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S^THETOWN OF __ 5 THE TOWN OF UNK>N~HAS fl rr 11 in I \TI A\ Till l?i^ iU. ..J III largest, irt iS%n; h. FourFut- ,{ j? | | I J 9 vL. Ill I W mi 9 $g J / J)y<> Phi it in tin* S;s:U'. An Oil [// )Jl niture and WYod idunufuclur- n) | | | I t . | | | | j ^k 3 | 8 K ; , h a id M wit.fact i:rinj? Co. that )) 1 ing Concerts. Ore Female ; | | | B I I | ^8 | I W | I I W | I I i L | unexcelled Cuano. m [(/ 8etninary. Wuler Works uud .(( _3L J1L JL * -A- ? -3L * --I- I i. W I JmL^m s % Throe tiradid Schools. Arte- .(( (/J Electric Lights. ([/ /ft sian Water. Population (?,.r>00. /// ~ ~~ ~ ?Ti : VOL. LI. NO. i:>. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MAY 10, I'.Kil. #1.00 A YEAR. -e#? iW- *6* -H*> ** -ifrSIC* ^<i f F. M. FARk President. T QEO. MUNk \ Cashier, J | Merchants'1 and PI: ? OF UIVI X Capital Stock t* Surplus Stockholders' Liabilities.... , g Total.. s Directors?J. A. Fant^ .1 T. C. Duucan, J. T. Douglass T Wm. Coleman. ^ we solicit Hfc m AH tM 1*^ Mi*. M4 ^4- -? iF^i ?iv ?^? ?r? r I ??????????f J1 i ?? M i?im?wmwi 1901 IAY 1901 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Tin Fri. Sat. 1_A_L_L AllilMll 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26|27 28 29 30 31 . UNION COUNTY NEWS. Items of Interest Gathered from V m rimio Ca^tinnc Kir niir T Ul IUUO UWVUU1IJ ,,j UU1 Correspondents. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. ? Great 7>e?i/ of Unwritten HisSnh^iSi ZhicAJhe p*i.y"*&**vd \jreriu fu&tTy i)ue Them. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest Men That Ever Faced tin Enemy Were to be FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES. BY J. L. STRAIN. Iq May '02 I find the Ilolcoml Legion cavalry in camp at th< Jenkin's place. This was known a camp Spearman. Here the severa companies were reorganized and vol unteered for three years of the wai We were joined by Captain Camp bell's company from Colleton Dii trict. They took the name of Con pany E. in curap and line. Th Company was kno'An as the Mar.' Tackies, but your readers must n % conclude that this title is intended disparage the character of the troo or place them in the line of in< ficiency. It would be sacrilege of t most unpardonable kihu u> anv... suoh a thing. Many of them wc the brave cannoners who stood their gun? on Bay Point and Ililto' Head ou the 7 th of November, 181 until the last gun was disabled dismounted^ and retreated only fr the overwhelming forces and resour of the Federals. An elder brother of mine, a mo her of Co A. lith S. C. He who was ou Bay Point at the ti under that true t vne of a Soutl soldier, Col. B. G\*V.. Duriov in giving a description ql' this gagement says: "The ukju f.?i like tigers." The iinf-Lfesion that little sentence ot fri'OTrords t upon mo can only he eft ce 1 by lamp of reason gojpg outf j God bid that I slnuldf mention tin or tread on the sacred di a brave soldier hut to honor it. nm*1l horses they rodo drew the Marsh Tackies, instead of the This command remained with 1 about two months, and did thcii of the service well. % When our new officers were c the old ones retired who we; i. .re-elected. We hated to gi f Lieut. Mabry Thomas. For I * always entertained the highest i f as a gentleman, officer and s f He was a model man. high p honorable and brave. From h I poorest boy in the ranks get th attention that the richest slave j did. -The same gentlemanly q a ' attached to our other officer ISt shall mention them further on S i ^ Lieut. Thomas here severs 1 flpa vt section with the command, w * &-*><* A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. T I. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. | snlers' National Bank * ION, 8. C. | $60,000 I ... 50,000 f ^ ... GO,000 $ $170,000 1 \V. II. