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^itbiiM^ ' ?'*?> I . ?* ? > j? . ,m jt ^ / "Siy THE TOWN OF UNION HAS Tj I I |^ I T ]%X ~^!r-.'jjraBL f> I ^ Ml "1^ /MP I T^ ^ i II The largest KnlttingtMill and 1 - ' _?' ' li H - fl I I I / I IJ (/{ Dye Pluntin the State.' An Oil [(( " *! ?^fc >1 B B - 9 19 I ^/ I )j) and Manufacturing that ))| BBBBBBBH^B* MfT B < '^bSm^ V il I * 1 t <^B B- V W & B 9 9 wfl I U L 1 IT" ' 1 tilT^""- TY's 1 B- W -i 1 \V l*i _ \_f ? 1 JL ill JLi K_y# i Tliree Grade,! School.. Art*. B II" - * ,."**, . : | Bl?n Water. Popul.tion O.tfy | *?0L LTNOTo. ~ . -. ~" UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1. 1901. ^ ~ I A * ?. ' f F. M. FARR. President. 9 J aUO. MUNRO, Cashier, J h { Merchants' and Pl< * *' - ' ? OF C7I*] ' x Capital. Stock , Surplus f Stockholders' Liabilities.... f Total'. | Directors?J. A. Faut, X T. C. Dunoan, J. T. Douglass, Wm. Coleman, T We Solicit 1 ft WW U'feU" fS-'V ?..V, Jimpnie was along. He was a full blooded jolly Irishman, and ware a coon''skin cap made so that tho tail hung* down the back of his neck. This novel headgear made it a very easyjob to distinguish him from any other man in the command, leaving out the-faot that his Hibernian brogue would 'prove equally as potent a facto? in his identification as the coon skiu cap could have done. But, anyway, nothing more was said er done with the chicken scrape until one-ev^ding after we came off dress parade, when Col. It. F. Stevens, with bis escort, rode up to our camp and 'asked the several captains to bririg out the men who had not vet been clustered into the service. The tpen Were. brought: up and aligned, but Jimipio was not there. Then r\ a ?( _ 17" _i_ _ L . a. _ ~ IJ&ptain ivicrv'ssiCK, iu mH|?ieni<>rian voice, called out, "James G. Heron," and Jimmie; at1 the other end of tlie strefet, aii'Stfet'ed. The captain told him J19 wa? wanted there and to come quick. Jimmie came up the street walking with both hands behind him and looking as if he wad very much embarrassed by the presence of the Colonel and his aids. , When he got near' enough ColStevens said to hied: * 4<8o yoar name is Jauios G. Heron?" Jimmie answered affirm? atively and the Colonpl told him to y/ take hi* place in lino, Jimmie did fto, and the Colonel proceeded to enlist them- and perform such other duties as devolved upon him in that connection. When he, the Colonel, got through and told them they could go back to their quarters, Jimmie slapped Captain McKissick on the shoulder and said in a low voice: MCap'in, 01 thought he was gooing to * 1901T MARCH 1901 Su. Mo. Til. We. Hi. Fri. Sat. 12 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18-19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 SIR UNlOlTCOUNTY NEWS. Items of Interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. Interesting Incidents Connected With the hate War, It ringing Out n Great Deal of Unwritten History, in Which the Pi irate and Subordinate Officers arc Given Credit Justly Due Them. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest Men That Ever Faced an Enem y Were to be FOU.Np AMONG THE PRIVATES. . BY J. L. STRAIN. . i, l! I I I. . , I closed the la<t chapter of these reminiscences just as our command bivouaced on the ground upon which wo caipped. Afterwards and called it Camp -Walsh, after the Senior Captain of our command. But I did not finish" all I had to say about the chicken scrape, Jtmmie Heron was not with the ompany when we were mustered 4, into service at Camp Hampton on ' the 17th of December by Col. John S. Preston. He, with several others, joined us on the coast. An fV*n rt 1 r?V* t ivn rvAf fVtn nliinl/Ano Y | 1 A. M. FOSTER, Vice President. I. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier, f j inters' National Bank f a tOTN, S. O. c $60,000 I 60,000 } : Go.ooo * a i n fC17ivnnrt T 4 W. H. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, I ^ , E. P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, X t'our Business. X j 4- ^ ^ *** ^ ^ ^ k Si ___________ ,1 q brnng oop that dim poolit scrap? b agin." J Wc staid at that camp for about d two months, doing camp and picket a duty and drilling both in company g and squadron drill. fi It was here the measles broke out si and many of the men were sent to ci ihe hospital, and some got off home. g( Some died?John Blake and Sea- ai berry Woolbright of our company, h and others wore discharged on ac- oi count of their health. Before the gi mcasic* g)t mrougn ine mumps set tk iu and 1 h id a swollen and sore jaw ai lor several days, but got through all tl right. "IJnclo Dickoy" Woodruff, le