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QEO. MUNtK\ Cashier, J. D.
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X Capital Stock
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1 Directors?J. A. Fant, W.
X T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, E.
T Wm. Coleman.
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Items of Interest Gathered from ou
Various Sections by our fir
Correspondents. u}
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REMINISCENCES OF TBE WAR. *
of
en
Interesting Incidents Connected -t
With the hate War, Bringing Out 8'1
- a Great Deal of Unwritten His- th<
torv, im Which the Private and thi
" r Subordinate Officers are Given
Credit Justly Due Them. Some , .
of the Truest, Noblest and BraV'
est Men That Ever Faced an At
Enem y Were to be |,0
fin
BY J. L. STRAIN. joi
Before we go further with our
reminiscence-* we might tell of cx
another incident that happened at WL
Legare's (pronounced Lagree's) mill. bh
It was during the winter of 'til or I16
rather in the early spring of '62 that *nl
we had this for picket headquarters. ^
We had plenty of house room and
food places to hitch our* horses. tr(
Besides, some of the darkeys left ??
there by their owners to take care of W1
the premises were still there. If ^UI
there is one thing more than another ca
Sl- that the everagd soldier is a complete a?
failure in it is in cooking, y'.t these
headquarters the pickets got an old K
negro woman to do their cooking and
the premises became a kind of home
to us. But we must not forget to no
say something of the fleas we had to 8?
contend with. Our bed room was w'
a large cotton house in which there ^
was perhaps twenty bales of seed ?*
cotton or may be more. This was a<j
a great place to sleep. The house
was well mnde and by closing the
door and windows scarcely a breath W(
of air could get into the building no
matter how hard the wind blew, pi
?This was the position of the picket T
guards who were sent to White ki
point and tbat vicinity. But we fe
were not there long before the fleas tt
began a crusade which made us less C
happy than we first anticipated. 1
However, we got rid of them by a
moving our bedding into tne mm ?
Jkeoae. v
, Sometimes we were scare of non- a
commissioned officers ready for duty, a
This seemed to us to occur often er
than for privates. Anyway, the a
remedy was at hand and a private a
eras appointed corporal pro tem and c
so the work went on. fc
On one occasion John Faucett was a
acting as corporal of the guard. It a
was the doty of the sergeant or oor- c
poral at headquarters to look after t
the stock and see that nothing went a
?nrATnifica. t
WIVtIg ?MVM? ? w r
Throughout that section there i
were bands of marsh ponies?wild. <
Many of them had never seen a <
white aare or an up-country horse. ]
they were a motley orowd made up i
of males, ponies, jacks and jenneye. '
Sometimes as many as twenty were '
in a drove. All over the landscape <
v<? .(where the groundVaa not cultivated)
oew palm bushes. These skirted
fta premises about Legare'a mill and
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H. FOSTER, Vice President. J
, ARTHUR, Assistant Castalsr. I
lers' National Bank ]
IV, 8. O. I
$60,000 I
60,000 T
60,000 9
$170,000 2
II. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, |
P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, X
r Business. I
ew luxuriantly right up to the
lilding.
So on the night in question, while
>Ln Faucett was on guard at picket
adquarters a drove of these "marsh
:kers" came galloping np through
e bushes. The sound of their feet
the frozen ground as well as the
ise they made coming through the
lms induced John to think it was
quadron of Federal cavalry making
charge. But John was equal to
e emergency and ho didn't intend
be bluffed, but rather that the
jflfuig should go the other way.
> he fired off his gun at the caval
de and shouted as loud ae he could:
rall in hero Company A; fall in
>mpariy B; Captain Bruce, throw
t your line of skirmishers and open
e; bring up two pieces of that ar- ,
lery and get ready for cation." All
is demonstration on the part of |
hn against the corps of "tickers"
uck terror to the sleeping occupants
the mill house. They w<ro awak- i
ed but could not understand the ;
uation. There was no time left
em to decide from points as to what
?y must do. Immediate action j
lat be taken which resulted in a (
ad of do-as-you-please campaign,
i some of them rolled out of the
use'und met Johh in the yard they
md out the real situation and
ned him in his line of defence,
it one fellow who had made his (
it by another door took to the
K>ds. leaving behind him horse, gun, '
mket and everything except what
had on as wearing apparel, fteachr
y the woods be climbed a tree and ,
ere stayed till next day when he
ind out the real cause of the |
mble. He was a mere youth?a
od fellow and we could sympathise
th him rather than censure him
r his action on that particular ocsion.
