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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.
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