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In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD Foreign Advertising Reprwentetire ?? .lirntrtkl DOCCC A?Q/VUT10M I flC. /WILiMVfUl I .-ww-w-w.. . , THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922 GARDEN'S BATTERY AT SHARPSBURG MR. D. JAS WINN REPRODUCES A LETTER FROM CA*>T. HUGH R. GARDEN. * Editor Item:? This is a copy of a letter of long ago?in 1862?and tells of the scenes end times that tried the souls of many of the old Confederate veterans, who visited our city last week and may be cf interest to the present generation. "fl|Iartinsbarg, Va., Sept. 22, 1862. "My Dear Mother:? "God has again protected brother snd myself and brought us safely through a most terrible battle . On September 17th we were attacked in front of Sharpsburg, Md., by an immense army of the enemy, and after fighting from 6 o'clock in the morning until 8 at night, repulsing' them on every side. My battery was desperately engaged from 1 o'clock until 6. Would that I could report that we came off as light-y as in tne preceeaing battle. But God willed it othervase. Lieut. Pringle, my brave and roble f: end, was stricken down at Ills post a cannon ball taking off his leg midi ay between the knee and the foot. I was standing near him, directing his firing and observing the effect of his shot. Three times, after being struck, he attempted to rise, but ' four of his men bore him from the field During the battle each of my lieui :nants had charge of a gun. Lieut. Pringle behaved most nobly and served ^iis gun most admirably, aiming with great accuracy wherever I directed and discharged shot and. shell and canister immediately into the ranks of the enemy. I saw him placed in the hospital that night where he received every attention. Dr. Wilson, two men and Caesar were detailed for the purpose of remaining with him. All night I sought the chief surgeon of the Division and requested him to attend to my friend personally and do everything in his power for him. "He visited him as soon as he was brought in, and told me that the moment the reaction took place the operation should be performed. "The necessary reaction did not take , place that night or the next day and the doctor sent word that his case was hopeless. I visited him next morning , and acquainted him of his situation. Never have I seen a man act with such noble Christian lesignation. The shock to h's system had completely shattered his nerves, but calm and collected he conversed with me, and ; told me he was ready and willing to die and gave me messages to his family and friends Lieut Pringle was sent to Winchester two days ago without having had his leg amputated. ] The doctor told me he did not pos- | sibly think he coyld survive the jour- 1 iiey. Dr. Wilson, J. D. Wilder and | Caesar are with him. James H. Rice , is also in Winchester severely para lyzed by a solid shot grazing his body, but he can wall: a little and be of service to rny friend . "I lost nine horses and with great difficulty brought off my guns, two disabled, one hav<rg had its carriage eV>nf irt niooos citrhf. shot fiflP and sur face scarred by sbct and shell. Lieut. G. E. Coit and Sergt. Harvey Wilson ;nerit the highest praise for bringing cff their guns under such circumstances. "September 22nd, 1862. P. S.?I wrote you a few lines hurriedly this morning and since the mail has been delayed a few hours I will endeavor to put in this postscript. I enclose a letter written at Hagertown, Md., and I expect you wonder why I am now writing from Martinsburg, Va. I car. scarcely tell you. The events of years seem to have been crowded into the last few days. "If I had a few spare moments I I ( fe.4. would give you an account of these events, but only have to spealc of the good news which Dr. Wilson has just brought from Winchester. He reports to me that Lieut. Pring.e Is doing well. His leg was amputated above the knee last Saturday morning by Dr. Wilkinson, a surgeon from North Carolina. That he is in the hands of ladies who are paying hirn every attention and the doctor thinks there is every prospect of his recovery I am going to exchange my guns for four beautiful long range guns taken from the enemy. They cut us up in the battle with their long range guns ; while we were fighting their infantry at close quarters. On Tuesday morn- j ir.g last, General Jackson took Harp- j ers Ferry, capturing 13,200 prisoners, ] sixty-six magnifi.ent pieces of artil-' lery, with horses and harness com- j I'ete and a great quantity of stores of all kinds. "I must close for my letter must gc. We are getting on pretty well. My company is said by our chief of artillery to have done admirable service in repulsing the masses of the enemy infantry three times. I will try to