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, t , E. P. McKissIck, A. H. Foster, X Your Business. T mmmmmmmmmmm our du'y to soy that he earned with him the highest respect of ever} soldier in the command?whether oflicer or* private. Of Lieut. J. W. Crider I remember very little. lie was never on duty with me, consequently I did not have the opportunity to know as much about him as of the other officers. He was a christian gentleman?n minister of the Methodist church, and lost no opportunity to use his high office for the advancement of Christ's kingdom, and was, beyond doubt, the most influential personage in the command in that respect. Neither he nor Lieut. Thomas were candidates for re election. I never saw Lieut. Crider after he left us at Camp Shearrnun. I havo sai.l before that Canij Spearman was at the Jenkins farm and mansion. Around the hou?e and in the yard was almost all kinds oi native and exotic plants, the frag ranee of which perfumed the air foi some distance around. Col. Shing ler'a tent was inside of the yard under tv large water-oak. The head flU#r'M A few wells were sunn. Tn tnc Tencampment, over which brush arbors were made to protect theui from the sun. llere we spent the month o! May and part of June, '02. Com pany and squdron drills were kept uj regularly, together with picket dut1 and camp guard, the latter of whicl > was kept up by regular detail, e Farms were neglected?the hand 9 taken off?and thousands of acres c i uncultivated land were covered wit n ?.1, I- strawberries. These we wouiu * and make into pies. The land wt > rich and candy?not a rock was I i- be found anywhere on it. At th i- camp we had less annoyance fro i? mosquitoes than formerly. We cou ib get the sea breeze as it came up To it gadoo Creek. We made brush arbo to over our horses to protect them f. c ps the sun; al o over our tents in mat -f* places. On our street grew a lar ho sycamore tree under which the wh< pt company would sometimes asseinl ?fc and pass off the time. Bob Da by used to be the champion fiiddler a n's wrestler. Under this tree he 1 jl, pm many backs on the ground. ?r was under this tree that Joe Le om got spider bit; and when an over d cos of medicine (used principally spider and snake bites) had b mi- given him be forgot who he was. g'f? uskod: "Who am I, any ho ">e, Somebody said, "its Joe Lecc icrn "No it ain't, not'much, it ain'c ?r?t, Leech." "Ned, (addressing < ti- cook) d y >u know me?" "Yes ? itfht was Ned's answer. "Well, wli that it?" "Its Mas Joe." "Mas nude who?" "Mas Joe Leeeli," Ned i ' the ."No it ain't, Ned, its Jim Stn [for- "Don't I belong to this mess?" 4 j fair air." "Well, what's the matter ist of rue. anyhow?" "Don't know, u The you are d k." Poor Joe 1 title heard the end of that spider men. After we got to Virginia, on C as for mag eve of '62, Joe got jolly r part and Billy Kennedy said, "I Joe Leech has got spider bit a{ lected Jake Porter got spider bit re not the same time Joe Leech ( vo up Camp Spearman, but we did nc him I any fun out of him. He canv espect near dying. At this same pla oldier. about the same time, David C toned, gick. lie and I had just spent i im the at King's Point, as couriers for e same James' battalion. We ha< i owner comfortably quartered in a hoi ualitica enjoyed ourselves hugely. Rei s and I to Ctimp David took sick and ; but as Jn the worst fix I ever saw a lis con* get up again. He was as wh e feel it corpse, and it looked lik< muscle in him was in a jerk. Ilis ? eyes were set in his head, and he was the picture of death. Dr. Litle bled him and lr* g )t better. I think he was sent off to the hospital and afterwards furloughcd home. lie lay a long time before he got well. Camillas Little died at this cauip. Several cases of fever broke out thero J, Wesley McKown took the fever and lay in the hospital at Adam's lluu for a long time. IIo was bad off Tbeso cases were sent to tTie hospital a j Dr. Little had not the means for treatment in camp. The weather was hot and cases of fever requited large rooms well aired f?r their treatment. For this reason they were sent off. The Jenkin's - house was used as a hospital for a long time?as long as wo stayed there in eamn. I ? 