Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Gen. 4 Lee was making preparations to return to Virginia. I went to the company that evening to see the boys, but had to go back to the hospital, and that night the army commenced moving back and passed by the hospital where I I was. The next morning, July I 5th, I concluded I could not stay 1 * there, and I started to come on! to Virginia, but I did not'get far before I came to where the 15th' was, and Dr. James was th^first man I saw standing in the road. He told me to go back and stay with the wounded, they were 283 mall, nurses and three doctorsrDr. Pierce Barruch and Dr.4; Nott, as Dr. James had kept me , waiting on him before he left.' Dr. Pierce kept me still to wait on him and the rest. About 9 or 10 o'clock that, morning, July bth, the advance ; of the Yankees came on, and a1 captain of cavalry rode up into the yard of the hospital and looked about and said, boys it has been a hard fight but I believe we have got the best of it, we told him according to the number of men we did not think so, he passed on and a short time afterwards, here come the infantry, then artillery passed the most of that day, and they seemed to^be very cautious, going slow, for I don't believe they were very anxious to catch the Confederates. William Addis was one of the nurses and when any one of our fellows would die he and I would bury him in the 1 cemetery just above the house and I would mark their name on a plank or board with a pencil and Bill Addis would cut it out with his pocket knife. Col. W. D. Desaussure was buried there. In a few days after the army had passed, the citizens that had n 1 1 i run irom nome, oegan to come back, bringing their horses and cattle that they had taken with them. Also the U. S* Christian Commission came round to see what the men would need, and ladies from Baltimore, mostly refugees from Southern cities, would come and do all in their power to relieve the wants of the wounded, and as fast as the wounded could be removed, they Owere taken to some other place. It was about the 8th day of August our hospital was broken up and.carried away, the.doctors, myself and some 2 or 3 more stayed until the 10th of August, then reported to headquarters at n^ffvaViiiro It will be remembered that Vicksburg, Miss., fell about this time with 27,000 prisoners, the north thought it best not to exchange prisoners, but we did not know that, we thought we were coming straight on to Richmond, they allowed us to go where we wanted to at Gettysburg until a train came to take us to Baltimorev we went as far as York junction and stopped, waiting for a car to come down from Harrisburg to take us to Baltimore. We rambled about and saw where a party of Confeder^ ates had torn up an iron foundry and machine snop. After some time the train came, and we cer^Vtainly were glad, but when we y^t to Baltimore our hearts failed Si Son, Bankers, 1 h Carolina, ? REST ON | zs of Deposit. | mmmmmmmimmmmmmmnrmmmmamtmKammmmmmmmmmmmnmmmsm us, for we landed in the city jail. When we reached Baltimore we went to the Provost Marshal's office and he separated us from the doctors, and I do not know what they did with them, but they put us in the city jail and told us we would have to stay there for a few days, until some transports could come from Washington to take us to Richmond, we stayed there nine days then called us out to take the transports, and we were glad. The vessel started down the Potapaco river, passed the famous old Fort McHenry, got into the Chesapeake Bay and the next morning we landed at Point Loookout, there they put us off, saying that we would have to stay until the transports could come down the Potomac and take us on, they marched us out into an open field where there were about one hundred more, and put us with them, guards were placed around us thick, we wanted to know how long they had been there, they came the day before, and they kept coming, and when our transportation came it was tug3 towirtg barges loaded with lumber to build a stockade with, ... ~11 i-1 i-l uui ju.y was an &une men, tney had a force of hands who went to work building a stockade some 20 acres or more, laid off streets, ditched them and hauled gravel from the beach on the bay, and put all over them, dug wells and put pumps in, built a commissary house and five long houses all in a row to cook in. They put U3 in companys of a hundred men each and ten companys made a division, at one time there was 13,000 there but they took some of them away, but I don't know where they went to. They an officer in the commissary house and some recruiting officers came there and they would march up a company at a time in front of the office, and would call in one man at a time and ask him questions about what he wanted to do, did he want to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and join their army or navy, or did he want to take a parole for and during the war and stay within ? j? J i- * - uieir lines, or am ne want to remain a prisoner of war and to go South. I am sorry to say that a good many took the two first