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Stockholders' Liabilities X Total ^ J )l KKOTOK8 1. A. Fft't, \\ T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, ! T Win. Coleman. | We Solicit Y< $ 1901 AUG-UST 1901 Jil Nta Jik JKe. JA Fit Sat. L JLJL 4 5 6 ~78 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20121 22 23 24 25126127 j 28129 j 30 j 81 BACK FROM THE PlllLHTINES. Capt. Frank W. Greer, of Pacolet, Writes Interestingly of the People of the Island. MADE FRIENDS OF THE SENORITAS. Mr. Joiin It. M ath is, Editor Union Timks, Union, S. C. Df.ar Sik:?Your kind letter of t)?e 17?h in^r. mvitiuirnie to write of njy experi?nce in the Philippines received 1 appreciate the h<?ii'>r of cnntiihutinp to your paper, for <>nce upon a tune 1 was a member of its force, and 1 hope. Sir, that I may so write that it will interest every reader of The Times, many ot whom are old acijaintances and fiun friends of uiiue. 1 tiust that those who are prone to criiieise will not be too se\ ere upon what 1 say, -and remember 4,that we arc many people wilh many opinions" and as American citizens we are free to express them. Many, do doubt, have read the interview which I gave the Spartanburg Daily ; llerald, and which was reproduced , in This Ti.mks last week, so therefore, I will not repeat it here. I was a member of Co. F. 42nd U. S. V., which regiment was organized at F-rt Niagara, in the Western part of the State of New York and within a few mties of the iambus Niagara Falls. 1 enlisted the 18th day of September, UH. and asked to be assigned to this regiment, for 1 greatly desind to see the falls whicli I had the gieat pleasure of doing many times during ilie da\s that we stayed at this old historic lort. The people in the vicinity of Fort Niagara are thrifty, well to-do farmers, ami gi ow an immense amount of fruit which was ready for gathering at the time we were organized and to which we received cordial invitations to help ourselves. Many of us had the pleasure ot taking dinner with souie of the families, at which it you hailed lioiu "'Dixie's Land" y<.u were j made to ftel more than welcome, and | the way they would ply you with j questions was enough to make you I imagine you were a witness against the prosecution. llut they aro good \ and intelligent people, and do not j believe any more in the social equal- j l/. ttion of the races than we of South 1 Carolina do. In fact they see clearer ! t"day than they did fdKy years ago that the South arose upon her dignity for honor's sake and the perpetuation of white supremacy. And 1 believe ' they are sorry. lie that as it may, i 1 never felt prouder in my life of the achievements of the South in the ; late rebellion and never spoke with a prouder emphasis than when I told 1 those of the North that I was a son ' of a Confcdeiate- soldier. Hut j enough of this, everything is over now and wo are a united people with j one country?one fhig. I have not the time here to give i y<-u a detailed account of our j urncy across the continent, suthce b it to say that it was tiresome mtkI long, fiom Oct. oOth to Nov. , % ; 'MS***"**"**"** *?>< ? 4* **<**")? *$/ *' A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. J , D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. | t niers' Kaiional Bank ? I *4. <?. | * $00,000 I r 50,000 f 00,000 * $170,000 f 1 T, H. Wallace, Win. JelTries, ? E. P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, X ^ our Business. f ,j he M ??*? * 4U--M-#*"*<* u O : ,\ 8th, though we saw rannv points > ot interest and some of the . scenery that tliis great country af- h fotda. We landed at the foot of |, Market Street, San Francisco, Cal , d about 10 o'clock on the morning of 2 Nov. 8th, and marched in sets of w furs through this thoroughfare. 0 which was crowd'd upon the side walks and on house tops many c thousands of people cheering us on tl to the battlefield as it were. Th?- 2 Sun Francisco Chronicle had a small t cannon up in a window and they jr fired us a solute of 13 guns which tl made every man of us step with > \V more clastic step as our regimental I hand piayed a march winch has u portion of "Yankee Doodle" and p "Dixie" combined in it We re- J] mained at San Francisco till Nov. h 30th when we went aboard of two ,J transports bound for Manila, 8,000 ft tnihs from our western shores. The r? transports were the "Columbia" and 0! a tramp steamer belonging to the It us \, sian government and fixed up to ac ai commodate Uncle Hani's boys, named % "Dalncy Yo.*tock." I was upon tin- K "Yosteek," and the hoys aboard wi'h me niek iMiind her the "Dolly Wash U1 tub" before they had beeu aboa*d u of her 48 hours. Th??re were much tt sea sickness for the first three days a, out. We ran into the harbor of j tl I 1... ,xl..I.. II T I Iiui?f>uu, 11. 