The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 05, 1899, Image 7
A YANKEE PRISONER
Writes of Pleasant Memories
of His Southern Captors.
The following clipping from the
Houston (Texas) Post, has been
banded as by Coi R. M Wallace,
president of the First Nation ! Bank
of Sumter, to whom the paper was
eent by a friend. Col Wallace
corroborates the statements therein
referring to himself. He says that
' be prisoner Stewart did net jump
from the train, bot made his escape
in Louisville jost after getting off
the train Col Wallace was between
....the guard and Stewart and held his
banket to shake out the dust, and
thereby hid Stewart from the guard
P while he got away. Stewart had a
seit of citizens clothes, which aided
hie escape. Wallace was in COD fed
rate uniform, and he knew it was
useless for him to attempt an escape.
Stewart was a bright Mason and was
aided by members of the fraternity
to whom be made himself known :
La Grange, Texas, March 23 -
At tbe annual meeting of. the Colonel
B. Timmons camp, No. 61, U. C V.,
to-day the following letter was to
have been read As it will no doubt
prove to be very interesting to the
veterans and their friends, the Post
reporter secured it for publication :
Mr. Nat C. Rives of Terry Rangers, '
Company F, Eighth Texas cavalry,
La Grange, Texas.
New York City, 259 West 136
Street, March 10.-My Dear Sir : I
thank you sincerely for your kind
invitation to be present at the return
?to the flag of your regiment by the
Seventeenth Indiana. I most heartily
approve every act which tends to
c bli. era te the harsher memories,
while perpetuating the heroism, the
magnanimity and the self sacrifice
displayed alike by Federals and Con
federates in the sad and wasting but
necessary struggle of the \fWar be
tween the States."
My sentiments in this regard were
expressed many years ago in a Mern
orial day address at San Francisco, a
copy of which I will try to find and
send you. I have some friendships
with men who were Confederate
soldiers, which I value as highly as
any I have known in life, and I do
not think that history has on its
pages any nobler names than those of
Morgan of Alabama, Wheeler of the
-same State, and Gordon of Georgia,
whom I met on the field and loved
always afterward. I knew well in
California David S. Terry, who led a
Texas regiment, and admired bim as
among the last of a gtand type of
men who were developed by frontier
hfe and are unfortunately passing
away, .since our civilization no longer
bas frontiers on this continent Re
cently in Washington 1 met and
spent some pleasant hours with
Augustus H. Garland, whom I had
long desired to know, because of bis
magnificent victory over Northern
prejudice and passion in the removal
cf the "Test oath" exacted from
lawyers who had been Confederates
-after the war was over. I know of
no finer expression of the indomita
ble unconquered and unconquerable
spirit cf the true men of the South
^ than was manifested in that great
bot peaceful struggle for right and
justice, which will be remembered
and honored as long as any victory
of the war. General Garland would
. have been my friend, but he died
suddenly (while I was waiting at his
hotel) in the chamber of the supreme
court where he won his greatest
triumph many years before After
the close of the war I married a
younger sister of the widow of the
late Justice Lamar, and after abe died
I married another lady from the State
of Georgia, so you see I come natur
ally by my knowledge of the good
qualities of the people of the South
Yes, 1 am the La Grange who was
captured in a charge of the Eight and
Eleventh Taxas cavalry at Varnell
Station on the 9th of May. 1864. My
second horse was shot under me
while I was fighting with my rear
guard after my line bad been broken
and beaten by Wheeler's command.
I took the name of my captor, J G.
Haynie of La Grange, Texas, who
spared my life, which I bad forfeited by
firing my last shot at him and wound
ing him slightly in the hand as I lay
^ fastened to the ground by my dead
boree I expected, and indeed, de
sired my captor or some of the men
tc kill me, thinking the disgrace of
being a prisoner worse than death.
Bat Haynie rode clear round me
with bis p stol leveled and then said :
By-1 can't kill a defenseless man ;
band me up the sixshooter"
Wheo he bad called to some of bis
conrades to lift op the dead horse and
release my leg, he traded hats with
me, but I threw bis on the ground,
and when be learned my name he
gsve mine back. I made no sign at
* any time, though I was a member of
the order to which you refer, and
I recall but little of what occured ex
cept between Haynie and myself
He was too young to nave been a
member of the order James C.