propositions, and we could tell who was going to be galvanised for when he would come out of the office he would be eating sugar, and the rest of us would have done them up a job if we could have had our way. Our diet consisted of one loaf of bakers bread for two days, two bits of salt pork for breakfast and a pint cup full of soup of some kind for dinner, our guard was the 2nd, 5th and 12th NewhamDshire regiments which got all torn up at Gettysburg. It toook a regiment a day for guard. But on the morning of the 24th of Februory, 1864, they brought in a negro regiment, the 26th N. C. which was made up about tyewburn of rough black Africans and put them on guard, and of all the whooping and yelling, we prisoners did it, which scared the negroes. When the officer of the day Captain Lides came dashing in on a horse and struck a Louisianian on the head with his pistol, and that made all of tne others mad and they tried to catch him, but he put spurs to his horse and got out, and hp never came back any more. The next morning they wen about to have trouble, the seconc Regiment was on duty when th< negroes relieved them, and 5th regiment was to relieve the ne groes; but the Colonel of the 5tl said that his men should not relieve them, when the 12th tried to force him, they formed their men in line of battle, but turned every battery they had on the prisoners for fear that they might make an attempt to escape, and the negroes never got relieved until about 4 p. m., and the N12th had that to do. They put the Colonel of the 5th, under arrest and sent a negro to guard him, and the Colonel ordered him to go away but he would not go, and the Colonel ordered one of his men to shoot the negro and he did so, killing him dead. The negroes got so bad they would patrole the streets at night and you had better stay in your tents. They would shoot a prisoner for nothing, they would even shoot the sick in the hospital camp, if they caught one out of his tent, and the provost marshal!, Capt. Pat- _ terson said if the* wanted to I shoot so bad he woald give their , fill, so he sent them to Grant be- , low Petersburg, and I reckon , they did get enough for the white j firuard said that tha fVmfpdprnto scouts caught a whole company and killed every one of them, then they brought in another black regiment from Indiana, who had been free all their life, so they did better for they had j some sense. But the time came at last when the Gettysburg prisoners were to leave for Richmond on -the 18th of February, 1865 we started down the Bay, passed Fortress Munro on i up the James river to within about 15 miles from Richmond and stopped. We stayed there that day and night, and the next morning we got off the boat and walked three miles to Cox's landing, the riveju being so full of torpedoesvtlley ?#e afraid to run up any higher, we passed a camp of negroes on the way and we all opened our mouths as wide as we could, and the darkies looked as though they had never seen a white man before. With joy and gladness 'we got on the Confederate boat run up to the wharf at Richmond and eager to get off they all flocked on one side and dipped the boat, but we got out all the same, went in town and stopped awhile and then went up to Camp Lee and drew some rations and stayed there several days and prisoners kept on coming in from different places. The Outlook For Young Men in South Carolina. BY HON. W. P. STEVENSON. The generation that is now entering upon manhood has before it possibilities which have never been within the reach of any preceding generation of Carolinians. The two courses that are open to the young men of this State are a business career and a political career. The possibilities of a business career at this time can be faintly comprehended when we see the fast development that the country has made within forty years under the most adverse circumstances, and the rapid diversification of industries that is beginning to appear. The greatest crop of cotton ever made while : slave labor was in vogue, and the laborer was the absolute ma; chine of the employer, was 350,000 bales of cotton. When we recall that during the past year, when the labor was largely di1 verted to railroading, and manufacturing, and other pursuits, and when every laborer is free to choose his own course, this i State produced near 1.200.000! ! bales of cotton, we get some idea > of the vast development in the I agricultural world. When we I remember that the State was ' practically without railroad r property forty years ago, and t that now the value of the rail. road property in the State has i r become a very considerable per cent of the entire property, we - get some idea of the transporta1 tion development. When we reJ call that there were but few i banks in South Carolina even as - much as twenty years ago, and * now see the immense aevelop ;?:? ment i^banking, the immense capitaiffehat is invested in it, we get.., S&he idea of the trend of capital towards this State, and its readiness to enter into the active development of the State. Wheji we recall that the factories aboiitXJlifton were the only