The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-25
most impressive thing" said another.

s"T.he scene in a field hospital after o
battle was about as bad as anything.
I shall never forget the night scene
under the willows after the first battle
Of Manassas, when DR.. Miller was in
charge and worked on the wounded
boys all night long. It vas close by
a little branch and reminded me more
Of a hog killing at home about Christ:
mas times than anything else. |
watched him cut off arms and legs and
probe for balls until [ was sick and
had to turn away, and every time he
got through with one man he would
look around for another and say
Next just like a barber. What was
wonderful to me was the courage with
which those wounded boys endured
the pain Of the knife and saw. There
vas no ether OF other anesthetic used,
but they never uttered a groan.'
The most pleasant memory | have
Of the war is of seeing Stonewall Jack
aon asleep. I never saw him awake.
On the morning Of the sixth days
fight before Richmond left that city
about daylight with some official docur
ment that had to be delivered to Gen
eral Lee without delay. I rode hard
for twelve miles to his camp, near
Meadow bridge. He and his staff
were at breakfast under cover of a
large square tent. The adjutant left
the table and came to me before / had
time to dismouut. AS he read the
papers I saw a man lying down on tho
straw in the tent and one end of the
breakfast camp table Was over his
head and shoulders.
He was lying on his left side, his
right hand vas on his sword and his
uniform was faded and soiled. A
slouched hat was over his face and
evidently he was asleep, while General
Lee and his staff were hastily taking
their morning meal.
Ny curiosity was greatly excited
and 1 said to the adjutant: who is
that MANI"
"Stonewall Jackson he replied.
sHe came in about daylight and pretty
soon tumbled down and fell asleep.
He is very much exhausted and Gen
eral Lee would not let him be disturb
ed and had the table set over him.
Won't you alight?' I said no and
thanked him. AS [ rode away l look
ed back at the picture. I would give
anything for a photograph or a sketch
Of that scene. It was the only time l
ever saw the blue light elder whose
name and deeds are known all over the
world. No wonder the poet, Palmer,
was inspired to write Of him at the
battle Of Antietam:
I'VE zee him now-the queer slnuched hat
cooked DER his evea kew
The shrewd. dry amile, the speech 30 pat,
80 calm. 80 blunt, so true.
The blue light elder knows 'em well;S
Says he, That's Banks! he'a fond of shell;
Lord cave hia snul-we'll give him'-wel!,
That's Stonewall Jackson's way.
"Ah, maiden! wait aud watch and yearp;
All, widow, read with eyes that burn;
Alb. wife, pew on, pray on. hope on
Thy life shall not be all forlorp;
The foe had better ne'er been born
That gets in .stoDewalps way
Another n Of our party told ofan
event at Centerville in 1862, when
two New Orleans Tigers, Of Wheat's
battalion, resisted an officer who was
trying to arrest them for leaving camp
one night and abusing a farmers
family. They knocked the lieutenant
down and when finally subdued were
tried by courtmartial that afternoon
and shot next morning at sunrise.
"And here is Durrant," he said, "who
murdered that poor girl in the belfry
and that scoundrel Jackson, who MUIR
dered Pearl Bryan, and that fellow
Holmes, who killed half a dozen wo-
men and children, can get their cases
put off. aud put off for months and
years and perhaps escape at last.
And that is what is the matter with
the people and why so many Of these
lynchings take place all over the
country. There is really no just or
overpoweripg reason for the wide diff
ference between martial law and civil
law. One may be too swift, but the
other is certainly too slow and too un-
certain. Those Tigers hardly had
time to write home and say their
prayers-martial law is almost as
swift as lynching; the evidence no
better and the death penalty is for
crimes less brutal aud outrageous.
Frank Davis was hung at Pulaski,
Tenn, during the war-hung as a spy
because he would not betray the union
soldier who gave him the information.
The noble boy said he would die first
and die he did. There is no nobler
record in the annals Of the wal than
his; he was hung like a felon. They
are raising money now to build a
monument to him and MI. Thomas,
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis railroad railroad, put down $50.
That the kind of a man he is. Veri-
ly, it is as Shakespeare said:
''Some rise by Elm and some nv virtue fall ?"
BILL ARP.