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4J INTERESTING WAR STORY. Told by Joab Edwards, of Johnsto: S. C. Personal reminiscences are, < course, the most valuable material i collectors of history and the U. D. < are anxious to get. as many othe: like the ones printed below as poss ble. These were dictated at the r quest of Mrs. O. D. Black, historia of the Ann Buie chapter, by Joab E< wards, of Johnston, a Confedera veteran. A Saloon in a Brush Heap. At the end of the four years < conflict the Western division of tl Confederate army under Gen. Josep E. Johnson, came to rest at Buffa 1 creek, near Greensboro, N. C. It w* near this place that Gen. Cornwall met his defeat in the Revolutionai war. It was. at Greensboro, as we as I remember, that the last meetir of President Davis and Gen. Johnsc was held. 'Twas here, until a fe years ago, the old Quaker church i Guilford college which Cornwall used as a hospital for his wounde showed the stains of blood. In thoughtless moment this old buil< ing was torn down and this touch ( war paint was removed?but it is n( - ~ 1 nr/M</lc< / forgotten, me lwuiuiicu * James Pugh, who with 12 others wz hanged by the British, are engrave on marble, "The shedding of ox blood will be as good seed sown o good ground which shall bring fort an hundred fold/' It is near hei the bronze statue to the~memory < Karanpoppuc Turner stands not on] to tell of a mother's devotion to h* son but to point our American wome in the way of service to their countr; ; * j The battle oak, bitten, it is said, t Cornwallis' horse, now stands nes here with its 47 vigorous branche keeping time with the growth of tt union of States, inviting us to coi sider it as a part of our unwritte v history and calling forth our admini; tration by the spread of its branche and the power of their resistance. In the midst of such environmen it might well be asked how can v explain the existence of a saloon i N a brush heap? This explanation all too easy to give. The Confede acy had an enemy more powerfi than itself, that had cast off the pr< taction guaranteed by the Unit States constitution to private prope and our people were trying to hie their personal effects on every sic and in almost every nook and co: ner. It seems that we were just le m supernatural power up to Green boro to find in the last chapter au ' on the last page of the four year conflict the saloon in the brush hea] ' " ' ^ 1? T? to snow tnat we were not oniy ua, tftng against enemies of the Sout but against the constitution of tfc y United States as well. They tried t reconstruct us, but did they ever r< construct themselves? But who ai the witnesses that proved the saloo was in the brush heap? Well, thei they are?Tom Wright and Ephriai Amacker, of the Seventh South Car< lina regiment; they found it. Thei was a division*of it and a might sight of speech making and such lik following for a while.. W. A. Wa1 son even put off writing to his sweei heart 'til another day! |i f "Hello, Ike!" In the winter of 1863 the eecon regiment of South Carolina cavalr spent some time in winter quartei near Hamilton crossing. Outside c picket patrol and guard duty, littl else was done. I do not now recall just where th i expression "Hello, Ike," was first ir ' troduced, hut I do remember that i was a general regimental term c greeting for almost every one wh would ride singly through the cam] One day it chanced that Col. T. ? Lipscomb, who was colonel of th regiment, rode through. At th sound of his horse's feeh some on started the greeting "Hello, Ike" an as usual it spread through the cam] The colonel of course took it goo humoredly. At this time an application ha been sent to the war department ast ing for a transfer of the secon South Carolina cavalry from Virgini to South Carolina. A hearing froi the application was expected almos any day and there was great hop that it would be granted. A sno1 had fallen just before the soundin of tattoo. Some one in the vicinit of Col. Lipscomb's tent shouted ou "Three cheers for South Carolina. Those who had refrained from gree ing the passerby with "Hello, Ike joined the music of cheering. Tb band played "Dixie" and "Swe< Home," and there was a rush to con pany headquarters to get the nev while tiie horses manifested the readiness for a charge; nobody seen - * _ t 1 x ^ 60. 