The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, March 27, 1901, Image 1
P THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE.
VOL E BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 1901 NO. 11 f|
li&N. K. fci. LKK.
General Rosaer's Estimate cf the
Great Commander.
HE DEFEATED CEN GRANT.
The Great Confederate L*ad*r
Merely Played With Gens
McCleilar, Burnside
Pope and Hoi ker.
Gen. Thomas L Rosser, of "Hugby,"
Albcrmarle Co., V* , has beon engaged
in writing and publishing a series of
papers on the war botween the States,
and his concluding article is as fol
lows:
"Tho wLdom of General Leo's invasion
(f Pennsylvania in 1803 has
often been questioned by military mon
as well as statesmen, but when you
remember that at that time Grant held
General Pembcrton by the throat, at
Vicksburg, and the hope of tho ultimate
success of the Southern Confed
eracy was faint and flickering, you will
agree that the situation called for dos
perate aolion.
"General Leo had gained an ea<-y
t violory over General Hooker at Chank
cellortville in early May, and having a
I low (stimato of his military ability, he
S felt that a viotory over him north of the
P Potomao was not beyond tho bound of
reasonable hope, or even probability,
and the prospect was too tempting to
be disregarded.
Leo had lost his lieutenant. Stonowall
Jackson, and while Longstrcot
was with him, neither Kwell nor Hill,
who had recently been promoted from
major to lieutenant general, had ever
commanded a oorps in a battlo, and
while Lee must have felt some anxiety,
if not misgivings concerning them, ho
had confidence in his superb array and
resolved to take the move, not as Na
poleon marched on Moscow in 1812
but as Scipio (Afrioanu-) went to Carthage
in 201 B. C , in order to loose
the hold on Virginia of the inwdiog
army, and at the same time strike a
blow wbioh would awaken an eoho to
be heaid in Europe and through diplomacy,
end the war in favor of tho
Southern Confederacy. *
General Lee planned to give battle
as near the range of South Mountain
b he oould, so that in the event of dis
aster, ss was the ease, he uould drop
haok through the rarrow mountain
passes in which he could resist the
enemy and avert pursuit.
Had General Lee declircd battle on
the 2d of July at OottyBburg. as Gen
vised him.
> Washington, his army would
aouotless have been destroyed before
he oould have reaohed a safe refuvo in
the mountains or recroBStd the l'otomao
at the nearest ford, which wai
west of tho mountain. Thsrofore, Le
acted wisely in fighting where he did,
and the only mistakes he made wero
tactieal, not strategie, as shown in my
previous letter
Had General Lee died at Gettysburg,
ho would not have ranked in history
as a great general. His victories over
McClellan, Pope, Burnsidoand Hooker
would havo been aaoribod to the genius
of Stonewall Jackson, who participated
so gloriously in all of them, for wo all
remember that in tho winter of 18til 'J
General Lee did not acquit himself
with credit in his campaign against
Rosecrans in West Virginia, and the
failuro it Qettyburg with the daDgcr
ous halt a Falling Water and Williams
port, waiting for a freshet to run out
of the Potomac so that be might paei
his army over it, oooasioDcd very un
favorablo comment from uany of ou
highest officers.
General Leo was doubtless a grca
general, but his great military talen
did not shine out fully in all its radi
ant splondor until he mot General U
3. Grant in tho Wildernoss in th
spring of 1864
General Leo had merely played wit
McClellan, Popo, Burr.sideand llo^ke
?taking great liberty with them am
violating every maxim of war in hi
campaigns against them?such, for in
stance, as going of! after Pope and leav
ing McClellan and his fino army on th
James within a day's ma'ch of Kiol
mond, and in leaving Hooker in Jun<
1862, with an army doublo his own i
number at Fredericksburg, and inarol
ing around him to Cu'pepcr?libertii
which poor Hood mictook for stratcg"
and in trying to imitate them left tf
m*,\ nrion tn Shrrman. which he t
oopted, and marched upon Atlanti ar
the sea, while ho, poor fellow, wui d
featcd at Franklin, Tonn., and Ind
be relieved of his oommand by Gcncr
Joe Johnston.
Leo docs not appear to have gott<
strictly down to business until bo w
oonfrontsd by Grant in the Wildcrnc
in the spring of 1864
General Grant was grcatlv sarpris
when General Los permitted him, u
molested, to oross the 11a; idan on t
4th of May, 1864, with an army of 15
000 men and a train of 4,000 wagons.
Seeing nothing of Leo or his arm
Grant believed that he had fled, and
ho had to do was to pnrsue, ovcrhi
and destroy him Ho little undcrsto
his great advorcary. Leo was thoroup
ly informed as to every naovo Gn
made, and when Grant begun, on t
morning of the 5th of May, to uno
his great army, which lay in many fo
around Germania Ford, and serpo
like, extend its fiery and bristling h<
through the dark jungles of I
Wilderness, Leo, who was hold
? # PA AAA .
his little Army or uu,uuu men mm:
And well in han d on his flank, fell u|
him with tho fury of a oyolone, bo
ing him at evory point, and oompelli
him to rcoall his advanocd oorps and
prepare and fight the two-days' batl
of the Wilderness in whioh Gem
Lso and his little army most sigm
triumphed.
General Grant now saw that in
game of skillful manoouvering he
not a match for General Leo, and fi
ing that he eould not drivo him ou
his path, he begun a series of tho ir
remarkable taotioal evolutions ever <
l^^^jdoyed on a battlefield.
(J rant's army was so much largor
than Lee's tbat he could easily ocvsr
Lee's cntiro front, which ho did, but
fearing Loo's superiority in generali
ship, bo enlrcnohod himself with as
much oaro and caution as if he were tho
defensive, instead of tho offonsivo leader.
