The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-24
EVERY INCH A SOLDIER,
The Brave Texan Who Died IN Defence of
Woman's Uonors.

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NEwBEKRy, S. G., June 12.-The mon
ument to Calvin CroZier has been placed
in Rosemont Cemetary. Crozier was
the brave young Texan who lost his
life here in defence of a woman on the
night Of september 5, 1865 He was on
his way home from LEES surrender
aod had a young lady under his charge.
4 regiment of negro troops reached
NewbeTry on that day and camprd here
for the nj mt. The train from Aston,
on which CroZier was travelling, was
thrown off the track at the depot by
distractions placed thereon by the ne
gro soldiers.
One of the negroes went into the
coach and insulted the young lady.
Crozier promptly protected her and cut
the negro with his knife. In the con-
fusion that ensued Mr.. Jacob Bowers.
the railroad supervisor, who was get
ting the train back on the track, was
accused of cutting the negro, and, being
seized by the negro soldiers, CroZler
came forward and said that he had cut
the negro. The negro soldiers then
took him to their camp, a short distance
from the depot, and, without trial. con-
demned him to death. He was shot to
death at daylight on the morning Of
September s, 1865, as he knelt in shall
low grave they had dug for him. There
they mutilated his body and left it, as
the regiment Immediately marched
down the railroad and took the first
train for Columbia.
The body Of CroZier was given decent
burial in the village graveyard by the
citizens of Newberry, where it has rest
ed until to-day, when the remains were
removed TO the Rosemont Cemetery.
The movement to erect monument
to his memory began one year ago and
S278 was soon raised in the town, to-
eether with subscriptions from the
county. The monument is ct white
marble, about ten feet high, and rests
on a base OF Newberry granite. The
shaft is six feet high, ano on its front
face is the "Lone Star" of Texas On
the marble base resting on the granite
block in raised letters is Inscribed the
word
CROZIER.
On another side is the following verse
from the celebrated elegy by Col Iheo-
dore O'Hara, 9. S. a:
tRest on, emba!med and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood you gave,
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The he1bage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her record keeps,
Or honor guard the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps
On the die block is the inscription.
CALVIN CRoZIER,
Born
At Brandon, Miss.
August, 1s40
Murdered at Newberry, S. g.,
September s, 1885.
Then on three Seperate faces the fol-
lowing account of his death is lnscrlo-
ed:
"After the surrender of the Confeder-
ate armies, while on the Way to his
home in Texas from federal prison, he
was called npon at the railroad station
at Newberry, S. c., on the night OF Sep
tember 7, 1865, to protect young white
woman, temporarily under his charge,
from gross insults, offered by a negro
Federal soldier of the garrison station
ed here.
"a difficulty ensued; in which the ne
gro was slightly cut. The infuriated
soldiers seized a citizen of NeWberry,
upon whom they were about to execute
savage vengeance, when Crozier came
promptly forward and avowed himself
the author of the deed, thus refusing to
accept safety from allowing a stranger
to receive the violence intended him
self.
"He was hurried in the night time to
the biyouac of the regiment to which
the soldiers belonged, was kept under
guard all night, was not allowed COM
munication with any citizen and with
out even the form of trial was con-
demned to die, and was shot to death
about daylight the following morning
and the body mutilated."
The monument was erected by Lea
veil & Speers, of Newberry. 1t stands
in conspicuous position near the en-
trance to Rosemont Cemetery. 1t is
fitting memorial to noble life which
perished in defence Of woman.-News
and Courier.