The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-10-23

line FROM the direction OF our right
| and rear
We must have opened gap between
our brigade and Fairly. and thus these
people escaped being driven with the
others.
The battle in and about Frcdericks-
burg and Salem Church was important
and is separate from the main fight at
Charlottesville, for this latter was
over before that at Salem Church had
begun. But from the way the battle
at Salem Church was brought about
we might consider the fight there, at
Fredericksburg and between the two
places, as scholium to the main pro.
position Charlottesville, or The Will
dcrness
The fight was lively, interesting and
funny. The losses Of the Yanks un-
der Scdgwick were greater in proper.
tion to the number Of their opponents
thin was the case around Chancellors.
vile.
never thought that our division
and i.ariys whipped Sedgwick, but
when We charged him his men thought
Lee: jackson and the devil were after
them. and they fed from them, and
not from US. for am satisfied ii this
had not been the case they would have
stood by their guns until we got near
enough TO put salt on their tails,
when we would have bagged them
all. AS it was, the river was their
salvation.
Their surprise when they charged
what they thought was only Wilcox,
and the way they were handled and
driven back was funny and the way
they hit the grit when we finally
charged them was funny; and the mu-
sic the boys made with the instruments
we got from the band was funny; and
the astonishmcnt Of the Yankee band
when they fell in with US was likewise
funny.
Sedgcwick' crowd was defeated
By General Astonishment. In fact,
never think Of the battle Of Salem
Church without smiling.
enjoyed Comrade McBride's ac-
count of it, and merely add to his be-
cause / think that something from
every brigade ought to be written so
that the readers of The Journal can
have history Of the battle.
Some accounts from the following
commands ought to be given, the bri-
gades of Barksdalc, Wilcox. Cobb or
Wofford, and the brigadcs of Early S
division. Especially should some
survivor Of Wilcox Alabamians and
Barksdale's Mississippians write of
it, for around these two center the
most important and interesting his
tories Of the events which led TO the
battle
Don't grumble because The Yankee
says he whipped us, but tell the pub
lie how VIC licked them.
One individual cannot tell all that
his brigade did, because each regi-
mcnt was distinct organization,
and rallied and advanced over diff
ferent ground and followed different
flags.
10 be exact. then, each regiment
ought to have historian, and such
historian should send his communica-
tious 10 The Journal. In this way we
will have compiled history Of 3l3
pages in year.
havs. "a little grandson who says
that wh y General Jackson got after
the Vac -:e,,s that they were scared to
death; they ran as fast as turkeys,
with their hair standing straight up on
their heads. and that he would like to
have been after them.
He says he is going to keep these
short calls in The Journal and
write true history when he is big
enough.
So, comrades, The Journal is not
only Publishing history, but is max
historians for the future.
w. y. JOHNSON,
w. n .S.,J