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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-13

fer to the wharf was made we were forced
TO walk up to the stockade though I was
so feeble that il required three efforts for
me to do it, having to rest on the way.
The distance was about three-quarters of
a mile. After 1 reached the prison I was
placed In a tent with two Arkansans in
about the ninth company Of the first divis-
ion. They and all of that division were
utter strangers. AS far as I know there
seemed to be some vacant space in that
tent. The strangers seemed TO have some
fear Of me, owing. 1 suppose, TO my feeble
and emaciated condition. I was refused
the promised blanket at the prison Office,
also refused a transfer from the tent In
the first division to a tent In the nth d.
vision. where there was half a dozen
members OF my own company who were
doing all they could to get me with them,
upon the excuse that that would de-
range the camp and had to return TO the
tent in first division with the suspicious
Arlansans That night they refused me
a share in their bedding and had 20 rest
on the ground without bedding or covers.
This was about the last OF October, 1868.
I had a relapse and was attacked with
very severe spell Of dysentery The Mis-
sissIppi surgeon was called in. but said
he could do nothing as he had no medi-
cine and could not get IL from the Fed
erals. and also told me they were retaliat-
ing on the Confederate sick and that they
said the Confederates had. failed to give
their men who were In southern prisons
medical attention. I grew worse daily
and the Arkansans moved out of the tent.
In a few DAYS three men from Hoke's
brigade were captured and placed In the
tent with me- They were well supplied
with bedding and were liberal, but was
srovrinR worse. I asked the Mississippi
surgeon to get Federal surgeon TO come
10 see me. He thought he would not
come. as they were very mad with the
Confederates but went out and came
back with a young-looking Federal sur
geon. The Federal was very distant at
first and told me that IL was true that
they were retaliating on the Confederate
sick and his orders were not TO give me
any medicine himself nor TO give II 70
others for me. but after he and 1 talked
he said while ne could not help me as an
officer he would do all he could as man.
He sent a beautiful ambulance, drawn
bv four white horses and had me taken
TO ward Is OF Hyram Gray's hospital near
the wharf that was according 10 the
card at the head Of my bed the 9Th OF
November. This ward was in charge OF
DR.. Miller. a Federal surgeon, and ne hao
nv disease marked on the card-chronlc
dvsentery. I soon became unconscious
and remained so TIL about Christmas
and IL was a long time before was aole
to sit up. The stewart, Harry Myers, was
a Federal and had been raised In Phila-
delphfa The ward master was also a
Federal and an Irishman and belonged
TO Cochran's brigade. He had been Dad
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-13

ing that Is not virtuous when held in
balance, and not one that does not need
check or countercheck. VIII gravitation
meet the case? Centrffcal or centripetal?
What about mathematics, knowledge OF
geology, civil engineering? None OF these.
There must be moral force expressing IT.
self in Gods word" to move upon mans
heart by which reason and an enlightened
conscience tell him it is best to shape
and control his life and character.
But Mr.. Spencer says education will do
al this Right after him Mr.. Huxly says
that ito educated the intellect and leave
the moral nature untouched IS as likely
to produce a race OF astute scoundrels as
anything else"
Haeckle says his Religion Of Monism
will do Ii, and that in a few years all
churches will leave Thy word" and make
a creed of THE Good, the True and the
Beautiful" and worship theml Now 1t
never occurred to him that the hbertine,
the thief, the miser the liar-all-every
human being would have his own idea of
what was good, true and beautiful.
David has struck the truth in the words
of the text: "Thy word have / hid in my
heart that I might not sin against Thee.
But as to the other creed, alas! A dollar
would be, as it is to some now, the best,
the truest, the most beautiful thing in the
universe Wife, children, everybody are
not half so good, so true. so beautiful. To
another the worship of Venus might COM
mend itself. Where would 1t not lead tor
History tells US that the highest religious
idea of Babylon made every married wo-
man as a religious act offer herself at
least once a year to the public in the tenn
pie of that vile goddess. Yet Babylon had
the greatest learning, the highest intel
lectual culture. What has been may be
again II man essays to lift himself. so to
speak, "by his own boot straps over
the barriers that stand between him and
his highest good, without any higher law
or power from above.