He was court marshalled
d punished, however, for leaving
s post. He didn't belong to Mcissick's
company?This I want unrstood
as we go along. If ever he
ckered after that I never knew it,
_ 1 ,i ?A11 ftf i? It a marto a
I iioaru icu vi ?? ?
od soldier in Virginia in places
lere some of those who sat in judgent
and condemned him in the case
the Legare mill, (Lagroe) didn't
t as meritoriously as their ages and
ficial ranks should have prompted
em to have done?we know what
0 are talking about.
While we occupied Legare's mill as
cket headquarters, one of Captain
aylor's men by the name of'Harsey
illed an alligator one night with a
mce rail. The alligator was one of
le largest ever seen in our South
Carolina waters. It was about 13 or
5 feet in length. His horse came
cross it in the path and took fright
t it. It offered fight. Shooting
rn8 not allowed and be had no other
lternative but to go round it or use I
fence rail which lie did effectively. I
If the reader will allow a personal
Uusion I will state that while at this
ame place one day some of us oonluded
to get some grass for our
torses. There was plenty of it just
cross the river, and we took turn
.bout in going oyer in a skiff and
utting it. When the tide was np
he boat was ran out into the grass
md by reaching over the sides of
he boat we could soon cut a load of
t. The boat we had would only
sarry one at a time?a very small
iffair it was. So one day while the
vriter was taking his turn at gathering
the grass and having his back to
die friends on the other shore he
beard one of them call out: "Look
out there," and turning suddenly
I saw a large alligator just behind
the boat coming at fall speed toward
me. I had only e moment in whioh
to decide and act. So jumping to
my feet I seized an oar and made
ready to receive ray antagonist. I
felt that I could manage it as long as
it was in switning water unless it
threw its pondnouspaw over the side
of the vessel and upset it. The allogator,
however, disappeared under
the water and I 4<pulled, pulled for
the shore."
The First Great Battle.
BY W. II. S. HARRIS.
At the first battle of Manassas, on 1
the 21st of July, 1801, which was .
the first great battle of the late war,
n ti ? . n T ? i a
uen i. u. iv. Jones Drigaue was .
compose<l of the 5th S. C. Volunteers ;
and the 17th and 18th Mississippi 1
regiments, these regiments were com- '
posed of about one thousand men ]
each and were as a rule young, stout, J
brave fellows who had enlisted at *
the first call of the Confederacy for (
troops. The brigade lay nlong the .
southern banks of Bull Hun creek, 1
on the extreme right of our army. '
The great battle commenoed in the ?
morning of the 21st July. Sunday, 1
which was a clear, hot day. The v
battle was to our left near the stone
bridge and as the Yankees tried to ^
turn our left flank the battle moved *
farther from our brigade, and while 0
we had been expecting all the fore- 1
noon to see the blue coats appear in L
our front and wo were really eager n
for the fight, they did not come, and F
in the evening our brigade was '
ordered across Bull Run led by a 1
citizen of that community as a guide,
we made a circuitous march around '
to the rear of the Yankee army and ^
finally we formed a line of battle and
made a charge forward through some ?
woods and were soon in view of a J1
Yank camp and a line of blue coats. Jf
The euemy opened a hetvy fire of .
both shot and shell, but on the gal- 11
lant old Fifth regiment wont with n 8
yell with brave Micah Jenkins, its ''
colonel, leading the charge. Three .
of our regiment were killed in the ''
charge, Tom Bunker Fowler, of**
Jonesville, was one of the killed. in
Tom said when he first enlisted and left
home that ho would never get "
back alive and when we started into 4
this fight he gave his pocket book to
J. G. Fernandis and tqld him he *would
be killed and sure enough he r
was killed. The first blood the a
writer saw in the war was shed in ?
this charge. From some cause or "
other Gen. Jones and the two Missis- ?
nippi Regiments got parted from the ?
5th S. C. Regiment and did not a
keep in the charge but emerged from *
under a hill and being rather to our f
lefc some distance in the rear mistook "
the 5th regiment for Yankees and ?
fired a heavy volley into us and *
wounded some of our men. Our c
r?giment made a short halt and was v
preparing to renew the charge and v
plunge right into the Yankee lines, 0
which were only a few hundred yards *
away, and Gen. Jones ordered Col. *
* tf . _ ? ii i l i e iL. C
J easing 10 iaii Dae* miu luriu uu iu?
