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Items of Interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. wEfcVfc I?c^reniB Connected With the Late War. Bringing Out m Great Deal of Uu written Hie' in w*>iohthe Private and ?ttOo?tiinate Officers are Given laBtly Due rhem. Some cit mTJT'oZ' .No?lo*t **?<* Brav. FOnNO AMONG THE PRIVATES. by j. l. strain. Mr. Editor:?In the last chapter of my Reminiscences of the war I notice some typographical errors that I ought to apologise for and perfect. Speaking of Marsh 'ponies neat the bottom of th'e first column | I should have ' been made to say: "Many of them have never seen a white man or an up country horse." These ponies are usually called | *<marsh taokies" instead of tiokere ^ M the types made me call The readers I no doubt will see and oorrect these errors for thornselves. These are not so moolv ctie Tault of the printer s devil I as my own careless way of writing and therefore I hope you will accept my apology,.'. ' The private soldiers in the ranki ? ?ivo testimony as to what Sole place in hid jmchediate prosetioe aua thid td ofteh forked a't ' aS & kin< ofbig*4I"aud little 4VIJ" budines with him, when such is not the cas< , In battle the soldier who does hi duty has but little time to loo apqund. It is extremely hard to ? through wifh aperies o? remini oen^^-especially those that refi to the life and occupation of aa dier?without appearing to mc fair minded people as being extrerr jf egqtistip^l. This I have at psaee' tried to avoid* but befon wdhld get tully out' off the meshe would find myself again flounder in the entanglements of the sa class of environments. This, to i is no less, bumilitating than it is \ twiner to the reader. Heqoe I [ rcSqtnfi to ate'the intent tow sot ind so I pass on. CHILL AND FKVKR MEDICINE, Before leaving Adam's Ran Virginia I- promised to tell a drawing whiskey rations oaten: for the purpose of keeping off < and fever while doing duty alonj rice dams In the malarial disti to which we yen so often e*p *uhe whjsloey was kept in batr domtixiMtfcyheadquarters. dealt .out to the common soldier m heavilv spiked with quinii other medicine that it was imp< * Jj&W?!P*V8 feist itireuld efteh produoe rot . H. FOSTER, Vlc? PruMtat. J . ARTHUR, A?tot?t Cashier, t iters' National Bank | N, 8, C. X $60,000 2 60,000 f 60,000 J $170,000 X u . H. Wallaoe, Wm. Jeffries, | I. P. MoKisslok, A. H. Foster, X ur Business. g. >n the spot where it was swallowed, rhis being the case, those of us who lad never been accustomed to such nesses let it severely alone and took )ur chances with the malaria. But one day Wess McKown said: "Suppose we all go up and draw our whiskey rations and when we get snough we'll give them to to jee him get drunk and cut up and let them put him in the guard house." The mess, or rather some of them, consented to the plot, and with the aid of some others to whom the secret was communicated we got about a quart, "Wess" was to manage it. He told the fellow, (who I don't oire to mention the name of just here,) that he had a quart of liquor and il he wanted a dram he oould hate it ai long as there was any of it in th? bottle. They went into the tent and "Wess" drew his bottle and before the fellow knew it he had gulped down a swallow of it. But bemrt he got the bottle fairly away from his mouth the dose had done iti work, hut not as we expected, foi next morning we had all the chain and camp stools in camp around oui fire plaoe. He had a glorious drunl and the officers, never found it out at out quarters. I forgot to tell about little Gillian Jeter killing an alligator at Cam] Taylor. He shot it behind the for shoulder with a rifle. Joe Lawsoi caught one and brought it into camj pulling it along by its tail.^ He kef it in a barrel of water ur seren days and it died. At this same oamp a little negi boy that Joe Thomas picked u somewhere on the coast, or abot Charleston, which we called Job u- ..