Swan of the firm of Inman, Swan &
Co. (cotton brokers. New York) was
one of the men who lifted up the j
dead horse and released my leg We
are friends, and he calls me bis "Yan- j
kee prisoner " While taking me to j
"lie rear Haynie said : You have a
C friend in our regiment ; do yon re
member that big, black bearded
fellow, Stewart, whom you captured
in East Tennessee with Robert
Wallace of South Carolina? You
kept them with you quite awhile on
parole ; well, Stewart jumped the
train below Nashville when they
were being taken North and got
back to the regiment. He says
you're a b-of a good fellow.97 I
remember Stewart (his brother, who
represented one of your Texas die
tricts in congress came to meet me
iu the room of the house committee
on miiilary affairs when General Ros
crans, was chairman and told rae
that bis brother had died of a broken
heart after the fall of the Confeder
acy ) Hay nie and I had much pleas
ant talk on oar way to the rear. I
took his name and gave him my
spurs and my pencil, and parted from
him with regret He was afine type
of young Confederate (not more than
18 years old) He '-could not kill a
defenseless maD," who had forfeited
his life by wounding him, as I did.
In 1866, while at the law school at
Albany, N Y.,! wrote to Hannie at
La Grange, Texas, and received a reply
from his father saying that his son had
lost his life in swimming the Salada
river in Carolina io one of the engage
ments between Y\ heeler's and Kirk
patrick's cavairy I had hoped in some
way to show appreciation of the young
hero's magnanimity.
After the close of the war, on a rail
road train between Augusta and
Atlanta I heard one Confederate say to
another io the seat behind him : "I
have lost my transportation papers to
Galveston and I would rather die than
go back ever the track of Sherman's
army." When we reached Atlanta I
said to the young mao : "I know thc
acting quartermaster here I have
overheard your conversation; perhaps
I can help you." We went together to
the quartermaster (my cid Captain
Seaton), who cut red tape and gave
them transportation to Galveston.
When, the young mao said to me : "Is
yeer name La Grange?*' and when I
answered "Yes," he said: "I knew it,
no other man in your army would have
done what yon have done for mo." i
replied : "Any one would who had the
opportunity." "Well," said he, "you
can never do me another favor. I may
never do one for you, so for my own
satisfaction I want to ask, did you get
some Confederate money which Stewart
of our regiment, who- had been your
prisoner, raised among our boys and
sect you by a parson when you were a
prisoner at Dalton V 1 said "No," and
smiled, I fear incredulously, took the
yoang man's name in a memorandum
book, which I have lost, and WP parted in
the darkness. O a my way North I stop
ped at Dalton,rode 3 mites into the coun
try, found the parson and took a $20
Confederate bill from the roll the
Texans had sent me and keep it yet as
a reminder of their generosity. I
believe Mr. Swan remembers the cir
cam8tauce, as Stewart raised the mosey
among his comrades and sent ic after
me I wish I had kept the name of
the young man who told me about it.
This letter has reached an unconscionable
length, but your writing of J. G.
Haycie (tc whom I owe my life) oalled
op a flood of recollections, which I
found it hard to stay, but have written
briefly omitting muon of interest.
Robert Wallace, whom I captured with
Stewart ic East Tennessee, was too iii
to escape by jumping from the train
with Stewart, and was kept a prisoner
tiii the close of the war. He told his
farther, Hon. A. S. Wallace (of the
Columbia District in congress in
1870-1), that our talk io my camp in
the mouotains of Tennessee reconciled
him to the inevitable result of the war.
President Grant appointed him Uni
ted States marshal for South Carolina,
and I believe he held the office until
removed by President Cleveiand. I
regret that I shall not be able to
attend the meeting for the return of the
flag. The occasion would doubtless
call up many pleasant, half forgotten
memories. I am, sir, with sincere
respect, O. H. La Grange.
Late Colonel First Wisconsin Volunteer
Cavalry.
May There be Rest for the
Weary.