Mississippians, which command Col. 1
Jenkins obeyed very reluctantly for 8
he wa9 eager to continue the charge A
&nd wjp tpe f^ght, which really had {
already been won, for the Yankees 1
had already left the field and had *
fled in disorder. The brigade was f
ordered back to our same position on '
Bull Run and the firing at Stone '
bridge and Blackburn's ford, the '
main battle ground, had ceased and 1
the greuf; battle iyas over. The next
day a Yankee battery of sijc gqns 1
with a large camp of tents and equip- '
age was found deserted and left standing
where the 5th regiment made its
gallant cearge, whioh was really the
spoils of the regiment but they never
got them. History don't give the
5th regiment the credit it deserves
in the success of our armies in that
en-ant battle, for I claim that it was
tLis flank movement and that charge
upon that Yankee divieion which was
in the rear of their army that sent
the impression along their lines that
the rebplg, as they called us, had got
in their rear and cut tnem off from
Washington and caused consternation
and a general panic and a
scramble for Washington and the
grantj army of the republic comm?ndr
ed by Generals Soottand McDowell,
never stopped till they crossed the
Potomao and took shelter under the
guns of the fortifications around the i
capital. I claim that the 5th South
Carolina regiment commanded by
tiie gallant Colonel (afterwards Gen*
era!) Mi cab Jepkins shqu)d h?v?
credit for that first great viotory, but
? ? ?
history never gave us that credit, bul
there are still come of that gallan
5th regiment living who can verify
this unwritten bit of history but most
of them have "passed over the rivet
to rest under the shade of the trees.'
Hey Denver Enjoys
The Convention.
April seems to be worse for winds
than March wa9. The last few daye
the wind would "rise sand."
The Cti?rte and Crop Bulletins
of &uth Carolina section of the Department
of Agriculture will be
begun this week.
The two heavy rains of March
20th and April 2nd damaged farming
lands considerably. The first
Mie was 2.32 inohnH in 9J. PAnOnon.
ive hours, and the last one 3.54
nches. The land is badly gullied,
)ottoms washed to the hard and covered
with nsnd.
Mr. G. B. Fowler is here surveyor
the School District, the patrons
ooking to the establishing of a
;raded school. It wag first intended
o have it five miles s.juare, but it
riU be made only four miles square.
I went to Union last Saturday on
usine-'8, and it was businoss enough.
was trying to attend to it for two
r three others and it kept me on
he move, and I had to leave some of
ai?*? undone. I wanted to ao in
,nd gee tho Editor but could not
K)8flibly squeexe in enough time.
[*he wind raised such a dust that
raveling was unpleasant.
It is with muoh regret that I
oarn of the death of Mrs. Nannie C.
eter, wife of Mr. W. T. Jeter, of
i'lsh Dam, which sad evont occurred
n March 29th. I had known of
er illness for some time, but did not
now it was serious. I was away
rom home a few days and on returnag
learned that she had entered the
reat eternity. Her remains were
lid at rest in the church yard at
telly's Chapel, Sunday, March 31,
n f vka aa a f manir *?a! nf i iiao And
ii buu ^ wvUvv va ujuujr a tian?ua <III\?
fiends. ... Having been called to
nouFn for (bear departed ones, I can
.rrvirAtll; CAtCU j BjflDpatllJ (U lilC
ereaved family, husband, daughter
nd sons.
I had the pleasure of attending a
iunday School Convention at Hebon
Chqroh from the 29-31 of March
nd feel that that occasion was an
asis in the desert of dullness. Feeing
somewhat cramped and dull from
long stay?-and hard work-r-at
tome, hemmed in by winter weather,
nd being well acquainted with the
riendliness and cordial hospitality of
he people in that section, I argued
t would be a recreation to go over,
,nd quite a pleasure to meet old
riends that such an oocasion would
lause to be congregated there. I
/aa not disappointed. Though the
fcattu*. wag very inclement the most
if the time, it ??mv expectaions.