1 It was customary for the Yankees i to keep up an annoyance of our r pickets and other military forces. Every attempt to land any forces there, while we stayed, was promptly met and foiled. General Johnson was now on his way to Richmond : with McClellan's army behind him. i The remoulding of the army was . going on in obedience to the Coui script plan. This gave a good I chance for the Federals to strike an i effective blow somewhere. Our men i lying in the Swamps along the coast ; were exposed to malarial diseases and our hospitals were all well filled. The temperature rising and the wnicr utuuujmg luuiu iiuu iuuic uiatasteful. All this train of circum: stances was in full operation at once. Tho Federals who had possession of ? our coast line had a balmy, healthful i atmosphere to breathe, and a much I better grade of water to drink. This f being the case, they began to send all their surplus meu to Virginia, to assist Geo. McClellan in his seige of Richmond. Occasionally they would I run out a gunboat and shfell oi?r?, troops forcing them to retreat from "'^ejr ^wfcYe i tortured with these tormentors of ; human flesh. Smoke was the only f means we had of driving them off. We could not use fire in roach of toe 3 gunboat for the smoke by day and / light by night was sure to put them \x to throwing shells at us. We did much better at night than in the day ,s time. We got a lot of rotten wood >f and kept the fire smothered, so that h it could not blaze, and in this way ?r we got some peace. l8 (To be continued.) to ? is Garvs Brigade on m Williamsburg Roarl ^ uv nu. A. E. FANT. o- ? ? rs By overwhelming numbers th ?m enemy kept pressing us back unti iy the latter part of October, 18U4, w ge occupied the outer fortifications whic Die consisted of ditches badly constructe< Die with nothing in front to obstruct tl vis enemy. Our brigade occupied tL nd left of the Williamsburg road, 01 ins right touching Longstreet's corp It It was a beautiful Sabbath mornin ech Some were playing cards, others ose groups discussing the pending battl for while others were engaged in divii een service. It was an open field on He sides for a considerab'e distam w?" Each army w as in plain view of ea ;h." other. The enemy moved by co Joe pany, out of our range, halted a our fronted of u-?. It was a magnifies >ir," sight to see their movement and i 10 is glisemng of their uniforms and ari Joe We knew from their movement t said, they contemplated a charge, lin." were ordered to reserve our fire u 'Yes we could read the U. S. on t' with j belts. Our men were calm and q nless j with determination depicted u ? i /?mmr#?nanee-?. Determine never mvn bite, bold tbeir position or die in th< hrist- tempt. In order to front their again stood several paces apart. On think came in double lines with a st ?ain." support in rear. It was a maf about cent charge. So soon as they g lid, at' a few paces 9f our line, the comi it have fire was given, and it wasoboyed e very coolness and precision, in faco c ce and foe, but on they come, but sooi >rr got that it was death to advance i week further. At the first volley e Major infantry their line was broken, i been many were killed and woundc* ise and it was difficult for them to k< turning line. They began to waver an< was in tate, finally broke and run ir man to of all their officers could do. 1 ite as a time a courier came dashing b every oar lino stating that *he onecc captured tiio fort on the Nine Mile roul which was to the ) [ ' of our brigade, distance ahout one mile. Gen. Gary was ordered to take his brigade and drive them oat. Mo.mt men, mount, was the emphatic c >:nluand of (Jen. Gary and all who knew him knows what he meant. Our horses were near by and we jwerc soon mouutcd. On wc rushed , as fast as our horses could carry us. We went as near the fort as was safe ' for our horses, dismounted, formed. Charge, hoys! charge! exclaimed Gen. Gary, and on we went with a rush and a yell, driving them out of the fort and pursuing them to the