The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-08
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QUIET HEVERIES OF A STORMY TIME.


woods around, while gentle wind
from the far West fans my cheek, my
mind goes away back to other days,
and other times. To those days, Cap
tain, when you and / were soldiers,
upon the snow.clad hills of Virginia,
or upon tho green plains of Tennessee,
or may be cncamped upon the banks
Of sluggish Big Black. In those days
a noble ambition filled our hearts. Our
strongest wish was to do our duty
to worthily strike for louisiana, and
the cause VIC represented. We had no
envy, no malice, no hatred. If since
that time, they have possessed us, they
must have been cast upon us by the
of your bright young manhood, and OF
my boyI,ood, VIC had 10 organ for such
things. Hours Of my boyhood, how
We come back to me now
Those bright hopes and expectations,
when life was most fresh and green,
are now in maturcr years, mock ing
memorials of my young credulity. But
l am depressing. This communication
the gallan. dead Of the Jackson Grays.
TO those noble men who stood by the
principles upon which their faith was
formed, yea TO the very death and al
ways brought honor and repute to the
cause they represented.
First in lnemcry, comes brave, noble
and handsome Lieut.. S. M. NIcLcrOy,
who at Peach Tree Creek, "tOO soon
passed through deaths dark valc.''
n hot summer evening, amid tho roar
Of cannon and the rattle of small arms,
in that awful charge, when the order
was, as you doubtless rccoilect, "tO
force back the enemy and to guide
right" poor SAM fell MORALLY
wounded, while closing up tho old
company Ia the right.
That night after the battle had been
fought, and lost, when you and l were
assisting him to the ambulance, with
your hands claspcd in Il last farewell
with his life cbbing away so fast, Inc
said: 'sGood bye, Captain! if l had q
dozen lives would lay them all
down for my country" That night
Lieut.. S. NJ. McLcroy died, and was
buried near the battlefield by one O.
his dearest friends, whcro he now
sleeps Quietly.
Can NOT SHY of him, whom 1 loved
and be sustained by each one of his
old comrades, that no Drawer life went
out for the Lost Cause? On the same
night died young Albert Shows, who
in tho very agonics Of death requested
the writer, to tell his father that hi
did his duty. Thus, in the brigh
days OF bOyhood went out his young
life.
| At New Hope church, Georgia, fel
one OF my earliest friends, G. M. RED
WINE, Il true patriot and christian gen
tleman. When advancing the Skin
,nish line, he, acting as vidette, fel
MORALLY wounded. When being taker
from tho field he told the writer thai
he was fully prepared to dic-that he
had not ono fear in entering upon tho
great Hereafter. Priceless blessing
in the hour of death what could pur
chase such q feeling! Could all the
gold of the earth? Could all the dia
monds of every potcntato upon earth !
All! No. ] have often Thought OF
brave Tom Rc,lwinc, since his death
and as often wondered, if this christian
resignation WAS not to him, in those
war times, the Sunbeam of his
brighter hours, and tho rainbow of his
darker ones" lie, too, sleeps neal
New Hope church, Georgia. At Ben
tOnviiir, n. G.. John II. Golden, was
killed by Il shell from our own guns
Poor H.ogc'' after safely passing
through hundreds of fights, il was !:
hard Fate to fall i'll nearly the last
fight of the war. Un",luratcd, yet few
men possessed NOR" gratitude for kind
moss bestowed than j. r.. Golden, pri.
vac IN the GrayS.
Lieut.. W. II. SANDERS, The gallant
officer and true gentleman, passed
through The entire war and in innu-
mcrahlc battles escaped even Il wound
An officer, WHO ever did his duty, lie
was shortly after the war, cruelty
murdered at the hands of one, whom
you SO ably defended before Il Court
Martial, and hcynud any question saved
from being shot.
There arc numbers of others Of the
old Company, who were killed in ac-
ton, or dic,! ill hospital. There was
the kuightiy George Dcl'rcesc, brave
and impc.uous Dick Grigsby,---a Drawer
soldier never livcd--thc good soldier,
Joe Hawthorne, who was killed at
Franklin, Tennessee, while inauiring