I was on the tip^toe 01 expecations
for some time. It would only
:onsume space to say that I enjoyed
he whole meeting, trip, hospitality
ind all, except the rain. Many who
vas well identified with the work of
Vinaf> mAAtinora Hftvs it was an all
ound good meet}ng, and I think
hey were surprised even themselves,
;onsidering the weather. It was not
iargely attendci on Friday and Saturday,
but Sunday, being fair and
mild, the ctowd of people more than
filled the house, and Rev. L. M.
Rice preached the Missionary ser.
[pon ably. Let me here give the result
of the election of officers, then
proceed. President, J. A. Sawyer,
Vipe president, D. N. Wilbujrn; Secretary,
E- W. Jeter; Treasurer, Jos.
8anders; Executive Committee, L.
M, Rice. C. C. Yates, J). A. Swindler,
R. G. Gregory and Jos. Sanders
Now then, while it afforded m<
pleasure iq meeting old friends it wuc
to me a pleasure to see those wh<
were not old friends?old in years?
and were pretty too. While th<
"boys" would make congenial com
Banions to sail in thp s^me bo%t wltl
le writer (no effense intended boys
their sisters and cousins were prettj
and charming. Every evening litth
parties of these "boys" who naturajlj
(oves society tlwt js permeated witl
more sweet tacit influence than the;
two, would seek this society am
enjoy it hugely. Sometimes you
correspondent figured in them. 0
oourse. We'l, Jwbere they went it
none of the reader's business, bu
they were more than paid for th
trips and are not publishing t*W
out of tsbool.
Wm A. NICHO
; BANK
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I was assigned to the hospitable u
home of Mr. N. It Hawkins, than
which, there is no more genuine hos. ii
pitality to be found anywhere in
Uaion. It has been my pleasure to t!
be assigned to that home on more h
than one oiher like occasion, and it h
is useless to try to add words to tell 6i
how good a home it is to be a guest
of. A good typical country home of a:
big open hearted people, where one
cannot but fool the welcome extend- ic
ed, cxpres-es the situation in a sentence.
sc
The next meeting will be with the at
1st ijaptiat church at (Juion. of
I lev Denver. bi
' Santuc, April 8tb.
? j,j
Two Letters from Lockhart. m
\\r u* i-*. ?u?."?iun, manager of
Lockhait store, has returned from th
the northern markets where he pur- ag
chased the spring stook for Lockhatt th
1 c inrn TKn
u?v< v* auv ^vv/uo ??c 'innjf at MVill^
and aro being opened up for ibe t|,
inspection of the buying public. Mr. do
Livingston is a man of fine taste in on
the matter of buying, and an inspec- a
tion of the goods in (juestion will fully wj
sustain his reputation. 80
Joe Meggs, one of Lockhart's ac
pioneer loom fixers has gone to fill a or
like position in the Olympia mill, ^
Columbia, S. C. m
Mr. John Parks who has been con- jc
fined to his bed so long is thought to ar
be some better. th
Dist. Dept. Grand Master Gaff- W)
ney, of the Masonic Lodge of S. CM ]e
{U tnat is the way to write it) organ- ^
ized a lodge here recently. The fol- w
lowing officers were elected: Jno.
C. Cary, W. M-; W. T. Garner, S.
W.; W. J. Weathersbee, J. W.} Dr. Sl
J. C. Brawlcv, Treas ; T. I. Barber, te
Sec ; P. 13. McA-bee, S. D.; 13, II. 8e
Ilowe, J. D.; C. D. Broom and Sam th
Gregorgy, Stewards. th
This is pleasant weather. ca
44 All the winds of heaven are still.
The rain is pattering on the sill,"
The watar is inching down the hill,
It's a bad morning to go to the mill.
During the recent freshet the
cable of the Lockhart ferry was w<
broken. Homo. is
additional news?a new coi1re-!?1
8P0NDENT. m
iu Wc are glad to welcome to our jn
daughter Ellita. 5fr3.?1^a^]frcMJli8
from Baltimore with a choice line of ^
millinery for the Company Store te
While in the north getting up h< r
stock Mrs. Cary had a d^jten good w
positions offered her, so we foel proud p
to have one so talented to fashion
our Easter bonnets. a|
The Company Store has opened 0j
up its new goods Manager \V. K al
Livingston has the latest and best in
every line to offer his customers. vj
The ^ethodists, with the aid of r(
their pastor Rev. S. T. Creech, have. ^
organised a missionary society with j.
the following officers: Mi?s Viancesj \
Whitmire, president; Mrs. W. Grice,, Cl
vice president; Miss Leila Evans,!
secretary; *,Miss Esther Oarey, treas- fc]
, urer, The priino object is the build- 0
log of a Methodist ohurob. ^
The good Baptists and Presby>
torians have churches of which we i
\ are proud. Let us all "fall to" and j
> aid the Methodists in their eflorts to
- hare a place of worship.
