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REMINISCENCES OF TOE WAR.
Interesting Incidents Connected
With the ItRte War. Bringing Out
, a Great Deal of Unwritten His^
tory, in Which the Private and
Subordinate Officers are Given
Credit Justly Due Them. Some
of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest
Men That Ever Faced an
Enemy Were to be
, FOUND ANIONS THE PRIVATES.
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BY J. L. STRAIN.
Chapter XI.
Wo have very littlo desire to speak
of things connected with our army
life lest wo might be considered selfish
or egotistical?or both?and for
that reason alone modesty forbids
saying many things in which a big
<4I" or little "u" might be read between
the lines of these reminiscences
and spoil the whole object for
which they are written. If, however,
I could mention names as I
would like to I might make them
still t^q^Jpore ^ interesting. I will
l>Qlrevqj',T>o pajrdoned for quoting
. '* ?|ytning bur friends (the enemy)
^ might say about us, and here is one
instance coming from a Federal
soldier a member of one of the New
York Cavalry regiments, who tells
this story of his failure to capture
one of our Confederate scouts (usually
known in army circles as Billy
Bowlegs) at a time when ho was visaing
a friend near a little village in
Virginia, jSppaJdng of it he said:
"The scout had been described to
us so well and after that I was satisfied
I knew him and enough Was
known about his nerve to know that
would not be taken alive if he had
any show for a fight and therefore we
surrounded the house cautiously one
dark night about midnight we approached
the house from the back
side and across a large field with a
trusted guide who knew all about the
premises but .was not go very well
-acquainted with the family. We
Wottdeting how we were to get
him. If wo knocked at the door he
would be alarmed and have time to
arm.himself. If we broke in we
might probably find him in bed. It
was a still, clear night and wo parleyed
about half an lipur beforo we
adopted a plan. Finally wp decided
to break down the door and rush in
before ho was aware of our presence.
T&wo.pf us went to the front door and
wftyto tho back door while another
k stood ready to receive the scout in
w , case be dropped from the second
story window which we supposed
opened into his bed room. We
at up slowly and at a given signal
doors were rapped at the same
Neither of them gave an inch
Uftder t|ie pressure. In response to
the effort we made we heard a woman's
voice call out, 'Who is that:
What do you want?'
> . 'Open the door or we'll break il
'do^n,' wo told her.
[ 'Wait one minute', she said,
a iSbe made a light and we heard
ffrer moving about and in about twc
minutes the front door was opened
4Snd a gray-haired woman of aboui
(forty or forty-five stood there witb
a candle in her hand. She was noi
excited apparently. She said, 'Unioi
i-soldiers, eh? Come right in,' smilinf
if glad to see us. ^
I J b?d posted the men around tin
iftouse ?rul &nterpd with another an(
rsoon as I was inside I said;
'Madam, we have come for ??
!we knot* be is here, we shall tak<
him dead or alive.'
/Oh you are looking for Billy ar
lyou?' exclaimed a girl who cam
(running down stairs just at thai mo
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not being fully dressed, but you see
you didn't send me word.'
She laughed in a merry sort of a
way while the mother smiled good
naturedly. She bad on a neatly
fitting calico dress, a ribbon tied
around her neck and except that her
hair was somewhat disskevelled she
looked as well prepared as if she had
expected us, and had had time to fix
lip to meet us.
'Yes, Jennie, they want Billy,'
said the mother, as she placed the
candle on the stand.
'Aud we are bound to take him
dead or alive,' I added in a loud
voice, thinking that the scout was in
hearing.
'Oh, how sorry,' laughed the girl.
'If Billy had only known you were
coming, but he didn't, you see, and
he went away about dark. He'll
never forgive himself I suppose?no
nover.'
'But we must search the house,' I
said.
'Mother, you light another candle
and I'll show the gentlemen round. .
Maybe the sight of Billy's old clothes
will do them some good.'
'Well, we hunted that house thor
ougdly trom cellar to attic and all we
found was a suit of Billy's old clothes.
He was gone and I could only apologize
for having interrupted them at
that hour of night?accept a luncheon
at the hands of the matronly lady;
and take the back track to the river.