1., 1MU?V UlgU I. Lilt! II {Sili of December, and next uioming we were marched through the city ?o tX a mountain where we remained all w day. We remained hero until Mon- b day (at Honolulu) when we proceeded b on our journey. On the 15th the y sad news was signaled us lrom the w "Columbia," which stayed a mile 55 ahead of us, that Private Ilall, of h "L." Co., had gone to answer "re- o treat" above. si Christmas caught us five days from Manila harbor, hut wc had a 1 ice j. time listening to songs of the light p hearted boys w ho thought of their 1, mothers and sweethearts at home M across the mighty deep, and who from these thoughts sang son^s which b in every way seemed to he appropriate v for the occasion. Christmas night a musical conceit was given by the ti enlisted nun which all enjoyed very w much, December 50th irt about 10 Ui o'clock we steamed into the harbor X of Manila, passing upon our right the ? hat 1 cry of Cavite. which saluted us <, with 1-3 guns, and immediately after k getting that salute tic heard a gun 1, roar on our left, and on looking in Sl t'oit direction we saw the three bull ii d->gs of the Navy, the Nashville, t| Brooklyn an<l Oregon, who were e doing sentinel duty in those waters, u We spent New Year's day upon the ^ transports, landing the morning of ? the 2nd of Jan., 1901, and marched a to wiu?t was known as the line of I defense, which was from North Manila e ro South Manila, and which was kept p us a precaution against the insur w rec'O's entering the city. It was J ut>?mir five indes from Manila and f( about ten miles long. We remained y here untd Saturday evetiing, the u 20th, when wc received ordets t>> j 0 t.ike three days rations and proceed ti to Santa Cruz, a distune- of 100 p miles around the shore of Lnguna de h Bay. We started at 7 o'clock s.nd ,x marched until 11:30 that n.^ht, p (2<)th) when we went into camp and it tor the first time in many of our lives y we used our haversacks for pillows, f laying upon the ground and covering v with our ponchos or rubber blankets. | ?>u arose cany aim negan l<>r ttic r H.8t time the duties of a cook, frying v ha con mthI making eoff?e. This we H kept up for thirty-three days. We i: passed through many towns on this f expedition. which, with hut few ox- t ceptions, wore deserted. The reas m i ivhy the people deserted tin ir homes . >11 the approach of American so'd'ers ,vas becauso of fear that the soldier* ?ou d commit acts of crin lty in order o m ike them reveal some secret c >n ;erning the movemeut of the insurectors, which they would suffer death atber than do. For six months were re kept upon what was known as the firing line" garrisoning. We had hree fights during our stay ipon this "line." At San Antonia iear I'aete Jan. 24th, Lonnh<>ng ?eb. 13th and Siuiloau May 30 .h Ye had a number of small skirmishes luring this time but of which no ecord was ever kept. June 3ih wo cere sent to Malabon to do garrison luiy, at which place wc were kepr ' in til April 22nd last, when, we were ] rdered on the Luncta to join our 1 egiment and come home. Leaving * lamia homeward bound at 4 o'clock < lay 2(Jch on hoard of the chartered ' ransport '"Onio," landing in the * arbor of'Frisco June 22ml. disem ! arking and going irito catnp the same 1 ay, where we remained until .June f 7th. when we were forever murterel ' ut of the 42ud U. S. V. ll- gitneut 1 f Infantry. I Now, I will speak of a few of uiv < xperiences, etc., while I was in ie islands. On the morning oi Jim. A 4rh we hour i tor the first time a lion i legun, f?.r D company of >ur r^g. ^ nent had gone out to reconnoiter " moitg the mountains at the f--ot < f '< iiicu we had slept the night previous } n u few minutes after the first vol 1 y we received orders to move in | no of skirmish up the st? cn incline. 1 iut the mountain being so ->teep and ' aving such a heavy growth of un ' erbush on it we had to go in single < le up one narrow path until wo t jached the *op where we received L ur fir -1 Voiley from the insurrecors t ho w< re lrd and w?r?? awaiting our t rrival. E.erv one < f us stood our 1 (OUi.d and replud t" them with on1 t Ir.igs so forcibly that there was a t liot old time'' for twenty minutes or r tore. Fortunately no one of our 1 ten was scratched, hut we managed t> ? . o i get four of the ' little hrown men,'' > tni judging from the amount of hlood 1 lat was in the trench that ihcv were v i we must have wounded or killed 1 i many more. We moved on over a ic in luntain until noontime when ^ e heard the welcome sound of our e uglc sounding rethre. We" went s ack to the