of the infantry, would come over to h our camp and hold prayer meeting about one? of twioo a week. He m generally got good attendance. The tl hoys knew and called him "Parson" tl Woodruff. to Some of the pickets brought into y( camp a cap shell that had beer* fired L from the gun boats and failed to ci burst. It was one of those long comic i' Vvllows with cap on the point, w and 9'A* working at itsome time got "1 the oip out and poured tho powder Jj out. as they thought, and then one of C Capt Spcai man's men stuck fire into it and it exploded, mangling the leg ??] of one of his men so as to necessitate lo amputation. Part of it crippled a Jj hoitse so as to render it useless and th another fragment passed through our n( Orderly Sergeant, John R. Smith's a tent and passing just over the seat d> he had left only a moment before to ki attend to some other business, and fu going nearly a quarter of a mile cut p] oft' a limb from a pine tree as large N as a man's arm. This was the first m serious accident that happened in our m camp so far as I can remember. m Ilorse racing was a pastime much W; enjoyed by the boys. We had some good horses in the command, and tb many dollars would sometimes change q( hands as the result of a race. And it more than this I must and do confess pi that the men were never very par- bl ticular what day of the week it was re when a race was run. The Sabbath ar was to us no more than any other pt day, except as we saw its observance m in somebody who was determed to th to keep it as sacredly as possible. p( Of this class of men I am glad to U| say we had several. Their influence U] on the more reckless portion is some- f0 thing for which I am very thankful today. tb It was commonly the caso that our ti< inspections came oft' at i) o'clock on w Sabbath morning. Were it not for fci that the day was just as other days w so far as the duty of a soldier was m concerned, and it received no other w official recognition, D, While we were at Camp Walsh, C( pneumonia, (or as we wouli call it at today) grippe broke out among the M men and many of them died. Es- 3 pecially was it severe among the in- l0 fantry who were camped near us, (3 Scarcely a day passed that a corpse ft was not 9ent home for burial. Some- it times a severe case would attack J, a man and do its work before the M patient could be removed to the hos- 0j pital at Adams Run. I remember a K case in the infantry camp but don't a< remember the man's name. It was w in one of the Spartanburg companies << I think. Anyway, the man took tr violently sick. He had a oongestivo Cf chill, and poor fellow, he didn t survive it. He died in less than two R hours. Jim McCulloch was there and saw how soon the man was taken off without warning or preparation, so far as outward appearances went That night Jim took sick?had what he thought a chill. He was lying r< between Wesley McKown and my- n self. I got up and put all the saddle tl blankets I could get hold of over hiin ind tried to make him comfortable. But ho kept getting worse and worse. At last he told me to call the doctor. Dr. Littlo was then at the general icspi'al waiting on some cases that )el uged to our company.) So I vent over to Dr. Muller's tent and sailed fjr him. lie was lying on his sunk rtading a incdicol journal at he time. I told him my business mil in a few minutes we were back it the tent, lie went in and said, Ilello Mac, what's the matter with oi>??' ' I've got a chill, doctor," lhs Jim's reply. Taking him by he wrist he felt Jim's pulse and sked him to let him see his tongue, itn had a very heavy mustache and e took both hands to hold it back o he could show his tongue. The ootor then asked him some other uestions, among them, "have you een drinking any liquor lately?" im told him yes, he had a couple of rinks that day. Without saying nything more the doctor told me to o with him to his tent and he would x him up all right.. But before tailing he asked mo if I had a tin up that I could take with me. I ot Ned, our cook, up and got a cup 1 ad we went to the doctor's tent and e poured the cup nearly half full 1 P whiskev ont.of Annonrontlv n tltroo allon dimijohn, and told me to have Mack" drink about half of it now nd in about fifteen minutes give him le rest. I did as he told me and in, iss than half an hour Jim was up unting his pistol to kill Lockhart [itchell's stallion which was loose nd kicking up a general row among le horses on our line. Just about lis time tho rain began falling in irrcnts, and Jim looked out and elled "Whooper, w-h-o o-p-c r, ockhart Mitchell, if you don't take ire of that