Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" 3 AJL 0 i7 8 9 3? 11? ii M16 16 17.18 19 20 21 22 23 ' ' 1115 20 27 28 29 3C ^311 ' DNION COUNTY NEWS Items of Interest Gathered frou Various Sections by our Correspondents. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR '~f* *% Interesting Incidents Connecter . With the hate War, Bringing Oil ' ~~~ Deal of Unwritten His tory, fn xvhicli the Private nn< Credit Justly Due Phem. Snm of the Truest, Noblest and Hrn\ est Men That Ever Faced a Enemy Were to be FOUND AMDNG THE PRIVATES BY J. L. STRAIN. Sinco beginning to write thes retriiniscances there has been such ; flood of reminiscential matter couiin< in that it will be impossible for m to confine myself to the bounds o my own limited observation wiilmu totally disregarding the wishes an. ignoring the help tendered by com radea and others who have somethin< * thit will bo of interest to some oh ^ soldiers, or the decendunt of some oh soldier under whose eyes thes sketches may chance to fall. Fo that reason I will do all in my powc to arrange the various incidents gather from time to time in such way that they will be taken up by th general historian and placed wlier they belong. In some instance half a dozen lines conrain what is t be said, while at others two or thro pages of fools or legal cap paper i barely sufficient. So my reader w il pardon me if the subject matter o these reminiscences are a little variet or turn abruptly from one subject o place to another. I closed ray last chapter at Gain] Walsh where the present finds u ready to go on with the work. # The landing of the Federals a White Point, to which I have jus called the reader's attention, was feint or a strategic -novo on their pai to test the strength and disposmo of the Confederates at that point We must have hud, r.f that time, b< iween 3,500 and 4,000 iu^n in t'n various arms of the service nea Adams Hun ready to resist a inovt raent of the enemy towards Charles />n. This estimate d-?es not of coure include the troons alonir the coa< in the direction of Charleston ahon liantowle's Station, John's Islan and elsewhere who would have bee brought in hud occasion demanded 1 Tho proceedings of that Sabb>it paorning no doubt convinced tbe Fet pfals that they could not advance h th*t route, and it seemed they change theif course by the way of Edist fiver and Willtown or Jacksonbon In that event Bear's I*l?ud woul be the landing place, and there w<>ul be no fortification to contend wit W except a battery of heavy ardllei stationed at Willtown. Orders were issued for a stroE cavalry picket to be sent to Bear . *tr\& i#'** * A. M. FOSTER, Vice President. ? ? ' J. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. | anlers' National Bank * i tors, h, .c. X 1 $60,000 | 50,000 } ...; 00,000 $ 1 $170,000 J I VV. II. Wnlluce, Win. JHTries, sfc s, E. P. McKiasick, A. H. Poster, ^ _ & t Your (Justness. ^ ( J i| i !l L Island at a*jlaco called Bennett's j " Point. Lieutenant Mabry Thomas, j . of the McKi sick B-itigcis, was in i command of die force consisting of \ 'a detachment if MeKissiek's com- ji " pany \\h:ch once proceeded to the \ ! i'.it. Tfiey crossed Edisto river c - below Millwood on an old cotton I boat and took up headquarters at the c - Matthew's place. The house they c i occupied was a large palatial' build- y - ing surrounded by verandas, porticos t | and shrubbery of all kinds. Ifitch- n - ing places for horses were both con- t vcuieiit and com for table, a3 they t - were protected from the weather, c Pickets were seat out to the different x # pbicis to be guarded and the command ] j prepared for a week's stay on tho c 1 island. It was not an island either, (j it was a peninsular, though caded t i? i .1 i Tu.. r.i .1 i i ij^ui n Jduiiiu, i lie X' ( UtTUi fJ gunboats could run up the Edisto t river on ouc side and Ashcpoo on \ the other and shell the pickets for \ ttie fun of it whenever thev got ready, t One morning Sergeant E. li. Minter r in charge of 11?e post at the point, \ !f saw the gunboat coming towards [ il hira. lie mounted his men and re- t ' ?il,a(iAVDr nf the woodland, a v short distance to the rear and awaited a n developments. The boat opentdn v terrific fire and shelled the woods, r The bursting of shell and the whiz ) . of grapeshot was something new to t our horses as well as men. Major f Mmtcr (we all called him Major o c instead of Sargeant) rode a j , high mettled sorrel