junction of the Nine Mile and Williamsburg roads, distance one or more miles. The road was literally Jined with the dead and wounded. They were negro troop3, and no quarters were given, at least this was the case witli u mn i /\*M f \r nP nnr ln?vo were actually clubbed to deatii with the riIlea. One or more of our company were court murtialed for this cruelty. I c >uld give full details but will pass it by. Gen. Gary seemed to be unu-<u illy cross in this engagement. We had no troops at this fort, only a picket gu nd of the Hampton Legion. It contained four heavy size guns and when we reached iLthe oneiny were tiding to train tvin upon us but we were too quick fo> tbeui. To retake this lort and prevent the enemy from turning our left flank and easily entering Richmond, our brigade had to leave our infantry to hold in check the overwhelming numbers in their front. Thev were watehino us and wore satisfied we would d"it or die. We I had lon?,' been together and they knew what kind of material we were made of. In front of oar infantry thfe ground was covered with the dead and the wounded. So soon as the enemy retreated a detail was made to bury the dead. There was wells near by and ourbiys filled it was U * temuivr J were white troops. Just before the fight began Col. Haskell was seen approaching from the direction of Richmond supported on either side by one man. lie beard the firing from the hospital, ordered a horse and smarted to the front in spite of all the surgeons and nurses could do to prevent him. So soon as he was recognized lite rebel yell was given and extended down the line as far as you could hear. He was finally pur-n:. oiiit niAti t > tfo suaded by our oiuccio _ o back. There were some of our company who believed in predestination, the writer did not but wanted to us long as the war lasted anyway. Or nearing the fort he urged them tr e rush in and drive the enemy out, tha d ifthoy were predestined to be killc< e they would be, and if not they won h safe anywry. For this he wa severely reprimanded by one of ih 10 party (after the fight). This wa lC not said with any disrespect fo ir religion, but f;r the purpose of cap '3* turing the fort and 1 hereby savin g- our capital, which would have oc 111 curred had we not been successful i e? our efforts. 'Vj Lieut. Jeter was in command 11 our company. I do not recollect tl c<:' casualties of the brigade, t-oinc tin C1 in January, 1805, the writer wi some others, wareireconrioitering o n( fronr, passed along the Nine M road where this battle was fnig e and strange to say that the d? iq y o f ^ . " negroes were still where they ft skin in tact minus the eye ball. A5 was a horritl gruesome sight to I hohl. I will here state that noth .1 preyed upon the dead soldiers s l,ie I .i.? ?*ann flv and a peculiar kin< tllC V.VU y0l! a bug very similar to what is g to erally known as the pumpkin 1 J They could fly but preferred to en ' wc They were numerous upon the bf ^ fields. No carnivorous birds i roR? ever seen. I've seen dogs pre 5n . " upon some oftho dead. Gen. L ot lr! street's olHcial report of this b nanj does our brigado great iojus T1} 1 This is one reason why T descrit 1 This was the last "on to Richtni 1 8a* venture the enemy made on the i *fan-v side of the Jamos until after 0^r evacuation of Petersburg. ' ' k 'I Hantz's cavalry slowly and cauti . foilowed our brigade through mond to Maye's bridge, kecpin . of our ?ange. Just as our la<t i spite cro.8ej over ti10 enemy pass Vt this 8lroet) maile no halt but fired a 1 ' ?Wi at us. Hood's old Texans ly had j Win. A. NSCHC BANk I Transact a Reg u lar Ba r ; Branches and Insure J | Boiler, Liability and Acc ! of Indemnity for Officia Individuals as Administi YOUR BUSINESS IS RE failed to cheer in whenever an oc-; cadon oft ere 1. Col. Storrctt, of the . 