The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03
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On last Sunday, says the Chyonsels
AID CbnstittltioHGiisss, . citizen OF Aa.
gueta, q modest, unaasuming charac.
Ter, but . bFsiv5 min aud 9 good mem
Der Of the community, died in this
city end xas buried on the. following
day. We allude to Hr. Cicero Harris,
of one time driver of one Of the street
cars, and at the time of his death In
the employ Of Mr.. G.. FL. Kerraghan.
We find the following in reference to
him In the Louisville (Ky.) Daily
Evening Ne,us, Of October I, 1877 =
Fifteen years ago, when the eyes of
the young men of Kentucky were
turned toward the South in its day of
need, there left this county, in compa--
ny with many others, two brothers who
cast their lot with the South as mem.
bers Of the First Regiment Of Ken.
tucky Cavalry, under command of
Colonel Ben Hardin Helm, who after
wnrd died ct Chickamauga loading
the First Kentucky Brigade Of Infan.
try, the grandest brigade that ever
fought battle. These brothers were
model soldiers, brave almost to rash
meas, and always at their posts. The
younger had o hard fate. In 1868,
when the army began its retreat
through Tennessee, he was shot in the
foot while the regiment was being
Charged by the enemy, but meyer rnur.
INJURED, fighting on, until, almost faint
ing from loss Of blood, the comradeby
his side first learned that he had been
struck. u
"After weary days OF suffering he
recovered, rejoined his command, and,
when Stoneman was making one of his
raids, was again cruelty wounded, only
to again recover and ryjoin his reyi-
ment. Sherman swept down to The
sea, the two brothers still fighting With
their command oil through that terri
BILE ana hopeless campaign. At last,
in 1865, Bentonville, N. O., was reach.
ed. and here they fought their lest
fight side by side. again. The elder,
brother bad mover been touched in
b1ttlc. At the picket stand o few
days after the battle, he drew his gun
toward him by the muzzle; It expIo.
ded, the ball entering the knee-cap,
necessitating amputation. Delirious,
in two days he died, and was laid to
rest by his comrades.
Exactly one week afterward the
younger brother, dismounting from his
horse, carelesGlc set down his gun; il
exploded, and made ghastly wound,
in the side and chast. Sherman was
pressing forward, the Southern army
was receding, and all that could be
done was to leave the poor fellow to
die, as all were sure he must do very
soon, in the hands Of the enemy. That
was in April, 1866. Two weeks ago
the MANNED and crippled hero Of mess
than hundred fights walked into the
law Office Of an old comrade in this
city. After having been reported to
all his friends and relatives as among
the dead, he hsd still ouryived, and,
though his body is marked eli over
with the terrible scars of battle, he is
kept alive by the indc mitable spirit
that marked him ever as one of the
bravest men in his regiment. These
words are written by one who rode by
his side when he received his flrst
wound, and no member of Company
"B" Of the First Kentucky Cavalry
of the @. 8. A. but will recognize in
the dead brother rash, brave and inn.
petuous John Harris; in the living
one, the no less brave Cicero Harris.
His life has been modest one, but is
filled with incidents more startling
than are told in fiction. Every old
comrade will hope that he may live
long in the midst Of the circle he has
made happy by his return