The State expaiains that the Garris
who got the Beckrege truck from the
dispensary is the railroad commissioner
and the son of the penitentiary direct
or Garris who got the pigs and brick
bats. The family motto, the State adds,
is "Any old thing "
We learn with alarm that there are
two Garrises, We rise with anxiety
to enquire if there are any more of
them. The State can cot afford to have
a Urge family with the acquisitive and
adhesive instinots that mark those two.
The Gary connection is enough to take
charge pf. If there is a large accu
mulation or collection of Garrises any
where we eb al i advise tax payers to
despair immediately and break for tall
timber.-Greenville News.
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of serial fiction. Ananias told a story,
and she continued it
Paper novels, 00 new tit!??, reany of
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The happiest ladies are those using tbe
Wbiesewtog machine. J
IGENERAL BROOKE
S DISGUSTED.
He May Send the $3,000,000
Back to tbe United States.
Havsna, March 30-Gov. Gen.
Brooke has almost made up his mind
tosend the $3,000,000 back to the
United States if the Ceban military
assembly does not give up the army
rolls
'.You may as well ^lo so and not
trifle much longer," said Secretary
Alger, when discussing the matter
two days ago in conference with
Gen Brooke and Gen. Gomez The
latter said that such a course would
serve the assembly right Anyway
the impression is spreading that the
governor general may return the
money to Washington, and it is stir
ring np fresh feeling against the
assembly. Gen Ernst called upon
the Cuban Gen. Rafael Portuendo,
chairman of the executive committee
of tbe assembly, three days ago and
asked for the rolls
"Do you come from Gen. Brooke?"
asked Portuendo.
"Yes," replied Gen. Ernst.
"Officially or unofficially V9
"I come unofficially/5 answered the
American officer.
'Thed I cannot give them np,"
retorted Portuendo "I can only do
-so on official recognition 99
A file of the United St3tes troops
would probably be sent to take the
rolls if the military administration
knew exactly where they were, but
there is a feeling that a mistake
might be made, and the administra
tion placed in the light of over anx
iety and possibly be laughed at.
In the course of a coversation with
an old friend from San Domingo
to day Gen Gomez said : "I am
ready to go home I am tired of this
jangle with the assembly. I have
learned something about this people
which I did not know before They
are an ungrateful people They do
not appreciate what the United
States government ie doing for them
-a service in which I am assist
ing."
millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to he public to
know of one concern in the land who are not
afraid to be generous to the needy and suffer
ing. The proprietors of Dr King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
have given away over ten million trisl bottles
o this great medicine ; and have the satiafao
faction of knowing it has absolutely cured
thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bron
chitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the
Throat, Chest and lungs are surely cured by it,
Call on J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist, and get
a trial bottle free* Regular size 50c and $1.
Every bottle guaranteed, or price refum'ed. 3
It is now a race between the vol
unteers io Cuba and the yellow jack
as to which shall get into the United
States before the door is shut.
The Congressional Library at Wash
iogton bas a set ol Tbe London Times
from 1796 lt 9 not strange that a
file of this newppaper is now of great
value, fer io 1800 only 1.000 copies
were printed The set in the Boston
Public Library dates from 1808 and
consists of 232 bound volumes.
A pneumatic horse collar finds
favor with many horsemen, anet the
animals themselves seem to appre
ciate it, as it adjusts itself to every
motion of the neck.
The frightful epidemic of typhoid
fever in Philadelphia is caused by
impure water The reservoirs are
in filthy condition almost beyond
beli f T-ie bottoms of ihe basins are
covered with a slimy ooze filled with
noxious organisms, a conglomerated
mixture of tadpoles, angleworms,
human bones and dead fish. The
reservoirs have not been cleaned for
years and the water is nearly as black
as tar.
Southern Railways Plana.
Washington, March 28 -President
Spencer, of the Southern Railway, said
to day that bis company had under
consideration for some time the
desirability of reaching Savannah by its
own Hees, and that this seemed to be
an opportnone time to do so. He
said: 'Orders bave been given
therefore for surveying both from
Columbia, S C , and Augusta, Ga , io
order to determine upon the more
advantageous route. There is no
intention at present to go beyond
Savannah."
The Negro Soldier Again.