That great philosophic historian,
Froude, says: intellectual culture does
not touch the conscience. 1t provides no
motives to overcome the weakness OF the
will and with wider knowledge brings new
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-13
JENNINGS BRIGADE IN
THE WILDERNESS AGAIN

ed by I saw General Lee wave his hand
to the right, and I heard him say to his
stan: 1--WE are driving them on our
right" We could tell from the firing that
this was so, and in less time than 1t takes
70 tell 1t we we're hotly engaged. We pour
ed avolley or two into them and then charg-
ed them In the swamp, and they had bus
mess somewhere else. But just before we
charged them we saw line Of bayonets
shining as bright as a new piece of money
thanking us on our left (Which seemed to
be a gap; and why this gap was left open
have never known. The word was pass
ed up the line that we were being fianked
on the left. In a few seconds this flank
movement sent volley Of bullets In our
rear which brought many of our brave
Johnnies down, and Just then 1 saw Cen
eral Benning on big iron gray with Slye
MAT was gomez close by his side coming
down the line just in our rear on a plank
road at a $40 gait, his big spurs rat
thing like so many tracechains, to see
what was their business in the premises.
The Yankees were somewhat hidden, but
could be seen. General Benning and Slye
were going so swiftly they ran quite
close to the Yanks before they could take
up and as they made a short circle to
turn back 1 saw Slye grab General Ben
ming by the arm and out they went.
General Benning was shot, and the cap
tain of our company said when the list
of wounded was made out they put 1t
down: General Benning shot in the
back"
And he replied: Hell! You have here,
General Benning shot in the back No,
by God! this won't dc; they will say your
general was running. Put 1t, shot in the
breast "
AS General Benning was shot our men
fell dead and dying all arund us, sight
to behold. And, as 1 said, If George Nc
Rae had been just where we were he
would know who ii was on our left flank.
Now comes a sickening sight to beholdl
When we charged the Yanks out Of that
ravine, just such a sight 1 never want to
see again. Wilcoxs brigade relieved us
in the swamp. Saplings from the size Of
your wrist to the size of a mans thigh
were literally torn into splinters. hardly a
shrub or bush standing. And, OH my! the
dead Yankeesi I was sent by Lieutenant
Remson up the line with a message to Col
onel DuBase The firing had ceased.
went at least one mile up the line, and
think 1 can truthfully say 1 could have
walked on dead Yankees the entire rouIe
without touching the ground. frequently
there were three in a pile.
]. H. GRESHAM.
Company G, 18th Ga.
Lincolnton, Ga.
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Some one asked several weeks ago Tor
a detailed account OF Gen. John II. Nor
gan's death. Up to this time have seen
no response, so I will give my recollec-
lions of the lamentable tragedy when oc-
CURED at Greenville, Tenn, in the carry
part of September, 1854.
After General Morgan's escape from
northern prison, he came south and re-
organized his old command which had
become scattered during his confinement
in prison, and during the summer OF 1854
was occupying East Tennessee watching
the movements of the enemy and pounc-
ing upon them whenever an opportunity
was offered.
The Yankees held Knoxville and occu-
pied the country as far up as Bulls Gap
which was about 10 miles below Green
Vile. and very frequently made cavalry
raids still farther north, but taxing
snecial care never to come in contact
with the invincible Morgan. On TINS &C
casion the enemy had made a raid on
GreenviIle which at that time was unoc-
cupied. Morgan at this time was resting
soroe oO miles above Greenville, with
detachment of the Sixteenth Georgia cav
airy and a portion of his Kentucky regl-
rnent- He learned of the presence OF the
enemy at Greenville, and decided to sur
nrise and capture the entire force as ne
had done. in perhaps scores OF instances
before. SO we broke camp about DARK
and made a dash on Greenvflle, but Wnen
ne orrived in the vicinity, much to our re-
gret we learned that the enemy had De-
come apprehensive and had withdrawn
inside their own lines at Bulls Gap. 30
at that late hour at night, knowing tnat
the enemy was not in 10 miles OF US, IL
was natural for us to feel pretty secure.