mare, one of the f , be-t animals in the command. A f i; ten-inch moitar sht.ll fell near him \ f and the fuse blew out. without its ? t bursting. I lis mare became un j 1 manageable and threw him. Ilis foot }] . hung in tho stirrup and us he fell he t it caught the stirrup (which was made s I with a spring for that purpose) and J I he had the presence of mind to open g 0 the spring and free himself from his f r entanglement, thus, beyond doubt, r r saving himself from a death too hor- s 1 ribie to contamplate. fi ;i The Sergeant and his men stood j e their ground and reported regularly v c to Lr. Thomas, who with the reserve }1 s picket was in readiness to carry out ; o any orders from headquarters. Tho f 0 time had come to test our men and j s they were aware of it. To "flunk" f 1 then, as they called it, would have \ f brought disgrace upon tho company t 1 which ihey could not afford to do t r To the Federal navy this annoying fl of our pickets was fun and no doubt t 0 they enjoyed it hugely. But after a (j 8 few days of this perilous service tho pickets wese withdrawn to the bridge it at the Matthews heuse, and head it quarters were removed about two ;i miles to the rear. IScouts did the t woik in the island near Bennett's n Point after that, and the pickets had .. I, n uuiiipui/iuvt'ijr vix^y umu. i/uuii^ j tho roon'hs (?f Janunry und February e of ihat year tho picketing and scout r ing went on on Bears Island without j. any particular incidents taking place worthy of note, except that one night ( ie two scouting parties of the Federals t it were sent out with a view ostensibly 1 it of surrounding our pickets and cap ( J turing thein. There were a good j r, many negroes on the Island who ( t. no doubt furnished information to tho , h enemy ami acted as guards for their I- scouting parties. The night to which 1 v I refer was a very dark one, and by | ,',1 some means these scouting parties ( o either mistaking where our pickets \ , w?*r?* or else taking the wrong road j el mot each other at a point about nulf a i IJ mile from where our men were stand- ' di guard. As wo suppose, each , y took the other for Confederates and | the firing begun. For a few minutes i ,g a terrific battle went on while our j 'a men looked on and eujoyed the sport, j lYhat damage cither party did toe ithtf wc have means of knowing. S"f\t morning the ground showed | hat siTuo ex.eulion was done. The | grounds (.n l.o li lines of retreat were c"?v? jr.'i with the debris of battle. [Japs, !-site*, gui s, haymets and dif Fetet.t at tides cf one kind and mother belonging to the soldier's ni fit were Rcrtteied along the road. On tie Island there were deer, Ai\l hnLN. ouws and wild ducks withnit etnl. The ducks and frogs made ight hideous with (juackiug and tro-ikiag, while the porpoise in the ivcrs <11 each tide would [ uff aud 'plash in the water, often alarming ,ho watchmen who. on account of .he no:so ?if the wind and water, could : lot tell what it was. Ahout the middle of March our ;uurdg were taken (.IT IT-ars 1-land n.d afterwards occupied Johasso and i ?:?rc of Edisto Elands. Scouting * >artics made their visits to Dear's dar.d at different times but as far as 1 re could see or find our. the Federals i ib indoncd all idea of making an ad- i ranec along that route, if they had iver Lad any. i Just before our command was irdered to Virginia iu July* _a_ ! unpany of twenty-four men were < lent across EdUtto river to reconnoifcr tie Bectien of between Edisto i tbd -Ashep^pP^ra^i<il!ftif-truct)oii8 o go as far aa. Befinett's Point and ] o bring o(T all the beef cattle we ! lould find with other property that i night be cf'service to our army, i Ve had all the timo we wanted to 1 r.ako the reconnoissance. With two 1 lay'B rations we set out one Saturday i uorning, crossed the Edisto near i 'aeksonboro. It was upwards of i liirty miles the way we had to go i Vhen we got to our old picket post ' ve could hardly realize that it was < he tamo place. The land was very I ich and the weeds antl grass grew I crv tbick oil the ground. Rut wo I tnew every foot of the eountry and ade our way to Bennett's Point i id)ere we were drtrwwl to go. Just icross the river on Edbto Island < ve could see the Federal pickets who ( aised an iilurni at our approach I Yhile we were standing looking at i hem a bout came along propelled i >y mufllcd oars. Ic was souie of our < nvn men who were placing torpedoes < n the