Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1891-01-29

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sale, sDidI over sSll YOU Why / never
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would not like So % Sshat We then ea9esdy
lhifa an old ,AselsQllosE but j badn't hessad
why ny F&iflfsd, so he told mo
That hs q Sss because he had
snssinferpi asDwsr OF d young
lady ~ hisI Witch contained but
Ithsee latteYSS Thee he he'd
tnterpfetedto Eaeg6 Kant Komei t Kiah,
when on ssefeeBigni lid sas satisfied that
the proper i~lterprstetion Mas Rin Kome
it Kiah. Brit the after thought came too
late, and sQShe a sir gle still. il was
before this that Comp any t'C,' seemed
one morning unaSoouptably disihoIined
to drill pioporly, and to arouse them
from sheif lethaFgy q double quisked
them up tie beach about threetfourths OF
o mile, wien I ordered ,"parade rest.,,
Thereupqi Private Ed Slater, o hne.
bright. I'ishraan, said, sBe iabbers and
| believe the Captain 10 going to make, n
cavalry company ont Of lis without anv
horses II had been rtmored that we
wore 2 have o legion and tho iumor
appeatdd vol founded, al Captain Tho
mas T,omson's Company on the oath
OF October, and Captain Thomas III.
Bogss' aud Captain Rober, A. Thompp.
sons companies, ON the Tel and 14tb Of
Tssesahe eeasae'ssoo lie t ~ id we've
undes. the commend 81, our ,~solonel. But
the notion Wasnaisyer Sntertsined, or, was
abandoned, for tt66sse companies were
mitls others'o ora SSsea as thle Second rifle
On the 27th pf( NoyemterSC Companies Is
and G were sstM on detailed service to
Poca,aligo and Amai led awey until the
Goth Of January 1862.
Or The Goth csootober, 1891, The women
and children wee ordered off the island.
On the slst ltIe ferry boat between the
island and the oily was burned. 4. "
On the 3D. Of November the Thompson
Point picket captured a Yankee prisoner
who had escaped from Charleston and
had presumablyy5passe through our limo
of sentinols, wbph stretched across the
whole leland. Mfew days later N of
the sontinels onIthis line halted q funeral
procession in biVad day light and tho
Colonel was very {piuch incensed because
an escaping enemy was allowed to pass
unchallenged and our friends burying
their dead were halted.
A terrific confsggrationS ragged in Char
lesion for twentwfour hours, from sP.
NJ. OF tho fithi ,oiF December. AAs re
gazed Mt the sightsse failed to enjoy It's
gorgaousness because of our sympathy
with the sufferers
On the 31st Of December Company Il
WIS detailed to guard Federal prisoners
from Charlestoni to Columbia.
On the LIST of january, 1852, coffee
rations were cut Of. {
On tho 1st vi February, 1862, Col. Orr,
having been electGl't to the Senate of the
Confederate States, and having resigned
his command, bade farewell to the rogi-
ment. His resignation was n source of
regret and complaint by some of his
friends at home who considered that he
was under Obligation to remain with
the regiment and take personal over.
sight of their sons, but forgetting that
his virtue of being q safe man to follow
IN peace or in war, was appreciated by
others and was sure to bring him pro-
motion and CONSEQUENT separation from
us, WhefFI was hllq 1t to, raise my Com.
ri n''s n 5imA,d ,?f ssAA-@gsz
thing of tho kind, and he feplied, 81 will
not go to the House Of Representatives.
I left the United States Congress Speaker
of the House,, Here The subject was
dropped, but of course the event was not
a surprise to me. R'rhe administration of
Colonel Orr was marked by q firm, yet
mild discipline, great watchfulness and
training to be. always ready; at every
alarm from movements Of the enemy or
rumor the regiment was called to arms,
partly as q precautions, partly as a means
of perfecting the regiment in the arts of
wal. Colonel Orr liked to onjoy his
morning nap uninterrupted. One even
ing at supper he said to his cook that tho
biscuit needed more elbow grease. Next
morning the cook walked him, calling,
Mas Lawrence, Mass Lawrence p
"What do yJ "some of that
e1n1w p, srsS9 told ne about last
Two subalts Ss~anahdnnng +,,is. admins
tration took So ;Anueh offence at being
disciplined by Colonel Orr hat they re-
fused for some years after tho war to
speak to him. When ho Was Governor
of tho State we passed a militia bill,
among the provisions of which was ono
that tho Governor should appoint the
Colonies of Regiments. He asked tho
delegations from different Districts to
recommend persons for appointment.
The members from dickens District,
ignorant of the relations between Cover
no. Orr and thesi men, ny scme strange
faulty, nominated then Cor. the Colonols
of the two regiments ir. our District.
Whereupon he laid we vhought him n
great fool or ve,y fo:giving, but he mado
the appointments. -.
The promotioh3 of j. Foster Marshall
to Colonel, d. A. Ledbetter to Lieu
tenant Colonel, M d of j. W. Living
stcn to Major fol. owed. On assuming
command Colonial Marahail said he woGid
rot serya unless hGe regiment was Sits
, ned for him to, nd submitted the ques-
ion to them. The regiment signined
its satisfaction " unanimously moving
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