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1 Reminiscences of tlje War (Continued on page 4) was in command of R. H. Anderson of South Carolina, brave old man, riding along behind us. At times the noise was so great we could not hear any command. I remember at one time we were in the woods and could not see far from us and we halted to find out what was the command and course to go. He was at that time not more than fifty yards behind us and he heard us ask ing one another what the command was, and he told us there was but one command and that was forward. At the same time he motioned his hand to indicate straight forward. We were about this time half through the battle. Wet with perspiration, face and hands blackened with powder and were a motley looking set of men. Our ranks considerably thinned out. But on we went and by dark we had broken seven lines of the enemy, taken the entire camp, many pieces of artilery and small arms and a large number of prisoners. Now this was our own brigade, as to what other parts of our army did I do not know. You can learn that from History, but I do know that if all other parts were carried out equally as well as our part we have nothing to bragg about but hard-headed determination to whip iL . V 1- - mi 1 l it a a ? iiiu x Hiixeea. x ney nau me wona CO recruit their armies from and could afford to lose 10,000 men better than we could to lose one thousand. You see I say we broke seven lines, and I know this, I saw it with my own eyes. Just think for a moment. One line with no help the whole evening, fighting un^er such great disadvantages. Our loss was heavy, I don't remember, but it must have been dne-third of our number fell as we fought those seven lines. We lost our colonel and many others, and we did not have any more of their kind to fill their places. Had we remained in our entrenchments and let the Yankees attack us, it would undoubtedly have been better for us in every way. It was necessary at times that we should attack them on ground of their own choice, but our officers too Affon Awor <4Jrl ! ? 4-V*-*. VA ?V*1 VWA U1U wuo AAA VI1C AAA O V part of the war Our Colonel who was killed here was John Giles of Union county A good and brave man and we loved him and missed him so much. We quieted down then for a few days, as the old saying is, "There is always a calm after a storm. I have been under the impression for a long time that the battle of Seven Pines was fought in June, but I see from a school History that it was the laet day of May, 1862. Now I do not remember what occurred until the latter days of June, and then the seven days' fighting began. This fighting was another surprise. McClellan was in front of Richmond with a laoge force, probably near or quite 200,000 men. Johnston being wounded at Seven Pines, General Lee was now in command of our forces, which I learn from History was about 40,000 men, and was in front of Richmond facing McClellan's 200,000 men. But Stonewall Jackson, up in the valley was thrashing out the reaerai troops and before we knew anything he was down near McClellan's right wing. We were ordered in line in the night, marched close to McClellan's right wing and lay very still under arms until day began to break. We had no idea what was up. Directly in front of us and apparently in the rear of the right wing of the Yankee line, we heard skirmishing about a mile or more away. Now we could easily enough understand that there was some body of men either in their rear or on their flank, but no thought of Jackson with about 40.000 men tn heln 11 c whin f hn oo/> ond great army organized to crush the so-called rebellion. Now it was getting light enough to see some distance away and we could hear noise like a commotion among the wagons and saw the enemy giving back in our front. About this time the firing was getting very heavy about one or two miles away. We could tell by the firing that our men, whoever they were, was driving the enemy back fast. We crossed the Chickahominy turned to the right in line of battle and marched some distance and we heard constant, fighting on our left. We began to inquire who it was, and were told it was Stonewall Jackson. He had turned the right wing back and doubled it on their center. We never got a chance at them until-pretty late in the evening, and our line in front was getting very weak. We were ordered to take their Thia woo i? about three hundred yards of a mill house and there was some confusion or misunderstanding and we went within fifty yards of the Yankees before we formed in line of battle. On account of smoke we were not recognized by them until we had too regiments in line, and we were not ready to open fire