river. It was with some dif i ioulty that we kept some of our party rom filing on them, thinking they vere the enemy. We were then at lie entrance of St. Helena S<?und. lere we remained till late in the , ifternoon grazing our horses and ' antalizing the Federals on the other , ide of the river. The day was hot. lust before night we mounted and , tarted back. But let me stop here o say, I have often heard the sun , iso and sun set upon the ocean , poken of as one of nature s grandest j cones. Yet either of them will sink , nto insignificance comparatively rhon compared with the sublimity of j , thunder storm on the oceaui. Stand- , ng looking out as it were into in j inite space upon the wuters and see- , ng the inky black clouds rise as if < rom old ocean's bosom and see the ; ightnii'g mingle its fury with that ol ' j he waves, our mind goes hack to * lie scene on tJallilee where Omnip tance asserted its authority and , lie waving elements obeyed their , livine master. ( Wliofe words I l.e raging winds control, i And rule the boisterous deep; Who made the sleeping billows roll, The rolling billows sleep. Anecdotes of the War. i Tom Jlurgess Kills Geu. Sedgwick. A Sentinel's Quick Wit i Saves His Life. < MY W. II. S. HARRIS. At the battle of Spottsylvania 3ourt House, in Virginia, at one ime the fighting ceased along the ( ines for a while and a Yankee offi jer was seen riding along in front of lis line as though he was looking >ver the ground tor a forward movenont, and Tom Burgess, of Co. F, 15th S. C. Begiment, fired at the Yankee officer a distance of about 5ve hundred yards and at the crac'c )f Burgess's gun the officer fell to ;he ground and his horse became Yrnu r I \r fVi >rli ton nil ami run intr\ flirt Y II I^IIVVUVU l?uv? I UU lllb>/ W"? V Confederate lines and was captured. The day the news was received alon^ aur lines that General Sedgwick f the Federal army was killed by a Confederate sharp shooter whilo riding along in front of his line the day before. So thoro seems to be no doubt that Tom Uurgess was the man that hilled General Stdgwh-k. I?urge?a never owned a negro nor a f >ot id" land in his life hut lie was ready aflj^oluiitcer at iho first e >11 for tr K)jAJ?y/ the Confederacy and was a j bravWnd faithful soldu r until Gee's | surrender t:t Appomattox Court j il-. use on the Osh of April. I Sti.~?. . Air. Burgess lives near Joncsville ( and is it* town occasionally. At. one time during the war General K vans' brigade was camped at Mount Pleasant, S. C. There was a long bridge that spancd the cut j between .Mount rieosnnt ami u11 ivan's Islan 1 which connected the Maud with ibo mainland. We were apprehensive that the Yankees would in the night slip around Su.livan's Island in the small boats and burn tho bridge and thus cut oft" eonnee tiou be .ween the two places. Tho tlilT-TeJit regiments of the brigade w.iuM guard thi-? bridgi at night alterna'cly. 'The men were strung along on the bridge a tow pics apirt and there was no relief during the whole nigh-, every mm had to keep awnko and watch all night. The field officers would net as officers of the guard and pa?8 along tfainr^snully to s e if tho men were the:r pests and were awake. One night Lieut Col. W. B. Alii son was passing along from post to post ami he came to Sum Stack, of Co. A, 18th Regiment, and Stack was sitting on his knap m:k his gun standing between bis I legs, his blanket over his bick and head and fast a-leep, and to go to sleep on picket post is death according to army regulations. Col. Allison thought he had caught Stack j suro enough and he hailed him I Lv'.rh .....t...... ?i. i i - I v<io uv/i us, (nivv;|< i uavu caught you." Stack awoke instantly an^ took in the situation in the twinkling of an eye and he said in a low voice: "Ilush, Colonel. 