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Reminiscences of tlje War
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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