-utea to shoot them. Dole Fant, or some one else, had niei named George oalling him "pup nd h6 w'as knotfn better' by "dU| than George. ' Anyway the lit! negro knew of no other name to c him than "pup." So in trying show George the squirrel he woi say: "Don't you see it Mare Yonder it/ is on that ltoab, Mt- ^qp. p This went on till George got n , and told the little hbgro that if 1 didn't stbp calling 'him that, < 9 blaWd if he didn't kill1 him and 1 i. him there m the swamp, is Jimmie Heron, our hero of >k "poolit schrape," got hold of ;o John Free incident and he un< s- tbok t6 remonstrate with Georg ar excusing Free John's ignoran ' "niver heerdnim oi H" bU?k uv oney thing else boot pupe." te- made George worse, if %njtl all ^han ever. } I > I am no evolutionist, but i s I man will go on the coast of ? ing Carolina and see the darkies ! ae there as they were during th< me, and then resist the conclusion an- there is nothing in evotytjqn \ ask be ofle qf the faithfcl'' few 1 the hard to convince. Jt he sc similarity between th? baboon, key and African, then he is t for extent blindfolded. Their ^K)ut oustoms, disposition and p ??ll m to suDDort the f siblv yr""v.? ... ;hills Rloe *n" PotatoM Mne their pi 1 tlje food. They would moke mi ricte. over ** army crocker. W< oaed' get potatoes we w*nt? ehroi ?w oraokers. Fishth* mi That Where they had 4'good ohaao s was ^em> And a* for wild duo! n? wo* no end to them?eepec ^ Beu-.I.bni in it We icei^aiped in that secti ?. In ing the spring of 1802 as siting o|Un put to gmt ineoarea i i . * z? I get drinking water. At camjrwe . would dig holes in the sand and. a flour barrel in them. Thiawu* a slow way to get water. Tib Mpd would work in from under the barrel and soon fill up the well, whop we would have to remove it and take ou? the sand or dig another. What water we got was olean and pti&t but often ic was brackish. Physicians say it is healthy though. Sometime wo would, float cistern j .1 . l ? /? . _ --.i r s. mL?_ I mac naa nrsc race wacer in u,&. xma than the improvised one we had for our temporary use. But the wate& in these form a scum over it from disease. When the scum was blown ' aside the water drank first rate to a thirsty man. The water in the , branches, (or rather drains,) resembled lye in color but it had no particularly bad taste. 1 The mosquitoes were bad in warm weather?so bad that it was necessary for the men on picket to take their horses back in the thickets and make i._ a - j .1 _/r _ e up ift hmuko w ui itu lueui uu?a icw coals of fire with a little rotten wood 1 thrown on them would protect sev' eral men and horses?as many as could get near it. Sometimes the fire would blase up and then we might look for a shell from the gun1 boats. ? Gary'* Brigade in Defence of Fort Harrison. I ?? BY DR. A. E. FANT. f On the 28th of Sept., 1864, "our 1 prophet" came in from the picket > line and intimated a suspicion that I some movement was on foot among the Yankees. What makes you I think so Bob? 1 asked. Why, says s he: "There were moving artillery, 1 marching and counter-marching in 1 our front all night." Being an opr timist and knowing him to be fond 1 of looking on the gloomy side of r everything, I laughed scornfully at t the idea. Next morning, tl)p 29th . ItmflnuBui Ai tora you so, 1 Mr knowledged him a true prophet. Hostilities had begun on the picket i line at three o'clock, and at daylight [> our brigade, in position behind half e dismantled works running across the n valley of Deep Bottoms creek, we S were soon engaged in slaughtering " i I.C..* An nnr ritrht. 'J negroes ior Drea*iaBb. vr? ,.a *1 was Hood's Old Texas brigago, or rather all that were left of them, ex0 tending towards the fort. All that 'P could be seen through the dense Joe enveloping us nfrstl a' hundred ftfefaway. Lieut. G. H. Jeter was r, in command of our company. He >h gave us undivided attention, seeing and directing every man. He was * tV quiet; reserved and 'determined of >" noer, demanding and obtaininj obedience of all, greatly respeote< *11 by the entire regiment. The enera t? after being'repulsod would fall bac! ild to a bluff a short distance back, r< \>V form land come *fptiu with thei peculiar cheering. I think this wi iad repeated sofine ftven or eight time b? Most of'them' were negro troops ai dad bdhihd them Were the bayonets tide the whites driving them forwai This advance and retreat was ke the op until tflree q'clqck p. m. At fi the we forty rounds of amuniti ier- and during the battle it was issi ? hy