describre the battle in a future letter. I was delighted with the conduct of my men who fought manfully for five hours with a storm of every Irnnnm ir> JinnHprn warfare IlllOOiiV XV&IVVV** Alt .? pounded upon them from every quarter. Literallly the only direction from which shot did not come was from the earth beneath us. "Hugh R. Garden. Casualities in Capt, Giu-den's artillery company at the battle of Sharpsburg, Md., on the 17th of Sept, 1862; Killed?None. Wounded; Lieut S. M. Pringle, left leg shot off. Corporal J. H. Rice, severely para- ' lyzed. Privates; Josh Lee, left arm shattered; C. Constine, severely in right foot; J. G. Ramsey (colored bearer) slightly in left shoulder; J. D. Wilder, slightly in head and aLdomen; H. Wright, slightly in head; Corporal Scarborough, slightly in left shoulder; L. L. Muldrow, slightly in head; R. W. Andrews, slightly in right shoulder. Hugh R. Garden. Capt. Comdg. Pal. L. A. Artillery. Losses in this battle 16th and 17th, both sides, 23,381 men. P. S.?Lieut. Samuel M. Pringle died at Winchester Va., Sept., 24 1862. Ciigin of Printing. This is tne ago of printed reading matter. With 24,589 different newspapers i-nd periodicals, whose annual circulation is over 14 billion copies, with the book publishers turning out over 175 million volumes each year, and with public libraries established in approximately six thousand towns and cities of the United States, it is hard for us to realize that men didn't always have as much quantity and variety of reading matter as we have today. Yet not so many centuries ago the average person had no chance of owning any sort of book. Only the wealthy could obtain the rolls which were the only known means of preserving literature. If a man wanted a certain book, he had his slaves transcribe a copy of it. Thi3 was a slow and expensive method, but it was the only way a library could bo formed. A few booksellers existed in the days of Rome, but a man almost had j to pawn his villa to buy their wares. That we today enjoy Buch an abun- j dance of cheap reading matter is largely due to the development of a material on whica to write and print. The first books of prehistoric days were crude pictures and sign-writing upon wood, bark, stones and similar materials. The Babylonians and Assyrians wrote upon clay, which they baked into bricks. Excavations of buried cities have brought to light hundreds of such j brick tablets bearing inscriptions. | These specimens of ancient "brick libraries" are square, oblong, conical, cylindrical, and rcund. In dimensions they range from vest-pocket-sized brickpamphlets an inch by a half-inch in surface to regular "Kelleys" of one foot by nine inches. They can be seen in the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Art Museum of New York city. When some Edison of ancient Egypt discovered that the stalks of the papyrus plant, relied into sheets and dried, formed a better substance to write on than clay bricks, it was no longer necessary for a writer to conduct a brick kiln, or for the society ladies of the time to be accompanied on their afternoon visits by ox carts i hauling ten-pcund calling cards. Papyrus does not decay, and in | the Memphis Museum you can sec a manuscript giving an account of i leprosy 4,000 years before Christ. Still more remarkable is the j i "Papyrus Prisse" in the Louvre at Paris. This book is the oldest in ex- i istence; it deals with "How tc Be! have Wisely," and was written about 0,300 years ago The epics of Homer were written on ?papyrus rolls. This writing material was used by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans down to the 6th century of our era. Leaves of trees, coated with wax to take impressions, were also used by the Romans and Greeks. Parchment, the skin of the sheep, was another writing material of early invention. The custom of inditing legal documents of especial importance on parchment still exists. Paper was first made by the Chinese. They knew the secret of its manufacture in the first century of our time?possibiy earlier. From the Chinese, the Hindus, Persians and Arabs found out about paper, and these in turn passed on the knowledge to the Greeks, from whom the other European nations learned of it. The first paper mills were set up in Spain by the Moors in 1154, in which year factories were established at Valencia and Toledo. Their materials were rags, grass, jute and bark. Wood pulp as an ingredient is a modern discovery, o IIow to Raise Cotton Under Boll Weevil Conditions. 1. Prepare your land in October by blowing it up with dynamite. 2. Lay it off in rows 12 feet apart, and plant your cotton seed in December. 3. When your cotton comes up thin it to one stalk in a hill 23 feet apart. 4. 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