foot of the mountain, al- c iost exhausted and footsore, where t e drew three days more of rations, f itiuiou, ohuoii, conce, sugar una u ard-tnck that had arrived during ^ ur absence up the mountain, on a ^ nail U 8. Government gunboat, t ifter dinner we proceeded on our s urney towards Santa Cruz. In t assing through the small town of I n O lom-botng we were surprised to see v u many of the inhabitants on the j 1 reels and in the windows of the J amboo and mahogany houses, t l/< mien stood about on the narrow < idewuiks with their babies astride of n mir hips trembling for fear that we s ould treat their children and rhem t 3 the Spanish soldiers u-e to do ' t is said that when the Spanish was ?' larcliiug through this hostile region t f Luzon that they committed all I it ds of depredations and the most t ein >us and niabolicalj c inn s known. ^ itch as piiaichiog young babies from t l.e bosom of motbers and dashing t tteir brains out before the mother's I yes and then accomplishing other t ihuman purposes wilii the fainting, t rief erazwd m -ther. Ttiey had been I old by the Spaniards that we weie I s inhuman, and our trcaiment of the i edian* (though greatly and faslely I xaggera ed) were told to ttiem as I roof as to what they said. But it t ould have done ariyone p >od to see i lig E I Furlong, who was about six i-ct in his socks, and as kind in i ncpnh lie wnu l?i.r iind -.fr.iinr ?ler\ I i 7 -> - ?f p to a beautiful coffee colored girl < f about eighteen summers (tor they ] lave no winters) who was holding a ' iretty little baby in her arms and i legin to pat it tenderly on the head j nd then upon the cheeks, and the < loor girl was bo frightened that she ,iuiost suffocated the little one by i irea.-ing >t bo hard to htr bosom, but i inally site became convinced that we i lore men and not such ferocious nutes as we were painted, and began o "ablar mucho" (i?lk) to us of I rhich only a few of us could underhand but very little. She brought is cigarettes andj tobacco, and in a t w minutes I think every child in he little barrio (town) was there with is mother for a pat upon the head. Before wo left there I think we h ?? favorably iuty>css<d all the people sii to what manner (>f men we were, feus lo?g as we could sec down th read, as wo were leaving, we would look back and (-hour an answer to th* many "adios" that were sent after us and the good by?* wave of a white handkerchief in the hands of some black eved senorita. Jan. 2nth wc reached Santa Cruz, meeting (Jen. Schwan's brigade. (Continued next week.) The Work of Machvtli's Artillery. 15y ii. f scaifk. Mit. Editor:?I want to siy that the personal reminiscences that ap aear in your paper from time to time nuke interest!no? readitu? f..r tho old O O oldiers. They not only relate inci lents and deeds of thrilling merit, rat help to keep the war record >'ii)ight. OlHchii reports are often jar i d and sometimes tail to r? nder into Cicsir the things that are Cm lar's. Consuming selfishness the >ig eye spirit that did it all can sit vith complacency on the pcdea'ul of atne forgetful of the toniiude ol tlmrs that made its erection possible I'he great ijecotul Manassas battb vas brought on by hen. I ope, the federal Commander, pudiiug forvard to overtake the imagined scared irmv of Lee, that was then actually idvitneing with the music of prosjeetive victory already in the air. jco ret(eating! Wuy he had beeii lersuing Pope up and across the iappahannock for ten days. The uvader fleeing before the invaded. To bring him to a halt, L<*e, at a laring ri*k, interposed Jackson be ween hnn and Washington. Thi.? > >ld strategic conception was excelled b\ Jackson with consuuiute skill. iut it placed bis command in an iso iitcd position that invited destrue ion. Pope was impressed wi'h the nogmtudc of his responsibiiiiv and Ma i '/hi 1 r?*_?r tliit *\?m i.nrtii ?it i \r <vf l?o ?... v-J.,"/. ........J ... ite f?r winning undying fame had addeiily dawned upon his pathway \ i.h the Rappahannock between ura and Lee he turned his face to raids Jackson and rushed to crush din before Loiigstreot, now so far way, could come to his assistance. Yith tack ami dash he occupied very point of the compass with trong forces and Jacks ?n in the enter of the invironinent, and that here might be a loop-hole of escape ra threw a strong command at Thorsighfaro Gap to shut Longstreet's ;ateway to Jackson's relief. The ;eneral?hip evinced by Rope up to his time will not hlusti in comparion with other Federal Generals on he pages of the unbiased historian, t was no fault of his that orders vere miscarried or the triggers were iot sprung at the proper time, lackson, like a stone wall, stood in lie