The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-21


Porter to sit with my sick sister, to pre-
vent any one from breaking the new!
suddenly to her before l came back,
ran down to the house of neighbor
Mrs. Wright, to ask for little brandy Il
give nv sister to enable her to bear tn
Dreadful communication had to make
On reaching Mrs. Wright's door foune
her running from room to room, wrlnglnl
her hands, tearing her hair, and crying
l"On. nv poor child and her ia ther no
here to protect us and they gay the blaci
wretches are in the very front of Grant,
army, and will rush into the city before
anv decent white men are here to restrain
them Oh (! what is to become of US T.
Meanwhile her lovely daughter Lulu
beautiful girl of sixteen, was clingint
to her mother, and Begging her not t.
weep so, for she did not believe that al
Yankees were as bad as people said they
were, and that may be Gen. Lee woult
drive them back yet.
aOh my child, you don't know wha
you are talking about, and have little ides
what is before u.s."
Finding Tcould say nothing to comfor
herI helped myself to the brandy, ant
.hastening home gave it to my sister, ane
then broke the news to her as gently as
could.
LOOKING FOR THE YANKEES.
MY married sister, Mrs. Carter, witt
her little daughter Daisy, four years old
and an infant of..four weeks was ther
living q fewtsquares from us. her husband
being at the front with Gen. Lee
Thinking we could better bear what wa
before us when we were all together t.
comfort and strengthen each other,
brought her and her little ones around tt
our room. There we sat all huddlee
together in almost breathless suspense
our thoughts one moment being with tht
absent dear ones, of whose fate we had
not, nor could We hope soon to have, the
slightest tidings; the next filled will
terrible forebodings of what nigh
be before us. All through the afternoon
friends and neighbors were running il
and out, bringing fresh rumors, some
hopeful, -some despairing. About foul
o'clock we heard AN ominous "boom,
"boom," "boom" like the sound of artil.
lery nearer than any that We had previ
.ously heard For. q moment our hearts
almost ceased to beat. We thoug ht the
enemy must be very close at hand, and
as the booming continued various coDjec
lures were made as to what quarter We
might look for their approach, some
thinking the sound came from one direc'
.tion and some from just the opposite one
In order to hear more distinctly, Mrs
Porter and I stepped to the door tc
listen hearing it much more plainly
outside, ne followed on in the direction
whence it seemed to proceed, until we
reached 8 neighboring stable door, when,
to our great amusement, we found that il
was nothing .butathe kicking of horse
against his stall, which certainly sounded
enough like the distant firing of can
non to deceive any but the most practic
ed ear.
Another incident, which gave us the
luxury of smile even at this gloomy
crisis, I must here relate. Seeing the
CONSERVATION into which the whole
household was thrown by the news that
the yankees" were coming, our little
mulattomade Lettie, while syupathiziDg
with the alarm and distress Of her elders
was somewhat perplexed to understand
exactly what the threatened evilswas
So, anxiously to get a little light on the
mysterious subject, she crept shyly up to
my side and whispered timidly: "Miss
Lucy, what sort O. looking things is
YanKees7 Does dey have horns
Cause, ,ef dey does, I seen one on 'em al
de show, and he had tail like cow
Her little. brain was evidently sadly con-
finsing Yankees and bufaloes.
All through the day the various gen.
tlemen belonging to the house had been
running in to get their haversacks. can
teens, blankets, &C., with view tc
following the retreating army, and each
one would be besieged by the cro.'d o.
ladies with. eager cries of: "Oh, Mr.. A.
do you believe they are going to evacu
ate ?n' ;or "Mr. B.; have you any idea
where Gen. Tee will make stand p
But We would only receive the unsatis'
factory answer: "We know nothing
positively but that We are ordered to PACK
up all the public documents as precau
tionary measure" E:
A SAD FAREWELL.
Just at nightfall two soldier friends
whose duties had detained them in the
city till that moment, came to bid us
goodbye, for. they were then Fastening
to the train which was awaiting the
President and staff five miles out of the
city. They asked if they might have
the privilege of going into the room "te
say goodbye to Miss Fannie, for we may
never see her again."
"Certainly," said 7, for this was nc
time to regard empty conveutionalities
and I led them to her bedside. 1t was 8
scene / car never forget. In their worn
suits of grey, armed and equipped with
all they could carry for long and peri
lous banishment, looking desperate and
determined, but with eyes moistened a!
thoughts of the defenceless women and
children they were leaving behind them
these two men entered the chamber oi
illness which we feared was even shad.
owed by the death angels wing. It had
been many weeks since they had seen
my sister and they were much shocked
at her pale and emaciated face. Scarce
a word was spoken, but each knew full
we'll the sad forebodings thst filled the
hearts of the others. One of them
dropped on his knee beside the bed, and
taking the little thin white hand il his
he lifted it to his lips and pressed upon
it silent and fearful adieu, and they
were gone, to meet US in this life again
nevermore.
Left to ourselves our first thought was
that it would be we'll to sit up all nigh
to be ready to meet the first warning O.
approaching danger, but We finally de-
cidcd that the best preparation for the
morrow, which we felt was to be one o.
those days "that try mems SOULS" woulc
be to gain all the strength and refresh
ment we could by nights sleep, if sleeE
were possible. So kneeling we Offered
our united prayers for Divine protection
through the darkness of the night, aDC