After giving orders to post pickets on
every road leading into GreenVille ana
g~ko Morgan
his STAFF secured sleeping quarters at a
private house. perhaps that of a friend,
and all both officers and men, except
the pickets were lying in sweet sleep IN
Conscious of all that was transpHlng
without: so the drama when 1olIo"eu
was to be enacted or at least piahileu'
and led by the craft and cunning OF
young Tennessee woman. II my . 1T1.1-o,,
is not treacherous, her name was Wllsoh;
the daughter of a man VINO had command
~ a regiment of mountaineers scattered
through the mountains, who made II their
business to rob and murder when neces-
sary those people in East Tennessee VINO
espoused the southern cause.
After locating Morgan's quarters, she
ont a bvway that was not guarded 10
RulIs GAP. through the dark night, repor-
ted the situation to the enemy, procured
a strong force of his cavalry, led them
back through the same dark alley through
which she had made her exit and sur
rounded the house in which Morgan and
his staff were sleeping.
1t was reported by one of his stan WHO
escaped with his life that when Morgan
realized the situation, he addressed MS
comrades thus:
ITO arms boys; they have got US. but
well sell our lives as dearly as posi-
BILE.
And thus died one of the grandest
knights and most ehivalrOus cavaliers
that the world ever produced. Peace TO
his ashes, and honor to his memory. Is
the sentiment of every patriotic heart.
IfI remember correctly all of Morgan's
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temptations" He says the Greeks knew
nothing but intellectual culture, and went
down; that Rome at the summit of its
intellectual culture lost what moral re-
straint she had in her heather religion
when she became atheistic and went to
pieces morally.
Brann. late of The Iconoclast, says the
same thing, and yet, right here in our
city there are scores of people who for
no other reason than to follow their Town
sweet will' are daily ignoring what Glib
bon himself called the religion of Christ
"a pure religion" We positively assert
from the Bible and from observation that
ii is only a question of time and Of sus-
ceptibility to bad influences when all
such will become bad at heart!
A man made under and subject to Cod.
Almighty's moral law can no more per-
vert 1t and fly in its face and succeed in
becoming or remaining god and pure
man or woman, than the "girders'' on yon
viaduct can be moved without an applicaS'
ton of Gods laws IN mechanics It Is un-|
reasonable to the point of lunacy, and yet
men will persist. Oh, how we need NOR
al balance! The path of time is strewed
with wrecked individual and national
character and high civilization because the
application Of this moral balance was neg~l
lected. witness Babylon, Assyria, Greece;
and Rome! What was the NATTER Sim-s
plv this, the moral nature was not BALI
anced or cultivated pad passu With the,
animal and intellectual natureg-that is
the whole storyl
Are we in danger? The s40V' Of every
city, Of every civilization that Is rich and
idle, with no nobler aim than mere pleas-
ure, are engaged in cultivating this side.
Of their natures and negleoting the high~
ar. the spiritual side, and, as when
aTephriam grew fat he Hcked.r 30 viii ~
be of them, so has It ever BEEN and Alastl
so IL il nowl
with the tongue Of an angel We woulQl
sound It today-the necessity OF the TEXT
ssThy word have hid In my heart that
might not sin against Thee" David was ;
cultured, David was rich, David was a.
king, David needed it--rehgion-tne oaAS
ance for the moral universe.
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II McRae had been with us Fifteenth
Georgia. Bennings' brigade) he would have
known for a certainty the fianking party
on our left was the one that wore the blue.
My friend George McRae does not do JUS
tlce to the great battle OF the wilderness;
neither can do So for il certainly was
one OF the greatest battles fought in Vir-
ginia.
1 have read with great interest the war
stories of the old veterans in The Jour
nails columns. and 1 would like TO say
something in regard to the battle Of the
Wilderness.
