South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-02-01
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| we kept Oh taiituS DICK unui NC
reached Harrisonburg. when we turn
ed abruptly to the left and marched
east to- Swift Run Cup, in the Blue
Ridge mountains, anil the enemy ad-
vanced no farther than Harris, nburg,
except some scouting parties. We
f, lay here for some time, the weather
! very rough, raining and showing.
While here the army Was re-or-
ganized. as we had been mustered in
service Tor one year, and the time OK
FIRING most OF tho lnenshad re-enlist-
ed aud received fifty dollars bounty
aud thirty d vs. furlongh, but IA only
PAL tvfthe army coul +! be furlonghcd Mt
once, those who did no, get furloueh
before we began to move never got
one because we were kept too busy,
and those who would not re enlist
were retained in Sc. vic. also and re-
ceivcd the bounty. Int not the FUR.
Tough. All the companies elected
company officers ami the company otli-
Gers elected reginieniaI officers ,butthat
was the last time it was done. for at
ter that they always went up by pro-
motion. Col. a. @. Cummings, Of
my regiment would not serve any
longer, and our adju.ant, A. J. Neif,
was elected colonel. which very much
disappointed the lieu,cnaht-c
and major, but he made splendid
| colonel. We were then mustered in
service for three years, or during the
war.
A good many men WHO lived q
long the base OF the Blue Ridge who
ere liable to military duty, and some
doserters, had taken refuge in the
mountains, ahd fortified Themselves,
\ and deiied the conscriI officers to
arrest them. Therefore Gen. Jack
son sent some infantry and cavalry
to capture them, wien an old lady
living near remarked that sthe deser-
tiers had mortified in the Blue Ridge,
out that Gen Jackson had sent foot
company and critter company to
ramshag the Blue Ridge and capture
them
The day we got ia Swift Run Gap
our wagon train was III advance, and
part of them had taken the wrong
road and did not reach amp that
night, Sergeant Parsons. OF my COM
pany, was with them. The next day
when wo arrived in camp he said lac
stayed all night at II house way up in
tho mountaina,& the people were SO lg
norant that they did not know that the
war was going on. and when he be-
gan to explain it to them, and told
item that he belonged to Gen. Jacks
sons command, they said: Ooh, yes
we have read about Gen. Jackson
and his army lie cot them 20 show
him the book and it was about old
Andy JacSson. in the war OF 1912.
My father had left home for fear of
being arrested and sent to prison and
was with our arm, until we arrived
at this camp, when he concluded to
| go 10 Richmond and join heavy artil-
lery company, rs he WAS over age
and conld not stand active fell SER
vice. triel to persuade him from
1t, and to remain ont of the army.
that ii him anil me both got killed
my mottor and three sisters would be
alone in the world. Blu he would
go, and 50 we parted; Bat after he
got to Richmond the company he
joined was put in the infantry, and he
would not be mastered III, but return
eli to the valley, aud afterwards
when our army occupied Winches-
ter, he went home aud remained dur
ing tho var.
Tie 10th Virginia regiment was
organized in the valley. but had been
east Of the Ridge in Gen. Johnson's
army ever since the battle oil Manas.
sst. and had been trying for long
tifne>to be transferred TO tho valley
under Jackson. aud at last succeeded.
They ,came to us at this camp and
wore rut into tho third brigade Of our
digisinn We had considerable sport
out OF ihcm, tantalizing them, telling
them they had been laying down
there in good quarters all winter, do
ing nothing but eat and sleep, and
that they would soon get enough of
Jackson. tina, be would take the starch
ou Of them and make them earn their
board. Sure enough, VIC soon had
battle at Mcdowell, aud they got in
to il hot and heavy. They lost a
good many men, among hem their
commander, Col. Gibbons fue off
Ger, but The regiment acted nobly
aud had high reputation during the
war.
en-. Garnett, commanding our
brigade, was relieved OF hrs command
By Gen. Jackson. for some misman-
agement at the battle of Kernstown
Il never heard exactly what 1t was
and Gen WInder took command
Of us lie was an old United States
officer and was very strict General
Gaynett was afterwards in some other
command, and was killed at Gcttys-
burg.