horse d?d if I don't toot him." '"Thee" Byers, who as lying in tho next tor\t, said: Call the Corporal of the guard." im began, "Corporal oftheg-u a r-d, orporal of the guard " Thee says: Post No. 1," and Jim repeated, Post No. 1.7 I could hold no ngpr and broke out in a laugh, m then says: "All over camp ion," adding a few other words not jcessary to report here. It was but few minutes till the olfieer of the ly came to the tent and wanted to ^ aow "what in the devil is all this * ss about?" The matter was ox- s lained and he went back to his post, ext morning Dr. Muller called to e, "Hello, fetonewall (for that was y nick-name) how is 'Mack' this orning?" He's all right, "Dock" as my reply. The reader will please understand mt in relating sueh episodes a9 frelently appear in these reminiscences is our objeot to ?ive as true a pen cture of army life as it is possie to do, and not to, in any way, jflect upon the life or conduct of iv one whom thev oonoern. Mnnv irties whose names are or will be 1 entioned here have long gone to leir reward, and we are not dis ' >sed, even if we could do so, to ivcil anything that would reflect 1 pon them unjustly. I would not 1 r the world do such a thing. It's sad, sad, to look back upon ie past without catching an inspira- ' on for the future. The companies 1 ere divided into messes. Our's was f uown as the York mess. Then e had the Santuc mess, Pea Ridge 2 ess, Union mess, Newberry mess, hile various mosses went by the I ?me of some individual who was 1 msidered its head.. The York mess ; that time consisted of E. L. [inter. W. M. Kennedv. D. T. yers, J. A. Donold, J. M. McCul- ' cb, Too W. Leich, Napoleon Fant,' ] has. "Bud" Fant, J. Wesley Mc- 1 iown and your correspondent. To later was added Dr. J. A. Smith, j ames and Sam McKown, Jno. W. 1 [itchell and William Plaxico, all * 'whom with the exception of W. M. 1 Kennedy, James McKown and my>lf have passed over the river, anil . ith the immortal Jackson, aro renting under the shade of the ee." Peace to their ashes, an 1 ilm to their memories. i eminiscences of the War and Gen. M. W. Gary. BY DR. A. E. FANT. We have had numerous published sports of battles from officers of ink. These, though necessary to 16 vindication of the truth of history, I give no picture of life in ranks. For this, we must depend upon subordi> nate officers and privates; and to them we appeal for authentic facts and anecdotes. Important oflicial reports -of our officers of rank are not likely to be lost to history. It is incidents and facts not embodied in theSe reports, but inshrinid in the hearts of our people, particularly incidents; and facts connected with the courage, skill, endurance, devotion nnd patriotism of the private soldiers and subaltern officers, which should noto be., rescued from oblivion and admitted^ the record. We should all contribute our mite. For in stance, our recently lamented comrade, J.#W. McKown, could have written quite a volume on his own personal experience as a private soldier and scout. In the latter, he was alvijays reliable and accurate. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF OEX. OAKY a soldier and patriot. lie never waited in idleness for the movements of the waters?for something to turn up?but was always richly prepared for every offer, lie had no dormant powers?his were all awake, highly disciplined and ready for action. lie was strictly a gentleman, but possessed one bad trait, if no more, that was profanity. Ifthere_be *-1 ent in sweak*ug, tie possessed it, especially wrfln under excitement. He was of an ejtfcreraely nervous temper, xment, consequently not so much to be blamed as others of different constitution. Oh one occasion, upon the i i__ .r.L. i_- rtt '-i i ' dhukh ui iue mscorie i^mcKanominy Itivor, wbon hurriedly preparing to neet on unexpected attack of tho 3ncmy at that point, the General was giving orders to one of his staff consenting the disposition of the artilery. This was under a heavy and iccurate fire frotu the enemy 's sharpihooters, the balls coming in close proximity to our heads. The staff officer was seen to dip his head. Jen. G. exclaimed with much emphasis: "Damn you, sir, bo still vhile receiving orders." About this ;ime a ball piercod the brim of the Jeneral's hat, and of course he lodged his head. The staff officer etaliated exclaiming: "General, fou be still while giving orders." On another occasion the enemy anded near Malvern Hill, concenrated in and around some buildings lituated upon a prominent hill. We ;al loped up as near a9 was safe for >ur horses from the fire of the gunmats, halted in a ravine, dismounted, leployed skirmishers, these were in command of Capt. Tucker and Lt. 3. G. Holers: The hill we had to iscend was steep and over grown with clover and dewberry vines, vhich retarded our progress very nuoh, besides the well directed fire >f the enemy added to the difficulty, )r at least this was my experience, den. G. becoming very much excited at our slow progress, hastened to he line, he give Capt. T. and Lt. R. 