The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-06

said to me that that boy was Captain
of Company, and that his name was
Logan, and it was our General 7. NJ.
Logan, who rose to the rank Of Bri-
gade General in Cavalry. He had
then, and I reckon he has yet, the
most juvenile looking face to be as
great man as he is of any man I ever
saw.
We marched through that old his
toric town, Fredericksburg, where
George Washington's mother was
buried, steering our course toward
Ashland, by Bowling Green and Mill
ford station. The second night we
were out it showed. I had on new
pair of boots that I had made just be-
fore leaving home, and in crossing a
creek, which was from hill to hill from
the rains that had fallen that day and
the night before, I got my boots full
of water and was not able to get them
off my feet for three or four days.
But that made no difference; it was
war and we had to keep going.
After resting a day or two at Ash
land we continued our march to York
town via Hanover Court House, New
Kent Court House and Williamsburg.
BY the time we got to Yorktown the
rains had ceased and we had few
days nice spring weather. We took
our position in. the rear Of the main
line and consequently had no picket
duty to do.
About this time Congress passed
the Conscript Act, which took in all
able bodied men from 18 to 35 years
old. Our Legion, as well as number
Of other regiments that went out in
1861, had only enlisted for IL months,
and their time was out, in fact some
of the older ones were out. So they
were called upon to reorganize or they
could disband, but they were immedi-
ately liable to conscription, 30 the
most of them chose the first and re-
organized and elected new officers,
some of the old ones and some new
ones. Our Company elected b. j..
Smith Captain again. W. H. Maui
din and W. T. Smith both claimed the
1st Lieutenant's place, and they had
long confab with the Secretary of
War as to which would get the COM
missions, but I think Smith finally
got it and resigned on the account Of
the discord which had arisen on the
account of the controversy. Lieuten-
ant Mauldin was promoted to Quarter
master and we had to elect another to
fill the vacancy. E. H. Acker was
elected End Lieutenant, E. B. Bowen
3rd Lieutenant; so we never had a
, full roll of officers until the next win
ter, and they were all new ones, Cap
tain Smith being killed at Sharpsburg
September II, 1868, and Lieutenants
Acker and Bowen both died.
It will be remembered by the mem
bers Of the Company that "Colonel"
". T. Smith was free hearted bache-
lor and was only an honorary member
of the Company at the time of the
election, hence the controversy. Lieu
tenant Mauldin, I think, claimed his
election on the ground that he was an
active member while Mr.. or Colonel"
Smith was not, although he had re-
ceived the majority of the votes.
After staying at Yorktown about
two weeks or more we again received
marching orders, contrary to our
wishes. Gen. McClelland did not
take the same view of the situation
then that Lord CORVALLIS did 80 years
before and come over and surrender
and thus end the conflict, but he began
sort of an aggressive campaign
against us, and having a large fleet of
war vessels at his command with navi-
gable water on each side Of US, we had
to begin retreat. AS our Brigade
had been laying back resting it fell to
our lot to bring up the rear, which we
did nearly all the way to Richmond.
We left Yorktown early on Sunday
morning, looking every few minutes to
have to fight. The Cavalry who were
lust behind us were skirmishing all
along. Bozzille Boggs was killed in a
skirmish that day. He was brave
soldier and belonged to the Brooks
Troops Cavalry. He was the first
man that I had seen that had been
killed by yankee. A Cavalry man
rode by us with him laying across his
saddle in front of him. We arrived at
Williamsburg some IL miles from
Yorktown about 2 o'clock p. m., and
passed through the breast works and
took up our position in the rear Of the
army again to rest. There was quite
little battle fought that evening in
the front, but we were not called in.
About 2 o'clock next morning We
were started on the march again, and
as we started the rain began to fall,
gently at first, and increasing until we
had another ground soaker. That
evening We took up camp opposite
Ethan landing on the York river,
and is known by some as West Point.
We lay around there idle until next
evening when we moved out little
closer to the river and formed line
of battle, tore down some fences in
our front so as to give usa good chance