cotton factories in the State forty years ago, and now look at the State ai? it-ie dotted with manufacturing . plants of the latest machinery and most successful management, and that there are many odthem being managed by young trten, born since the war, successfully, in the face of competition^ which is born of the despen&ion of New England at seeing ^the prospect of her su- j Erematfi&n that department < eing tflfcn from her by her old enemyfifce get but a faint realization ?r tne wonderful strides 1 this Stfte has made in material j nrmnteas in mahilfacturing lines, i Tniswtate, therefore, in a ma- i teriajAvay is now offering greater i advantages than almost any State ^ in the Union for energy and < thrift in a business career. She < has |grt shaken off the lethargy < inciwm to a period of revolution ] caused-by the domination of the ] former slave and his demagogic ; leader, and is preparing for an j onward movement in all material < things, which can be but faintly conceived by those who have | kept close watch on the progress for the last ten years, and she reaches out an appealing hand to the young men of this State to abide in the ship and participate in all the good things that are in store for this generation, and to ' avoid the fatuous rainbow-chas- i in or tit thnoa mVin 1A CJ wavuv IT I1U UUUIU OCUIS. quicker fortune in the money ceaters of the East or the undeveloped countries of the West. . TH 1*,e political career, .there are doors opening in South Carolina which will render some man in the next decade, who is now under forty years old, a famous leader in South Carolina affairs; the great development which is going on necessitates advancement in political ideas and advancement in all legislative matters. The management of the liquor traffic, which is now in all the South one of the paramount political questions, is here one of the most difficult of all statecraft. The continual and apparently well-founded charge of crookedness in many departments of this management has day after day and week after week been destroying the confidence of the public, not only in the management of that particular department of government, but in all departments of our government. Corruption charged with prima facie evidences of guilt in one department besmirches every department of the government and brings it under the ban of public suspicion of the integrity of their government will inevitably lead to public qondemnation of that government sooner or later, unless there is absolute, unsparing ana salutary correction of the cause arousing the suspicion, and in my judgment, around this question will be fought the next revolution in this State, and the , ...L< i- ' man wiiu appears in pumic Hie < with the ability to deal with its j questions and the firmness neces- j sary to grapple with the power of the dispensary and unscrupu- 1 lous use of that power will have the opportunity to be marked as the great leader of another great 1 step in South Carolina's progress ' in political affairs. . 1 I say this without intending to 1 condemn the system which is 1 now managing the liquor ques- 1 tion, but in sorrow at the mismanagement or corrupt manage- 1 ment which is going on, and with the intention of directing 1 the attention of the young men 1 of this State to the duty which they owe to their State to guard hor fair noma ffnm a# *w *v*?? xiVIII V/iiai^co ui corruption as zealously as they woula guard their own; and in speaking of the political career, I desire to emphasize the fact that I don't, by making division, intend to intimate that the young man who follows a business career can afford to divorce himself from political affairs; it is his duty, his privilege, to be felt, and to see that the same principles are enforced in the political life of the State which he enforcee in an honest, upright business career, and unless I ES8Kt?& MHniHHBaHBPHBBai I F. iVt. FARR, President. 1 Merchants and Plan y Successfully Doing Busin a KBWSM is the OI.DKST Hank in 1 "J ti 5 has a capital ?nrt Hurplim Q |ni p is the on! v N ATION A I Ha t i lias paid <livt<leii<N ?mo 3 K 'A, PBV9 Font per cent, ii B N is the only IJank in i'nio "5 >1 ' J has Milrirlar-Proof vault ? H pays more taxes than At I WE EARNESTLY SOLI" s misjudge the present generation 1 of young men in South Carolina, j we will see them gird themselves t for the contest with the powers c that are now in some quarters t bringing reproach upon the fair \ name of this State and wiping s from the face of history the ele- t ments that make possible this t roach on the fair name of the i; State of South Cfl.rr?]ina. arid t jvery man owes it to his State to j >ee that such consummation is s -eached, and there is no man so j nimble but that his influence s md his vote may be found help- d ng tm this consummation.? Southern Home. ^ IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC BY HENRY F. ANDERSON. < HOW TO PRACTICE. What a force there is in persistent reiteration. Practicing is to some students a very disigreeable matter. I have heard :he expression, "If I could only ^ play without practice!" If that ^ were possible, what an empty pleasure it would be. It could ? lot compare to the delight and 1 satisfaction of overcoming such 2 in obstacle by diligent practice. 