Holding a continuous cntronohod
lino all along Leo's front, and pressing
with a constant strain at every point,
ho hoped to bo ablo to slip his reserves
from tho roar and extond tbcm to Loo's
right s) as to got in between him and
Richmond and cut him off from his
supplies.. Bat as ho pursued this
"earth-worm like" rnovemcntof extending
his head, and drawing up his tail,
Lee kept paco with him, and wherever
tho head of bis army appcarc d, Lee was
thcro to strike it. Thus Grant edged
along, and fought all tho ray to Cold
Harbor, where ou the 1st of June, he
found hitmclf at a point whence he
wou'd oither have to force Lee's lines,
or give up the ory of "Oa to Riohmond"
which had boon tho rofrain of tho Army
of the Potomac for the past thirty days.
At Cold Harbor, Leo occupied mo
position wbioh McClcllan held on the
? in ci .June. and U rant tho po
sition which Leo held at tho name time,
and from which he attacked and drove
McClellan. Hero Grant made many
unsuccessful assaults on Lee, and finally
despairing of success gave up the
job and entrenched in Lcc's front.
To lcavo Cold Harbor with Lee in
possession of it was to turn away from
Richmond; to persist in assaulting Lee
was humau butchery without compensatory
punishment of Lcc?therefore
ho gave up the assault, ordered up siege
trains and too* up MoClcllan's methods
of z:g zig approaches as his only hopo
of dislodging Lcc and his little half
starved and half olad army. But ho
was so far from his baso of navigable
water that he soon gavo thesicgo up
Grant, in his Meinoris, pigo 27t?,
Vol, 11, says: "1 havo always re
grcttcd that the assault at Cold Harbor
was made." His losses hero wcro
so very heavy is tho reason of his regret,
no donbt.
Grant had been outgeneraled by Lee
at every turn, and leaving Cold Harbor
he resumed his "orab like" side movement,
which enabled him to reach
Petersburg, wber? he found Lee confronting
him as usual, and whore he
was compelled to rcBort to the zig zag
nuthod of apprr.aoh and mining, with
the hope of making a breach in Leo's
lines, but failing early in tho spring of
18b'f> he resumed his "crablike, earthworm"
movement by tho 11 ?nk, and
pressed on to Five Forks, where ho sue
oeeded in breaking tho last line over
whioh Lee oould gather supplies for his
aimy, and thus by destroying the
kitohen ho starved tho great and im
mortal army whioh with- all his mighty
host he could not whip.
OM T n
luuuimtj U. ivcmcr. fVilled
His Children. i
Jaoob Dearborn Marr, a farmer liv- I
three children, Alice M., |
aged l.i, Kdwin, aged 1) aud Ilcien,
aged 7, with an axe shortly after the
family had risen from the dinnor t^ofaT
Thursday. Mr. Marr haH baun despondent
for 6omo time, but his aotious were
not tuih as to mako his wife believo
that he had any serious trouble to
brood over. The eldest daughter was
washing dishes at tho sink when her
father went by her to tho thod and got
an axe. lie oamo back into tho kitohon
and struck tho girl a single blow on the
head, killing her. Mrs. Marr saw this
and ran soreaming to the house of her
husband's father, Samuel Marr. The
husband, apparently, walked upstairs
> to where tho youugcr children woro
' playing and dealt each a single blow
with tho axe handle, u'iiingthcm both.
, When Mr. Mair, Sr., oamo in, tho
younger Marr was washing his hands at
the sink. He wat asked why ho had
^ done tho deed and ho said: "I don't
\ know.' Later in tho day he was plaoed
under arrost and taken to Watcrville
r
A Valuable Bed.
t A story which reads like a fairy tale
of ola ociues from Soio, N. Y., whero
Miss Clarissa Stuu^ue, a manhating
e spinstci and nonogenarian, died last
isnnlr Miaa Snrtuim livfld a'l alrtno
r arid beyond owning the hovel in which
^ hhe resided was thought to possess
nothing but her pot cat, an animal of
unusual strength and size. Cornered
, by several dogs this cat had become
c badly iijured somo inoaths ago when
( he was lescucd by K ifus Spraguc, a
country lat and distant relative, and
^ carried to his mistress. iMiss Spraguo
( was profute in her thanks and told the
boy that when she died she would
make him her heir and leave him the
u' bed sho slept upon. Kufus olaimed hit
prized Thursday and was about to fin
)(j the straw tick when he was amazed t(
c find it stuff :d full of gold coin. A oare
ful search was made and moro thai
11,000 in go'd was found.
on Beggars Waiting.
A dispatoh says th arrival of Mr
and Mrs. Carnegie, at Southampton
c(j Kogland, is awaited by delegations froc
11 various clymosnary institutions wh
want ohcoka. These include rrprcsen
j10 tatives of oities socking librarios, an
' agents of a variety of institutions dc
siring aid. Hartley collcgo, Southamy
ton, a teohnioal institution, has adepu
iu| tation of t>0 awaiting the Steamer's ai
j rival. Tho local msnagcr of the Amei
^ ioan line, who bad important letter
' . and telegrams from all parts of th
int , . -i ~ t ? .U- _u: l ??!_
Kingdom I or IIIO |HlllBUHiiU|'ini, no/
' jl tho envelopes iodic.Vo that they ai
ljH from all sorts and onditions of pcopl
nl f/om uni varsity presidents to mend
:ad caDtB
Growing liapidly.
ted Tho produotion of tobaono in tl
on United States is now about 7-5,000.0(
at- pounds, of which about half is eonsuc
ing ed in this country. Tho crop has near
1 to doubled sicoo 1870. It was first taxi
tics for rovenuo purposes in 1878. Sin<
tral 1870 the revenue from tho tax has n
illy fallen below $25,000,000 Annually. 1
1000 it was *f>0,000 000. Sinao it w
the h'st imposed, in 1808, it has paid r
was venues among to about *1,'200,000,00
0O|. Tho tobacoo and ootton farmers do n
t of tfJt so muoh oonsideralion from t
tost Government as tho protected manuft
3m- turcrs, but thoy make a groat deal ma
money for it.