I'll own.up, I was dead gone on Jennie
before I left, and I give her to
understand that as I squeezed her
hand at parting, I said to her, when
this war is over I am coming back to
ask you to be my wife.' '
Her reply was, 'And? And? I'll
say? say yes.' She whispered |in
my ear jocosely, yet with an air of
sincerity, as I thought.
Soon after daylight we got back to
the river and there we met a man of
Union proclivities who was a neighbor
to the widow. lie found out
where we had been and asked if the
'widder' was at home and if any one
was thar. No one but her daughter
was there with her, I told him.
'Eh? Daughter', says he, 'she's
got no daughter.'
'Yes Bhe has and a mighty good
looking one too at that,' was my
. reply.
'Describe her,' he continued.
'She's of medium height, dark
hair and eyes and a good talker, and
I'm going back to marry her when
tne war is over.'
'But you don't do any sich thing,'
he responded. 'That ar gal, as you
i thought she was, is nobody else but
that scout 'Billy Bowlegs,' and he
i just jumped into her old clothes to
i fool you and he's done so and you
i couldn't see through it all. Billy
was thar sure. Gawd knows thar
' was nobody else for it to be.' "
A full history of the following
; poem would make a blush come to
the cheeks of the guilty party were
she living to hear it told. It is of a
1 prisoner who before ho died at Camp
> Chase, Ohio, confided to a fellow
I prisoner the history and told him to
t answer any letters that oome to him
i after ho was dead. The girl to whom
II he was engaged had failed to write
1 to him and he was greatly concerned
f about it, thinking she had forsaken
him. After his death a letter was
3 received which curtly broke off the
1 engagement. The friend of the dead
man wrote the following lines:
" Your letter, lady, came top late,
p For heaven had claimed its own.
A sudden change from prison bars
B Unto the Great. White Throne!
And yet, I think he would have staid
e To live for his disdain,
? Gould he have read the careless words
r Which you have sent in vain.
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So full of patience did he wait,
Through many a weary hour,
That oYr his simple soldier's fa^e
Nor even death had power.
And you?did others whisper low
Their homage in your ear
As though amongst their shallow throng
A spirit had a peer?
I would tliat you were by rae now
To draw the sheet aside,
And see how pure the look he wore
The moment when he died.
The sorrow that you gave him
Had left its weary trace
And 'twere the shadow of the cross
Upon his pal id face.
"Iler love," he said, "could charfjge for
me
The winter cold, to spring,"
Ah! trust a tickle maidon'a love,
Thou art a hitter thing.
For when theso valleys bright in May,
wi>^ muio wiui uiusaoms wave,
The Nor hern violets shall bloom
I'pon this humble grave.
Your dole of scanty words had been
Hut one more pang to bear,
For him who kissed until the last
Yoir trees of irolden hair.
I did not put it where he said.
For when the angels come,
I would not have them find the sign
Of falsehood in the tomb.
I've read your letter aud I know
The wiles that you have wrought
To win that noble heart of his.
And gained it, cruel thought!
What lavish wealth men sometimes give
For what is worthless all.
What mauly bosom beats for truth,
In folly's falsest thrall.
You shall not pity him, for now
His sorrow has an end:
Yet would that you were with me now
Beside my fallen friend.
But I forgive you for his sake,
As he, if it be given,
May e'en be pleading grace for me
Before the court of heaven.
To-night the cold winds whistle by
As I my vigil keep
Within the prison dead-house, where
Few mourners rome to weep.
A rude plank collin holds his form.
Yet death exalts his face,
Ai.d I would rather see him thus
Thau clad iu your embrace.
To-night your home may shiue with
lights,
And ring with merry song,
And you, yet smiling, as your soul
Had done no deadly wrong;
Your hand so fair that noue would think
It penued these words of pain;
Your skin so white, would God your
heart
Were half as free from stain.
I'd rather be my comrade dead.
Than you in life supreme;
For you the sinner's waking thought,
And his the martyr's dream.
Whom serve we in this life, we serve
In that which is to come.
He chose his way; you yours; let God
Pronounce the lifting doom.
(To be continued.)