2 Slow, since practice is a necessity, c et us go at it in the most sensi- a Die way; not in an indifferent, * slipshod fashion, but with every faculty engaged on the task in land. Do not waste time. In- j" iividualize on the difficult passages, one hand at a time. Nothing should interfere with ;he practice period. An hour in ;he morning, when the brain is a pree and in a receptive condition, 3 s most beneficial. Slow practice, J sure practice, gradually increas- 11 ng the tempo if necessary, and 0 inally work in the light and 11 shade by accent, phrasing and a r iroper useef the pedals. Under s ;he guidance of a good teacher J such practice must surely attain ;o success. n scnumann once remarked: ~ 'Whenever you play, play as s ;hough a master were listening." c Franklin Taylor, an authority on v piano playing, gives the following is a formula for one and a half r hour's practice: Finger exercises, scales, 25 1 minutes; study, 15 minutes; old v study, already learnt, 10 minutes; t 3onata, or piece, 30 minutes; 8 playing over piece already learnt, 3r sight reading, 10 minutes. ORTHODOXY IN CHURCll MUSIC. S Q Chateaubriand remarked that "Music is the child of prayer, the L companion to religion." Why is t it tnat in our organ lofts and s chancels are heard melodies un- c seemly and harmonies quite as fi trivial. The music of our services should be guarded as jealously as the tenets of our faith. From 1 the Greeks in the fourteenth cen- i turv we have inherited the stately j and dignified descant or plain song, mostly in unison sung by male voices, a step to the Gregorian of the Roman church and * then the modern Anglican chant, c This is tne iounaation of the \ present school of English church writers. These composers have made 1 the most of this glorious heritage; 3 their works are heard in the churches of every denomination, j Verdi wrote a Requiem full of religious fervor. He wrote "Lucia Di Lammermoor" and i "II Trovatore." By what right * do we cross his purpose and arrange one of his operatic melodies to sacred words and sing them at divine service? It is a prosti- 1 tfsLJt?A J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. C E ters National Bank, ess at the "Old Stand." f'nlon. of $10\000. Hunk In Union, unUnv to SSWiOO. itorcst on deposit!), a inspected by an ntticor, , and Safe with Time L the Banks in Union combined. Ej . 3 C1T YOUR BUSINESS. ? ? ' 1 .! , II I ? ? tution of the art. Oh, but congregations say we want somehing pretty to listen to?solos, luartets and such. To my mind he main hindrance to the development of a dignified and solid tyle in our church music is the he existence of the mixed guar et, which is nstitution. Our music should u* ??nderod _a chorus with ust as little solo work as possible, inging such music that all may oin in this, one of the most inpiring and uplifting acts of our levotion. * \ DECISION IMPORTANT TO RENTERS. Supreme Court Decides That Stable Manure is Real Estate. Stable manure is real estate. This is the substance of a de:ision just handed down by the Jouth Carolina supreme court. The famous case of Roberts rs. Jones has been decided. This s a case that has been plugging ilong in the magistrate's courts tnd the circuit court in this :ounty for the past four years, .nd some months ago landed in he supreme court. The Tacts of the case are as ollows: In 1900 Mr. J. T. Jones, he county dispenser, rented a louse and a small piece of land rom Mr. J. T. Roberts, in the ipper part of the city. When Jr. Jones vacated the premises t the end of the year he carried everal wagon loads of stable nanure with him, as he thought * le had a right to do. Mr. Roberts bjected to the removal of the nanure, claiming that it was eal estate and belonged to the oil, and demanded that Mr. ones pay him for it or return it. Jr. Jones refused to do either, nd Mr. Roberts thereupon tarted suit in the magistrate's ourt for the value of the manure, vhich he placed at $12. Mr. Jones won in the first ound and then the case went ip to the circuit court, where it vas reversed and sent back to he magistrate. It has followed i shuttlecock course ever since, joing from one magistrate to mother and back to the circuit :ourt on one point and another, intil not long ago it got up to he supreme court. The preemption is that the supreme .ourt has been studying it ever lince. ? " The decision of the court, just landed down, is in Mr. Robert's lavor. Mr. Jones will have to >ay for the manure artd pay sunIry costs besides. The case has been one of the nost interesting, as wpll ?? nn? >f the most unique, ever started n Anderson county. The out:ome has been waited with a freat deal of interest by the lawyers as well as by the laity. Mr. A. H. Dagnail represented Mr. Roberts in the long drawn >ut suit and Messrs. Breazeale & Rucker represented Mr. Jones. ?Anderson Mail. The Times and Metropolitan Magazine one year for $1.80. ^ * m wi firtfitiYii^MBrrhi n' a