two or more times. The barrels c? ? our rifles became disagreeably wa died from excessive firing. Our Ser This Maj. Capers, charged sorpe qf rifles while we plAtfbd the oaps. setting on the rear bank of the br? t anv works, we dropping the rifle on South shoulders, stock in front. This bi in front of our i UT,n8 man was mm?. ? ? b war ment just two days before the that render at Apponflatyq*; hwente< I? the hn'UM brigade. We had bi that is recovered our breath after the >ea no charge of the enemy when on < i won- Q^tqe to double quick to the rif o some ?re would save Fort Harrison habits, capture and ourselves from bein hysioal 0ff from Richmond. Simply to i theory, the fort we would not ltk ely incipal made much of an effort, but is I ich ado 0ff from the Confederate capip ? oooW be forced to aurtehdercir 4 iof a the tail ditch," and Sodth Oa* ne "way prido and manhood revolted at e to get alternative. Lieut. Jeter ord< ks there to fall back just as we left th ially on we were ordered to, go ^abl aoty* danftidtrrig orders) ah ion dun-? did, but soon we were again < id were to fall book. So girding up o< Asm# to we set out for the fort wbic milekd a half away at as lively a I gait apprehensive legs and prtnot M pud carry as. Lack was sgpljy as, the Yanks got there first, aJ&W we ooald do was to move anal its rear and to its left, take maiden a half mile nearer to Richwmndt and defendod only bj a battery of heavy artillery in Fort Gilmore. We jmanaged to hold the enemy in { e|e<*' until late in the afternoon when we were reinforced from tho south; aide and put a quietus to Gen. i ^rdjw ^fon the Richmond." The ot^jr assistance we had was the Old ' Texas brigade, about 600 strong. \ iff bey were among, if not the best \ |Tnmps in Lee's army. I think there , was another small brigade in the , A<eKf Knf am nAt aKln fn aatr I - A brigade of negroes supported, or rather urged forward, bj white troops made an assault on Fort Gilmore but the artillerist there were gone and easily repelled the attack. Death was in, their rear as surely as in their front. After night our "horses wero ordered up, we were mounted and placed on the left where we spent the night. I was very feeble and weak, result of chills and fever, and in the rash broke down. Crossing a ditoh I crawled into it, but it was not deep enough to completely protect me. While many balls struok the ground close to me, the air above me was resonant with the music they made. I peeped over the ditch and saw toe black faces (negroes) in close proxtaety, clapping their hands an 1 shouting. I saw the dilemma between the horn* of whioh I waverod for , only a halt a minute, and then, , Ktriotically resolved either to die or , a for my country, but infinitely , prefacing |the latter alternative, I , sprang to my feet and my heart in j my month and every ounoo of my < energy in my legs, ran for the wo xf* to the left, and one hundred yardi i away. In my flight I passed through , a field J of corn. Hearing a great , noise and seeing the ears and shucks , Jjrthfr high. in the air I thought I i cavalry, out It pruveu 1 my own company. I halted him but i he did not heed, it only increased his speed. Just as I reached a body of woodland I was fired upon by a body of passing cavalry in our pursuit, which caused me to increase iqy speed. The woo^s were on fire, caught from artillery. I saw I was cut off and sat down to rest and plan my esUpe. Night was approaching. When\ got up I was so stiff I could avnrwJ#- navigate, locomotion was I soon heard sonna ?1 J:flBr>ult. J 1 , there was bu* - , I I800U 8t*w >iw. I sight. I ways dreading to be a ; prisoner, I cocked my rifle and i awaited his approach. As he drear near I recognized he had a white 7 haversack and by that I knew him j to be a Confederate. It proved to be y John Mitchell. He was a captain k but resigned to get a transfer to c\\$ j- regiment. He a splendid man ir ana a good soldier, a natiVe of York is : county. I ordered him to surrender is. | which" he ' promptly obeyed. We id 'held a consultation as to how wt of would get out. We soon decide^ %nc d. cautiously approac^e^ 'tlie ante pt works on the nine mile road. S< rat soon as we reached the road we foun ion it picketed by the enemy's cavalry led We got as near as possible an of awaited for an opportunity. In irm short while a small pafty same i of. the viqets. So set gt., I.W T, 0ur to they wore challenged we ran b Ilo them, successfully sticking togethc tost- I in front. We had not passed the our far before we came to a sweet pot? rave patch and in spite of all ^ qqqd" regi- John stopped and tQ qcrat bu?