The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
WAR STORY.
Geo. w. Howard Tells Some Things
OF the War and Hon. w. II. Par

Geo. w. Howard Tells Some Things
OF the War and Hon. w. H. Par.
ker.:
Master Shaw Howard allows us to print the
following letter from his uncle. Shaw How
ploy of the Seaboard Air Line. We have no
doubt that he will make good citizen even
as his father made gallant soldier:
Kirk wood, Ga, Feb. 12, 1896.
Master VIM. Shaw Howard, Abbevile, S. c.:
Dearshaw-l received papers and your note
and forwarded them TO your father, though
was sick In bed with pneumonia, and am con-
fined 10 the house still. This is the third
week since ! was attacked. Trust you and
your cousin John and family are all in fine
health.
would like ever so much TO see Abbeville
and my old war comrades, once more, in the
though not having seen them since in the
field in lSG2, In Mississippi, l remember
we'll and can see both in my minds eye as In
the days that tried mems souls.
WAR COMRADES.
On Gen. Beauregard's retreat from Corinth,
Miss, about June 30th, 1862, Hugh Wilson in.
formed me that 1 was the first corporal to
post him as a sentinel on guard duty,
and that 1t was at Camp Wappoo," near
Charleston, S. c.. In the night on "cause
way" near the salt water and near James
| Island he with several others under me as
corporal OF the guard and after the guard on
duty had been relieved and Hugh posted and
| the countersign (or word for the nighO given
him, ordered the relief guard, so Hugh said,
"to round about and get out of there" |
made some m istake l am free 10 admit, and
the boys teased me for n long time about It,.
| think this happened the very day that Cen
eral Bragg had the soldier shot for shooting at
chicken and wounding negro on our re-
| treat from Corinth, and near Clear creek and
Baldwin station on Mobile and Ohio railroad.
LIEUT.. W. II. PARKER'S KINDNESS TO A SICK
SOLDIER.
The day afterward was so sick from fever,
&3., l could go no longer and SO reported to
Lieut.. John &. Shaw in command Of our COM
pany "B,' whose only help was TO grant me
the privilege OF falling out and coming on as
best | could. ! sat down side of a tree and
then lay down and had been there some time
when l was aroused about as much dead as
alive, and was offered a horse by an officer 10
ride and could not mount him from weak
ness and sickness. When the officer saw this
he lifted me up and put me on the horse and
carried my gun-a Mississippi ritie-til night
and we had come up with our regiment
which had gone nto camp or bivouac for the
night. The name of that officer was Captain
or Adjutant VIM. Henry Parker. of 10Th 5. e.
Wa drawer and better man never wore the
gray. had no personal acquaintance with
him whatever, but | suppose he knew me at
one of his regiment. He had appointed me
as one Of eight corporas (at Camp Wappoo,
near Charleston. 5. Co. on the "color guard
of the 18th $. c. Volunteers.
SERGEANT MAGILL.
Sergeant McGill of one of the Abbeville
companies was our color bearer, and a good
one he was. was in my sixteenth year, and
being sick was not as heavy as am now.
don't think / weighed over 100 pounds. Next
day l with two others Of the sickest of my
company was sent in a wagon TO the railroad
and taken thence 10 Lauderdale Springs, 8
hospital for sick and wounded where l re
m u n OH rot n m N m ~ I'm
mand at SaltIIIo, Miss, where we remained
until August, when we came on 10 and dis
embarked from w. d. \. cars at Chckamaugf
station near where we went into camp anC
called t"Camp q ladden," in honor of a notet
South Carolinan who distinguished himsel
In Mexico. More anon.
Geo. w. Howard,
or Co. "B," 18th 5. c. V.