The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-02-01

killed that day, and what were left
proclaimed the praises of Captain
Bufocd in such terms as might have
won that young man substantial pro-
motion had he remained for any great
length Of time with his command.
The fortunes of war and the exigen-
cies of the service in which he was
engaged nkept Captain Buford con-
stantly on the move. 1t was during
the invasion of Pennsylvania that
young Buford met brave young
Louisiana officer, Captain Descaulp.
\ pretty love story of war might be
written around that meeting and what
came of it. Brought together under
such strange circumstances, this gal
liant pair OF young southrons were
married 1t was a marriage subject
to ali the cruel fortunes OF war and
the cruclest Of fortunes attended it.
The pair parted soon after marriage,
each to go his and her way in the SER
vice of the South. They fondly hoped
soon to meet again, but they never
saw each other after that Dcscaulp
was killed, his wife continued her
brilliant career as soldier and spy
until the end Of the war. She never
rested moment so long as the South
needed her. She sought nothing but
daring service, cared for nothing but
to do good to the falling, failing cause
Of her southland.
Even after her brave venture into
Pennsylvania at the head OF a company
Of cavalry she continued as an active
fighter. She was connected for quite
long while with western infantry
regiment and saw much rough and
perllous campaigning. She took part
in not little fighting She was
wounded three times, but not badly.
She was taken prisoner three times,
but always escaped.
The end Of the war found her-I
had started to say, brokenhearted,
but such brave hearts as hers do not
break. Though the South had lost.
though it was marked with ruin, de-
vastation, invasion, disorder every
where, though all she had was gone in
the general wreck, and though she had
lost husband and had come out Of
the war alone, widowed. penniless,
she did not think of despairing. She
set to work straightway to rebuild her
fortunes. With the wonderful energy
which had carried her through so much
peril and danger and which had re-
suited in so much good to the govern
mei.., she wrote three books. The
first of these was called "The Cruise
of Shenandoah;" the others were g A
Personal History Of the War and the
"Poems of Buford." She was gifted
with rare artistic and literary skill, and
in her youth had been devoted to
literature. 1t was not difficult for her
to put into vivid, sparkling English
the thrilling things that had happened
to her during her four years Of service
in the war.
In the big scrapbook in which |
found her story are two brief ncwspa-
per clippings in which we get the last
glimpse of this matchless young crca-
ture. One tells simply Of her visit to
Savannah, where she stopped at the
Pulaski house. Her business there
was to interest Savannahians in the
publication of her three books. OF
her beauty, her grace, her personal
magnetism and daring qualities, the
Savannah editor said pretty much
what | have set down here in differ
cnt words The other glimpse is
afforded by the columns Of an old
paper whose name is fondly remem-
bercd by Atlantians, The Atlanta In
tclligencer. l don't know who the
editor Of that paper was the year just
following the war. Whoever he was
it was the happiness and good fortune
to be the friend Of Mrs. Descaulp,
whom he calls the Joan Of Arc Of the
Confederacy. If | cannot tell her
story with the enthusiasm which he
displayed, I must plead that, unlike
him, never saw her. She came into
his office one day, he tells us, and he
had no difficulty in recognizing in the
brilliant woman before him the beau
tiful Mrs. Descaulp whom he had met
a few years before and whom he had
seen at intervals during the war.
Great events had passed overhead;
she had been an actor in bloody dra-
mas: she had wcpt at the bier of her
southland and had mourned a hus-
band, but She was the matchess
hnnntu s1;l She called TO sec tic