A PATHETIC STORY
<
Another Unexoectod Effect of th<
Pension Act
STORY OF A WORTHY WIOOA
Of a Dead Confederate Hero Abou
to Be Debarred of Her Pension
Pittance by its
Provisions.
Wbilo this State is uDablc to give
needy Confederate veterans and widowi
of veterans any largo pensions, it i<
doing tho bett it oau to aid them. Af
in all pension systems, abases crept it
aud tho department found itsolf peyini
pensions to many who wtro really not
in need, until the Confederate veterans
organisation took tho matter up and
got the new aot passed. This was designed
to throw every posBiblo safeguard
and is working well. Several very ex
ocptional and unexpeeted results of the
new act have, however, ariecn. The
The oaso of tho Byrd orphans has al
ready been mentioned, and Tho State
has received several subscriptions toward
paying tho amount of the pension
which cannot be allowed.
Another case even moro notoworthv
developed Wednesday. There can be no
doubt that Mrs. Amanda Rochester of
Anderson oounty is tho widow of a gal
lant fellow who gave up his life for the
Confederacy, and that sho is sadly in
need of tho pittance allowed, yet tho
law requires that she must have ocrtili
oates fmm living witnesses to her hus
band's sorvioe and death. She oannot
obtain these. Vet she has written evidenoe,
and has presented that which is
really stronger than any othor evidence
oould bo. And it is up to tho Stato
board at its coming meeting to decide
whether tho letter of the act must bo
obeyed, shutting off tho pension, or
whether it can bo allowed on tho evidence
furnished.
Tho beard returned Mrs. Rochester's
application when it first oamo in. The
following was rooeived on Wednesday
in consequence.
Andrrson, S. 0 ,
Maroh 18, l'JOl.
Dear Sir : Kxouso mo for returning
Mrs. Amanda J\ Rochester's petition
for pension, and papers oonnected
therewith, and especially calling your
attention to aimonton'a affidavit,
and nspeoially to the letter of Lieut.
W-H. Bartloss Jr., dated Juno 20th,
Ufl^i&oonneotion with Judge Simon^S>cr
beg to call your atten njlB0
faot that a paper 37 years
* Wid agent in this oas;>y
tn? poor widow perao'hally
vgRgS^M^atcreat in her oa9 cf
^^^^ga^Hpsband, whose u^^nory she
has "y ^or 'on.i:^^idowhood.
It <^am B7oT?rtrflI? that aj]^ oourt would
sustain her claim under the law with
the testimony of Judgo Simonton an 1
the letter of the lieutenant, now dead,
and the other proofs sulmiitod.
I enolose affidavit of B. A. Mo
Calister, an offioor, but who is an ap
plioant himself, and his testimony rulec
out, but I send it anyway.
I was colonel of tho Fourteenth Soutl
Carolina Volunteers, and my long ser
vice endears mo to tho poor, who sacri
tieed so muoh, but to nono more thai
tho worthy women.
Very truly yours,
'Joseph N. Brown.
Tho affidavits referred to read as fol
lows :
Stato of South Carolina, Charleston
County.
Before mo personally appcarc
Charles II. Simonton, who, being du'
sworn, says that ho was colonel oon
manding Twen'y-fifth regiment, Sout
Carolina Volunteers. Confederate State
of America, from 18H2 to tho end t
the war. That ho knew Williai
A. Rochester, who was a private in C(
II of his rogiment. That said Williai
A Roohestor was killed in batt
whilst serving with his company in
charge at Swift Creek, near Poiorshuri
Va. That the lettor attached to tin
potition of Mrs. Amanda Rooheste
signed by W. II. Bartlcss, Jr., lici
tenant commanding Co H, is aKcnuii
letter, as ho well knows tho handwritii
cf Mr. Bartless. That the said W. 1
Bartle6s Jr., was at the date <f sa
I lnttnr in c.rkmnitnd of naid nomtianv i
i osptain, W. 11. Soabrook, having bc<
i killed. That Rochester and his joe
rades in that company vcro galla
) men, the company having been alrnr
) annihilated by casualties in action di
> ing the war. That ho does not km
- Mrs. Amanda Rochester, but that
> believes her to be the widow of I
dead comrade.
(Signed) Charles H. Simonton.
State of Soutl Carolina, County
Anderson.
l'ersonally appeared B. A. Mo;
n i8ter, who, being duly sworn, says tl
0 ho has known Mrs. Amanda Kochos
j ovor sinoo her ohildhood, ho being
most her ago. That she was a M
1 Howard beforo her marriage. Thate
' married William A. Hochestcr, who
[ is said by affidavit of Judge Simont
and his lieutenant, was killed n
r" Petersburg, Va , in 1861, and that i
8 has remained a widow ever since, ?
0 has continued a resident of the St
8 all tho time. That the petition sigi
I" oy ner is nuo ana me.ugn poor, sno
0 a lady of high character and haa hat
struggle for a living ever since tho w
B. A. MoAliater
Tho lettor from tho front at tho ti
to of the death of tho husband roads
H) follows:
n- Tronohoa Twenty fifth S. C. V., 1
ly good's Brigado.
:d Near Potorsbrg. Va ,
io Juno 20, 18t! l
ot Mrs. Amanda Rochester.
In Dear Madam: Your favor of the 2
as just at hand. I am truly sorry to
e- form you that tho account of your 1
0. band's death is correct. Ho fell, s
ot through the body, in a ohargo upon
he onemy's linos at Swift orcek, i
io- Petersburg, Va., whero ho is i
>re buried.
It affords mo pleasure to say to
that ho wan a good soldier. I nevci
* knew him to shirk in the timo of dam
?cr. Oar company has lost many good
and bravo men, but none better than
b he I rcgrot his 'oss very muoh. He
died in a glorioui oanse, and Lis nann
will be handed down to posterity as ono
of those martyrs who fell in tho cause
of freedom and all that man holds dear
f on earth.
