REMINISCENCES 0
By W. B. Fuller
As Bill Arp used to eay, "While
r-Unminating this rainy morning, my
toughts or mind runs back to the
Confederate, or as some call it, "The
Civil War."
Now fifty six years since Lee sur
rendered at Appomattox, and Long
street, at Greensboro, N. C.
Our company left home ,November
1801, as I remember, 110 strong, live.
ly boys and aenn. J. G. Williams, ous
captain, was loved by the entire com
panyt. No conscripts were in this comn
Pansy. We all 'bid our mothers
fathers, sisters, wives and sweethearts
good-bye- all bouyant and full of life
expecting to conquer the X-ankees in a
few months and return to our loved
ones with great honor: But, Oh! 'how
different.
iWe served from November, 1861, un
til August, 1862, in Columbia, S. C.
and in and around Charleston, S. C
Then we received orders to go to Vir
ginlia, and .some of the men and boys
got old fast, a few had lyal,itation of
the heart, some got off to 'come home
NOTICE
OF THE COUNTV TIEASUREI1
The books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the ecllection of
State, County and Commutation Road
Taxes for the fiscal year, 1921, at the
Treasurer's office from October 15th:
to'Decomber 31, 1921. After December
31 ono per cent will -be added. After
January 31st, two per cent Will bc
added, and after Feb. 28th, seven pci
cent will be added until the 15th day
of larcl, 1922, when the books will
be closed.
All persons owning pr6perty Ii
more than one township are requested
to call for receipts Iin each of the
soveral tdsvnships in which the prop
erty is located. This is important, as
additional cost and penalty may he at
tached.
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the age; of twenty-one (21) and
sixty (60) years of age are liable tc
pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old sol
diers, 'who are exempt at fifty (50)
years of age. Commutation Rload Tax
$1.50 in lieu of road duty. All able
bodied men between the ages of 21
and 55 are liable to Road duty except
those in military service, school
trustees, school teachers, ministers
and students. Dog 'Dax $1.25.
The tax Levy is as follows:
State Tar ..............12 mills
Ordinary County 'Tax .. ..3 3-4 mills
, Road and Bridge ......4 1--4 mills
Railroad Bond ....I...... . mill
Road Bonds 4 1-2 mills
Jail Bonds ............1-2 mill
Constitutional Sdhool Tax .. 3 mills
Total tate and County Tax ../9 mills
Special Schloohs Laurens Townsli ip
Laurens City ........ 12 1-2 mills
Trinity Ridge No. 1 .. .. 16 1-2 mill
Prospect No. 2 ..........8 mills
Laurens No. 3 ..........16 mills
Balley No. 4 .. .. .... ..7 mills
Watts Mill, Fleming, Copeland 8 mills
Oak Grove No. 6 ... .. ....6 mills
Ora No. 12 ..........14 1.2 mills
Special Schools Youngs Township
1benezer-Patton ..........3 mills
Friendship No. 2 ..........8 ibills
Warrior Creek-R. Old Field .. 8 mills
lDethel No. 4 .. ........111-2 mills
Gray's No. ..............8 mills
13entral No. 6 .... .... .... 8 mills
Youngs No. 7 .... .........16 mills
Lanford No. i0 .. .......13 1-2 mills
Fountain Inn No 311.... ..21 mills
Speeial 8ehools Dials Township
G;reenlondl No. I .. ..........8 ii!:
IEden No. 2 .. ..........12 --2 mills
Shiloh No. 3 .... .... .....1 mills
New fiarmony No. 41.. .. ...4 mills
Gray Court<J*,sings No. 5...20 1-2 mills
llarksdale No. 6 Consolidated 16 mills
lUlals 'Churschi No. 7.. .... ...8 mullIs
alernia iNo. 8 .. .............2 mills
Fountain Inn No. 311.. ....24 mills
Special Schools Sullivan Tiownship
Princeton No. I .... .....121--2 mills
Mt. Bethel No. 2 .... ......8 millk
Poplar Fpmr.gs No. :i.... ...12 rmil I
Itrewerton No. 7.. .... .....S millh
Aler-na No. 8 .... .........12 mills
'liiel'ore 'I'-,v--rn No. 17 . . , .15 missb
Local R. R. Bonds .. .......3 millh
Slpeeri.i Si-thooss Wlaterloo Town xviii
Alt. (ltllaghmer No. 1 ........12 millh
liethlehem No. 2.. ...... ...4 milbI
FEkom 'No. 3 .. ............17 millk
Center IPoint. No. 4. .. . ... ..8 millh
Oakville No. 5 .... ...... ...8 mIllk
Mt. iPleasant No. 6 ............12 mill