- tfieoq Op ioid fill his haversack. 1'hy pushed on but he soon overtook c iroly We soon came in contact with i?* ?W*ax-de-friie mqd? of fallen tim ) 1UV v??? tf'for outside of the seoond breastwoi jht if These works were manned by < fVom abled soldiers and boys belong g cat to the armory. They belted as esoue demanded who we were, hive answered Confederates. TLev >e cut not believe cs. \lw* ??nk?e> debertersl Thsy th*die in W lo adren/?. They soon sat *?!r.n's our ragged and dirty uniforms either oar first answer w^ <^rrec,t.' nred us were er^eedingW hungry pavin edited nothing smOeiW ftight before : (from cbuW not get as muoh as a n ion we full. So soon as light we mot >rdered the right where we knew our bi ar loius ouffht to be and soon found k Was a and were engaged all day in skii Wm. A. NICHt BANK Transact a Regular Bar Branches and Insure A Boiler, Liability and Acc of Indemnity for Offieia Individuals as Administi jTOjJR BUSINESS IS RE: ng. W. J. Vaughau an<l I were arccts for sharp shooters. We could J 1 - 1 11 * uco ?.ii*3 ra?i:?iH uui couiu near me nusic of 'heir minnies all the same. We were on a high knob on the flank f the brigade. Vaughan was as >rav? a rain as ever drew a sword. >\t Deep Bottom when the emeny svere repulsed some of the most ven:uresome men would jump over the rork* and forage the dead and rounded. All of them possessed n>re or less whiskey in their caneens. This was given to increase heir courage. This they often did After this assault the Yanks called Fort Harrison "Fort Hell." As the memy would falter the offioors would ;urse them and strike them with their iwords, do everything in their power ? make them go forward. Our of' ...i 11.: i i. jucr uftuiv IU uufauuc nui&iug uiiui" wards, keeping step, urging his men, iword in hand. lie almost reached the rifle pits before being repulsed. Dur casualties were very light, I do aot remember our loss. The enemy acknowledged, officially, 2,200 killed and wounded in our front. In the attack on Fort Gilmore by the aegroea, the poor darkies came on for a while with a steadiness which isetoken disaster to the Confederates. But suddenly the lines began to waver and twist, and then there was a positive halt by all, except perhaps a hundred who rushed forward and miraculously escaped death, tumbled headlong and pell mell into the wide ?. .Anndinwthe fort. Bhouted the comma^qer. of the hxyt. ' S'rendar yo seflfc sah-" the ipeply in a steqtoji^p voice. **Je?s wait'll ^e una git in dar, eff you Ranter." Then they began lifting each other up to the t?p of the parapet, but no sooner did a head appear than its owner was killed by. a shot from the rifles of the infantry. Less liff Corporal Uick up," one of them suggested, (*he'll git in dar ?uah," ana the corporal was accordingly hoisted, only to fall hack lifeof his ?brough his hwlt nowithBUotog "the'loi yof Corporal luinuos OI iun .... . shells over in$o the d'ituh that th< ?1 irkicj: came to terms and crawle< out one after another through at opening at the end of the ditch iftt the fort. This continuous &jk^a3 tor fort [ odd hours a^vhout sleep and ratioi ; a^ltftost "exhausted us, still no or * complained. No braver men ev? r existed than the Confederate soldier j This is acknowledged bj the civile r world. The Yanks ha<\ the world I recruit from. ^ think every r\ii was presented in their arm >? Thoustnds deserted while besiegi D Richmond and Petersburg. Tb crossed the James daily. It is a { of history that the "Army af )aJ Potamic,"after ts^Ulf *11 tho sumi ito t0 4"*l&^ ^ wlit aw t^'1" (ever Aq- tag) ^ine/' waa reduced to sue mere skeleton of its former magnit r that is commander found it neoos; to call for 1 OQ,QQO more men tc his dead line. How the ^ ^ot! the now lines all stood up to ( rk? P084 * atn not prepared to jia * This I know. We had to faoe i ioir *n(^ WM done oftimes by 6?i and **8 ont? making 4^r \\q 8?