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J We Solicit 1901 JULY 1901 Sm. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fri. Sat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 _7_ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1fi 17 18 10 9fl ? ? * w V JL ? X v/ X V WW 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 .28 29 30 31 REMINISCENCES OF THE WARInteresting Incidents Connected With the Late War, Bringing Out a Great Deal of Unwritten History, in Which the Ptivate and Subordinate Officers arc Given Credit Justly Due Them. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest Men That Ever Faced an Enem y Were to be FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES. BY J. L. STRAIN. The morale of an army is the essence of its existence. The status of volunteers is ijuite different from that of regulars. In the Confederate army this line of distinction was partially, if not totally, obliterated by the "Conscript Law." Nothing but his high appreciation of honor and duty remained to the volunteer soldier. The conscript was not, of necessity, below the volunteer in character and courage; but of their own volition many of theui were, so far as reliability in military mat?w.,i 'in,.. Kl O n CI V WUVCI UC/VI* XUC ill OL U'il* script act was pissed April lthh. , 1832. It provided that all men over 35 years would be released from miliary duty who did not volunteer wi'hin three months, which time, of course, expired ltith of July, ( '32. It is not necessary to say anything about all the different members of the company who were looking forward to the end of their term of service with unusual interest. Some of them were outspoken and built their air castles in plain view of everybody, and this, of course, gives us room to make mention of them. Shlcton Fowler w as the most prom, inent of the party who were expecting to soon throw off their military yoke, or, being a man of undoubted courage, he did not fear to express himself as others might have done, consequently Shelt's case was raiber ?a test case in the company. Others were just as anxious, or perhaps more so, to get out, but Shelt became the champion of the crusade. In conver. aation he would tell the others how he would do when he got home. "I will go to McNally's and take a drink for you boys in camp, and at the Mine time take one for myself," he would say. There was no doubt about his getting off on the ltith of July. Butjas that time cauie on, the attention of the Government was directed to something else than the release of the men over 35 years old from the army; consequently Shell and his Lieutenants were found frequently about company headquarters getting information and exchanging news with the officers, not only of our company but of others. As the time was fast approaching and no special indications were in sight that tue expectations of these "exempts ' i.i L. : i .L . WOUiu ue rrniiKcu ouiuc ui tuuui gui> sick. Dr. Snowdon was our surgeon and a good fellow he was, too. Sheb undertook to euchre hitn. He wa*> sick, apparently. The Dr. was called i?t ga\'e him some medicine and agreed to exempt him from duty, and A. If. FOSTER* Vice PrwMMt. I I. D. ARTHUR* Assistant Caskter. ? inters' National Bank | tON, h. c. Z $60,000 Z ; 60,000 J 60,000 9 $170,000 Z W. H. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, ? , E. P. MeKisslck, A. H. Foster, Z Vour Business. I would call and see him next day. hrank Millwood was in Shells mess and occupied the same tent with him. Next day Dr. S. came round and left Shelt some more medicine, and so on the next day, and for a considable length of time. Frank was aware how things were working, and one day he says to the Dn "What do you think is the matter with my cousin, Shelt FowJer? The Dr. said, "i think he's got cold, and perhaps some fever symptoms too." "Do you think your medicine is doing him any good? ' "Oh yes, 1 think so." Next day the Dr. reported back to sec his patient. Frank met him before he got to the tent, and said, "Doctor, ain't there about twentyeight different diseases laid down in your books that human flesh is heir to? Well, when you go to examine my cousin Shelt try bim on all of an>l aaa If La ai?'