The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-03-23
VOLUME LUMBER 5. /.
a Touchfne Incident Of the War.

A Touching Incident Of the War
A correspondent of the New York Tn
bunc, with Gen. ,Sheridan's army makes
the following notice of shsridan's head
quarters, and the death ofCoI. John Mar
shall, the grandson Of Chief Justice Mar
shall, in the fight of the 18th Of Novefa
ber:
Gen. Sheridan had made his lieadquas=s
ters at Bartonyille, the venerable country
seat, for more than q century past, OF the !
Bartons, who wer6 formerly one Of the
most wealthy and aristocratic families OF
Winchester
The fine old stone mansion was origgl-
nally built for fort, and was long occu-
pied as a frontier post in the olden times,
and often garrisoned against the indians,
Washington himself is said to have slept
within its walls.
1t stands on the valley pike, facing
westward, at the crossing Of tbe ogc-
'quan, and it's massive walls, still bomb
proof, though enlarged and surrounded
with everything new and elegant, sug-5
gests all that is ivy-grown and yenesa-
ble in an American family history.
It's BROAD acres, now feneeless and
wasted, and itsbeautifil lawn, now scared
in the light Of fcrowded camp-fres, afford
one Of the saddest pictures Of the desolis-
ton of wssr:--
A beautiful child now stands upon tho
porch, girl of ten summers, rosy and
bright, Fannie Marshall by name, a great
granddaughter Of the distinguished
Justice of the. United States. Shesclings
to the hand of Major-G General Shcridsn,
who listens to her prattle, and looks up
inquiringly into his face as the sound of
distant cannon comes nearer to warn him.
he is needed in the front.
General Sheridan is a good locking
man, in spite of tho wretcheda pictures Of
him which prcvail.s l.sapd bysno means the
brutal rnffian which he is represented to
be, but most genial, kindhearted, amid
bis man, with face running over with
smiles; and disposition full Of humor and.
even boisterous good nature.
AS he stoops to caress the fair child,
the human for moment evidently snb-I
dues the heroic, for he fingers at the part
ing as if he knew, what the child does not
that her father (Col. John Marshall Of
the Confederate army is the gallant soei.s
Ger who SO fercely pressed forward the
s:.l .issssia
Eof his homestead and whom if IS his duty
to sweep from the very heasthstonc OF
his family.
On comezthe Confederate troopers, ev-
|idently urged by more Than ordinary zeal
and impetnosity Charge follows charge
and voIley answers vclley. Our sbravest
are falling; the line waversS; even cdstar
is forced backward; and the Confederate
| father rnshes homeward to aiis wife and
child.
a strange light kindles in Shelidah's
eye. lie no longer smiles, but hastilyand
gently caresses the child and after order
ing his,headqnarters more TO the reap;as'
the hostile cannon come near, with all tho
soldier again in his faceh hepresses raPidlJy
to the front.
Alas for the sad fate of We: ti,s pres.
ence of Sheridan is inevitable death and
destruction to The enemy.
He had scarcely reached thesfeld ere
thc gallant Col. Marshall is slain at the
head Of his command, while bravely press
A;ag forward Immediately in front of his
i homestead, and not three miles distant
therefrom.
| CHARACTER IS Power. .----Itis often said
that knowledge power, and this is true
Skill of faculty Of any kind carries With
it superiority. So to q certain extent,
wealth is power and rank is power aud
intellect is power, and: genius has a'tran-
'cendant gift of mastery over mon. But.
higher, purer and better than all, mare
constant in its influence, more lasting in
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