The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-09-03

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where he imagined there might be some, and
groaned MS If he was half dead. The ladies
ran to his assistance and wanted to help him.
He said he was in great pain and he thought
little whiskey would relieve him. The antidote
Tor pain prescribed by him was forthcoming
aud the doctor went on his way, rejoicing that
his trick had succeeded so well.
One moro and we will resume our march to.
wards the rising of the sun. Near our camp
at Jackson was the residence of Judge Shockcy.
The Judge was an elderly gentleman, large,
prim, digni6ed, cgotistical aud little touch ed
with Pomposi'y. lie reported TO Capt. Jeter
one day that he had missed shirt from his
clothes line, and he believed ono of the men
had 1t. W. D. llumphries, orderly sergeant Of
| the company, was told TO search the barpnqc
| Of every man in the company and to carry
Judge Shockey along to identify hi, shirt.
Humphries said, "well, Captain, give me your
keys and will begin with you" Tho news
soon ran through camp that Judge Schockey
was on the war path hunting for lost shirt.
The men wanted no better signal than that
1or n spontaneous outburst of fun. One of
| them, holding up red flannel shirt that was
so thick and heavy that it almost made YOU
perspirc 10 look ut it in the shale, said, 'Judpe
| is this your shirt? Then two of them. mt
ting little Irish boy, who joined the company
after VIC went west, on their shoulders marched
up to the Judge and said, "Judge, this fellow
has your shirt on. lie was seer when he took
| 1t from your clothes line When the judge.
who was large, dignifed man, and the yery
prince of neatness, looked up aud saw the little
dirty Irish lad sitting on the shoulders Of the
men, wearing q homespun shirt, looking
heither the cleaner or better from long service
and marked with stripes as broad as the one
that designates the characteristic penitentiary
costume, the idea Of that being his shirt and
the thought that lie was, at his own expense.
making fun for the amusement Of the soldiers.
was, to him, so supremely ridiculous that he
turned abruptly away, saying, Sergeant, you
| need not look any further, would rather lose
my shirt: We heard no moro of Judge
| Shockey till reconstruction times when, 1 be-
lieve, he was provisional Governor of the State
of Mississippi
Gen. Rains, the inventor Of sub terra shells
| and torpedoes, was sent to Jackson with the
| hope Of making his new weapon of warfare
very destructive to the enemy. heard him
| imagining one day the terrible fate that await
ed the Federals when they passed over these
| explosives. When we crossed the Pearl River
on our retreat, guards were stationed at differ
eat places where lie had buried some of these
/ 1espans. 10 turn ohr troops o,it OF the Road 20
as to prevent tho destruction of our own men,
If they ever harmed any one Of the enemy
never heard Of it. Dynamite might, in this
way, be male very destructive to au invading
army. We bvouaced the night after the army
left Jackson near Brandon. The next day the
army moved few miles east of Brandon The
Federals pursued us to Brandon, AMI then
abandoning the hope of overtaking Johnson,
returned to Jackson, and after committing
many acis Of vandalism, went back to Vicks.
burg The two hostile armies were now
marching in opposite directions Grant going
westward and Johnson eastward. They might
have met somewhere in China had they kept on.
We continued our march along the line of rail-
road to Forest Station. Scarcity of water
made it necessary for the army TO 60 into camp
at Roberts Mills, some five miles south Of the
station. Like the grqsshoppcr and army worm
|
west as food became scarce, so we had to make
frequent changes on account of the pnucty OF
water. Very suddenly Johnsons Mississippi
army disappeared, how or when, we hardly
knew. Suddenly brought together from diff
ferent commands, it rs quickly returned. The
Macbeth was left in camp at Roberts Mills,
| without orders and rations-the only remain
ing vesiige of Johnson's Mississippi army
| There are circumstances under which foraping
ON On individual account might be w:nked at.
One of those excusable emergencies was now
on u.s. The men were told to supply present
necessities, on the promise of the Confedcracy
10 feed the troops. Here ag.in the OLD adage,
"give men an inch and they will take an eli,"
was verified. 1t required great deal more to
| appease the appetites of our men, when they,
and not the government, were the judges Of
their capacity. On this occasion il took q
sheep TO each mess, and hog or two sprinkled
on TO season il. The farmer on whose stock
the men had raided, called at headquarter RS and
laid his complaint Capt. Jeter told him TO
identify the men, and they should pay over
and above what was right for the government
to pay. lie left saying he would be back the
next morning. That night we received orders
to report at Mobile for duty, and left the next
morning, before the farmer came in with his
bill Of damages.
During our cncampment at Roberts Mills an
old couple man aud wife, who had immigrated
to that country years previous, hearing that we
were South Carolinians, made a visit to the
camp aud were seemingly rs glad to see us as
If We had been Of their own kth and kin. |
remember how fcelingly the old lady spake o
our hardships and spoke words of genuine sym
pathy. They left us with pressing invitation
70 visit them. Liapt. Munro sud the wrilor
took advantage of 81 and called to see them 4