10 Know waai it an meant. u rectly the regimental sutler, M Cooper, came up with a note whic he had been handed by some or to be presented at company hea< quarters. The note was opened ar read about as follows: "The bear< of this note is responsible for th upstir." The same liberty taken wil boys who used to cry "school bu V. ' K . . . ter" was taken with Mr. Cooper, cept that he was treated to s: n, instead of water. Like treatn was accorded to James Robin our wagon master, who was sai( [)f be mixed up in the matter. No to seemed ever to find out who it 0. that shouted "three cheers for Sc rs Carolina," but "Hello, Ike" dii ;i_ peared from our greetings witl e_ any further notice. Ln Pressing Corn. d- There was a time during the 1 te Between the Sections that hui served the Confederate soldiers n than a gentle reminder. Hunger, know, is said to be "notice given i 3f the capillary fires need replenishii le It is natural law making demand >h the food supply for the relief of n lo It goes without saying that w is these demands are made men usu is sit up and take notice. After y hatd fought battle of Bentonville (11 C., on the 19th of March, 1865, Lg army fell back to Smithfield, N \n There was some scarcity of a w rations. We remained in camp 1 it for several days, during which c is the final reorganization or rather < sd solidation of the army took pi a Some'of the boys acquired a pr 1- general knowledge of the corn >f around by frequent trips out. Dt morning two of company D, S )f batallion, Henry Adams and Tui is Cooley, announced that they were id ing out on a fcraging trip. They ir John Witt, now of Magnolia, A ?n that they knew of a grist mill h far away, that they were going *e press some corn and have it gro )f and they were not coming in u ly night as the moon would be shir ?r brightly. Jobn knew these t in were as good as their word, so y. in the evening he came around >y way and asked if l wouia noi ir to have some fun. Inquiring v s, was up and being told, I rea ie agreed. As soon as it was d i- enough to conceal our guns as in passed through guard lines we s- up a quick time march towards 3S mill. We soon came to where road turned from the main r ts down to the mill. Here we arra re ourselves for the interception, in was a fine forest. John statione is little below the forks of the r r- and I went some 50 yards furt il towards the mill. I was to let > boys pass and John was to halt th id We did not wait long before 1 r- came up the road in silence, e le with a sack of meal, and they le made a negro boy bring a sack a r- As they passed me I fell in bel id them and as they came near Johr s- stepped in front of them, brinj Ld his gun to armsport. With a s' and a kind of nasal song in his vc p, he shouted, "Halt!" The boys st t- ed to about face when I brought h gun to ready and also in a tone ie commanding authority said "Ha ;o Before we had time to give any 2- ther orders the three sacks of n e were lying in the road before us n the figures were surveying land w e out regard to compass or chain. T1 il being a lank place in our ration qi ? ? ? i > ters we appreciatea tne meai e making the circle \as did they, ,y reached camp in time to see tl :e come in. Of course we had a I01 I- questions to ask them about the d; t- outing, and some very definite qi tions about the mill and the c they were going to press. They v d such good boys! The kindi y which the people had sh<wvn tl s during the day, they said, kept tl >f from pressing the corn. John ar e had to convince them that we i them throw down the sacks and e through the weeds, and we also i- to divide the meal with them bei it they could enjoy a hearty lauglf. >f Xo More Cold Feet, o During the winter of 1863 I ser as relief for my father in Compan Second regiment of South Carol e cavalry. I was then 16 years < e At the time of the occurrence of e following incident we were cam d near Orange court house, Va. See had reported that the Eightee d Pennsylvania regiment of cavj was in easy range of capture. G d Wade Hampton ordered a detail c- 50 well mounted men from each r< d ment in Gen. P. M. B. Young's a. gade to attempt to capture it. T a were camped at a cross road n it Germana ford on the Rappahann >e river. We left our camp about w o'clock in the morning. The m S bers of Company I in the detachm* y as I now recall them, were Gus Wb t, Thos. Crafton, Lawrence Harris, > Griffis and myself. / It was a c t- drizzly day. Just/ before night >" reached a body of woods near le river at Ely's ford, which is some it tance below Germana. We t 1- shelter in these woods under st <7s orders to keep quiet, build no fi ir nor unroll our blankets. The clc i- passed away and the air was c i- Shortly after midnight we were r. dered to go forward. The river :h flushed by the rain, causing the ie ter to reach well up on the sa< 3- skirts. In crossing my horse b id dered, forcing me to drop my fee sr the water and my boots caugh is good supply of cold water. Soon th ter crossing we halted and waited t- the approach of day. My