1 think [ hear a Yankee boat." Col. Aili?on i^?n low whisper sail, 1 in (VnSCU 'ill eCGrvmC * Ubuvk U?:J, '\inqf 3ut in front." They both kept piiet and listened for a minute but heard nothing, and they concluded it was a large fish splashing about n the water and the Colonel passed m and never knew from that day to tiiis that Stack was sure enough isleep. West Union News Notes. Mu. Editor:?I thought I would j pvo you a little additional news from [ uur part of town. Everything is moving along quietly. There has been some changes inude among the bosses at the mill. [ hope that some of the old bosses will be retained as they are right jlever fellows. There seems to bo plenty of hands here to run all of the machinery. Our .Major MoLure is the champion hog raiser in these parts, having sold two lately that weighed 090 pounds. They were purchased by :hat up-to date market man, Mr. Geo. 8. Kirby, and it made neighbor Sanders smile as he placed those fine j aogs on t!.e market. Well our legislature has adjourned. ! I think the most important bill that was brought before the body was the j Child Labor bill. Compulsory education and child labor is one of the new problems for our people to solve. It is with sadness I chronicle the death of our friend and neighbor, Mr. M. M. Eubanks, who died on Wednesday last, he leaves a devoted wife mid son, a mother, four brothers and f'aiii* uulnro nriAHen l*ia U I (ah ivut o.ovvio nv i ii u it I il 1UO UUUbU. nun J 3ad it is for one to be cut down bo soon in life: ho being only twentyfour years old on the day he win buried, just in the prime of young manhood. They sorrow not as those that have no hope for while on his death bed ho gave full assurance that he was ready to meet death. Brother thou was iniM and lovely Gentle as a summer brei ze, Pleasant, as the air of evening When it floats among the trees. Ye', again we hope to meet thee When the clay of life is 11 il, Then in heaven with joy to grtet thee When no farewell tear is shed. JOSIAII. Oh, but it was dry for the Inauguration visitors in Washington on Sunday last. They had to go three miles, outside the city limits, to get a drink. That's why Washington is called the Oity of Magnificent Distances, $ Wm. A. N!CH( BANK Trf? r.saci a Reau Iar Ban Branches and Insure A Boiler, Liability and Acc I of' Indemnity Cor Officia Individuals as Administr YOUR BUSINESS IS REJ ijr^for A-ju^'wrK.^TAT vract *u.?tuwa *.wrTtym 1 ww West Springs News Notes. Mil. Kditok: ? March has struck |i us iti all it-? fury, if. is the inosr. unpleasant month of ti e year. Our firmet3 are ' bu y with the mule n wudavs. I Miss Foster, who has been ,; teaching the lhuhatn scho !, has rc? < turned t-> her leuae 11 Spartanburg, j Mr. W at. IV;>"V is \crv ill, but j \ hope lie will be up ?oon. t Messrs. John iNn th and Westly i Lawsmbaic purchased u mule and 11 gone to fuming, we hope our bache- 11 J,?r frit lld> will tll-.Lo crr.or.-a T..e Chan-Wott school closed ' < last Saturday vidi a party at the u residence o! Mr. .1. 1>. Johnson s, a j< I irge crowd is reported and a g'?? d j , time in general. Mr John McCravy, of Oro s Keys, i is visiting his son at this place. I wouldn't he surprised if we hear j j tno ''wedding bells" at this place in i the near future, while sotne would he ' happy, sotne will think? "llut still the heait wilt haunt the well , | \\ hetvin the golden bowl lies broken. , And irea-ure in its narrow cell j , The Past's most holy token." M. L. ; THE CENSUS BULLETIN NO. 32. j Twelfth Census of the United t States. , v.M- the benefit of the readers of The Times we nave ?.iaao .-??, ?of>_ ments to receive the reports from t Washington of th.e census returns from the dilferent. States of the Union j as taken in tiie twelfth census last . year. It would he well to file away every copy of The Times containing these reports for future reference. ' We will cover every State in the Union, a ana mo information will be valuable ' j to some of our renders. Comparative q statements will be made showing the gradual increase in population since the states took their tirst. census.]} Below will he found the thirty-second ' thirty-third and thirty-fourth re- c ports: I The Bulletins arc prepared under . the direction of Mr. Win, C. Hunt, . Chief Statistician. * ^ i1 I'D PI' l.ATioX OF NliW YORK.?NO. 82. jj New York was one of the oiigii al i j thirteen States. j < The population ot the Stuto in ] 1000 is 7,208,012 as compared with t a population in 1890 rf 5,997,*58, f representing an increase during the 1 ten years of 1,270,159, or 21.2 per ] cent. A small portion of this in- \ crease is due to the fact that H there were .*>,818 Indians and 8;) other persons, or a total ol 5,821 ! j persons, on Indian reservations, et ,1 m New York, who were espeeia !y : n enumerated in 1*90 but were i ?.?t} i included in the general popu ation >>t i the State at that census. The hum- i 1 erical increase in the population of j < New York lias been greater durii g | the last decade than in any former! ten-year period, and the percentage! of increase has been greater than at | j auy con.