Very respootfully,
W. H. B*rt!osn, Jr.,
t Co. H. 25th 8 0. V.
1' 8 Cjrpl, Hechestor i9 duo pay
from October 1st, 186J, to May 7th,
1864, and some little money for commutation
of lost things. Tho exact
amount I cannot now send, as my company
papers arc away; will, however,
do so as soon as practicable. lie had
5 nothing with him when ho was killed,
* his keepsakes and other things having
a hpnn iirotriAiiolo 1
y j .v ?udi. a no omiui
Tho Old Veterans.
The Columbia Sla*c says if tho slato
? reunion of Confederate veterans in that
! city in May is nut a success it will not
be the fault of thoBO who have boon
[ placed <nohargoof the arrangements
for the various features of the
entrtainmcnt. Neither will it ho the
1 fault of tho railroads. The dosircd
cent a uiiio rate has keen secured
and the committee on transportation
( feels that tho greater part of the work
has keen done oven before it oould have
a meeting. Chairman Uichtdson of the
southern Fasscngor asiooia'ion has issued
bis circular ur der ca'e of Atlanta
March 15, anccucoirg ' a rate of one
cent per mile in each direction to Columbia,
S. C., and return from all poin s
in the State of South Carolina; also
from Charlotte and intermediate pcints
in North Carolina, and from Savannah,
Macon, Atlanta and intermediate
points in Georgia, acc unt of occasion
above specified: The following round
trip rates on this basis will govern front
the junctional points named:
From. Kate.
Abbeville $2 10
Allendale 1 55
Anderson 2.55
Athens, Ga 3 45
Atlanta, Ga I 90
Augusta, Ga 1.70
B acksburg 2 45
Calhoun Falls 2.45
Camden 05
Carlisle 1 05
Catawba Junction 1.60
Charleston 2 60
Charlotte, N C 2.10
Cher aw 1 75
Chester 1 25
Clinton 1 JO
Denmark .. 1 05
Elbcrton, Ga 2.80
Fairfax 1 55
Grconvillo 2 25
Greenwood 1.70
Lancaster 1 45
Laurens 1 50
Maoon, Ga 415
Madison, Ga 3.75
Milledgcville Ga 3 50
-2
^ ngcburg . .
Fmcnrity 70
Hot* 11 ill '/7t\t!\ 100
Savannah, Ga 2.85
Spartanburg 1 85
Sumter 85
i Tennillo, Ga 3 40
I Ycmassce 2.10
k orkvillo 1.70
Tho tickets will bo restricted to oon
tinuous passage in each direction and
aro to bo sold on May 8 and 9 from
L points within tho State of South Carolina,
and on May 8from points in North
i Carolina and Goargia with final limit
. of May 13, inolusivo. The rate pro.
mulgated applies to the Sotthern rail!
way, tho plant system, the A. C. L,
tho Central of Georgia, the Charleston,
and Western Carolina, and tho Georgia
railroad. Tho Seaboard will no doubt
meet tho rates of the association lines
Lepers are Many.
Marino hospital Surgeon Worry, <iua
rantino officer for tho Philippines, ha;
j sent an official report of tho leprosy it
the Philippines. Ho said: 'Lsprosj
( is widely prevalent over tho entiri
j, archipelago, but the greatest tuubo
H of oases exist in Luzon and the South
em islands. It is quite prevalent ii
( Cebu, tho number of lepers being esti
} mated at 2,000. Total number of case
n in the it-lands is estimated at 20,000
|e The cases in Manila and surrouudin,
,t country arc isolated in a hospital un
* der the auspices of tho Manila board o
hcvlili. Tliero is aLo a lopcr hospita
at Cebu. An atlompt at scgrcgatio
' and isolation of the lepers has boc
made by tho army officials and sovcra
, months ago orders wero issued dircctin
j' that a hospital in each district bo so
;<1 aside for tho isolation of all lepert tin
^ could bo apprehended and tho guard c
,n military was detailed recently to carr
^ out tho order for a leper colony, intoi
. tion being to deport all oases of lepei
"l - - l . . ? I ; ,?i,
^ ^ lO U118 pnuo iur ?UU nu?.
ir tion'"
Ends a Useful Life.
I? A dispatch from Yorkvillo to T1
' State fays our community was groat
shocked Tuesday morning, 19th inst
at tho announcement of the death la
night of Col. JoOn It. Ashe, preside
of tho Yorkvillo ootton mills. (Jc
Asho has been overworking himself r
oontly in tho interests of his mill, at
181 tho strain has boon groat on him. Du
l':r ing tho .light his wifo missod him fro
a'~ tho room, and becoming alarmed call
IHfl tho neighbors, and search was made f
. him. His body was found in a well
11 the yard. At a meeting of the sloe
on holders and directors of tho mill tl
0ftr evening Mr. P. M. Crimes, the popul
? superintended was oleotcd tcmpora
in" president. Upon examination of t
mill's affairs it was found to bo entirt
1C. solvent and able to meet ev? ry ob
IS <m _:n :
gaiion. i nt-ru win uu uu niuju'iug,
the mill, and under tho managomooi
ar' President Grimes success is assured.
Wolves and Sparrows Sutler
m9 Tho wolf hunters and the sparr
shooters of northern Illinois have ji
[ja. closed a very prosperous season. LeoS
uolson, a Winnebago county boy, 1
made a record of 3,-115 sparrows
I whioh ho rccoived from the com
treasurer $09.22. Joseph Gallisdorf
a lad of tho samo oounty, killed 2,-1
jn_ birds, for which lie was paid $18
m1. cash. Nearly 40 000 sparrows hi
(10t been killed this season by the boys
t)l0 Stephenson county, whioh is a big
]oar creaso ovor tho business of last year.
now Dcoombcr tho county paid be tint
amounting to $152 10; in-January $2(
you *n ^obru*ry $122.10; total $782
rour dead heroes
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t
i Preparations for the Uuvelling and
Dedication of the
I
CHICK AM AUG A MONUMENT.
