The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-20
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"a STORY STORY OF THE WAR.

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STORY OF the WAR.
sPl1akett Relates Incidents Along the
Chickahominy.
81 Atlanta Constitution.
During Of the war they didn't have
none of these selepho like they have
tsnow, but; tEey shad or way Of talking to
cath other by signs"
TESs So said Plunkett, IS the group bad
siated by the freside. Scratching his
head and tossing his hat over on little
khelf, he continued:
GssI was up to Atlanta, and l overheard
AyoungsteE talking TO er girl through er
talephone, and it made .me;think of how
! athings have changed nee the days along
he: Chickahominy IN old Mcclellan
was trying to itake,I haond:
here wasD'tr telephones, nor no
telegraph wires, other, erlong that
gloom old river, they sent messages
nightyg fast, an ney done it by signs.
lhere was fello stationed erlong on
bigl places, three and fur miles apart,
alls the length of the battle lines, and in
sr second, BY the dip. of'a white handker.
ehief, they would pass as.noId for miles.
|These fellow were called the signal corps
lsgang, and: :ifit hadn't er been for them
bsdon't know how Johnson and Lee would
Shave ever got erlong, for old Mcclellan
81 had ten; thousand balloons, and he would
S put er fellow on to one of 'em and send
4 4 him up, and be could ssae for miles and
4 miles with his telescope. They didn't
Il turn the balloons loose then like they do
u. at these expositions, but they had, them
s;:siesF With q strong rope, and q Windlass
BlikssisI 81 . well, that LEFT 'em 60 up and
held 'emz there and wound 'em down
when they had seed as much as they
wanted to see.
EVERY old soldier seed these balloons
sof the yankees, and hated 'em, too, and
Ss6eY all seed the 'signar fellows, but the
youngsters that talk through telephones
I dorit know nothing erbout 'em. It Was
iusA white piece Of cloth tied to stick
sthat they used to give their signs with.
For instance, the young fellow at the
telephone the other day lowed to the
fgirl i.
s5S..sHe Hellow, hellow, WhatfS Eellow,
hellow, what you say? Is that you :
Hellow, hollow, they cut me of. Hell
low, hellow, what? Central connect
sssbitauk, blank. with blank, blank, please.
Hellow Is that you? Ha! ha ha !
hal hal Yen, hal ha! ha ! ha! Good.
ssbye.
Now, all il the world he said to that
sgal. was Goodbye" /" and one of them sig
nal fellows could have done that by q
quick dip of his handkerchief to the
right and sent it twenty miles in ten sec.
!: onds, but them youngsters was counting,
know, and that makes 'em SOW to get
through with each other.
never will forget The commotion
# that was caused at one Of these signal
platforms, for the fellows we're put up on
ittle.platforms, one day during of the
81 seven. days fight.
The flag dipped to the right, then in
front. then to the left and back to the
tighttsagain.
where is President Davis at this
moment?' was the sign.
he officer says, answer:
:sS.t. At Gaines mill
This only took adip or two of the
white rag, and in er minute there came
another message, which only took er dip
s. OF two Of the rag and i put things to
moving.
g3a::ass Send courier in haste. he will be
: aIabnshed on his route to the pontoon
bridge
You ought to have seed that courier
move, and one. Of Che signal fellows
that was no place for a presi-
dent TO, be, :nohow, but they didn't am
bush old JEFF; the cousier caught him ct
the mill, and the course Of his route was
schanged, and it didn't take them signal
fellows as long to save this great man So
sit did this youpgster at the telephone to
tell the girl goodbye.
That Chickahomioy was er bad, bad
i tell you. It wss in the days
when there.was no place between pick.
cts. They didn't swap tobacco for coffee,
and say, how are you yak, or how are
!: !: syou. Johnny Reb, erlong them lines. A
I: fellow had to keep behind something,
8 and keep mighty close. You could put
q your hat on your bayonet and stickit OUT
Sand three or four bullets would hit it
B before you could say Jack Robinson.
i SHARP: shooters were everywhere, and it's
SSof two of these that want to tell you
sSerbout.
For several days man after man Was
shot on the Confederate side, and the
sharp shooters place Of concealmsnt had
not been spotted. At last one of the
sctnnfada dacided khpt aa uoon az 1a rhnesu
come ergin he would try to make it to OF