* ?tL auvi occ II uu BIU v iiiriu all or most of them, at least, and he sure to feel in his pockets and you will find all the medicine that you gave him since you have been attending to him." The Dr. did as requested, with satisfactory results, and Shelt promised -to cut Frank's throat for giving this information. Shelt aid not release his intention of being at homa after the 16th of July, and kept up his constant visits to company headquarters. One day while Shelt was out, Frank Millwood went into his tent and tied all of his (Shelt's) things up with a rope, hard and fast, and slipped out of his tent unnoticed, and was soon at headquarters with Shelt and the others. Shelt had never yet forgiven Frank for the matter in which l)r. Snowdon took part. Frank communicated the fact of Shelt's things being bundled up aud ready for shipment to some of the other bojs, who went to the tent and called the attention of others to it until the whole camp became interested, and a lot of fun grew out of it. Frank was always "selling" somebody out. fie toolc Lieut. Palmer down one day after we got to Virginia. It was thus: The Lieut, was scolding Tom llodgers for hurting ing his horso's back, and Frank, thinking he could relieve Torn, called to the Lieut, and said: "Lieut., what do you think of Dr. Dogan." 4 I tnink he is a d?d fine man," said the Lieut. Frank said, "I don't know about that." "Why?" said the Lieut. Frank said that he had just received a letter from home and that they had taken two soldiers up to Union, and that he (l)ogau) objected to their being buried in the village graveyard. The Lieut, said, with an oath, that a detail ought to be sent home to kill him, and wanted to know why the Doctor objected to their being buried in the village graveyard? Frank replied. "because they wern't dead." Thereupon the Lieut, begatl pouring hid anatheinuR upon Frank as long as he was in sight and hearing, and then turned upon poor Ton with redoubled vigor. Of this noble man, Capt. John W. Palmer, 1 will say something bef ?re I close these reminiscences. No purer man or braver soldi<yr ever wielded a awordwjjool. brave, impartial and honojatne; a man who had an indescribable dislike for anything like cowardice or dishonesty. 1 never pass and look upon the matble that marks his last resting place but that I feel I am on sacred ground. "Peace to bis sshee and eternal calm to his memory." I expect to make our different officers special objects of notice in these reminiscences. This week will embrace the closii chaprer of our military history. 1 the curtain falls on the last seen of the drama, and they, with tl brave men who had followed the through that eventful struggle, tui toward the home of their childhoo with no trophies, save and exce the honorable scars of battle and tl plaudits of "well done good and fait ful servants," I will mention them. Mention has already been mai of the sickness while on the c>a# The manly forms of many of 01 best men yielded to the disease i cident to camp life, and lay prostra for weeks, while others passed ov< the ri\er of death "to rest under tl shade ot tne trees. ut these latte John Blake, Seeberry Woolbrigh Charles N. Fowler and II. C. Litt died on the coast; others reach* home. The worst cases of sickne that recovered that I now rccolle were Lieut. Gilliam II Jeter, privati II Gilliam Thomas, George V Rochester, John Taylor, Georj Comer, John Odell, J. Wesley Mi Kown, James Tinsley, James M Culloch, corporal Wtliiam II. Jet< and perhaps others. Too much cri d cannot he given that noble man ar brave soldier. Thomas Steen, for h promptness and uuHinching devotin to these suffering comrades while i the hospital at Adam's Run. lis it been anybody else than Tom Stee employed to tend to them, half < them would, perhaps, have die* liis name w ill vet appear with hono able mention as this work progress* We then moved to Camp McKi sick near Adam's Run village. Thei the soldiers become affected to a alarming extent with fever, assumir a malarial form. The water cours< flowing in asluggii-h manner throug a marshy and intensely malarial di trict was the prime cause. A grei many of the soldiers, worn dowu b excessive duty,being obliged to snatc a few hours of sleep with mothi earth for a bed and the sbroudc canopy of Heaven for a shelter, n< having yet become acclimated becatr affected with malarial fever. Th assumed a typhoid type. The fir quent and copius rainfalls during th spring and summer carried the in purities of the surface by filtratio through the sandy soil, in an in perfectly filtered condition, and coi taminated the water in our welli Though invisible to the eye orspecii senses of the taste or smell, yet potei enough to produce this alarming an fatal disease amongst, the soldiers. Brigade headquarters were i Adams Run all the time we were o the coast. All the commissai and ordnance supplies were ther< Watrons were kent busv haulin o r y forage and auppliea for the differei commands. Our mail arrangcmci was perfect. We could get a goc many luxuiiea at the stores there thi we had been unaccustomed to. Rappahannock and Manassas. 