4th Texas regiment of this hiigido i told me u!t-r the war tint our charge , [ upon tho fort was magnificent, ami that they, the Toxians, were .satisfied we caul i <1 > it and t hereby save their > ni'iK an i itnmraon i. in tins ti ?ht j (ion. .Tonkin's bridle s'avcd their > hundreds. T;.is var wa^od upon tlio South was an unjust ?u 1 c.?u eless war of invasion and npino, of plunder and murder, no: tor p itri .tisin nor hi^li motives, but to n,a!if/ ambitions and 1 . lust of piwer in tSie p-oni >tions of it for contracts and p"o!i; by the sup- : porters of i*. Tt.o I "nion would have > been smashed to smith, reus and the i IhiSC o ,ne to threads if there bad ?i -t i been 1 it contracts i >i* sh I 1 >' olithc* t an<l brogan shoos to preserve the one ! and to uphold the other. The sent:, ment wouhl not hive lasted one 1 month. "Not one mm in a thousand in the Confederat ? army bad anv pr -per y interest in slavery. Ii.(c every in r.i !t id a ho ne and o in ?;!?er. The negro soldiers which we cam in contact with were invarihly driven l>3r the whites at the point of bayonet were machines. ; The great crime of the country was their emancipation. If lot al >ne , thev are an affectionate, trustworthy race. As it is, against his will, < without his assistance, he has been i lasv ol the survival of tnc ut-esi forces the fight, and the consequence I that whenever tiie colored race black, red or yellow?has anything the white race wants they take it, is I working Ic lias done so m Amor iea and in Asia. it is now uvmin Africa. Nothing was ever do-' VHod so cru"l as f ireing on them the j power and the responsibility of the,' ballot. It requires powers they have not, it subjects them to testa they cannot stind, and will cau-e untold misery to th.ui m the future. These are sonic of the consequences ' of the conquest to the black race. ' i Njws Notes From Sautne. t 1 Oh, tell me l.ot tlie woods are fair, 5 now spi invr is on her way. About all of the birds that, summer li' io have an ived and are daily sinning. e The llr-* "Old 11 !> White1' was heard s here Sum! iv morning, and wo hope tin ,r "very c ?o?" is over. Tlio United States Weather lluie o ' reports the spr.ng about ten days late a! 6 over the Union l'asture grasses put up rather slow tj and where winter feed run low?tli i was nearly every where--was ha I ? stock. : teqq iiiomisiii, (>t | Slllilli gl'UIII i:* in . , ic : Where nitrate of soda was used it ! veiy green. Bar. some think it to j gre i I a risk to run to bay the stud for stna j gtaiu, t? 1m j> iiit for out of an uncertai ur I cotton c!op. They think best, undi i'o ! such wcx, r.? M?h'Ot good land, prepa (J. i well, s ?v, a-el ih-it let the land itse j I ouil.c the gr.iui, \\ 11tori requires no mo '' j after wot k. -i'? j Some co'fou seed and corn was plat It j?d lief >r?* th-* last riins. But wit! j t ubny, c ;'d sail, c > >1 m^hts, and a crt j forimng mi the land, eotlon seed v in^ j liav a struggle to come up, will lik ;lV0 ; l?e a thin stand, punv, then die. I)a 1 of. Dickson, the late great farmer of 0< en- ki ti ^tid it was a great mistake to p!; ' a summer crop in the winter. Bet ' ?* wait until it g?.;s warm, rwl. a good many farmers broke a gi tttie part of their laud, .some broke all, ycre eorn il"'' cotton. I know some \ broke all their upland for corn t\v 'ft yet 1 have seen some of the poorest; >r,p>" pared land and the shabbiest plaut inj attic seed that 1 have seen in quite awl itice. This is planting, not fanning. We it farmers, are prone to g.-t in too hi; " hurry, g"t lazy, or bite oft' more than )ru* can chew, try to plant too much, oi torth grossly careless and just sprinkle the work In the dust, and let the world in e-asy for the time, then at leisure < . plain of hard times. It is hard at ously time, but as for me, I am going t Rich- to work out my own salvation at f g out inK tliis year. I ain going to be a v man ^ott?n Grower's Association within , self so far as planting cotton is in it cd up I was at Union Saturday. I tri volley see everybody and a little of everyt nover I was there three weeks before, an time I saw many changes since )LSON & SON, :ers, >king Business in all its \gainst