-us since 18t>0. The present population of the j i State is more than 21 times as large 11 as the p jpulation reported at the i r L _ 1 fT<?A I nrst census in 1 cu. I 1 The tot?l ijiiiii surface of New 1 York is, approximately, 17,020 square miles, the average number of i persons to the square mile at the * census of 1900 being 152.6. t The following territorial changes * have been made in the counties of New Y->rk since 1 Hi*0; Nassau or-1? ganized from part of Queens and part t of Westchester annexed to New York. * Of the 400 incorporated places 1 150 have a population in 1900 of more than 2,000: of these 12 have ' more thau 25,000, namely, New i York, with 3,437,202; Buffalo, with < 352,837; Rochester, with 162,608; Syracuse, with 108,374; Albany, with 94.151; Troy, with 60,651; Utica, with 56,383; Yon kern, with 47,931; Binghampton, with 39,647; Elmira, with 35,672; Schenectady, with 31,082; and Auburn, with 30, )LSON & SON, ERS, king Business in all its ^gainst Fire, Tornado, idents, and Issue Bonds Is of Corporations, and a tors, Etc., Etc. )PECTFULLY SOLICITED. >4"? iiilittlsitnnM. '1 i;i? el v ? t>. ... ...... VJI IV, ii-> V.JUSU. tutt'll prior to the act of consolidation which I ceiiuc efhcMve January 1, 180S. had a population in 1800 of 1,.01 ">,301 s compared with a popu!i:tion in 1000 of 3 -137,202. showing m apparent increase of 1,021,001, >r 120.^ per cent. In ls;?0 the city comprised all of a I? 11 i> now the horough of Miinhat>~ in arid the greater part of what is row the horough of llroux, but under lie act. of consolidation above referee I t>. Kiigs county, Richmond bounty, the larger part of Queens bounty, and a small part of Wcstrhesar county became a part of the lit y. on i.ation of north Dakota.? no. 33. Dakota was organi/.ed as a terriory March 2, 1801, but on November 2, 1880, the territory was diviled into the States of North and ivjiith Dakota. '1*tie population of the State in 1O00 is 310,140 as compared with a population in 1800 of 182,710, showrig an increase during the last ten pears of 130,427, or 74.7 per cent. V .small portion of this increase is lue to the fact that there were 7,980 Indians and 284 other persons, or a :otal of 8,204 persons, on Indian 'cservutions, etc., in North Dakota, s ho were especially enumerated in 1890, but were not included in the general population of the State at ;hat ceneuK. The population of North Dakota n 1900 is nearly nine times as large is that given for 1880. The total land surface of North Dakota is approximately, 70,195 quarc miles, the average number of >ersons to the square mile at the :cnsus of 1900 being 4.5. The following territorial changes u the counties of North Dakota have >een made since 1890: Present lounty of Williams organized from 4uford, Flannery, and part of Aired; Kirt of Aired annexed to Billings tnd part taken to form part of Willams; Bowman and McKenzie annexed to Billings; Buford and Flan"lorv takon to form n?rt. r?f Wili:o*v>o. j ? v v* n iniauiO) CJhureh annexed to McHenry, McLean and Pierce; Dunn, Hettinger ind Wallace annexed to Stark; Garield and Sheridan annexed to McLean; Mountraille annexed to Ward; tenvilie annexed to Bottineau and tVard; Stevens annexed to McLean ind Ward; and former county of iVilliams annexed to Mercer and >tcrk. (>f the 7 d incorporated places there re I'd which have more than 1,000 nhabiiants in 1000; of these 2 have oorc th.m .">,01)0, namely, Grand ^orks, with 7,052, and Fargo, with t,58!) inhabitants. l'OITIiATION OF OHIO.?No. 34. Oiiio was organized as a State November 29, 1802. The population of the State in 1900 s 4,157,o45 as compared with the >opulation in 18?v of 3,672,316, epresenting an increase during the ast ten years of 485,229, or 18.2 ?er cent. The pripnlnti/yn oi 'Jliio in 1900 IS nore than ninety-one times as large is that given for 1800, the census akcn two years before it became a state. The total land surface of Ohio is, ipproximately, 40,760 square miles, ;he average number of persons to the iquarc mile at the census of 1900 being 102.0. Of the 709 incorporated places hViiir*? 1x1'I lanA * ' ? ...? iuuv uotc u pupmauuu * in 1900 of more than 2,000, and of these 9 have more than 25,000, namely, Cleveland, with 381,768; Cincinnati, with 325,902; Toledo, with 131,822; Columbus, with 125,560; Dayton, with 85,333; Youngatown, with 44,885; Akron, with 42,728; Springfield, with 38,253; and, Canton, with 30,667 inhabitants.