way. and he was no timid sollier, he knew when and how to strike, md when ho struck his antagonist tnggered under his blow. There is lothing grander in military evoluion than the masterly conception of lacksmi that outwitted the vigilance if Rope, upset his well laid plans, i.;., e i U?I,J i.:. ifd'. iii.i IUI v;?;n iii uuinii <uui iiciu JUS :iitire army at hay until Longstreet's jritn warriors forged their way htougli Thoroughfare Clap and unrobed up and went into ITiie of lattle on his right to the ruortificaion of Pope and the consternation of ;he people in Washingt >n. This >lu-teiing (General who boa-ted that h* never saw anything but the backs A Hebels in the West, had now to ook them in their faces, aud it was a ,o k that biought defeat, disgrace Mid a historical grave. During the morning of that eventful dUih of August, 18l>2, Generals Lee, Jackson, Stewart and others held a protracted consultation just in the rear af our guns. About noon Lee whispered bonie instruction to Jackson, who mounted his horse and without showing any evidence of conscious greatness, rode back to his command on the other side of ihe pike. Troops moving into position, the quick, sharp eraek of the picket's rilles an?l the occasional boom of a cannon wer? ?' me of the tokens of the approach ing clash of contending armies. Lee w?s ready and would have move<! forward had not Pope anticipated him by assaulring Jackson's com ni nid under the insane supposition that Lee was retreating Jackson\ line of battle ran along a rnilr ad cui Uf. ?, .. k .1.. . I' 1- iL... ,.U- 1.1 VI lot Ul (I U"uy HI WUULUI !UHl BUIUIU ? (] and prut-cited ike enemy. Jack :j Wm. A. NICHI | BAM Transact, a Regular Bai , Branches and Insure ! Boiler, Liability and Ac ! of Indemnity for Officii Individuals as Administ YOUR BUSINESS IS RE son says officially that the enemy advanced in several lines and as onewas repulsed another took its place, and the assaults were so impel ions and well sustained that he was induced to send f- r reinforcement. l>ur die timely and gallant advance -?t (ion. Longsfreet relieved his troopfrom the presence of overwhelming numbers. Gen. Lee says the encm\ having missed his troops advanced against Jackson in string force, and that a second and child ine of great strength moved to the suppart of the first, that Gen. Jjongntreet ordered up two batteries and two others wen thrown forward by Col. S. D. Lee and uuder their wed directed and destructive lGe the supporting lines j were broken and fell hmk in om fusion, in reporting this mcident Gen. Lee is misiuken in ?\yo partieu lars. Not a shot from Col LceV guns reached these troops nei'hei lid they retreat in confusion If I omprehend the olficia! ; report, of Col. S. D. Lee his baueriei- 1 occupied positions on an extended' hill in Jucks ui's rear ami therefor' west of the woods iti Jackson's front. The ot.ly change made in the dispo J sition of bis gunsduring light was s bit j ing five fr-'Ui his right to tielp Eu j bank's battery on the left, and order- ] ing his other batteries to eh inge their positions so as to fire into the j think of the enemy as they advanced out of the woods on its west side. ( Now the overwhelming numbers that Jackson saw and the two lines of great strength tliht mode ia;c anxious were east of tha- same body of w..o?ls but making for it. Col. Lee! rdered bis batteries to change their j position s > as to lire into the Hanks of the enemy as they came out of the woods on the \vesr. side and not thorn on the cast side ih?t were mtrching to the woods. Ttiey were on lower | ground than the wooded land arid could not. be seen from Col. Lee's i position or effectually reached by his ! guns, and he dons not cluun in his J report tint he helped to drive them ! from the Held, nor is it true ?hat | when they yielded to the inevbable' retreated in coufusion or disorder. Gen. S\kes, the Federal Division Commatider, says they were marching in columns of regiments and this explains why it was that they looked ! like a dark cloud covering the earth. He also truthfully says that they re- j tired under a severe artillery fire ! without wavering. Generals L e and Longstreet were under the hill from our position and did not see this splendid display of courage and discipline that excited the admiration of all who witnessed ic. General Loe in his report says that these forces wi re driven from the field by four batteries. Gen. Longstreet, in his report, narrows it dow n to one He hi\o f'*om an eminence he saw the eimny muss-og against Gone .Jack-on and they were in easy r:i of he artillery in that locdity. tac&cs gave him an advaii'age that he yy not ? xp' eteu, ami ho hastened tog it hv