* feet between* ea<j& man in < &4 ty* ^ V) front them, feVe wjd Etta, Jan* Etohmgs, 'Wi We The boy* had a Hvely del g eat ' the school house Saturday nigl v," but 6th last. The query was r< south that nature is more attractive ted to eye than the art of man. $ -igade speeches were iqade on eac them after vfhiah the lodges deci wish- favor of the negative. It was )LSON & SON, :ERS, ?king Business in all its Vgamst Fire, Tornado, iidents, and Issue Bonds Is of Corporations, and fa tors, Etc., Etc. SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. fought battle of words. The house was crowded with eager listeners who enjoyed the fun. Some of our greatest orators as well as men came from the poor backwoods boys, and the fame nursery will furnish others. So go ahead. Farmers have gone to work in dead o?rnoaf The correspondent from Goshen (Iill speaks of a "multitude of pigs" in his section. The reverse is the case up here. One of my neighbors sold ten pigs last week, and says he could have sold forty more if he had had them. Wheat is looking well, so is oats. Farmers who had put their gnano in the ground before hand are considerably non-pleased by the recent rains?a great part of it is new probably in the Atlantic ocean. I am glad to say that the wire at Ilowel's ferry bae been raised and put in position and the flat is now passing and repassing across the river with perfect ease and safety. It is to be hoped the traveling public will suffer no further inoonvenienee: The veterans of Camp Jeffries met at Wilkinsville on Saturday, the 6th, and elected officers for the present year as follows: G. W. McKown, Commander, W. L. Goudlook, 1st Lt. Commander; J. E. Jeffries, 2nd Lt. Commander, J. G. Lore, 3rd Lt. uommander; J. H. Poole, Adj't and Treaaureri D. W. Puler, Quartermaster; T. D. Doudoloek, Commissary*! & Strain, Chaplain and SClR'j wutf UBii/I I)->W v Ul?lw> PUr, W. J. Vaughan, 2nd Color Guard; J. A. W. Estea, Vidette. Delegates to the Memphis It** uuion: G. W. MoKown, T. I>* Goudelo.oh, with Miss Bernice Mc* Cluuey, Sponsor. Delegates to Columbia Reunion; J. R. Poole and G. W. McK>owa* with J. L. Strain and William fries alternate*! and M<iss Salli% Ingram^ Sponsor,. Oherokoe coupty has on* of the I meanest open the world eyes heard \ | oonfesaion is. to. b* ^ to go to bed WllUOUt Vie*, 1 when thej get to, sleep \ steel to* 0 money and then whin them next 1 morning for losing it," If any county Q Ci>n beat that I am, done. A ; Ne^t to. him comoa the rioh old miser who after hearing a sermon on y charity said: "I believe in mission* ls now as 1 never did before, therefor* ie 1 will giving anything- and Br go to begging. Vox.. ed Cross Keys to on Mr. Editor : Wo era all getting along nicely at the tQ?ya? enjoying this fine weather^ some ?t um have decided ng to plaut- corn. We have eome small iey grain awl it looks Gno. We are going j.0. to try to make a living whether cotton goes high or low, the Qur okl tri^ D. 1L Wttharu is getoer ting rea<\y to leave us, judging from a ng- nolt<;y ? ?ait> of his personal pnnwi/. a a will CHSt his lot in Spartanburg or a? Greenville. Such is life, but it ia too. bei for old Cross Keys to lose so. many **ry of its good citizens in mi short a time* ? re* The ratlpg of a community is taken well from,the reoord its oitkms make, and i from tlie present ouUook it would, seeee " that our rating is getting low. We alao Hay* hear 'another one of our good' men. them wVa contemplates moving to your oity* POttiV ^r* J - D* Graham. This moving buifc> ee to n 88' 1 believe, is getting contageona. . Is there noisome way to vaccinate >rder ngaiptt it? I,f not I don't know what the result will be. If there la not a * * 1?? ?* nu\?H I stop put to It 4 wyi u*o w yw _ ? op iu apaw Erection. \ lynl tW? pteasure of a visit not kmc * ago of -one among the best farmers ? our township, Mr. T. J. AWerson, He usually gets to market with the first lade >ate at mys he plants King's early oot* at, the ton. T. H. Ooss. ssolved ? to thg Funston's plan for oaptarinc AgueSeveral naldo was one of the sort that nin? , h side, people out of ten ooald have found ( ded in nothing too bad to any abowt?iC.itt * i herd hadn't snooetdcd. V