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Another Nice Picnic.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Will you be so kind as to allow us
space in your valuable paper to write up
another picnic, given by Mr. McCracken
at the old residence of Mr. Geo. P. Garrett
August 2. It was a very nice picnic
and there were some 200 or 250 persons
on the ground. The crowd gathered
about 11 o'clock and ascended to ti e
ball room, where they enjoyed themselves
dancing by the line music furnished
by Shelton's string band. The dancing
crowd was large enough to run two
sets at once. By the kindness of Mr.
David McCracken in getting up a nice
beef, there was more hash than this
crowd could eat. Ice cold refreshments
were served by Messrs. A. It. McGowan
and C. B. Gregory, at the plose of the
picnic there was not as much as one
lemon left. Well about two o'clock
dinner was announced, a large table well
tilled with everything nice to eat amused
the crowd for a short while. There was
nlen'V and everv one sflpmw) tn i,a moii
pleased wilh the nice dinner so well prepared
by the Rood ladies of both Union
and Newberry county. After dinner
the laiae ball took place. The Shelton
team and Booker bottom team crossing
bats The Booker bottom holding Shelton
down with score of 10 and 10 until
the seventh inning, and at the ninth
inning the game resulted with score of
10 to 17 in favor of Sheltou. It was
quite amusing to hear the young ladies
and children yelling for the ball game.
Some cheering onb side and some the
other. So after the game was over the
crowd returned to the ball room, where
the young people enjoyed the dance for
an hour or more, and then everybody
returned home well satislled with the
day.
We were glad to welcome Mr. T. C.
Jolly and Mi Kitt Betenbaugh and another
friend from your city, who attended
the picnic. Also Mr. and Mrs.
George Garrett from Carlislo.
me crops a**? looking lino down in
these parts, thou*; i .hey have suffered
very much before the last rains.
Mr. C II. Stokes from Colwmhia, it
visiting relatives and friends qt tips
place. lie came up last week to attend
the burial of his brother who died sud>
denly at Chester.
Well, as my letter may take up too
much space In your valuable paper, I
will close with best wishes for the editor
and success to The Times and its read
era. J. H. McGowan.
LETTER FROM COLORADO.
A very Interesting Lett r from Our !
Correspondent in the F;tr West. 1
Mr. Dniley is :i Fine Z>rs;
criptive Writer.
TELLINC1 THE TRUTH IN TEXAS.
Denver, Col. July -<S. C02.
Editor Union Timks:?I received
your kit:?i favor of tlit ! 1 i- s\ on
the ITi- - ) i'..o papers l?v thosamc
mail. Please accept my most sin- 1
cere thanks for the vast amount I
interesting readini: i v afforded nn\ j
Language fails me in wire1. 1 v??'u!d
like to express my appreciation of
thoso mementoes of my old home.
They were the moat interesting of
any papers I ever read.
I feel rather timid about giving
my praise about that Texas trip, but 1
it was certainly delightful reading.
I atu very sorry that it stopped so
soon and hope you will continue more
of it because I know the half has
not been told. But you have been
carried sc high on the tongues of
piaise regarding the write-up I feel
you may become vain should such
applause continue much longer. But
that was not the only news of interest
to me. In fact every article was
read with interest but can only mention
a few that seemed just like being
back in old South Carolina once
more. Tho educational notes were i
of vast interest to me and hope our
pooplc may continue to advance along
these linos until we have reached as 1
high a standard as any people in any
country, and it is with much pride
that I notice the names of the graduating
class of the Graded School.
It is a pleasure to me to remember
having met the two who stood highest
in that class, and prouder still that
one is a first cousin of mine. Well
done, Lillian, I hope you may reach
the height of your ambition.
That Memorial Day address of
Capt. Douglass (as we always knew
him from my childhood) was very
fine. I always knew him as a noble
gentleman and a lively fox hunter
but had no idea he could make such
a talk as he did, but I guess be is |
not so bashful since he became Senator.
