The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-04-17

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that they were to be allowed to 'accOmpa.
nv the older ladies in their daily visits to
the Way>ide.
The plan of operations was very sim
plc. The same Clergyman who had first
observed the need of 4 resting place
would NEE, the train as it came in from
Virginia, and direct the soldiers to the
Wavside Home, transportation being
furnished at first by private means and
afterwards. AS the demand became great
er. by the central committee for the
soldiers relief.
uEAETEENDING SCENES.
Snmc,imcs the scenes ON Banding
street, through which the wagons passed
to convey the passengers to the Wa!yside,
would be hear,rending. After battle
one would see Il forest of cru'chcS pro.
;rudiny from one wagon and Il party OF
bandagcd met. III another; then the am.
balances would pass, bearing those leo
i'll to endure the drive in the wagon, and
more mournful still, the carts carrying
the rough boxes which contain
ed the bodies of ;Ee slain. The writer
can never forget once meeting the clergy
man who had been receiving the lncom-
ing guests of the Waysde, and saying to
him: IL have just seen narrowing
spectacle-two boxes in a cart, one upon
the other; nor the look in his face as he
replied: Il have just left the father of
the two young men whose bodies are IN
those boxes. The body of his third boy
could not be found at all. He Is taking
these home to their mother"
At the Wayside the soldiers would be
met bv committee of ladies with proper
assistants, and after they had been re.
treShed by bath, and often had a
change OF clothing and their wounds
dressed, they would be furnished with a
comfortable supper, a nights Lodging
and breakfast the next morning. Here
the work of the girls came in. They
were allowed to lay the table, prepare
the coffee and serve the soldiers at their
meals. Sometimes they would be per
mitled to 90 with one of the older ladies
and carry a meal to the cot Of an Ill
man. The out. going trains from Colum-
bia then left at Il very early hour in the
morning, but never through the whole
existence of the Wayside Hospital did
these women and girls fail to be at their
post through winters cold and rain, or
summers heat aud dust, there were they
found, ready to welcome the wayworn
soldier and cheer him on his way. There
was scarcely one of these women who
was not actively engaged during the
other hours of the day in some other
hospital of the town or in some work ''r
The aid of the army. In order to give
the actual facts of the work Of the Way
-iGc Hospital, we present All account
furnished by one OF the officers OF the
executive committee.
4 RECORD OF THE WORK.
The Waysile Hospital at Columbia, 5.
c.. was established March 10Th, 1862,
and continued until February 10th, 1850:
The executive committee consisted OF
five ladies. Visiting committees were
appointed each day. These were assisted
by gentlemen. and when necessary by
physicians. This House was begun in
single room, but additions were speedily
made and before the close of the second
wear the Home contained nine rooms be-
sides piazzas and bathing room, water rs
we'll as gas being carried through the
building. Over one hundred soldiers
were often accommodated with cots aud
three hundred with their meals per day,
chiefly supper and breakfast, as they
were usually furloughel sick and wound
cd soldiers passing To their homes. The
second year it WAS thought eSpedlent to
ask the Government for surgeon and
hospital steward, which request was
grau,ed-a ma,rnn being engaged by the
ladies. The Home was entirely supper:
ted hv voluntary contributions from all
parts of the State, but the ladies were
allowed to purchase stores from the COM
missaries at Government rates. Soldiers
detained by sickness and want of connec'
ton in the trains had religious services
from ministers Of the different religious
denominations. The number of soldiers
entertained in this Home during its ex.
istcnce of nearly three years was about
seventy.five thousand. After the 18th
of February, 1861, when the Home could
no longer be used large numbers of sol.
dicrs received food and accommodations
when they were passing through Colum-
ba, from the Wayside Home committee.
Funds belonging to the Wayside Home
were sent to the upper districts AS long
AS they were available during the Spring
of 1863, benetiting in that way many
soldiers returning to their homes"
PATHETIC AND HUMOROUS INCIDENTS.
Like all other hospitals the Wayside
had its varied incidents, pathetic and
humorous. One morning as the men
were boarding the up-country trains,
wells, shrieks and howls were heard.
Every body rushed to see what caused the
disturbance. "Oh :" said one of the sol
dicrs, Its jist Jim Bumgarner, and he's
lest been Il cuttin' up that WAY ever since
we left Virginia. and there, on Il
'.,lre,cher," was man being put into
the car All observed the doctor,
mo wonder he yells at being put through
the car door, Gu! to pieces as he Is"
Bu. i'm Il moment there was bright,
though pale, din face at the Car window,
and merry voice crying out: "Hurrah
ior The Cuiumb4 ladies. liurrah for jeff
II .yi>. Gool,hye, ladies'" and oil went
.'in Eumgar,>r 20 his home in North
Carolina.
One morning there was a man 80 i'll
;l,.,: il WAS thought it would be 4 risk for
i.i.n 20 attempt TO t-ave!, and the surgeon
told the ladies they had better persuade
him to ,tav day or two longer. So in
wcn, tn, la,ic, to his cot TO advise hln
to remain. but i. was Of no Use. The
pn.r fellow had been shot in the mouth,
=, his !cpiios were of the most laconlc.
Dear. mothcrlv Mrs. T. would pcr>ua.
,h,Is >,v: "OiI, you are much 100 weak
to rave! STAY, aud l"t US nurse you a