11y ii. f. scaifk. Mk. Editor:?In the \tlani Journal of May 25th Mr. W. H. Ai drews, of Georgia, introduces son personal reminiscences of Thorougl fare Gap with the statement tin Evan's and Anderson's brigades r ceived a severe drabding at Rapp; hanock. It seems to me that th statement is in part mideading. Th enemy occupied a bill on the Sout bank of the Happahwnnock that boi the ominous name of graveyard, an was very suggestive of the work i which we were engaged, and if give in prophecy had its fulfillment thi day. As our troops advanced tl enemy retreated across the river on pontoon bridge. Our troops wei out of musket range and did not fi a gun. but were subjected to aterrif storm of iron hail fragments of shel and solid balls hurled into their rani from guns in commanding positions c the opposite side of the river. The these commands were made up as kno#'Ktvans' was af unseasoned troo] hut they neither ran nor retreate but bi MU^.bcld their positions fro early moflhing until late in the afte noon, when the enemy fell back t wards Washington. The advan< that tested the courage of these u , tried soldiers and the loss incident to it was a necessary part in Lee I program that had to be acted. C it hinged the success of his strateg | move. Pope must he detained ( the Rappahannock to give Jacks< time to get in his rear. The mal - - ?t ? - 7; believe effort to cross the lt?pp*h*nr?g nock had the deeired effect and I Is submit was a victory and not a drub, es dffhg. But there was some dusting be done there that day, and not in any in spirit of humiliation. . I make the rn confession for I was one with those <!,' oho did the tunning. The Macbeth pt tight Artillery commanded by Capt be Root. Bcyoe was at that time attachh e<Hs j?W? brigade. Capt. Boyce V?<5s an educated man and uprumiting le lawyer, and he was high strung, senit. sitive and had. the courage and amir bi'ion of a Caesar. He looked upon n- an Orjny as a great machine and each ce rauiTMiuat soiaier a part or it, and er obedience wm his ideal ot soldiery ie fitness for making the whole a sue? r, cess. Now he was as Gen. Evans it, said of him that day, "spoiling for a le fight.'" With a chance he expected m1 tor shape public opinion according to as his own morals. His opportunity ct bad come. He was ordered to take es position on graveyard hill and wipe i*. off or silence the Federal batteries re that were annoying our infantry c- there. With no thought of the feaai c- bility of executing the order he threw er himself into his saddle and went it rushing along at a sweeping gallop id to occupy the position assigned him. is We were checked by a line of earth in works just before we reached the in crest of the hill, whicn obstructed id our view of the enemy. To reach >n the top of the hill Capt. Boyce orderof ed the battery through an opening 4. to the left, his splendid move leaping r- the brea>t works up hill as nimble as s. a cat?though the Captain weighed s- about two hundred pounds. Passing re ibis lme of earth works we were conm fronted by another in the form of a ig crescent extending to the first iine [>s on both sides of the opening and ;h making a half moon ba'tery about s- large enough to successfully operate \t two gnns... Under the excitement y incident to battle we hail crowded :h into this small enclosure six guns sr and six caissons. The enemy sus>d pecting the trap into which our inexot perHmoed rashness were leading as, ie gave our infantry a resting spell, i? reserving their fire for us, and now e- having us packed as sardines aid the ie morning* pruct ce having given them [i- the range and d^tance, at once let in loose the dogs of war, and in a brief a- time the air was full of whizzing balls and shells bursting like claps s. of thunder above our heads. In a *1 moment we saw the folly of our unit dertaking. IIow our guns were cxid tracred I do not know, but I do know we made fast time in getting beyond at the range of Federal guns. Our in lucky escape from destruction was y due to the inaccuracy of the Yankee e. shooting. Two men wounded and ig seven horses killed or wounded were it the damages we sustained. This it was our initiatory 6ght and it had a >d demoralising effect on the company, at It was so easy to imagine that we would have a similar experience every time we met the enemy. But our marshal spirit returned in an astonishingly quick time as was carried at Second Manassas and Sharp*burg. fa On the morning of the eventful 30th ii- of August, 1802, our guns were ie percha on the highest hill along Lee's I*- line of battle, and just