AR. Olive 'No. 7.. .. ....111-2 msillk
Waterloo Toewn No. 141.. .....8 mi llh
Special Sehools ('ross 11illi Townshsi:
Cross 1i111 No. 1 .. .. ...2 millh
Cross '11111 No. 2 .. ..........6 millh
Wades No. 3...................6mils
Old Mcuntville No. 6 ........3 mills
Cross 11111 T1own; No. 13 . . . . 15 millh
Special Schools liunter Township
Lisbon No. I .. ............12 mIll
hock No. 2 .................8 millh
Itock <BrIdge No. 3 .... .... 6 millh
Wada~wo, h No. .1... ........8 millh
hteedervillo (par't of .No. 4) . . 13 millh
Clinton No. 5.... .. .. . .20 1-2 mills
Goldville No. Gl..............4 millh
Kinards No. 49 (part of No. 6, 8 millh
Ilflast No. 7 .... .... .....5 millh
illirricane No. 15......,....6 milb
Mountv'ille~ No. 16' ......111-2 millh
~Speeah Schools Jacks Township
Shady G rove No. 2 .. ......7 millh
Renno No 3.. ............8 mills
itton No. 4 .... ........3 mills
YOdell Achool No. 6 .. .......8 millh
# hurricano No. 15 .. ..... 6 mIlls
SPteial Schools Senffiletown Townshii
o~ng Branch No. 1 .. .......8 nlls
Ilyrd'a-Murtrove No. 2 .... ..8 mills
Lotngston1 No. 3 ..........3 mills
Sandy Springs -No. 4.. ....4 mIlls
1Atnford No. 10.... .. .. .. 131-2 mill'
Ora No. 12 .............14 1-2 mills
'Proper attention will be given thos
irho wish to pay their taxes througl
the mail lby check, money order, etc.
Persona sending in lists of name
to be taken off are requested to senl
them early and give the township o
each, as the Treasurer Ia very bus;
during the month of Decemher.
- tt coeunty Treasurer.
F THE CIVIL WAR
Mountville, S. C.
We arrived in Virginia in August, 1862,
late in the evening, Just after the sec
ond -battle of Manassas, and there we
saw out first dead noldiers and at this
moment we began to realize what war
was. Next day we were put on the
march, as It wasn't long till we heard
the thunder of cannons and guns. Sure
enough this was 'war; then we could
see them bringing back our dead and
wounded comrades, and well I remem
ber -as we were resting on the road
side and seeing the wounded, there
was one boy with his leg shot off, and
groaning with the pain and from loss
of blood. I put my face to the ground
and fingers In my cars to keep from
fainting, (iwhen I was a boy I would
faint on seeing blood.) T1en we went
oil and into the fight at South Moun
tain or Hoonsborough. I never thought
of fainting any more.
That was our first fight and the loss
of so many of our brave boys. Some
that I call to mind were killed in this
battle; E'phriain Waldrop, Presley Ful
ler, I-dwin Fuller, John Crawford, IDd
Smith, Waddy Irby and-Colonel. Our
comrade J. A. Jones was shot through
the head and lay on the field all night
unconscious. The Yankees took care
of him, and as you know, he returned
home ad lived several years after the
war. The next fight was at Fredericks
burg, December 13, 1862, in Which we
1had no active part. A; Chancelorsville,
May ' , 1S63, we dug trenches with our
xtyonets, but the Yankees did not
rcach us. In the next battle, at Fish
ers Hill, General Conner, who was
then commanding our brigade, had
his leg shot off iwhile on his horse.
Then came the great 'battle of Get
tysburg, .uly 1, 2 and 3, 1863. Here
we lost several men: Preston Miller,
Plickens Fuller, Dolph Fuller, and
others whosenames I don't recall. Bob
Hollingsworth, who -s in our com
pany, was shot throl, the thigh. H-e
says it was a great blessing to him,
as the Yankees treated 'him so nice.
Then we went back to old Virginia
and rested a few days. I got a fur
lough for twenty days to come home,
and while at home Longstreet's com
Inand was sent to Georgia and the bat
tle of Chiclcamauga was fought Sep
tember 20, 1863, where our captain,
Allen iWatson, and others were killed.
This battle, sonitkink like Gettys
burg, was a draiw fight.
On the next (lay I returned to the
company. We then went to Knoxville,
Tenn., In November, where Marshall
Motes was killed. At Bean Station,
our old comrade Blue Goodman lost
part of his hand. We put up shanties
and spent the -balance of the winter of
1863, at Morristown, Tenn.
