The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-10-30

and | thank God it was not my bullet
that struck you. We were fighting
for what each one of us believed to be
right. At the same time the North
dubbed us rebels and traitors.
"lf you had been 10 my shoes would
you have turned your gun on your own
freside and those you held dear? No,
you were too brave a man for that;
you would have fought for home and
kindred. So you see have no apollo.
gies to make, but under the same con.
ditions would do 80 again.
Near the same place short time
after the scene changes. One of the
boys in blue is reeling against large
oak, wounded in the knee with his
clothes ripped up, bathing his wound
from his canteen,
"On his knee in front of him, was
one of the boys in gray, holding an
earnest conversation with him. All
cnm::y "as over. We wcrc &c longer
enemies, but civilized American SOL
dicrs who believed in extending q
helping hand to an enemy in distress.
at that moment, however, the shells
from the Federal guns were burst
ing around our heads like frecrackers.
IL have thought Of you many times
and wished | had done more for YOU.
but l have never been able to make
out what that would have been. The
southern cross went down in defeat,
but not dishonor. We put up the
best fight the world ever witnessed.
With nothing but honor left. we still
had one consolation. We give you
boys hell while it lasted. But
times have changed, and the south with
it.
TO day we are reunited people; no
north, cast, south or west, but one COM
posed of many. The south is now as
loyal to the union as the boys who wore
the blue.
II would like so much to see you and
grasp the stroug right hand that
held the Stars and Stripes steady and
erect on that bloody field 80 years ago.
Continuing Sergeant Btoomer writes:
My friend Andrews, quite agree
with you and think that the people Of
the south are to-day as loyal to the
old flag as any people can be. They
have demonstrated that by their ac-
tion in the Spanish h-American war.
And God knows, and we know, that
better and braver soldiers than the
boys who wore the gray in 1876
we're never born. And such thing
as war and strife will never again be
known among our people. Nothing in
this world would please me more than
to meet and grasp yours and that no.
BILE captain s hand in the deepest and
most sincere friendship.
I will send you shadow of myself
taken about ten years ago to put in
your Yankee picture gallery. So you
can see what specimen you would
have spoiled had your gun gone off
whsSy2n we're so anxious to bring me
doWMsHtth those colors. Would be
pleasedbS receive your shadow and to
hear from sou again; also to know how
the world, or the people in it, used
you since you came over that fence to
see me.
Hungry, mad and with blood in
your ayes on that memorable 18th day
Of September, 1862. 80 years ago, I
am; yours truly,
SAMUEL BLooMER,
Ex-Color Sergt. 1st Minn.l Regt.
+. / take OF my hat to Sergeant Bloom
er. He is both generous and brave.
How he must have suffered during
those four days and nights. Nothing
less than the horrors of the damned.
The famous Union general, W. T.
Sherman, in his definition Of war,
said:
"War is hell!'
Our new president says: "The time
has come when we all can admire the
heroic deedssperformed by the Ameri-
can soldiers during tbs civil war,
whether he wore tho blue or the gray"
". II. ANDREWS.
Sugar Valley, GA.