so close until we got in line. They thought by our not firing that we wanted to surrender and sent a man to our line to see if we wanted to surrender. He walked within ten feet of where I was standing, and % ? R0> BAKU POY Absoluiei Economizes E Eggs; makes t annetizinn nn? The only Baking lrom Royal Grape said, "Do you want to surrender?" t Several of us spoke at once and said i "No." He said, "will you let me get < back to my line?" We replied, "Yes, i be quick," and I kept my eyes on that 1 fellow with my gun ready to bring to 1 my shoulder the moment he reached < his line, and drew a sight as quick ' as a flash and fired. The whole line 1 of us got the first fire and dropped i down on the ground flat and loaded \ and fired in that way for several J minutes, until the most of them sur- ! rendered. It was now nearly dark i and all firing had ceased. i Our loss was not near so much as 1 theirs. We killed fifty of their men i the first fire in front of our regiment, < After the first fire by us they fell i back a shot distance, and we could i count the dead where tnelr line was when we fired. They gave me the < closest shave of my life that day. I i was lying flat on the ground loading and firing under the smoKe, with my 1 elbow as a rest. About the fourth i round a ball passed through my hat, i grazed the top of my head and made i the hair fly, and in less than a min ute another hit the brim of my hat and cut a long slit in it, completely ruining it. I did hate the loss of my i hat for. I had just bought it about a < week before in Richmond and paid $200 for it, but it was only about a four or five dollar hat, if I had paid silver or^ gold. This was a victory for otir army all along the line. Jackson was to our left gaining in every battle. But I have set out to give you a short sketch of the parts or fights I was in. All the regiments were never engaged in battle at the same time, but were often exposed to severe firing while being in reserve, that is by being in line and in the rear of the firing line to go for.vard if needed, or take up the rear line in case of retreat. Now after these fights with the Yankees driven back to the James river under the shelter of their gun boats, Lee and Jackson went North for the purpose of going Into Maryland and fought the second battle of Manassas, August 30th, 1862. I taken sick the night before this and sent back to Warrenton, and not in the Maryland campaign at all. Just _ ?1 i. _L!1. 1. ' * T ? a. siiuib wiuie ueiore mis 1 was elected a lieutenant of our c mpany in place of Lieutenant McCormick, who i was so badly wounded at the battle 1 of Seven Pines as to be unfit for i service any more. I remained at the i Hospital while the army was cam- i paigning in Maryland, until it came back to Winchester, Va., about 80 or 90 miles from Warrenton. About i this time there was a large scope of i Virginia between Lee and Richmond i almost at the mercy of the Yankee i cavalry, and those of us who were 1 able to travel were preparing to leave warrenton and try to get to our i army. Levi Wise and myself be- i longed to the same company and left i together. With a gun and about 1 or four cartridges each, and we did not leave any too soon, for the Yankees rode in that day and got our wounded men ad naroled them I .nvi and myself had a long lonesome tramp, slipping about and watching, fearing the Yankee cavalry would get us. We kept off the main highway as much as possible, and we would camp in some out of the way place so that we could have fire to cook. We had no matches to make fires so we would cut the pdckets out of our clothes and put a small quantity of powder in the gun and ram down the cloth and by firing it off and blowing or fanning the cloth, we could get up a blaze and soon be ready for the "Soldier's Joy"?cooking roasting ears, my favorite diet T 1 J ? " ' uui/ii now. i imu one aonar in goia on this trip and did not want to part with it all at one time and could not get it changed as the stuff was about as scarce as hen teeth at that time. We wanted a square meal once more, ? or as near it as circumstances would permit, so I agreed to try every < house in sight. I will never forget this. He was to try the left and me W rAL I HO fDER (y Pure f< h latter, Floor, ? he food more , J 1 wholesome i< a n f Powder made * Cream of Tartar " 8< n _____J ;he right and we had tried several I ind it was about 12 o'clock on Sun- * lay. We were about to give it up ^ n despair, something unusual for a d lungry old Reb to do. But one more 1 og hut was in sight not far down c ;he road on Levi's side. He says: 'I will try there." I laughed and walked on slowly, and he was there not more than a minute when