5 The Presbytery will meet in our
- tovfp .^pril Kith. The visitors will j
i be heartily welcomed. I
) Mrs. John Cary and son Whitner, t
/ have returned from a rec$pt visit to t
9 relatives in S.eppca, 8. 0. ,
f Pleno Jurk. -|
i [We welcome you to tho ranks,
r and will include your name on corre- *
1 ipondent's list you have "Pleno 1
r Jure," to come weekly.?Ed.]
f
i Spartanburg News Notes.
it 7
e As t have not written in some 1
? time I will give your readers a letter.
What is coming and going to be with
iLSON & SON,
ERS,
king Business in all its
gainst Fire, Tornado,
dents, and Issue Bonds
s of Corporations, and
ators, Etc., Etc.
1PECTFULLY SOLICITED.
is this year.
The teachers meeting will he here
a June.
The K. of P., the ltedinen and
bo Odd Fellows will have a big time
ere this year and this fall we will
ave another Carnival, and I can't
ly what all will be here.
We arc fixing to pave our streets
ud extend the steeet car lines.
Mr. Lynch is building the pavil>n
at Glendale.
We are to buiid a new graded
hool and I think I will build me
jothcr new house, and I can't think
? n * *
an tne new things that are to be
lilt this year but will tell you later.
Mrs. Mattie Lawson has been very
bat is o little better at this writing,
iss Blanch. Gibk<"? ?-1 " "
v h ivu iier.
Yesterday was Eaater and I
ought I would put on my new, bat
the women put on their new hats
at day and when I went up on
e street the boys all said it made
em cold. When I looked up and
wn the 9treet and didn't see but
e more straw hat and that was on
little negro who has wore it all the
nter it made me feel cold and I
on made myself scarce on the street,
id when I got home I had to put
i my overcoat. So I have laid my
raw hat aside until June. The
en don't change when the women
>, what makes that? The women
e the best and smartest, at least
ey think so, or some of them anyiy.
They live the lungeti, or at
ast there are more women today . i itheut
husbands than there are men
ithout wives. Did you ever count
em?
I am invited to a marriage next
inday and the lady will not be sixen
until next July and this is her
oond husband. This shows that
ey are smarter than a man. When
ey fish for a husband they will
tch him whether he bites or not.
Union Boy.
Jinelines from tho liuintinn
Mu. Editor:?Since my last letter
e have had rain, rain. Farm work
at a stand still on account of so
uch rain. The land is badly washed
this section.
Mrs. Mary Palmer has been visit-*
g relatives and friends in this oom-.
pril 5th. Miss Annie L'itHeyWr
aoher, will take vacation awhile.
The second Quarterly Conference
as held at ^ew Hope the 4th inst.,
residing Elder, Mr. Moadors was in
large. He preached a very force>le
sermon after which the business
* the conference was attended to
id the meeting closed.
Tub Times is always a weloosse
isitor at our home. We do like to
;ad the Reminiscences and
,necdatea of the War and also like
> read the Studies in Astronomy.
I/A h A*VA VkArtA /*A*?WA<?aaa/IA?.A?
IV uvpu VUWV VU1 I UOpMilUUUlO TI 111
ontinuo to write.
The Lockhart car djd not reach
be Junction last Friday on account
f a run off the track. No one got
iurt.
Professor Sams, of Gafihey, has
icen surveying some land near the
'unctioq, Moxy.
-- ?
The President easily succeeded in
>ersuading Governor Allen, of Porto
iico to withhold his resignation, alii
o ugh he came to Washington for
he purpose of presenting it. He
vill return to Porto Rioo about the
1st of May, but it is not expected
;hat he will remain more than a few
nonths longer.
? -
Officials expect that the capture of
Aguinaldo, and the surrender of
other Fiiipino officers and men will
make it unneoeesary to keep a large
army in the Philippine*
ft