'Ilail Columbia" with many oaths, lelivered with great emphasis. After dispersing the enemy we fell back to ;he brigade, Gen. G. and his stall' ivere seated beneath the shade of a ;ree, Capt. T. was seen to approach, with a troubled expression on his face, he saluted the General which :he General politely returned at the lame time saying: Gen.?"Capt. what can I do for pou?" Capt. T.?"I wish to know why jou cursed me awhile ago, on the ikirmish line?" Gen.?"Did I hurt your feeling?" Capt. T?"Yes, you did." Gen.?"I beg your pardon, X oaeant no harm, it is a bad habit X have contracted, wish I could quit it." The General seeing that this did not satisfy the Captain, bowed his head for a moment, at last he ex.1 i ikiv.ii n._. _ ,L. l juumeu, m en v^upittiu, tuo uext time I curse you you just curse me back, and I will take no offence." Capt. T.?"I thank you General, I don't swear." Gen. G.?"Then, I don't know what in the h? you will do." In due timo the chasm was bridged and they still remained friends. Captain T. was a fine looking soldier, with flowing white hair and beard, with a strong resemblance to Gen. R. E. Lee, was greatly respected by the brigade, was a native of Georgetown, S. C., and was killed by his horse running against a tree, while in pursuit of a deer, a short while after the war. Will. A. N1CHI BAN I Transact a Regular Ba Branches and Insure Boiler, Liability and Ac< of Iniipmnitv ? ?iv/i vy 11 lUli Individuals as Administ YOUR BUSINESS IS RE lit. Rogers was killed in a railroad wreck shortly after the war. Gen. Gary's remains arc deposited at Cokesbury, S. C., and I am told nothing marks his last resting place,! save a mound of earth, covered with a luxuriant growth of noxious weeds and britrs. lie deserves better than this. The State ehould erect a suitable monument to his memory. It is astonishing t? me that his fumily has not done it, I am told he poscssed some valuable property. In the noar future I may wiite more of this worthy man. In this engagement one of the Hampton Legion was killed, while dismounting, distance supposed to be three quarters of a mile, this showed the efficiency of the enemies arms in contrast to ours. HOW BRIANT FOWJ.HR l'OOI.HD THH DOCTORS. The Hairbreadth Escape ot Sergeant McCormick, of the Johnson Rifles. HY W. II. S. IIARKIS. During the late war Briant Fowler played a good joke on the doctors. Briant, like some others, had man* agod to play ofT and keep out of the army till 1863,|l think it was, when the lame, the sick and the halt would havo to report at Columbia to go before the medical board to be e.\ainiued and either sent to the front or give"h another thirty days moro at home. Briaht had a way of throwing his legs back and feigning deformity and really he would look like he could not march or get about at all and he had been examined and played off i on his crooked legs and bandy sharfks for about twelve months, finally our government got hard up for men and they were sending most all i men to the front, and Briant saw * that ho could play oft' no longrr, so i he went to Columbia to be examined and carried his knap sack and pre- i pared himself for the froot and when they called him up before the board to be examined, the doctor said to him: '"Sir, what is the matter with you?" Briantsaid: '"nothing, lam tho best man on the hill," and he jumped up and knocked his feet together three times and said: ,lI have fo >led you doctors as long as I want to, send me to the front I want to kill some Yankees," and to the front he went and made a good soldier till tho surrender at Appomattox. Just after the first battle of Ma- . nassas the Confederates had pushed the Yankee army bock in and around * Washington and the 5th Regiment i was sent out to Muson's Ilill (which was seven mile9 from Washington ) On picket duty our lines and the Yankee lines were close together and , sharp shooting was kept up most of i the time. W. R. McCormick, of the Johnson Rifles, was sergeant of the guard one night and while pass < ing along the line from post to post in the dark he got off his course and ] got between the two lines and came < up in front of Nimrod Sharp and ( John T. Davis, two of his own com- i pany, and they both fired at him at olosc range, but fortunately they missed him and then the firing was thick all along tho lines on both sides and Sergeant McCormick was between the lines and didn't know which way to go so he had to lay kalivoAn tho turn nnnno i r. <r 1ir.no nil UV W IT VVI? ? W14V W H V V/^| 'V?U < 1?