he mo- .ii tioned me to come. I went at once, g for I was getting hungry I was not p so particular as to the quality of the d meal. When I walked up to the cab- d in the lady was setting the table in v the yard under a brush arbor, talking J all the time to Levi, he sitting near b [>n a bench. I saw at once she was s a nice, intelligent lady. I raised my cap and "bowed to her very politely, a custom the demoralizing influences S nf war never marie me fnroref i?he? s jj meeting a lady. Even when more than halfstarved to death. Now the u table was soon ready and we were invited to it and to help ourselves and the lady was talking all the time l< about the war. I soon found out she c was as good or better Reb. than n we. Her dwelling had been burned, 2 if I mistake not, by Yankees and the p cause of her living in a cabin. Never $ did I enjoy a meal more in my life, n at home or anywhere else. There was no great variety, simply a vegetable dinner given us in such a hospitable manner by a good * Southern ( woman. I now felt that 1 could fre?" ly part with my gold dollar and so offered it, but she would not take it even after I insisted. But she had a nice little girl who had picked up a book which I had laid on the bench while we were eating, and the little girl was reading it and seemed to be very much interested in the book, so I made her a present of it, with my name in it. We bid them good bye with many thanks. That night we camped near a small town close by the highway, under | some thick bushes, for fear the calva- I rv VVrtlllH PAmn tn fV*o fnnm no? S - J ? vv???v vv W?IC w mi aim copture us. The next morning we were out early, slipping around to get some more grub, as we usually called it. My good friend, Levi, soon made another good point, but this time the occupants of the house were not white nor black, but a cross, it seemed to be, between the mulatto and the Indian, but they claimed to be Indians. But that does not make so much difference with a poor hun- gry soldiers about the color of the skin, if he is all right on the inside. Now these Indian friends of ours were hustling around to get us a good breakfast and what they did not have the old man "Thie" as the old woman called him, was going around borrowing it from his neigh- , bors. So it began to look as if we were going to have a good breakfast, and it was fairly good. But I did not enjoy it very much for 1 was a little afraid that they liked the Yankees best and put something in the food that would nrove fatal to us. I think Levi was a little suspicious too. But that was all a , myth. They felt somewhat honored by having a couple of soldiers to dine with them. And they had a daughter fully grown and very lively and talkative, fairly good looking, but not quite white enough. Now she was putting on airs right. I was young and lively too, when I was not too hungry, and I took in the situation and began to talk to her some. I knew it would >lease the old lady and help us out in our breakfast. I was tickled nearly to death at the old lady frisking around and throwing out her big words and calling on "Thie", her trained from the way he moved better half, for she had him well around. It didn't look Indian much, for an old Indian always rules his squaw. But they were not negroes. Anyway, we had a right good breakfast and wheat coffee, sweetened with sorghum molasses. We went on our way laughing about poor bid Thie. Now, if my memory serves me right, our next meal was late in the rening in some little village. There as not much ado toward preparing either. 1 knew before 1 saw the ible that it would be a third or rarth class Confederate meal. But ir stomachs had become accustomed those kind of meals and we were LI right anywhere with clabber reese and corn bread, and went on or way hoping for better times. Tow the next, it seems to me, was ear the Blue Ridge at a place tiled Sandy Hook or near there, ur entire meal consisted of the best pples 1 ever ate, and were taken out f a large orchard, and I ate too lany, which caused a pain in my tomach. But I soon settled that, ?r that far ahead of us was a still ouse, and soldier-like, we went by nd got something for the stomach's ike. My gold dollar went to parts nknown and we went on our way retiring and slept that nicrht behind rock fence under some bushes with 0 fear of cavalry now. Ah those re re days that tried men's souls. It 1 no wonder that we would want omething to help us drown our sorow in the long-ago. (Continued next week) Are You a Cold Sufferer? Take Dr. King's New Discovery, 'he Best Cough, Cold, Throat and mng medicine made. Money refundd if it fails to cure you. 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