in rear of our at guns Gen. Lee and a number of our c- leading Generals spent some time on a- their knees minutely examining a is map of that locality that had been e spread out on tfie ground. The h points of attack having been fixed re Lee took Jackson aside and whisid pered into his ears the word go, that in made those hills echo with the rattle m of musketry, the thunder of cannons at and the clashing of contending armies! ie Jackson mounted his old clay hank a and rode off in a bending forward re position with nothing in his appearre ance to excite admiration. But ic when told that it was Jackson nothing n more was needed to set tne tongues ts of soldiere in a state of excited vi>n bration. It seems that Lee and in Jackson about the same time caught I sight of Gen. Fit* John Porter's p* overwhelming numbers moving down d, to crush Jackson's battle worn and m battle-thinned line already strug r gling desperately with superior o- numbers. Two couriers soon reached ce Longstreet calling for help. No inn fantry however (juick of motion could al reach Jackson in time to prevent i's destruction. The Macbeth and an>n other company of artillery were or;ic dered forward. We were still in )n battery on our commanding hill t > >n the left of the pike and near Longte street's left center. We were bar Wm. A. NICt BAN Transact a Regular & Branches and insure Boiler, Liability artd A of Indemnity for Offic Individuals as Adminii YOUR BUSINESS IS fi 1 iMBaWBBHBBSBBSBBBBBSSSBHBB nessed up ready and waiting in e; pcctancy when we saw a oouii emerge from the woo<is at the foot < the hill urging his horse at its utmo speed towards us. It was a matt of great emergency and he empti: sized it by beckoning us forward i he came dashing on. Gen. Evai .. i: l_ t i .1 J ouftiiuiug urarujf uvsru tut; urucr an said: "Capt. Boyce, go over thei and tear them to pieces." We wei down that long hill like a tornad< Our horses doing their best to ke? our guns and heavy loaded caissot quickened by acclerated motior from running over them. Gen. Lonj street was in the turnpike at th foot of the hill and ordered us I take position on another hill fift more yards farther on and to th left of the pike. Our arrival w? opportune and our position could n< have been better selected. Thei just beyond Young's branch wti the enemy spread out in an ope field, looking much like a blac cloud. We were on their flank an had a destructive enfilade fire. The were moving with a firm step towarc Jackson's line, and if we had bee five minutes later Jackson woul have been forced from his positio or crushed. Five minutes later the would have been opposite a broa 5 _ - t . f .1 M . ravine m?i ran iroiu hip piae i Young's branch, and in that evei we could have occupied no positio that would have commanded then Either this would have been true c they would have already entered tl woods to which they were nankin and just on the other side of whic the battle was then furiou-ly rsgini The Macbeth artillery had an oppo tunity to get even with the enem for our treatment at llappahannocl and no opportunity was better use< No guns were ever served aith bett< or more fi lling effect. The enem did not get twenty-live yards neari Jackson than they were alien tb boom of our first gun told that a sh< had gone whizzing into their ranki Gen. Longstreet says we broke the ranks in ten minutes. We wet looking after the effects i-f flyin balls ami shells and not flying mom ents. The Macbeth Light Artiller started the retreat that, ended in great victory and one that ought 1 have been more glorious in results, contemplate writing one more piec in which I hope to establish bey on the quible of a doubt the above clain LETTER FROM LOCKHART. A Pleasant Time at the Hospital), home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cary. Ixtckhart has quite a number of vi iters who came in answer to iuvitatioi from Mr. and Mrs J. (3. Cary, and tl occasion being a house party commencir July 10th and ending on the 22nd. Tt invit#d gnosis who weie not local res dents are as follows: MissNtllie Humphries, of Awleiaoi Miss Mary Chert), o^fjeneca; Miss I)*?i Livingston, of Seneca; Miss Clan* Lr iligsloii, ot Seneco; M s. E L (.Jary, < SW-neca; Miss E'liel (tiobs, of l^olnmbi Mi^s -vtiah Lyles, of Columbia; Mi I-abi lie Foster, of Union; Miss Mam Carroll, of Yorkville; Mr. Harry G?