ordering up two bi;teries (jj was placed in position and mi 'a ately -opened, just at this time a Mm sago was received from tlio enm iog general ittfonning him of.la. son's condition ami need, as it. wa evident that the attack against Gen. Jackson cou'd not be continued ton minutes under the lire of ihese batteries; I uiade no movement of my troops, lb fore the second battery ( could be placed in position the enemy began .to retreat. Not more than five minutes could have elaj s-d from the giv dig of (lie order by Gen. Longstreet to the firing of our first shot, and when we went into act inn not i another gun was visible, Federal or TI.? K.in o?.i wK..i)a i v^iuculia vi i iiv. uuiio ?ii<? c?i? i?r? that were fading among us. killing and wounding our horses and men, cdiiio from guns out of our sight. After this retreat had begun two uuns front some other battery came up on our left and aided us in push> >' OLSON & SON, CERS, nking Business in all its A^gainst Fire, Tornado, cidents, and Issue Bonds 3Is of Corporations, and rators, Etc., Etc. 1SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. ing the enemy on to safety behind the breastworks at Washington. Capt. 1 Joyce, in bis report, says *kthe essential service rend red by tny battery was the driving back of a large force of the enemy that were trying to reinforce that part of their line, and preventing a battery from going into position in rhe valley." I do not call that battery to mind, but remember tiio batte' V that Came up at full | speed and tried to go into bat ery on j grove house hill, a position that would j have completely commanded ours, but a few well d.rec'ed shots sent them back as fast as thev came, and then we went on making inroads in I the bVderul columns without let or j binders nee. They marched slowly | dong in front of us a distance of five hundred yards and all the time ! wirhin easy range of our guns with| out any apparent iptickc dog of their sr.-p- bv the mischief'hat was being wrought in their ranks by our misIsles of dea'h. Now if the forcing of the overwhelming number of the enemy ro give way was the pivot on Allien the tide of battle turned and Lee's army swept on to a glorious victory, ought not justice as well as 5 m Tit to b've influenced <*en. L ?ngs'reet to mention in bis report the name of ihe barterv and the captain who commanded if? A generation from now no one will know that the Mich th Ligbi Artillery feed a gun in the battle of Second Manassas. rp? .? 1 ine ruture historians in search of materml for bunks will glean ?nly from leporrs of genor ils wlio commanded a:ini?*s, corps and divisions. As the only surviving ollicer of the Macbeth Light Artillery. I want to say that the company has no desire to wonr laurels it did not win, and if iher?* is any other ba't.-rv that now claims that **Bcrsy and I killed the hear," let it produce evidence of it* conton* tion while there arc yet" living arbitrators. REMINISCENCES OFTUE WAR. Interesting Incidents Connected With the Lute Wnr, Bringing Out a (ireat Deal of Unwritten History, in Which the Private and Subordinate Officers are Given Credit lastly Due rhem. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest Men That liver Paced an pncniy Were to he FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES. ll\ .1. l. strain. Sunday morning, July *20th, 1Si>2, the Holo-rnb Legion Cavalry toiimd iu line in the glade south of the village of Adam's* Uiiii. The morning was dark and the clouds threatening rain. Adjutant Chalmers gave the usual orders to "count off t>y ivho'e nuiul?ers, beginning on the right," then, "count off hy joins, beginning on the right." Hie line then wheeled" into a column of ) . y d iw '' * ? * n.? village. I y jfftft tii at a ^ /SjSP^toliiely re| itiit.v . _? .^"Tuowell b in-! G'mI bless | you." Then none tin; hilaii >us snouts jo; the cooks, good Dye, UucleJoe, good I ''JM? ?" d bye, we're <>lf tor Vngi.ia," [ and these would leeeivc the s uae modest xt tuiiuie of civilities. Ti e column whs s khi out of the town and moving like a Iuncial coitene towards the ensanguined Ileitis of Virginia that Southern valor had already made immortal. The ovei-|>iiitding clouds that, h id the 1 night before shut out the ten thousand tubs that, thick Lne in d oght c mcave, lined then niuiky veil," and tne hiellow I rays of the i-siug sun fell ni?on ill* landscape as Rt nliy, as the mooiilieains iijxin tiie boundless ocean Thus opens the in st iiujh>:taut chapter of out militaiy history, in comuctiou with events faun > whlcti the impartial historian will yet ' transmit tt> uidwrn millions a true stateit '< . >( ! > !<>. I ..I. Po.ik 1 \ V..V.?WVX. vr.? * * * " V'" g * ' . ?