Well, I had started to write something
of iny trip through Texas but
after reading all that interesting news
from home I could not get mv mind
on anything else until I acknowledged
my gratitude to you for such a
treat. I had hoped to give you a
few lines about the first of every
month, but having been so very
busy over since I came and the failure
to get your first paper caused me to
get behind at the first. I am very
sorry that I was not. able to give you
a full description of the State capitol
of Texas, but the magnificecnc of the
building so dazzled my mind that my
notes were scattered all over a memorandum
book. I notice that I did
not even give the cost of the building
and that is a very important
factor with all close observers. You
will remember that they were a very
long time getting ready to start this
wonderful building and there were a
great many bids put in and considered.
but Texas had more land at
that time than anything else and the
custodians of that great State were
very much opposed to going so deep
in debt at that time, so they wanted
a company to build the capitol just
as their plans called for for so many
acres of land instead of so many dollars,
and at last a company was
formed at Austim, most of the incorporators
were Austin people. So
this building company agreed to put
up the building as per the plans submitted
for three million acres of land.
This land was all specified and was
laying in various counties over the
i State. Some of it was worth nine,
ten and fifteen dollars per aero while
' some was not worth more than one
dollar per acre. Tho valuo of some
, has increased wonderfully while some
is as cheap as when the contract was
made. However, the great capitol
was completed and the contractors
say it cost them 8,644,000 but the
contractors never went broke, so it Is
i safe to say they came out all right,
as the average price of the land they
, got only cost them a little over one and
i a half dollaas per acre, hut still Texas
has millions of beautiful land, some
very valuable but most of it is very
, dry pasture land and is leased out
for a lona term of vears to the nettle
w y ~ """
' men of the northwest. Texas has
given away more land than most of
the States contain, but they oar\
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hardlv ni iss it yet. especially in the
north\wnt. Vou see Texas never had
any U? itcd States government land at I
all b<c ms ? when Congress was fighting
to !.? )? Texas out ol the Union
beeau \ Texas was very much in <1< bt
at that time having been cauryiiig u
the war with Mexico and trying to \
carrv on their own government as
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the Texas Republic. That i why
they were admitted as a State with
the proviso that Texas should pay all |
her own debts and own all the. public!
I nul within her borders.
Well, there was another very i
strange sight which nior my gaze i
when I first landed at the capitol of
Texas. It seemed to me to he the
greatest place on earth for people
to tell the truth, these truths seemed
to be painted on the signs over some
of the doors and 1 was at n great loss
to know why the people were so truthful
at Austin, as 1 had been across
the State once before nml i
learned that the people of Texas or
of any city of Texas were any more
truthful than my "old friends and
relatives of South Carolina, but this
question kept me guessing for several
hours hut I didn't say anything to any
one about my curiosity till my brother
came for me and we were going out
of town. (1 should say city as some
one in Texas might hear what 1 am
saying.) Well as we were going out
of the citv I observed more of these
signs on various houses so that made
my curiosity more intense. 1< in ally
I told my brother that I had seen
the most truthful and appropriate j
sign over a saloon in the citv of|
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Austin that 1 had ever seen any j
where, but I had also seen the same |
kind of a sign over a livery stable j
and restaurant. lie asked what it j
was. L told him 1 saw the sign over
a saloon as Dam Saloon but when 1
saw the Dam Stable and the Dam
Restaurant it \vas two much for-me
to swallow at once. Later on 11
learned that there was a Dam Hotel,
Dam Bakery, Dam Shop, Dam Park,
Dam Dance Ilall, Dam Wagon Yard,
Dam Ball Ground, Dam Race
Track, Darn Street and Dam Street
Cars. There had been a great many
others of like notaritv but none of
them are as popular as they were a
few years ago. I don't know whether
there was a ''Dam Church" or not,
but there certainly would have been
ere this if the craze had kept up until
now. The cause for all these dam
signs was a very largo and costly
dam built about five miles above
the citv which sunnlied the citv with
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water and elcetric lights. The dam
was across the Colorado river, about
four hundred yards long, was built
from a solid bluff of rock cn the south
side of the river and the earth was
dug away on the north side for neat ly
one hundred yards until they reached
a solid bed of rock to join the dam to.
It "had just been built when my
brother went out there ten years ago
and it lasted for about seven years.
