The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-08

OF a hill and spreading out over an ox
tnn;i'e t,a held to erase, all fine, large cat.
tle IN splendid condition. from Teyas VOC
driven by trained mounted dr;ver1 rAis !,
r'ue, cracking their long wbins ard -
shouting as no one but a COWBOY / now. onu
n1o,, a1Tm, each Impressed driver himself
esoos esose,y attended by jaded but exultanI
escorl IN grey. The rejoicing in Lee,
army at the results Of this expedition
can wen De imagined, as it was enabled
90 ENJOY full rations of good fresh bee
lor several weeks thereafter, a luxury r.
strau %n,un .ne poor Confeds had long beer
THE SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD
was one of the main arteries bv wh;o,
the Army Of Northern Virginia wac Tl sr ~
Pheo, ana repeated efforts had been made
9y inc enemy to reach and destroy it
me nrst attemn. of any strength was
maze oy the cavalry OF Gems. Wilson
ana kautz, which, however, was inter.
GGepted and literally cut to pieces bv
hampton at Sappony Church. Ate,
thls reconnoissances in force were fre.
quently made by the enemy's infantry
ior the purpose of dislodging our cav.
airy ON the Vaughan Road, and Tins
getting possession of the White Oak
Road upon which they proposed to ad.
vance towards the railroad. One of these
demonstrations was made on the morn.
ing OF October 1st, but it was repulsed
and the enemy was driven back y..,rouph
several successive lines of works to "NITs
Gummins Farm" across Hatcher's Run
The brave.
GEN. JOHN DUNoVANT
was instantly killed by q bullet throuob
the brain while leading his brigade in q
brilliant charge.
Ihe last serious att npt to break orr
lines at this point occurred on the 27th
OF October. The enemy's force consis.
ted of parts of three army corps, mum.
bering as we learned from prisoners)
upwards of ten thousand men. They
advanced by several roads, and as fast as
our brigade was dismounted to fight, we
would find ourselves in danger Of being
flanked, and thus were forced to remount
and fall back successfully across the
Squirrel level, the Quaker and the
Boydton Plank Roads, and through our
camp on the Quaker Road, from which,
however. everything had been sent to
the rear early in the day. The enemy's
plans and strength having been fully
developed, Gen. Hampton placed
YoUNG's AND BUTLER's BRIGADEs
of cavalry in their front at Burgess's
mill, while orders were dispatched to
Gen: W.. II. F. Lee, stationed ten miles
south of us, to move up as rapidly as
possible with his division, and attack
the enemy's left flank, while it was un-
derstood that Mahone's division of in
fantry and Bearings cavalry were to
cross Hatcher's Run below Burgess's
mill and strike them on the right flank.
THE REAL FIGHT OF THE DAY
began about o'clock, when Buffers
brigade charged across an open field on
the right of the White Oak Road, and
drove the enemy to the cover of { c.ense
pine thicket. Major Theo. G.. darker,
A. A. General of Buttler's Division, was
seriously wounded while CALAMITY leading
the brigade in this charge, he alone be-
ing mounted, and therefore conspicu-
ous target for the fire of the enemy.
After ths brigade had reached little
knoll it was halted, anC ordered to lie
down, and protected partly by the gent
ly undulating ground and partly by a
rail fence, it kept up heavy and contin-
uous fire until night closed in upon the
scene. The enemy being massed in the
pine thicket already referred to, poured
very heavy fire upon us, but fortunate
ly generally overshot the men lying
down. During the afternoon Gen. But
Ter sent me Though placed in command
of my regiment the next day, / was on
this day, aud had been for several
months, serving on the brigade staff as
acting adjutant and inspector general, J
to the line of battle to direct Lieut.. Col.
Jeffords to charge the enemy as soon as
he heard firing from Gen. w. Fl. F. Lee
on the enemys left flank, and upon rid.
ing forward l met the lifeless body OF
Col. Jeffords being borne TO the rear, he
having been shot through the head and
instantly killed. After delivering the
order to Maj. Ferguson, the next in COM
mand on that part of the line, 1 was
making all the haste l could to get out
of fire which wGs uncomfortably hot
to a man on horseback, several bullets
having already passed through my cloth
ing, when l saw
STAFF OFFICER,
who appeared to be riding towards me,
fall from his horse. ] galloped up to see
who it was, and Gen. Hampton and his
staff rode up at the same moment. We
all at once dismounted, and the General,
stopping over the PROSTATE form, gently
raised his head and kissed him, saying
"My son, my son." 1t was his son,
Lieut.. Preston Hampton, his aide. de-
camp. The little group being in full
view of the enemy voley was fired at
us, wounding four, one of whom was
Capt. Wade Hampton, Jr., another son
of our noble chief, who having been
upon the staff of Gen. Joseph E. john
ston had reported for duty with his father
upon the temporary removal OF Gen.
Johnston from command at Atlanta.
Assisting him to mount his horse, con-
Quoted him to Gen. Butler, who had ta-
ken position little to the rear, overlook.
ing the field, and gallopped a hundred
wards or so farther to the rear for sur
geon. Returning at full speed, with Or.
Burkhalter, we met the General and his
staff. A spring wagon had been found
in yard near by, which some OF the
couriers or staff were dragging out OF the
line of fire, while DR.. B. w. Taylor, was
sitting in the wagon supporting the head
of poor Press. Hampton upon his shoul-
der. Alas, he was dead. Gen. Hamp,,
ton simply said, TOO late, Doctor" and
turned his horses head and rode over to
where two guns of
HART's BATTERY,
uuder Liet. F. NJ. Bamberg, were en-
eaped in an artillery duel with apparent
~ several batteries OF the enemy sta
toned ON hill on the other side of
nine thicket. And there, with compress
ed libs and flashing eye. the great hero
directed the fire of those two guns until
Iork The accuracy of the fire was evil