Tha Monument is Worthy of the
Immortal Heroes Whose
Gallantry end Death it
Commemorates.
After m\ny years of waiting South
Carolina is at last going to do a small but
derived honor to tho gallant soldiery
that b?ttlcd po bravely for tho Southern
camo at Chickamauga. State after
State has erected monuments to its
bravo soldiers on this his'orio battletb
Id, acd now South Carolina is o >n to
crcct an imposing monument. Many
StateB have a dozen or more magnificent
monuments, uiaoy aro thcro to regi- ,
aunts, but South Carolina is to have
ouo largo monument to its toldicry that
struggled so nobly on Chiskamauga's
field.
Gevcrucr MoSwccncy, Gen. Floyd,
Major C. K. Henderson and Capt. J.
Harvey Wilson is tho commistion in
charge of tho erection of the monument. '
Gen. Walker, who served with dis- 1
tir.oiion in the bloody battle, has de- '
voted a g eat deal of time to the ar
rangemcct and has kindly prepared the
following elaborato programo of the
exercises:
For the convenience of Veterans,
Sots, tho Stato volunteer troops and
all citizens attending tho Southern,
H tilway has made special airangcments
and this route will bo the tflioial route.
They will anr.cunce dates of leaving
various points and ra'cs.
This e ffioial tr*in will bo run down to
I.ytlc Station, near tho battlefield, and
about half a mile from tho site of the
South Cirolina monument. Tho distance
can be easily walked, but arraogemen's
will bo made for hacks to
carry over such visitors as prefer rid
ing acd paying.
At tho station the prooctsion will bo
joined by Gen. .). W. Carutsb, ohief
marshal.
1. Bred.
'J. South Carolina volunteers. State
troops, UDdcr command of an effioer to
by designated, by Adjt. Gen. Floyd.
3. Sods of Confeccrato Veterans,
under command of Walter H. Hunt.
4. Veterans of South Carolina Division
II. C. V. .
5. Visiting Veterans
6. Distinguished guests in carriages.
7. Visitors.
Tho column will maroh by the road
skirting along tho southern has? of
Sni^dgrass Range. As they strike the
V^tteloo House they will see a large
barker, marked 10th and 19ih South J
Miuiiii nny^ugg iiyj^ ioC.uVri.u'.
p&Mt.
Gathered under and around the battle
scarred fl?g of tho lOlh South Carolina
regiment, whioh led them to
victory on tho heights above, will be
the visiting veterans of that oommand.
The proeeBsion will salute and uncover
as it paeses tho group of heroes.
) Further on is a similar marker mark
ed 24th South Carolina regiment and
Culpepper's battery, fought about one
mile to the northeast of this point, and
near it the flags and the men of those
gallant oommands.
Further on, as tho road to tho South
* Carolina monument leaves the main
road, will be found another walker to
> the immortal men of Kershaw's brigade,
> marked "Kershaw's brigade, 2d, 3d,
> 7th, Sth and 15tb South Carolina regi
ments and .James's South Carolina battalion,
fought for tivo hours on Snodgraas
Range above this point." Tho
battle flags and heroes of Kershaw
* will bo saluted.
> The procession now arrivee on tho
1 ground sacred to tbe valor and the
3 worth of South Carolina's sons, for it
r was that over whioh Kershaw swept as
- he drove tho enemy baok to thoir last
3 stand on tho ridgo.
Arriving at tho monument, tho
b veterans will press to the front, the
State volunteer troops saluting,
g Tho park commissioners will havo
erected a large stage and sufficient seatf
ing capacity for tho veterans and visi>1
tors. Governor McSwconey, Governor
Q of tho State and chairman of tho oomn
mission, will preside,
d Tho meeting will bo opcnol with
g prayer by tho Rev. Dr. J. H. Thornt
well, chaplaiu general, South Carolina
>t Division, U. 0 V.
>f G .-n. C. I. Walker, one who won disy
tinction on this and other battlefields,
i- now the beloved commander of tho
rs South Carolina Division, U. C. V., and
i- who has taken a dcop interest in and
materially aided in the aoocuiplishment
oi the memorial about to bo dedicated,
and a leading member of tbc oommisho
sun, will then deliver the historical
ly address.
? Addresses will then bo mado by the
Ml II 14 U I I - _ J?? , t ?i, ? u
nun. 1' O. UUUUUIOUU, XJ i 1110 uvunto,
Qt and Col. J. Harvey Wiloon, of the
'' House of Kcprcrentativcs, through the
c. liberality of whioh bodies South Caro
1(* lina has dono juitico to her heroic sons
ir An address will then bo mado bj
ai General, now tho beloved Bishop El
, lison Capers, who sorvod on this battle
Hold with his well known gallantry
10 Bishop Capers's address will lead up t<
. the unveiling, whioh will bo dono bj
,'19 four young ladies, representing eaol
'ar one of tho four South Carolina com
,ry uiand i engaged in tho battlo. Fo
'IC Kers.iaw'-. brigade, Miss Klberta Bland
>[y a granddaughter of tho distinguishet
Col. rC'bert Bland, who gavo up hii
?| life lighting with Kershaw on Bnod
grass Kango.
I* or 1(1 h and 1'Jth Smilll Cf.rolim
regiments, Miss Ads O.'io Walker, i
granddaughter of (ion. (J. 1. Walker,
off 1 or tho 21th South Carolina regi
list tnent, Miss Mario Oul'ro, grandnieo
am of Col. C. II. Sleveos, who gallantl
as led tho 24th South Carolina rogimon
for in tho battlo, and also tho grandnieo
ity of Lieut. Col. Kllison Capers, who su<
or, coedcd Col. Stovons to tho command c
110 tho regiment and was also badly wound
.20 cd in tho battlo.
kV* For Culpepper's battery, Miss
Ah tho ribbon* aro pulled tho cov<
in* will fall and show ono of tho ham
somcst monuments in tho paik. It
Lj>s bt lit of South Carolina granite, a I
T.* oioblcm of tho horoio stand mado t
;),>* tho South Carolinians on this hold?c
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either aide ia bronze statue, original,
and made especially for this work, on
one Bide an infantryman and an artilleryman
on tho other. South Carolina
had no oavalry in this battle. Crowning
the whole is a bronze palmetto of
exquisite workmanship, surpassing in
truthfulness to nature tho wonderful
bronze palmetto at tho State llouso.
