Oklahoma was in to sec
mc at the theatre the other night. I
had just had humorous mention as
a candidate for that position, as i
they wanted to revive the Populist
Party with mc as the Standard
Bearer.
Well, the Governor showed mfe
what had happened to a friend of
his who had been defeated for Governor
in our state, so he discouraged
mc. I won't accuse him of doing it j
purposely, but he did. His friend's
campaign expenditures were as follows
:
"I kissed 6,000 babies; helped 42
voters thrash wheat; shook hands
with the entire State; smoked 3,000
sacks of 'Bull' Durham; cut 22
cords of wood ; helped brand 8,000
calves; spayed 4,000 of them; was 'j
sprinkled 8 times in Methodist
Churches; totally immersed in cold
water in muddy creeks three times
by the Baptist; went to confession
in every Catholic Town; paid dues
to 1 1 Synagogues; charter member
of the Holy-Rollers; listened to
800 get-together Kiawanis, Lions,
and Rotary speeches; bought sheet
and pillow slip in every Ku Klux
Klan in the State; and then I was
defeated.
" 'Bull' Durham was my sole
satisfaction not only during, but
after-election. It is the only thing
that stayed with inc."
]\S. There will he another piece
in this paper soon. L.ook (ur it.
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