On leaving Morristown (I do not re
member the date), we went to Gor
donville, Virginia, for a few days, and
then to the 'Wilderness. There was a
.terrible light going on and wo got
within fifty yards of each other several
times. Finially the enemy gave way
and we thought we would get to rest,
but soon we got orders to move on and
we went on for- a while, we didnt know
wher-e, b~ut soon we 'were order-ed to
dlouble-iluick andl then to run to headh
.the Yankees. We had a race to a r-ail
breastworks and there we met the
Yanks hand to hand for a few minutes.
but they soon gave way and we killed
a good many of theum as they wvere
fleeing for' their lives. After the bat
tIe, we found four of our men dead.
Th'ley had1( bien taken pri-soniers andi we
had killed-themi in the midist of the r
treating Yankees. I remember that
Alf Mtilam and Ike Austin, froem our
comnpany, were killed. A big red-aheadl
edl Yankee grit the dIrop) on mue and I
surrendered, and got over- the ralls. As
I was going over Captain Pltts saw my
lix and toldi Thad Ilrosvn, who shiot the
Yanke-e through the head andl savedl
me. I think this was May 8, 18t64.
Sid Finley was taken pr1isoner- at
Northanna Iliver May 27, and died at
i'olnt Lookout where we dlefeated the
Yankees in a battle. 'We were at Cold
ilarbor several dayr, in lie and wvere
close enough to talk to the enemy.
John Calhoun "'as killed thereo, the
same bullet k ..ng Tom -- and
passing through another-'s jgw These
meon were cooks and 'were going back
after- giving out tihe rations. We had
an armistice for two hours and swe
and the Yankees met in fr-ont of the
.breastworks andi 5wappe)d tobacco for
coffee and talked as friendly as good
frIends. And when the cannon an
nounced the close of the armmistice, we
were sitting on the ground talking to
each other. I remember one Yankee
said, "IRats, to your holes." Not a gun
was fired until we all got back to our
breastworks.
We wvent to Petersburg in June, 1864,
and tthence to Deep Bottom where tiwo
brigades fought, namely McGowan's
and Kershmaw's. Bobl Waldrop wvas kill
ed at Derryville and Clayton Watts
was wounded. In all these fights the
Ienemy wvere in retreat.
Advancing on to Cedar Creek, Cap
taini Billie Wells, Lieutenant John
Roberts and many others were killed.
Very early In 'the morning we sur
prised the enemy in camip, killing some(
in their night clothes and took some
prisoners and capturing a quantity of
rations. Our men were very elated ov
er their capture of .the rations (two
thought the enemy had been com
pletely routed) when we were ordered
to follow them. We had a thin line to
press them with but we followed them
for nine miles. Then the enemy re
ceived reinforcements from Winches
ter and they charged our littWL band.
What a stampede back to Cedar Creek!
I remember one of the boys saw Gen
eral Early standing on a mound look
ing with his spy glass and the boy
said, "General, are you going to make
a stand on Fisher's lii'll? "Damn
Fisher's lili and you too," was the
Generals reply, so we left in a hurry.
The n,we went back to Richmond,
October, 186-1, ahd stayed on the lines
until 'Christ mas. Immediately after
Christmas we were sent to Charleston,
S. 1C., and were forwarded to the Salt
kehache River, where Thad Brown of
our company was killed. In going
back through North Carolina, at
Averysborrough and lentonsville and
all the way up we 'had little skirmish
(S. At Greesnboro, we surrendered
on the twenty-seventh (lay of April,
1865. We spent a fcdw days at Greens
boro to fix u, papers and to .get ra
tions. We walked to Laurens in three
(lays and on home that night. Oh!
what a big day the next (lay with
our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers,
sweethearts and other young friends.
And too, I wish to say this: All those
loved ones that were at the feast that
my mother and father gave me on the
(lay after I returned from the army,
are gone, except one, Mrs. Lottie Walk
er, who was the daughter of THIiman
Fuller. I also wish to call your atten
tion to the fact that every young lady
that attended the feast wore dresses
spun and made at home by their
mothers or aunties. One girl said that
she wove her dwn and by the wAy, I
later married 'that sweet girl.
I am urge(, by a neice who Is very
proud of my war record, to add this
little incident, not only because of the
honor bestowed upon myself, 'but as a
matter of history. For Lt is not gen
erally known that the Yankee Gener
al requested each Confederate Captain
to bring forward the most deserving
soldier In his company, that he should
be presented with his own gui and
all accessories. Capt. W. S. Pitts se
lected your humble servant to receive
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lon were bestonwed upon me. I had
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