^ lllivo ail night. Late in the night our lines were withdrawn and we marched hack to Centreviilo, some ten or twelve miles. When day broke the Yankees saw McCormick and fired on him, but he fell back and fired on them and retreated in good order and fought the whole Yankee line and succeeded in making his escupe and made his way back to Centreville. His comrades thought he was killed and that they would never see him again, and when he came marching up the company was called out to greot him and welcome him back A I HjAU. I OLSON & SON, <HRS, nking Business in^Ll its Against Fire, Tornado, ^ eidents, and Issue Bonds lis of Corporations^ and rators, Etc., Etc. SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. again. This incident alone was enough to turn McCormick's hair gray. lie still lives and is at Union and can verify this thrilling incident of that eventful night. JONESVILLE NEWS NOTES. , Death of Mr. Fowler?Jonesville Industries on Sound FootingNew Water Tank? 1 Colonial Party. Jonesville, Feb. 25.?The snow Friday night was quite p. surprise to our people, but it was nailed with a we'eotne, though late in the season , for most everybody feels like they ' arc slighted by the weather if we don't get a snow or two during the n 1 u tu . Mr. Daniel Wallace Fowler, one of our oldest citizens, died very suddenly last Thursday evening. , Mr. Fowler had been in bed witji partial paralysis for nearly two mo^ths/but he was as well as usual and had taken his usual meal Thursday ?evening and in a few minutes he was dead, a third stroke of paralysis ended his life in a few moments. Mr. Fowler was about 05 years of age, and until about t\#o years since he was very active ahd healthy, he first had par uui paralysis and nearljMwo months ago he had a second attacIT- which put him in his bed never to get up and about any more. Ilis remains ware buried at Foster's Chapel last Friday. Mr. Fowler had been married about 35 years and he leaves a wife and two children, Mr. W. Banks Fowler and Mrs. J. Rj Rush to survive him. Mr. Fowler had been a member of the Meth^odjst church for a great many years. The annual meeting, of the stockholders of the Knitting Mill and the Alpha Mill were held here last week, reports of the president apd treasurer, of both mills were satisfactory and showed a healthy condition of both. f Thn knitt.incr mill riniil n diuidonJ - 0 u> Uinuvuu VI eight per cent, last year. The Alpha- . Mill has not been in operation, Jppg , enough to declare any dividend. The directors of both mills are'trying, to increase the capital stock which is good evidence of their, prosperity,, j The County Pension Board finished their work for the year last weok. The board held all their meetipgs in the County Auditor's office and tlmy. ^ found Mr. Farr, the Auditor,, r^aay and willing to assist them and gi^e any and all the information that his >i; office could furnish for inform&tijop of the board, which kindness ape) ,,, help the board appreciated ,s?d.. ar$?,v quite thankful to Mr. Farr. for thp. (/ 9&Q1C* j A colonial party was giv^n hj, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Hamea on the 22nd inst. Knee pants, the hatchet and the colonial dress werev^ cp^. > spicuous as well as abppdant refreshments. . .." The carpenter gang of the Southern Railway are here building a nUw'*1 water tank at this water "station. ' *A new depot has been down on the list * V of improvements for this: station'for a long time but there arc no visible sign3 of Its near approach. .. ^ Rev. D. Hucks filled his pulpit here yesterday evening. Mr. nocks went to his appointment at Bogansiville in the morning nine miles .away and was baok in time for his aftefr-r' noon appointment here. A g6od hrtel faithful minister he is. , ( Mrs. John T. Hart while moving around in the yard last week, it -htfr home near Jonesville, made fiTmisStiff and broke her leg below the knqte, Dr. Douglass was called in and set the leg in short order, and Mm. Hart is doing well. No small pox in or about Jotaee- < ville now. T klbphON?.'" : ?. f i The British, it has been announced, have no intention of changing their South African polisy. The real question, however, is whether the*Boers will permit them to change^ thoir South African praetiee, \ ' '