The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-26
YANKEE PRISONER
W rites Of Pheasant Memories of His
southern Cuptors,

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southern Cuptors.
la Grange. Texas, March 23.At the
annual meeting OF the Colonel B. luminous
camp, No. 81, L. c ". today the following
letter was TO have been read. As it win
no aouo, prove to be very interesting TO
the veterans aud their friends, The Post
reporter secured it Tor publication;
Mr. Nat c. Rives OF Terry Rangers, com
pany i, Eighth Texas cavalry, La
Grange, Texas
New York city. go West 1876 Street,
March lU-My dear sir | thank You SIN
ccfely for your kind Invitation to be pres
ent at the return OF the Nag to your regl-
ment 10y The Seventeenth Indiana, Most
heartily approve every act which tends 10
ohnterato the harsher memories, while
perpetuating the herosm the magnanim-
Ivy AMI the selt-spcrihce displayed alike
by Fedcrals and Confederates in the sad
and wasting but necessary struggle of the
War between the states
Ny sentiments in tnis regard were eX
pressed many years ago In Memorial day |
address at san Francisco, copy OF which |
/ will try to find and send you. | have |
some friendships With men who We're
Confederate soldiers which value az
highly as any have known in life, and ]
do not think that history has ON it's pages |
any nobler names than those of Morgan OF
Alabama, Wheeler OF the same State, and
Gordon OF Georgia, whom iuInot in the field
aud loved always afterward. ! knew well
in California David $. Terry, who led a
Texas regiment, aud admired him as
among The last of grand type OF men
who were developed by frontier life and
are unfortunately passing away, since our
civilization no longer has frontiers on this
continent. Recently In Washington | met
and spent some pleasant hours with Au-
gustus II. Garland. whom I had long de-
sired TO know. because OF his magnificent
victory over Northern prejudice and pas-
sion ~ the removal of the Test oath
enacted from lawyers who had been Con-
icdcrates after tho war was over know
OF no finer expression Of the indomitablc,
unconQuercd and uncomfortable spirit OF
the true men Cf Inc South than was mani
Tested IN thai great but peaceful struggle
for right aud Justice which viii he re-
membcred aui hunored as long as any vie
tory of the war. General Garland would
have been my friend. hut he died sud
denly twhilc was waiting at his hoteD
in the chamber of the supreme court where
he Won his greatest triumph many years
before, After the clo9c Of the war | mar
riCd a younger sister ot the widow of the
late Justice Lamar, and after She died
married another lady from tho State OF
Georgia, 20 You see ! come naturally by
NY hllNNlfNEt OF the Enou QUALITIES OF Inc
people OF the South
Yes, | am The In Grange who was cap
tured In charge OF the Eighth and
Eleventh Texas cavalry al Narnell Sta
ton on the 9Th of May, 1864 My secoul
horse was shot under ME while | was
hghting with my rear guard after my
line had been broken and beaten nv
Wheeler's command, ] took the name OF
my captor J. G. Haynie OF La Grange.
Texas, who spared my life. which had
forfeited by firing my last shot at him
and woundlng him slightly In the hand as
lay fastened to the ground by my dead
horse. ! expected, and, indeed desired my
captor or some OF the men 10 KIN me
thinking the disgrace of being pris-
oper worse than death.
But Haynie rode clear round me with
his pistol loveled and then said; by -
can't kill defenseless man: hand me
mp that SIX -shooter.' When he had called
70 some OF his comrades TO lift mp the
dead horse and release my leg he traded
hats with me, but 7 threw his on the
ground, and when he learned my name he
gave mine hack. ] made no sign at my
time though ! was a member OF the or
der TO which You refer and recall but
little OF what occurred except between
Haynie and myself. He was too Young IN
have been n member Of the order lanes
g. swan OF the Arm OF Inman Swan q Cp.
tcotton brokers, New York; was one of the
mon who lifted no the dead horse Ia re-
lease my leg We are friends and M,
calls me his Yankee prisoner While
taking me to. the rear Haynie said. lyon
have friend In our regiment; do Won re-
member that big black bearded fellow.
Stewart, whom you captured In East Ten
nessee with Robert Wallace of South Car
olna2 You kept them with you quite
awhile on parole we'll. Stewart Jumped
the train below Nashville when they were
being taken North and got back 10 the
regiment He says you're IL of n
geod fellow | remembered Stewart (his
brother. Who represented one OF your
IeSsa llsiri7ts IN congress. came 10 mec,
me 10 the rsem n ,s,.-, e,,,-,,... 90 or
gasirs when General Rosecrans
was chairwan
brother brd die1 o. 4 broken heart after
the fali'of ,hs Coafederaey)i Haynle anl
had mpeh n3aeant talk on our wav 10
me rear ] tsok his name ana gnve him
my spurs and my pencil and parted from,
him with regret He was a fine TYNE OF
young Confederate (not more than IS years
old. He could not XIII defeneelesa
man., who had forfeited his life by wounds
Ing him, as ] did
In 1856 while at the law school M Al.
bany, n ", wrote 10 Haynio al IA
Grange, Texas and received a reply from
his father saying that his son had lost his
life In swimming the SaIuda river in Caro-
lima In one. Of the engagements between
Wheeler's and Kiipatrick's cavalry ! had
hoped in Same way 30 show appreciation
Of the young hero's magnanimty
After the close OF the war on rail
ROAD Train between Augusta and Atlanta