Birmingham, Ala., March 28.-The
trouble at Doiimite, in which negroes
resisted arrest of one of their number
night before ia?t, and, besides shooting
one of their number because he declin
ed to resist arrest, was resumed carly
to-day. Mack Chambers and another
white mao were shot at long range ar.d
wounded
Sheriff O'Brin has made 35 arrests i
The ringleaders are discharged mem
bers of ibo Third Alabama oolored
egiment, who have advised thc negro
miners cot to fubroit to arrest. Work
as been resumed at the mines with
strong fcroe of deputies on guard.
Murderers and Thieves.
A Remarkable Gang of Out
laws Unearthed in Kansas.
Kansas City, Mo.. March 28-The
Star prints a three coiucna t cry
regarding the arre.-t o a remarkable
gau of Kansas criminals who haye for
ye.a:z lived Dy mean* of robbery and
marder. Oae of the gang is believed I
to be lbs murderer of Joseph New, j
who was kiiled ia Greenwood County, j
Kansas, two years ago, for which New's
wife and George H Dobbs are now
serving life sentences. So rmiy does
Warden Landis, of the Kansas
penitentiary, believe in the ionoceooe
of Mrs. New and Dobbs that he will
immediately cree Governor Stanley to
pardoo them Frank Altgood, alleged
to be the real murderer, is in jail at
Iola,|Kao., nuder a charge of forgery
Alvin Ballard, serving an eight year
sentence in the Kansas penitentiary fur
horso sreaiiog, has oonfessed that he,
Aitaood and "Bill" Turner were ihe
murderers of New a d that Mrs Nsw
and Dobbs are absolutely innocent.
Turner has not been found. It seems
that the very men who murdered New
and robbed his dead body conspired
afterward to convict the widow and
Dobbs The supposed murderer.
Altgood, according :o Ballard, even
went so far as to try to get on the jury
which convicted mem. Ballard goes
on to say that he, Alfgood and Turner
were members cf an organized gang of
thieves and murderers that operated io
Southeastern Kansas. As a result of
bis confession eighteen stolen horses, a
bag of counterfeit silver dollar aod a
counterfeiting outfit have been recover
ed. Beside Altgood, B L Mathes,
Mary Mathes acd Herbert Simpson are
under arrest Fifty other horses, stolen
by the gang, hsve been located. The
officers are on the trail of other
members of the gaog. Ballard also
alleges that Altgood murdered William
Coulter, near Eureka, in 1889.
Officers who have been working on the
oass ba?e corroborated many of
Ballard's statement.
Newport News, Va., March 28.
The cruiser Cnicago, which left Hamp
ton Roads March 13, under ordess to
overtake the American liper Paris and
tnnsfer from that ship ex Secretary
of State John Sherman, who had been
taken seriously til, arrived at Old Point
shortly after the noon hour to-day with
the distinguished invalid on board.
Mr. Sherman waa one of a party of
tourists who were visiting points of
recent historial iutorest, having charter
ed the Paris for the purpose.
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HAVING TAKEN the House on Main
Street second door south of the Nixon
House. I am piepared to accommodate a few
jepular boarders, and also lodging and meals
to transient customers.
Terms reasonable.
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Sept. g.
ARE YOU NEEDING AN IRON
SAFE?
HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN
ERAL AGENT for the Alpine Fire
and Burglar Proof Safe Company. I am
prepared to oner liberal terms to those who
are in need of a good safe.
For prices and terms address
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NOTICE.
ITNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, I will be
J at my office for the transaction of offi
cial business only on Tuesdays and Wednes
days of e ch werB; and on Sales days. Spe
cial appointments for other davs must be
errvnged for. W. H. INGRAM,
Nov. 16, 1838.-tf Master.
THE BANK OF SUMTER,
SUMTER, S. C.
City and County Depository
Transacts a general Banking bu3ines?, \so
has
A Savings Bank Department,
Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In
terest allowed at the ra;e of 4 per cent, per
HUGUCD. Payable quarterly, on first days o
January, April, July and October.
W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH,
W. F. RHAME, Cashier. President.
Jan 13.
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SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.'
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jnoe, JSftS
Consolidated Aug. % ISSI.
SUMTER S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.1899.
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