The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-15

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Tn Inc meg negroes were generally supposed t
oe taken with annual longings 70 'trise,
the munitions OF war should prove 6
temptation too strong for them to resist
Iimld people began TO ask each othel
how Capt. Bradford and his old gentle
men were going to guard them. Men.
| hearts were failing them for looking fol
those things that were coming. The
scent OF war was ia the air. The negroes
might take the infection. The end OF
| all the talk vas that request was sent
from some of our citizens to tie secre.
tary, asking that guard of soldiers be
Gent 10 protect the Arsenal. The request
was complied with, and the people
breathed free for while.
| ARRIVAL OF THE ARTILLERY.
was very yclng miss in my teens,
then. but remember as we'll as yesterday
! my Impressions on seeing the first real
soldiers l had ever beheld, except our
post commanders, who always wore citi.
zens' clothes. The morning they arrived
we were vending our way down the hill
to school, and met them marching up to
the Arsenal. There were forty men,
including officers. It was drizzly fall
day and they were wrapped in their long
overcoats. They were artilerymen. aud
carried no guns upon their shoulders,
and as they walked quietly along without
lille or drum thought they looked very
poky and humdrum. not near 90 martial
! as ouE volunteer companies on the g.ori.
Que Fourth, parading with their cleaning
bayonets, gay uniforms and plumed hats,
| to tbs music OF band playing "Haii
! Columbia y We thought very little
more of them at the time, but the day
came when they became suddenly invest
ed with fearful importance in our
| inexperienced eyes.
The winter wore on, as winters will
always, whether mems hearts are heavy
or light; the spring came and with it the
Inauguration Of Abraham Lincoln, and
the proclamation. The character of our
people being such as / have described, it
is not surprising that like the border
people generally they had hitherto hesi-
tated at taking the serious step of sepa.
rating from the Union, but when
"Abcs proclamat ION In p twinkle,
Stirred up tho blood OF zip Van Winklc"
they spraug to arms rs one man. 1t will
be remembered how North Carolina then
went out of the Union without any
ceremony, and companies were raised
and equipped, and regiments formed,
before tho State had time for the formal
secession, which took place OH the TWEEN.
tieth of May. Fayetteville had two
companies, fully equipped, in Raleigh
before that day. We had already two
holiday volunteer companies, of not
more than forty or fifty men each. They
proceeded to fill up their ranks, and soon
had over hundred each on their rolls
The women were as anxious to do THEFT
part as the men, and there was plenty for
them to do. Yhe volunteers were to be
fitted out, and there were miles of sewing
to be done, to get all the needed garments
put together. But before we got well
started with our needles Governor Ellis
sent orders TO Gen. Draughan, who
commanded the county militia, to call
out his men and take possession of the
Arsenal, before the authorities at Wash
ington could send in reinforcements.
Ah then there was hurrying 10 and fro.
Monday was the day appointed for the
great undertaking. l have forgotten the
exact date, but il vas about the middle
Of april. The ladies hgd 5sen st work
fixing up hats for the volunteers. 1t had
been decided that all the superfuous
ornaments should be removed from the
coats of the old members of the compa-
MES, and these garments put on war
footing. They were now 10 be put to a
different use from that for which they
were originally made. The fanciful
helmets, with their bright colored plumes,
were to be c. lnged for soft hats. But
we though that soldiers must have o
plume in their hats, so it was decided
that black feather would be the correct
thing with which to 60 into real war, and
there was call for contributions of
feathers, which came in from the ladies
in abundance. 1t was in the midst of
this decoration of hats that the order for
our men to take their first march up to
the cannon's mouth was given. 1t was
necessary to go to work after service
SUNDAY 10 get ali the siats ready in tima
for next days work. Cartridges, too:
could be mado by the women, and all
hands were busy.
All the county militia were put ia
| reauisition TOR the deed of daring, and
early next morning in every direction
they we're coming in. Young and OLD,
| rich and poor, hocked to the place OF
Ic0QSZYOus. ucIo WaS a SouIPahy VI
a1ome Guards" formed for this special
occasion, comprising the citizens over
age, and every man in town that could
| shoulder q gun, exceptthe preachers, was
/ under arms, ThereWas our middle aged
physician, who stood at the head Of oul
"facuhy," and was generally believed by
us to be the first doctor of the age,
mounted on prancing steed, with g
feather in his hat, on duty as a. staf
officer. There was we'll known portly
old lawyer, pompous but true hearted
marching as private in the ranks by the
side of white haired merchant whose
spare form held heart beating with ths
| resolute blood of the Scots. Bald headed
presidents of banks, and grizzly bearded
clerks walked side BY aide, resolved to dc
or die. Few of these Sold gentlemen
probably had shot squirrel in thirty
years, or taken as long walk as the
distance from the rendezvous up hill Il
the Arsenal, but they swelled the ranks
of the mighty army, and doubtless help
Fed tof convince the handful Of men bght
held the stronghold that resistance wa
useless" t.'t
A MORNING OF GREAT SUSPENSE.
But would there be any resistance OF
the part of the forty drilled and discip
| lined soldiers who comprised the garri
son? That was question which filiet
the hearts Of the women with fear, To-
there was not a house that did not hav'
one or two men in the field that day
Brevet.Major Anderson, the captain Q
the company, had already resigned hi
commission, but had not heard from
Washington. He was sick in bed more
over. and Lieut.. De Lagnal was in com
r.and of ,na ,nen. The Iieutenantt