Fire, Tornado, iidents, and Issue Bonds ils of Corporations, and fa tors, Etc., Etc. SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. It looked strange to see two box cars and a H a stnuding out in the "old Held'' where ilie latest cotton 111 11 is to be bui t. I went in to see the Editor, had a wry pleas mi time, as 1 always have there. I here was not a great number of people in town, but I saw several of my ftiends 1 was much pleased to lou t Homo there. He was as pleasant and seemed .is happy as when 1 I ist saw hit.i. lie ?s a very pleasant gentleman to h with any tiuia. He said that if I .voiiM vi?M' I. ii-Miart 1 would "seesomet hiug giaud," so I am led tir believe it is a good place to bo at, and 1 think I inns' go up t i see the place and i>eople. Event lung or brly is in a stir around tiie.se pi: is It seems many are trying Lo redeem tie en-elves from pust failures ind are full of energy just now. They tre so mii ;h so that news is scarce and t is quite a ta-k to take a word or two md try to make an ailiclc of a poor qwaltv. or in other words, to make a liarrel pound a bimgiiole. 1 aru in that plight his week, which accounts for this poor etter. lint when* is Ik Ik? lias he no time? ?r is lie writing to Miss M ? IIky Denver. A GREAT NEWSPAPER BEAT. How the Correspondent of n New J ore I'.tjtcr Scooped the JSnglish Dailies. One of the host illustrations of persistency in news gathering was that illorded by David Graham Phillips when lie secured an exclusive account >f the sinking ot II. M. S. "Victoria" by her fellow-battleship the "Cauiperdown" in the MediterrapitmluW. $antfree in Everyto an English man-of-war in times of peace, and he expected that the London papers would have a full ac* count, from which he could get a story for his own paper. All they printed however, was the bare announcement of the disaster, and Philips then endeavored to find a correspondent somewhere near where the British s<|uadron had been mmouvreing who would furnish him with the details. ^Wo lupins* to trv." the English " " editors informed him. "There's no correspondent in the vicinity, and even if there were, he could not help us, because the nearest cable station is fifty miles away. Better wait till the Foreign Office gives it to us." Hut Philips was not willing to wait, lie roused the cable managers to activity, and glined their permission ; t> wire acinic operation on the Barbary coasts, whose station was neari est the scene of disaster, and ask him I for news. But the operator replied that he had none. Two days had I now passed, and London papers i were still without any suppliment to the orginal brief message. New York was quivering madly so Phillips again '! wired the operator, and offered him It ?100 to visit the squadron and send i a story. But the reply came back. 'r "Send m >noy first; have none to hire a boat The Cable managere nient now fairly jeered at the American, and assured him he was making a fool of himself. "The operator ig,1 is a foreigner,' they said. Probably /ill he cannot read or wright English, and ely you won't be able to make out the vitl message if he ever does send one." jj'jT On the third day, there being '.?? < Phillips found a UT bank that would send a cable-draft to this out-of-the-way spot and on v,(^ the fourth day there (arrived a ice; column story, giving an account of pie- the '"Victoria" disaster, that was *of remarkable for its accuracy and "as graphic discription, even though i -I badly spelled. When published in > "V th correspondent's New York paper ' ?<*! the same day, and cabled back to w i? London, the narrative was condemned joni- a8 a "fake". Not until shown the this orginal dispatch would London edi0 < >y tors admit they had been badly beaten rhoie by their enteprising contemporary. 1 m*" To Cure a Cold in One Day eil to Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, hinj?. Alls druggists refund the money if it d this fail to cure. E. W. Grove's signature then. Is on each box. 25o. 43-ly