On tho front of the upper stono is
the shield of South Carolina in bronze.
Tho inscriptions are as follows :
On tho front, oomposod by Bishop
Capers, with grand simplicity :
To her Faithful SonB atChioamauga,
South Carolina Ereots this Monument
to Commemorate tho Valor They
Proved and tho Lives They Gave on
this Battlefield.
Oa the baok :
Kershaw's brigade, 21 South Carolina
regiment, 3d South Carolina rrgimont,
7th South Carolina rcgimeut,
8th South Carolina regiment, 15th
South Carolina regiment, James's 31
South Carolioa battalion : Killed, 65 ;
wounded, 438: missing, 1.
Of Manigault's brigido, 10th South
Carolina regimont, llhh South Caro
lina regiment, consolidated : Killed.
26; moitally wounded, 40 ; wounded,
171).
Gist's brigade, 24*.h South Carolina
regiment. Killed, 43 ; wounded, 114;
missing, 12.
Culpepper's battery, wounded, 14
1 ho total height of tbe monument is
33 feet. The work was done by the
Stewart Stone Company, Columbia,
3. C , and rtfleots the highest credit on
their tasto and skill.
As soon as the monument is unveilod
Governor MeSweeney will turn it over
to tbe park commission and it will be
reoeived by Gen. Ilenry V. Bovnton,
the Chairman.
The ceremonies having ended the
arowd will disperse over tho battlefield
to study and admire it.
Tbe Official trains will return to
Chattanooga in theafternoon, and after
timo for supp<r, etc, tho VeteranB for
Memphis will speed on their way,
reaching that poitt early on tho morning
of the28ih of May. Tho oth< r visitors
will take the irain for North Carolina.
Around tho monument is a 12 foot
j'roular pavement of cem nt faocd with
granitoid.
Tho markers for South Carolina troops
iro plaocd on tho battlefield as follows.
Kershaws brigade?Oa tho sloro of
3nodgrass Haoge, one ftr etch of tho
regiments.
For 10th and 19th South Carolina
regiments tho po*ition in general dur
ng theafternoon is shown by the guns
)f Dent's battery on the orest of the
ridge. Advanoing from this point, they
nado repeated ohargea on the enemy,
ind the point of farthest advanoe is
ihown by the Soath Carolina marker.
For the 24th South Carolina regiment
.he marker is plaoed on Kelly's farm,
acar the "Bloody Angle," and near the
Shell monument to their brigade commander
Colquitt.
?W"> p">~ .
It is hoped that Gen. Gorion, oam- I
mander of the United Confederate Vet- |
erans, on his way to Memphis will be
able to stop over and take part in the
oeremonies.
Governor A.. C. Candler, of Georgia,
has been most pressingly invited and
writes that himself and staff will be
present "unless providentially hindered.
The oommsssion had to fix the day for
the unvoiling to take it on the way to
the Memphis Reunion. At the olose of
these reunions the Veterans scatter and
it would bo hard to get thom together
for any ceremony returning. The reunions
usually oommenoe on Wednesday,
but this year it begins on Tuesday,
which neoeBsitated the seleotion of Monday.
This foroed tho common cement
of tho movement in Chiokamauga on
Snndsy. While it will not prevent tho
groat mass of Veterans and visitors
leaving home on that day, thore are
many who havo conscientious scruples
against traveling on Sunday. Tho unveiling
of a monument is held as holy
an objoot as one could have, and would
oertainly exouee all such. But the commission
asked fcr and have secured the
dato of selling tickets to commence Saturday,
so any one oan reaoh Chattanooga
from South Carolina before Sunday.
The battle flag around whiah the Vegetans
of tho 10th and 19ih South Cato
lina regiments will assemble is the
worn and tattered flag of the 10th South
Carolina rogimcnt. Lt was saved from
surrender almost providentially. At tho
I /N t ItAniAnwilla fhn 1(1) h SahI K
Carolina regiment, then commanded by
Capt. K. Z. Harlce, penetrated the enemy's
lino, bnt roinforoemonts coming
up, the lino was reformed and Capt.
llarloe, Sergt. Albert A. Myers, bearing
tho flag, and about twenty men, half ol
tho regiment, so reduced was it, were
out off; they took to tho swamp and
hid until night. Sergt. Myers throw
away the staff and put the flag undoi
his olothing. The party made their
way through tho swamp and got baok t<
the Confederate lines. The remnanti
of tho 10th and lD.h South Carolini
rogimonts wero subsequently oonsolida
1 tol into Walker's South Carolina bat
talion, and so surrendered. Whon Col
' Walker returned from wounded fur
1 lough he oould learn nothing of the lOtl
rrgimont's flag that of the 19ih Soutl
Carolina being used asthe battalion ool
' ors and at the surrender properly surren
dered it as the flag of tho battalion. A
Col. Walker rodo out of oamp on th
way home Capt. Harlco handed him
> package, giving it with express stipula
' tion that it should not be opened unti
1 ho reached home When ho reaohei
home he opened it and found it the fla
r of the 10th South Carolina regiment
He hastreasured it most sacredly eve
' sinoe. The upper half of the flag staff is
9 piooo of tho dig staff of Fort Sumtei
' whioh was used by Major Andorson do
ing tho attaok on the fort of April, I8ti
fc I# ?aa fliwen ?A Pnl .1 ASAIiK W A. I k P T th
k fathor of Col. 0. I. Walker, by Goi
a Beauregard.