There was a beautiful building about
five stories high south of the dam on
the side nearest the water which was
used for tho officers, otc. There was
another joining it used for the engine,
dynamos and pumps. 'The dam was
by far the largest and most expensive
I had ever seen. It was seventy
feet high but was not very wide at
the bottom, probably sixty feet and
the upper side was perpendicular and
the lower side was gradually curved
until it made nearly a half circle.
The outsido of all the dam was of
fine cut stone and eement but the
inner material was of all shapes and
sizes and not well cemented. They
claim the water was backed up the
; river for fifty miles though it seems
j incredible to inc. 'They called it the
great Niagara ot Austin, Texas'
They have some advertising literature
at Austin yet hut they never
boast of it any more. It cost o 'er a
bullion dolors and has put the city
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greatly in debt. There had been
very heavy rains and the river was
very high so the dam burstcd in June
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j the eitv and farming lands along its
entire length below the dam. The
Superintendent's hoy had just come
to tin- pump room to {day when the
dam burstcd. There were five in
in the building when the ilood came
and all were drowned except one
whom the wave; washed out the door
in Time for him r,> be saved alive.
There was a great mass of the dam
taken out in one solid body and
carried down the river for more than
one hundred feet and it still stands
there like a mountain of cemented
stone right side up just as though it
had been carried there by gentte
hands.
1 spent several days and nights
at the Confederate Home and would
be glad to tell you of it when L have
tiiue. I must bid you all adieu with
best wishes for Tut: Timks and all
of i*s reading.
\V. (1. Bailey.
j Good, keep the ball rolling old
man, you are doing fine.?Ed.]
Pistol arid Dog Law.
Mr. Editor:?The attitude which
The Times has assumed in regard to
the "pistol toting" habit is commendable.
The effect, if the new law is
enforced, will soon be felt iu the
town, county and State and in a few
years hence the ever ready pistoi will
be a relic ot the past. There may
be in the hands of the evil doers
thousands of such
out tno btate, out a strict enforcement
of the law will gradually diminish
the supply and the youth of
1 today will never ''enjoy the pleasure"
of owning a ''gun*' a* 1ms been the
j desire of nearly all boys. Would bo.
I glad to see the day when wo can
I meet in a body at church and other
I places and the useless pistol be absent.
An unenforced law soon becomes obnoxious
and in a short time the en- ?
aetment is forgotten. Should trial
and conviction result in each offence,
such a law would be kept fresh in
the minds of the people.
Out little city enacted an ordinance
in regard to wandering useless
dogs and since the law was to go into
effect, it seems that the number of
these animals has increased. It is
yet dangerous tQ go out on the street
as you are liable to be attacked by
one of these pests. It is not the intent
of this article to censure the
authorities if duty in this particular
has been neglected, should there
exist an ordinance to that effect. If
there is no remedy to diminish the
number of these wandering animals
there should he a law to compel the
owners to guard them, otherwise an
excuse arises for the ever ready
vnmn/lu ivtioli l?.?o U~ ? 1
. V...VXJ 1IUH/U IKli> UCCII UAeiClSeU in
many an unsolicited case. Being
lcoicnt in the enforcing of one lair,
stimulates the violation of another.
Bespecfully, Citizen.
Look Pleasant, Please.
Photographer C. C. Harlan, of Eaton,
().. can do so now, though for years he
couldn't, because he suffered untold
agony from llie worst form of indigestion.
All phisicans and medicines failed
In help him till he tried Electric Bitters,
which worked such 'wonders for him
that lie declares they are a godsend to
sufferers from dyspepsia and stomach
troubles. Unrivaled for diseases of the
Stamach, Liver and Kidneys, they build
up and give new life to the whole system.
Try them Only 50c Guaranteed
by F. C. Duke druggist.
FURMAN UNIVERSITY,
GREENVILLE, S. C.,
Will becin the next session on WnilnM.
day, fteplember 17th, 1,902. Location
convenient and healthful. Courses of
study elective or leading to H. A. or M.
A. degrees. Full corps of instructors
and ample Iness accommodations. For "
other information apply to the president,
A. L\ Montacue, L. L. D.
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