The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-12-14
GORDON LED THE CHARGES.
Life in the Confederate Army in the Sixties
"A Georgia Regiment That Was the
Terror of the Enemy.
augusta Herald.

heard the noise OF moving troops anu
they heard us about the same time.
Both parties halted. The one in front
of us hailed and asked what troops we
were. Our Major said, "Wbat troops
are you?" The one in front said 81
asked FIRST - Our Major said, "That
makes no difference; what troops are
you?" The oficerin front said, "The
49th New York" Our Major said,
"Boys, save yourselves if you can,
and without another word we scatter
ed.
1 tried to make my way out the
same way had goae in as we'll as [
could tell in the darkness. After [
had gone into the wood about hun
dred yards 1 ran into some Yankees
making their way out aud in cross
direction from the one [ was going.
I said to them, ''Hello! Who are
you?' They said, "Who do you
want?' I said, "[ want to find the
26th Georgia. Ooe of them replied,
And so do we.'
They made off towards the north.
I crept along in the dark woods till [
supposed | was far enough to be safe.
1 then unrolled my blanket and laid
down and slept till day. l did not
know where was. When l awoke
the next morning l found myself
within twenty steps of the Colonel S
quarters.
We all got in line and advanced
some four or five hundred yards and
skirmished all day. Just a little
while before sunset that evening the
Yankees in our front beat the long
roll and ordered their line to forward.
We raised yell and hallowed to them
to bring some coffee and sugar, for
what we had taken from them the day
before was all gone. Some one hal
lowed out. "Hello, Spivey," and
Spivey brought forth one of the pecu-
liar yells I mentioned in one Of my
other articles. heard the Yankees
sing out "Tbere is no use in charging
those fellows, for that's that =
Georgia brigade Of Gordon and
they never came.
We remained on the skirmish
line all night. Early the next morn
ing one Of my officers asked me to 60
out and reconnoitre the front. [ went
out some three hundred yards and
found the enemy had out no pickets.
[ stood near the road where they were
moving with both infantry and artil-
lery. They were quite jolly. I re-
turned and reported and we, too,
moved on down to Spottsylvania.
This was called the battle of Locus
Grove, or the beginning Of the Will
derness fight.
l will now go back and have some
thing to say about the boys in camp
during our stay in Orange County.
We were quartered in Clark's Noun
tain for eight months. We came
from Pennsylvania through the Shen-
andoah Valley. We arrived at this
neighborhood about the 1st of Sep
temter, So. We had come up the
valley and across the Blue Ridge
Mountains at very moderate gait and
the boys were all feeling good from
the effects of the much needed rest.
We were camped for the first night
in large field. Wecould look around
aud see nearly the entire corps. Well,
just such a time you never heard Of.
The boys began to mimic everything
they could think Of. Some would
bray like Jack, some neigh like
horse, some bark like dog; some
would howl, some crow like rooster
or cackle like hen, some squealed
like hog, some gobble like gobbler,
and some yelp like the hens; some
new like cat. some low like COWS;
some would blate and some below.
In fact one would conclude that the
old Johnnie Rebels were still more
alive than dead.
The next day We were moved short
distance and quartered in some woods.
do not remember these dates. Here
we remained for long time. We put
up some large bush arbors aud fixed
logs and poles for seats. Under these
we had preaching and there was quite
a revival in the camp. There was
from ten to as high as sixty
baptized at time. [ saw Gen. Cor
don come out from his quarters, fail
in line with his men and march to the
bush arbor, ascend the little rude
platform and hold services with his
men, shake hands with them and tell