* ot Union; l>r I. M. Hair, ol Uuioi Mr. !' rriu Thoiusoii, of Union, M Lewis J ndon, of Union; Mr. Biehai II. Woods, of Chester; Mr. W. ( Thomson, of Oaflfney; Mr. I) T Thor son, of Gnffney; Mr. John Flyun, < Spartanburg. On Friday evening they attended tl meeting of tlie Cornet Hand at the hn and some of tliem indulged in trippiu the light fantastic toe to the sound < sweet music On Saturday evening Mm wen* s?renaded at the residence of M and Mrs J. C. Cary and all apjastred l greatly enjoy themselves. This mornir possibly most of tliem will return I their homes, and we trust they will ta) with them pleasant memorlei of tl enjotmenta while at the h<?pital>le hotr *?_ 1 II. . U..J i. ?,i, I vi nir. mm mis. vymj auu ui i/^nua and im people whom they came in coi tact with. Miss Carrie Toore (rave a birthdn part? to eorae of the young people at tt home of her parent*, Mr. and Mr*. 1 B. Toore. Refreshments were serve i and it was quite an enj oyable affair. I Homo. tOLSON & SON, IKERS, ankjng Business in all its Against Fire, Tornado, coid'mts, and Issue Bonds dais of Corporations, and strators, Etc., Etc. (Ef PECTFULLY SOLICITED. x- A FRIEND OF THE FILIPINOS. ur f > Cnpt. Ftank lireer Talktt Enter* . tainingly of the Country. n ' (Spartanburg ILrild.) Capt. Frank W. Greer, form all j - -- ' *' " tp v?piuin 01 tne Moore (iuards at is P^cnlet, but later of the U. S. Army, Co. F, 42d llogt., has just returned re from Slanila. He left ou May 29 it ?t'd landed in San Francisco June 22. 0. He arived at Pacolet July 4th. Capt. ip Greer talks entertainingly of the ib Philippines and Filipinos. He was in ib the city yesterday and closed a c?n?. tract to travel in the interest of The ie Herald. :o *1 was on the i land of Luzon 17 y months, was engaged in a number of skirmishes, two of which I got credit ib for on iny discharge. In these my >t Csptain whs wounded and Corporal e Henry Hart was killed. The island e is Vtrj fertile and M nila is a beauti1, iul city and healthy enough after yon k become cliwatized. I found plenty of d English but few Americans outside y if the army The chances for mak [a ing mone) there are good, ii "The Filipinos, the Tugalog tribe, . are intelligent and capable of develop>n .nent. The Iilocanons and Minon dons are a shiftle-s class, the same as *. our Negroes and Indians. Through > the prejudice they had for the Ta^.1 ilogs they were friendly to the Americans aud while the Americans were j. at thpir back they would fight, bat H ?erfe cowards otherwise. The Tagn alogs jjere brave but overpowered by iv American troops 65,000 to their 30.J, 000. We could net accomplish in i 18 months what Aguinaldo did in '24 i- hours. After marching 17 months y fighting the Filipinos, 1 am dearly i. of the opinion that they ought to be i. a free and independent people. The ;r American people will come to this j conclusion sooner or later. These >i people are quick to perceive, deeply it religious aiul patriotic to the back>i done. Illustrating their patriotism, #. on Feb. 22ud, Washington's blithir day. they placed a portrait of Wash>e ington and Aguinaldo side by side, g and in every town throughout the - island of Luzon the white flag, the v emblem of peace, was hung on the a door. They have been taught for a- 100 vears to honor the father of 1 American independence. Aguinaldo >e is believed to be tbe George Washd ington of the Philippines. They love n. him, from the cradle to the grave, and would fight to the death at his command. "The government as it is today is distinctly a carpet bag government similar in all material respects to that which existed in South Carolina in ?- reconstruction times. "The chief products are rice, cora, ? potatoes, tobacco and tropical fruits. . )e lletnp grows on the hills. It is a t- good place for a civilian, but no place tor a soldier. The islands are r'' pacified now except a small band of v. outlaws in the mountains. These are ji gradually coming in. The people ' *? are not going to be satisfied with American rule. There will be an inL< surrection inside of two years heatled a, by Aguinaldo indirectly, i "We left with 100 men and came back with (JO, one death fr.rai bullets ^ and the others from dysentery. Had Hi the American soldiers received the rations allotted, the mortality would i* not have been so great. The natives 1,1 are appreciative and generous to a iIaopm* TK?u urn afripflv hnnA?t. and ,1 ?ft -""V j frequently warned the Americana r against attacks of insurrectionists. i<? "There are 65 different languages ^ and the people of one province as l#! close as Spartanburg and Union ie connties can not understand each ?e other." rl Capt Greer has delivered several [! * - - f 1_ - A . AL /\ I I lectures and spaice to tne udti ,y Fellows at Pacoleton Saturday evenie ing. lie talks entertainingly of the ^ people and the country, and is of the opinion that every shot that was fired by the Americans was unjust.