Altogether tho flag staff is a most hi
v torioally valuable memento.
It was prosposed to first lay the oo
0 ncrstono of the monument before tfa
' dedioation, but the elaborate Mason
^ oeromonies would have taken too muc
1 time from the limited time availabl
so this fuootion had to be reluotant
disponed with. The monument has
" oorner-stone and in it will bo deposi
ir odi
1. Col D.okert's valuable sketoh
J8 Korshaw's brigade,
11 2. Coi C. I. Walker's sketoh
>y
?n [continued on page four, j
"MEN OF THE TIME."
Very Valuable Work Undertaken by
Editor Oarliogton.
Mr. J. C. Garlington, editor of
tho Spartanburg Herald, has undertaken
to prepare and publish a htndsomo
volume that will bo of inoaloulable
valuo to many classes of South Carolinians.
No library of tho period will
be complote without it. It is to be entitled
"Men of the Times," aod is to
be a "blographioal onoyolopedia of contemporaneous
South Carolina leaders."
Tho scopo of tho volume will inoludo
South Carolina authors, arohitcots,
artists, agriculturalists, bankers, composers,
divines, dootor, engineers, educators,
investor, journalists, jurists,
manufacturers, mincrtlogit ts, philan
thropists, poets, politicians, statesmen,
travelers and warriors.
There is now no work of tho kiud
latter than MoCradv'* in?n? M??
the Carolinas ' and what Mr. Garlington
is doing shonld have bccu undertaken
long ago. Mr. GArlington is being
congratulated by those who have
so often found it neoossary to turn to
the MoCrady volume on having undertaken
tho work.
Tho bock is to be gotton up ia handsome
^tyle, very email type and halftone
portrait] being used. It will contain
about 600 pages. In his prospectus
Mr. Garlington saye:
"It will be beautifully bound in eloth
and is designed to be a book that will
adorn any library. Its Boopo is to bo a
comprehonsivo compendium of contemporaneous
biographies. Aoourate
i ketches of the men who have been
foromos in developing South Carolina
during the closing years of the nino
teenth century are given.
"In order to iasure aocuraey, and to
include only those whoso achievements
entitle them to a place in a biograph
ioal encyclopedia, committees have
been sclcotcd to pass on tho names of
such men as are presented. Those com
mittces are composed of the rooognized
leaders in their various lines.
"This book is a very expensive pub
lication, but it is believed its importance
jistifies the j ublisber in making
it a work of art as woll at a biographical
onoyolopedia of tbo men who are
now making South Carolina, in many
lines, foremost of tho southern States.
"This book is not like numerous publications
that are offered from time to
time, where any man who pays his
money or subscribes to the book oan be
written up. It is neoeasary to known
in advance how many copies will be
taken, so as to be able to contraot with
the printer, but biographical sketohes
are not dependent on subscriptions.
"The book ia designed to be r?.pre
senative of the best ultot in every
line?an oneojclopedia?giving biographical
sketches of those South Carolinians
who have done something in
world. It is not a oatch-penny advertising
scheme. Those who are en
titled to rey resentation in this biographioal
encyclopedia will be given such
iUU UUV VU?> ?<> .? r. .. ..-.V .
a 'write-up.'"
The price to all purchasers will be
|5 a volume.
MARYLAND IN LIHE.
The Election Law Disfrrnchising the
Illiterate Passes.
The new election law has passed the
Maryland Legislature. It will disfranehiso
fifty thousand illiterate voters.
The final passage of the bill was marked
by the utter absenoe af anything of
a sensational oharaoter. In the senate
but one protest was entered which oamo
inthoformof a speech from Senator
Dodson, Key ublioan, who characterized
the entire proceedings as a blot upon the
fair names and honor of the State. The
final vote was 11 to 14, a striot party
division.
In a quarter of an hour after passsing
the senate the bill was before the house
whero its consideration was immediately
begun. One by one the senate's
amendments wero taken up and concurred
in without division. Then it was yut
upon its final passage with no attempt
at delay upon the part of the minority,
except a motion to allow them one hour
to consider the amendments. Tbis was
promptly voted down, and the bill wa9
passed by a vote of 511 to 28, the Democrats
having six votes more than the
majority required by the constitution.
Five Democrats, Buckey and Lamin of
Frederick, Keys of Ceoil, Pattison of
DoroLester, and Garner of St. Mary's
voted with the llopublicans.
The most important ohango in existing
methods accomplished by tho enactment
of the new law lies in depriv,
ing illiterate voters of the assistance ol
ballot clerks in preparing their ballots
) Under the previous practice these
I clerks accompanied such voters int<
r the booths and marked their ballots foi
r them, or showed them how to do it
The Democrats claim t iat this praotioi
. utterly destroyed the seorooy of the bal
} lot aii i made it possible for corruption
ists to learn through signals from thi
ballot elcrks whether bargains mad
with corrupt voters had been earriet
out. Tho arrangement of the names 01
the ballots has been altered so that th
candidate for eaoh office are groupe*
instoad of koing arranged in groups aj
cording to tho party they represent
Party emblems are abolished and othe
R changes mado which make tho new la'
c very nearly similar to that in cxisteno
a in Massachusetts.
The t ffeot of tho law is, of course
II largely a matter of cor]:oture, and on
j upon which the party leaders widel
differ. Tho Democrats expeot that i
, will disfranchise about 32,000 negroe
"r and perhaps 16 000 white voters wh
% oannot read or write. Of these, it i
r olaimcd, all the negroes and about S
^ per cent, of tho whiles vote the Kopi
[ blican ticket. With thcro out of tl
j way the State will be safely Domoori
, tio for maDy years to oome, and tl
immediate result will the eleotion of
Democratic State legislature next fa
B" and of a Democrat to suooed Unit<
r States Senator Wellington in 1902.
!? Fourteen Perishod.
