The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-02-28
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| which surrounded the city. Indeed
| no one could dc so without a pass from
provost -marshal's headquarters.
Monday morning came, and with it
Daddy Ned on his usual mission. In
moment she caught the idea. The
maid, May, dashed upstairs to sec
missy" 1t took our heroine only
a few minutes to explain to her faith
full maid that she must remain at her
aunts, as she herself wanted to visit
her mother. And so she donned
Mays gown and basque, and closely
fitting sun-bonnet, with red shawl and
thick brown veil; and lightly tripping
out to the wagon, took her seat beside
the impatient Daddy Ned.
And so accustomed were the senti-
nels and patrols to the old negro and
his team, that he passed them all
without undergoing examination or
challenge. And before dusk our her
oine was in her mothers chamber re-
vealing to her the important mission
she had undertaken.
But many difficulties remained to be
surmounted before she could reach the
Confederate lines. Daddy Ned was
called in for his counsel and assist
ance. She must reach Bonham's S
headquarters early next morning.
Daddy Ned had observed that the
mounted patrol came at sunrise from
the road she must travel, and the re-
lief did not 60 out for an hour after
ward. "Den, missy, I take de horses
to water at de spring, an you come
wild de pail on your haid fur water jis'
like dat gal do ebry mornin', den I
put you on yo' pony, and you jis' go
long p
Nextmorning, with pail on her head,
and attired as before in her maid
costume, she passed the sentinels ard
reached the spring, mounted her ia
vorite pony and rode towards the Con-
.federate lines. In less than two hours,
whilst displaying white 'kerchief to
her riding-whip, she was halted by a
mounted picket: "What, ho Can it
be possible 4! What, you here, ma
chere, Susie.l My queen Of hearts p
were ordinations which fell so fast
from Lieutenant Tyler, Susan could
only cry out: 20, Ernest, you mad
cap p
"Stop this and conduct me to head
quarters without delay. I am the En-
lily Geiger of this horrid war, and have
important newsr' Then, dear gossip,
come I am glad 1 have caught you p
And so with hearts full Of love for
each other and devotion to their
country, they rode into Colonel Ker-
shaw's camp. Colonel Kershaw i'm
mediately conducted her to Bonham's s
headquarters. The latter placed the
young heroine and her cavalry escort
in charge of his gallant aide-de-camp,
James N. Lipscomb, who conducted
her safely to Beauregard, at Mitchell s
Ford. Then Beauregard was enabled
to signal by flags to Johnston's look
out, on the mountain top; and with
Jackson's, Bees and Bartow's bri-
gades, Johnston marched across the
country, wading the Shenandoah, and
reached. the field of action July 21st,
in time to bear the ''burden and heat
of the day."
That events Of that day carried sor-
row to many hearts, is too well known
to all but to none keener pang than
our heroine. Friday, the 10Th, her
brother, Edward, was desperately
wounded whilst leading the Fairfax
Rifles in the engagement at Black
burns Ford, and she and her mother
fastened to the rear to soothe his suf-
ferings. He died that day week.
Again, in the last charge, which the
Virginia cavalry made on the 21st,
near the Lewis house, charge which,
in spirit and dash, was not surpassed
at Balaklava by the 'Light Brigade, y
young Tyler fell, mortally wounded.
And there upon the field Of battle the
dauntless girl found him. "Oh,
Ernest, Ernest! you will not die
Do not leave me |" Family he whis-
pered: "Hold my hand, dear Sun
The shadows of night are coming Ger
me Stay by me for without thee,
I dare not die r' "Oh, you must not
die I will freely give my life for
thine p But alas /! it was otherwise
ordered. AS the shade Of night came
on, there amidst the green grass and
blooming clover, he passed into the
dark valley of death, and gave up his
vounp life at his country's call.
And now there are three graves in
the old Cedar Grove churchyard One
Federal and two Confederates, en-
closed by curbstone Of white marble,
surmounted by single shaft, inscrib-
ed with their name and virtues and
representing the unity of the trinity
of her affections, who, still beautiful,
may be seen at "dewy eve' standing,
waiting to be called; and on Memo
rial day, carefully adjusting on each a
chaplet of arborvite and immortelles,
and twining round the shaft an ever
green garland wreathed with blue vio-
lets and gray moss, emblematic Of the
indissoluble union of the "Blue and
Gray on "fame's eternal camping