Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-09
CHANCELLOR UOTSE.

Hawkins house on that second of May wero tho five daughters and fragments of other families, in all 24 women and girls and ono boy, NJ. :. Sanford, now living in Fredericksburg.
 ''I cannot compare it to anything but sudden rush of an awful wind," said tho oldest sister. "Tho men wcre all scattered about, up and down, asleep and playing cards and cooking, and they had dead cat tic all about which they were skinning and cutting up. The generals dinner was in tho kettles boiling, and he and his staff had takCn off their pistols and swords and were enjoying themselves generally. Many people people say there was great deal of whisky used, but l do not know about that. They certainly didn t expect to fight that evening Gin tho south evening is after noun). It cLmc all of a sudden pop, pop, popping, and then some wild deer dashed out of the woods I took notice that some | of the mon sort O locked up, but did not seem much disturbed. Then right over that ridge and down this way came solid l limo of gray. Thousands of guns went off, | and the Yankees fell in every direction. Well, you may judge when I tell you there wore 60 dead on these two little lots. My ! little sister screamed and started to run I toward the church, but I caught her and ! dragged her back, and she owes her life to l mo, for no one could have lived five min ] utCs in the road sho was on." The little ! sister" looked as if sho might bc 35 and weigh 150, but sho smiled grateful ac- knowlcdgmont.
 A Milk White Flag.
 "Now, If it had been any little thing | like a poison snako or a mad dog, it would | have scared mo droadfully, but this was too awful to get scared about. saw men l falling all around, and somo reeling as l thpV hlp1 nnI nj bprC PO1lin0 n tho UrrnIJn6 and bleeding, and all about seemed | splutchcd with blood, and tho wholo air I full of shot and shell and fire, as if the heavens wcro raining battle, murder and sudden death. But I seemed to sec it all in kind of dream, as if my eyes wero dazcd. l felt liko it was something that l did not concern mo at all, something away l off. We all r0n together in this hall, and | a Federal, looking pale, camC to the south door and said something we could not un- | dcrStand for ho was a German and was J too much scared to talk English, if ho l knew how. He shouted and motioned till 1 my sister mado out that Inc wanted us to l hang sheet on that north door which | might keep our men from shooting toward l the house. My sister grabbed a sheet from ! the bed and ran and threw it over the | door, but a big rifle ball whizZod by her and went through that south door. You l tiLIl SON lnt tTltk NItFt IL SplluGCEtu It, | We keep it just as it was left"
 "Ey that timo they got the cellar door open, and wo all got down there. You see, l though we had no idea tho fight would l begin here, the ncighborS had como in be- | cause we had a cellar By that time the | solid shot seemed to hum away above our ! heads and we looked out where tho under l pinning was open and saw tho legs of our men as they went by. There was a sort of l silence for q minute, and then shooting be- | gan on tho ridge southeast, and after it came screams and cries-oh, such awful | Crics!-for water Somo of us got out and | commenced giving water to the wounded. "
 Their only brother, MT. Alex Hawkins, l was at homo on furlOugh and attempted to escape when the Yankees came in, but was captured and held. He got away, however, and got home soon after the bat tie. He was much moro emphatic on the causes of the surprise than his sisters, and like truo soldier took his experience more humOrouSly. Among many other things ho said:
 Love Rules All.
 "All that talk about Jackson having gone so far around is humbug, for don't think ho was ever moro than three miles from tho Federal front. The generals here had no end of warnings, fellows coming in all tho time, but they were foolish in their confidence, and there was no end oi whisky and other stuff with officers and men. They had altogether too good time hero and paid no attention to business. Now, just to give you an idea, just before Jackson broke out of the woods a firing was heard away off to the south, and one of General Schurz's staff, who had just como in and hung his sword and pistol or gun rack said, I'll just step out and sec what it is.' He stepped out and nevel camc back. We had great to do over his belt, and l have the pistol now, but Mis- Anna Chancellor who was here claimed his sword. She was the first to sec thu gray legs of tho JOhnnies as they passed and she ran out and hugged and kissed tht first man she got hold of, she was so tic kled. She was q wild southern girl, tel you, and yet no sooner was the war ovel than what does she do but go and marry Yankee! Flaw, haw, haw! The funnies thing about it was that the Johnnie sht kissed came back after the war-and h, was q nice looking man, tell you-eamI just a. purpose to sec her and found her tn, wife of Yankee. Flaw, hawI do no know what she ever did with the sword. ''
 4 Rugged Monument.
 The whole region is full of interest, bu 1t is painful interest indeed, and thu monument to StOnewall Jackson is thu center alike to Yankee and southern. I was there, on the night of May 3, 1868 that the power of the Southern Coincidence, reached high water mark, and not at Get | tysbnrG, Too many writers have over