The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-04

tory must be that this iamentable
fasco was attributable alone to the
stolid indifference on the part Of
Kentuckians. That instead Of rally
ing % Bragg's support they were in
deed drawback and clog to his
movement, giving aid and comfort to
the Union army.
1t saddeus me to say that l rarely
ever see line in any history Of the
Civil war that does this noble South
ern patriot and soldier simple justice.
The historian, if Southerner, has 70
rely upon the limited data that chance
to fall in the way Of Ills researches
and the few meagre, yet often garbled,
reports that have survived the doom
of time. If the historian be North
ern writer, he depends on the data
that come to him by undue influence
and false ambition to appear at all
times, right and victorious. And it
is recognized fact that nearly all of
our material data are in the hands Of
our enemies. For these reasons, and
many others equally obvious, we Con-
fedcrate veterans, who made all the
history that is or ever was made dur
ing the Civil war, should contribute
in plain and simple manner the parts
we took in those historic events that
arc now being shaped in living form
for our schools and tho education of
our children.
Prompted by this sense of duty as
Confederate soldier. l submit the
foregoing to the candid reader upon a
38-years memory with its consequent
inaccuracies as to minor detail, which
! trust the generous reader will readily
perceive is inevitable. / hold now as
have always advocated that Gen.
Bragg will ever be justly ranked
among the best and bravcst generals
Of the war The immediate benefits
of his operations in Tennessee and
Kentucky we're obvious and Of incal-
culable good. Buell. and Rosecrans,
| whose presence in Kentucky and Ten
nessee had been a menacs to Chatta-
nooga and Atlanta and thereby threat
ening the invasion of Alabama and
Georgia were defeated in all their.
plans, thereby enabling the people to
go on with their domestic and agricul-
tural pursuits. Hd carried jeans and.
hogs out Of Kentucky and Tennessee
enough to supply his entire army, be-
sides capturing over 20, 600 prisoners
and large quantities Of arms. He
whipped Rosecrans at Stone river, and
defeated him at Chickamauga. He
| needed reinforcements, but failing to
| obtain them to tho extent he desired
he was whipped at Chattanooga by
Grant and shortly thereafter withdrew
from active field duty and accepted
position as chief Of staff to JEFF Davis,
| which he held to the close.
It is already agitated that this Per-
ryville sham battle must GONE off et
Memphis next year. This io urged
particularly for the reason chat the
best fighting brigades in that fight
were Tennesseeans. It is due these
brigades and their noble leaders,
Cheatham and Nancy, that this fight
should take place. Also to show that
the battle was not draw. That we
beat them at the spring, we drove
them beyond the river, we slept on
the field, we captured four batteries
and $4,000 prisoners, and retired from
the State il good order. And yet
Notwithstanding all these many supe-
rior inducements and victories Ken
tucky sat like the sphinx, stolid and
| unmoved.
Yet, generous-hearted brave Ken
tucky, wifi all her faults, love her
still. Though neutral in war, yet in
peace, she is Of the South, for the
South and with the South. May the
rich insence Of pure love and affec-
tionate hospitality SO generously Law
ished upon the thousands Of Confed.
crate veterans, their wives and daugh-
ters and sons at the glorious reunion
Of May 28-June 3, 1900, be ever en-
h!ematic Of fraternai fellowship be-,
tween her and her Southern sisters
forever. s. g.; SPANN.
Sumter, 8. c., june II, 1900.
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