1, Tho steamer Chemnitz of thoGe
e man-Australian Steamship oompai
I' and the British steamer Tay collidi
a Thursday night in the Flushing Koa
t stead. The Tay sank and only thr
of her orew were saved. The Tay hi
0f put into the Flushing Roadstead owi
to the prevailing storm. Fourtoon pi
0f sons perished, including tho wives
? two sailor* who b yarded the vossol oi
farewell visit.
I A SAD STORY. I
An Insane Womtn Murders Her fl
Six Children. M
ATTEMPTED HER OWN LIFE
But Failed, and Then Talks fl
Rationally About Her Awful
Deed. She Assigns
No Reason.
Mr a L'zsie Naramore, of Coldbrook, H
Mass., wLilo in a fit of insanity Thura- |
aay muernoon, killed her six ohildren V
at ber home, a farm house half a milo
from the villago, and then tried to Uko 9
her own lifo. The ohildren ranged from 1
ten years to a babe of ten months and 1
their lives wore taken by the mother I
with au axo and a club. She laid the 1
blood-drenohcd bodies on the beds, two 1
on one bed and the other four on a bed '
in aaothcr room and then attempted
to take her own life by cutting her Kg
throat with a razor. When disoovercd
she was in the bed on whioh the bodies
of four ohildren were lying. Although
she cut a deep gash in her throat and
suffered the loss of much blood, it is
believed she will recover.
Frank Naramore, the husband and
father, left his home at the usual hour
Thursday morning to go to work at a
sawmill and at that time his wife did
not attraot his attention by acting ?
strangely. I
It is supposod the crime was oommit- 1
ted shortly after noon, the disoovery J
being made by George Thrasher, an I
employe of a grcoery store, who visited 40 j
the Naramore house about 2:45 o'oleok
for the purpose of delivering grooeriea 0
that had previously beon ordered by ! i
Mrs. Naramore. He was unable to get J
in the house by thed>or and he looked I
in a window and noticed blood on the fl
floor, while Mrs. Naramore was lying on I
a bed. Ho was surprised also in the
absence of the ohildren, whom he was I
accustomed to see playing in or about B
the home. He returned to the village |
and told of what he had seen. I
A party was made up and a baaty 1
visit was made to the Naramore house. 1
An entrance was effected without delay 1
and the mutilated bodies of the six
children in two beds were found. Mrs.
Naramore was removed to the village j
hotel and the attending physioiana wen '
confident she would survive. 1
During the evening a number of 1
neighbors of tho family bsw and talked I
with Mrs. Naramore and to them sbs i
told how she killed her six ohildren. j
At the time tho party of villagers
found Mrs. Ns-amore she aaked
hew she did the o.t.;d, and she said that H
she took tho lives in four differouJ^ ~
roomsi and a) fast she killed
three girls,"R r B in '
oldest, while t?**' dUi >' juJh,
he, Chester. Be-"' J y?i? oif age,
from eight year t, gas of \N
being the bai., fro and Lena ranged^M^^^-^B
Mrs. Naramore ten months, L?ena
mate friends that ane-^|__ .
and then followed witnTne five
eaoh timo taking the next eldest. Five
were killed by being struok on u?
head with the baok of an axe while lit- V
tie Lena was killed with a olub. She
says she fully expected the gash in her W
throat would oausc her death and when
her husdand returned at night he would i
find all of tho bodies in the two beds.
She appeared rational and displayed J
signs of sorrow for tho deed she had I
committed, although she is unable to *
give any roasoon for killing the children.
When Mr. Naramore reaohed the
house he was prostrated with grief by
the loss of his family.
Eaoh of tho ohildren -had evi4[^HHflfc^SHH^H
received several blows as thsir
were torribly bruised and blood way
8ottered in all parts of the rooms. Mrs.
Naramore had evidently made prepara- ^Hj
tions for the deed, as the doors were
all looked and barred with stioks of jj
wood.
At about 9 o'olook Mrs. Naramore
experienced a change for the worso and
it is believed that she will not live I
' through the night. Her husband ha*
' been in the hotel, but ho has not made ^
, any request to sue her since his arrival.
Farmers Asked to Meet.
llarvio Jordan, president of the
| Southern Cotton Growers' Protective _
association has issuid a call from Atlanta,
Ua., to tho ootton. producers, of
! the southern States, asking them to
' meet at ihc ouoty scat of every ooun- ,
r ty in the south on Saturday, April 6,
for tho purpose of adopting some plan
B toourtail the aoreago of tho ootton orop
for tho season of 1991 and 1992. President
Jordan urges immediate action by
the farmers before the seed for tho
j next crop are placed in the ground. He
Q claims that the planters will not be
able to meet their obligations assumed ,
j for guano, mules and other farming *
materials with the prios of cotton at
six cents, whioh he confidently pre'r
diets will result from a largo aoreage.
w
e An Experiment.
( Minnesota is to t**/ a combination
^ high liconso local option dispensary
1 schemo. The propaaed law leaves the
* six counties containing cities of the
)B ''lO.OUOor over," olass under the operation
of the present high license law.
a It provides that in all the other ooanm'(
tics tke (question of liooese or no license
r hall be deoided by popular vote. It
^ pro v id fa further that town liquor dispensaries
shall bo established in noin
iioense counties upon the petition of
two-thirds of the voters?the liquor to
. be sold in paokages (half pint or larger)
' i and not to be drunk on the premises.
All the dispensary profits aro to go to
the oounty treasuries.
Want to Entertain Them.
irjy
Governor MoSweeney lias reosived a
cd letter from Mr. T. C. Thompson, of
d- Chattanooga, asking aim when he and
ee his paity would arrive in Chattanooga
id to dedicate Confederate monument,
ng how many would be in the party and how i
If- long they would remain in Chattanooga. A
of The South Carolinians who live in
\ \ Chattanooga wish to extend courtesies xgag
to the South Carolina party. flpij