feet \ \ ex- so cold it did not seem possible foi now me to keep quiet till day. But this lent was the order. At length the mornson, ing light began to show, and the orI to der, "Form fours" came quietlj one down the line. (But my feet wert was so cold!) Then "Forward" (stil >uth cold). Then the order, "Drav sap- sabre," accompanied by a statement lout that "we are going to have a handto-hand fight." Then came the order "Intierce-point, charge!" which was iVar responded to with that famous yel lger known as the rebel yell. Xhe cold10re ness of my feet disappeared as w* v0ll rushed upon the panic stricken Eighthat teenth Pennslyvania camp. Gen 1g>" Hampton was at the head of the deI on tachment. He dispatched the detai nen. from the First and Second South hen Carolina cavalry down the road toally ward Germana ford to capture 2 the squad of Yankees stationed there N. We had not gone far before they mei the us, and finding that we had come foi C. them, they took to the woods. Rermy peated efforts proved that my gur iere would not fire, it having gotten wel lays the day before. I resolved to try tc 2on- capture a Yankee pistol. Spotting ace. the man I wanted I put forth my besl etty efforts to get him, but as my horse itry was of pony build, Nick Griffis beal One to him and got his pistol, an ? ixth Lawrence Harris, who had lost his ner haversack the day before, made hiir go- divide rations. While we were aftei told this squad the detachment from Cobl rk., legion, Philip legion and Jeff Davis not legion were rounding up the prison tn ers in the camp and getting * the ) ^v und camp outfit ready for removal. ] ntn failed to get the pistol I went after ling but my feet were now all right wher )0ys I got in line for the return march, late Tho Moon . Did It. V my After the battle at Honey Hill the like Sixth battalion of the State reserves rhat was stationed for a while at Raddily cliffe's battery. Not far away to the tark east of the battery was the little Seawe brook island on which stood the magset nificent residence of Abraham Hugue the not. The Yankee beats were not fai the away down Bee's creek. During the oad day our troops patrolled the island iyed and at night our outer line of pickets It were posted at the head landing or sd a the mainland. There was an innei oad line of pickets between this line anc :her our camp. Lieut. Kirksey, of neai the Trenton, was in command of this em. line. The outer line was in Charge ;hey of cavalry. The moon had passed tach the full a few days, the weather was had fair and an icy wind was coming ilso. from the west almost at storm speed lina Those of us who were not on dutj t he had lain down in our tents to enjoj ?ing the soldier's rest and listen at the low fierce blowing wind. Just as we wen >ice, falling asleep, Maj. G. D. Huiet came art- running through the camp calling my out, "Get up, men! Get up! The Yan i of kees are right here on us." W< It!" grbbed our hats, shoes and coats anc fur- put them on in a jiffy and withoui leal guns and cartridge boxes we rushec and into line of battle in the edge of ar ith- old field which lay in the directior lere of the Yankees. Maj. Robt. Merilar wether, cool and determined, was ir ?ind charge of the line, we The noise of the wind being greatlem er than the noise of our movement t of we felt sure the Yankees would not ay's know where our line was 'til we had les- given them a warm reception in the orn icy wind. They were slow coming, ^ere The road over which we were looking less for their approach ran nearly north lem and south, and along the edge of tht lem woods on the east while a line of id I dog fennel fringed the west side of saw the road. The moon had laid aside run her scarlet robe as she rode higher had up in the heavens and was now at1 Vv?t? orVi Ann A C tireu. in iiyr snvwj unguiucoo. ac the shadows of the trees wero shortened the silver tips of moonlight beved gan to fall on the tops of the dog y I, fennel as it swayed back and forth [ina in the wind. In suppressed voices old. along the line could be heard, "Yonthe der they are." The range was too ped far for any guns which carried three >uts buckshot and a ball, and hence we nth held our fire but stood in readiness ilry for their approach. There was plenlen. ty of motion in their columns but of no advance. The strangeness of this egi- led us to the discovery that the moon, bri- the wind and the line of dog fennel hey were holding our attention. The tear picket, it was soon learned, had misock took the red rising moon for fire 11 which they supposed was being set ? VinY?n UiKriionnt hniisA nn the tJJLU- "Ui" "o ? ent, island. 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