AS we all know. Longstreet's command,
OF which the Fifteenth Georgia was a
part, was detached from Lees army and
sent to Braggs command to fight the
battle OF Chickamauga; again detached
and sent in pursuit of Burnside, chasing
him inside his Notifications at Knoxville,
which was very strong. No use to try to
catch Burnside on a run; we just couldn't
do IT, often We thought We had him and
then we didn't-like the Irishman's flea.
About this time Grant was making de-
monstrations. General Lee, with gener-
ais eve. saw General Grant every time he
put his foot on the move. So we were
ordered back 10 Virginia in short order,
and with short rations (maybe I will in
the future tell now We nNcu Oh NMO car
OF hard corn for seven days..
From the way we marched back to
Virginia we were certain the waters were
being disturbed and the nearer we ap-
preached the wilderness the more we
were convinced OF a performance. And.
let me tell you. we entertained and were
entertained. Down the plank road we
went with quick step, and from the rat
tie OF musketry to our right We thought
OF victory and rations for we had nearly
starved on our march. Now. as We had
got back TO our home base. we were ready
for business. As McRae says. we met a
part OF A. p. HIS corps beating a hasty
retreat (as TO Wilcox's brigade no better
soldiers ever trOd the soil OF Virginia).
And when Longstreet's corps got straight
ened out in the battle OF the Wilderness
things got hump on. We fought in line
By division at a time. for our right was
fighting some little time before our bril-
gade was engaged. and IL looked as II our
brigade was on the extreme left. We went
into this battle in an open piece of ground.
swamp was just beyond. where the blue
coats were in waiting for US, and they did
not wait long before We swooped down on
them. In the open as we dashed ahead
we passed General Lee and his stan, and
well do 1 remember how he looked sitting
on his horse, looking as complacent as If
he was at home dining. And as we rush
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day Harris brigade made a charge which
drove everything in front fully a half
mile. There Major General Wordsworth,
United States army was killed. That
ended the fighting on that part of the
line. We were on portion of the battle
field Of the day before. where the road
was burned off which killed so many
wounded Federals. Some of us walked
over several hundred yards of the ground
and counted fifty dead tederals to one
Confederate.
So much for the troops and fighting
on the plank road to the night Of the 9Th,
and that there was obliged to be a consid-
cradle mixture of commands. Now comes
the readjustment, and just after dark
we began to move, our division going to
the right, and the Forty-fourth Alabama
don't know what brigade, they once be-
longed to our brigade and am sure they
all loved General wright.)
We had halted as they passed, and as
they did so (although quite dark. they
looked up and recognized GeneraI
Wright's long hair and began that cheer
that went like a mighty wave, clear to
the extreme left of our army. up hill and
down dale, zigzagging in and out, SHOW
ing the position of the line like worm
fence; then it came back. and past on
by use like a tornado on the extreme
right and thus 1t rolled back and forth
three IlIQGSs 4 uOA
sound, that even our cooks failed to mol
Ter.
The effect on the enemy was tremen-
dous Judging from what we heard ana
saw next morning. We sent out a line
of skirmishers nearly mile In 'front.',
First we picked up a couple OF hundred
mounted men that simply stayed TIL we
took them without firing gun. The
woods was full of all sorts of plumber, guns.
cartridge boxes, knapsacks. haversacks
and all; and citizens back there told us
that If we had advanced they thought
they would have taken to the river. But
Grants army was on the move, driving
Lee back to Richmond (so-called)
Well we followed on at any rate ana
met them next at Spottsylvania.
Some years ago / was up IN the Black
Hills where I met quite number OF
Billv's boys One of them, James Toner,
1--WE called him Sankey, as he was always
singing), said to me one day: "Johnnie'
that was my name there. being the only
Reb around), what the h made you
fellows holler so much like wild lndlahs'
Said I: ITO scare you"
yes and d. If you didn't do IT, TOO
he answered.
If sankey is living and sees this, hope
he will write to me.
c. w. REYNOLDS,
Company K, Sd. Ca, Reg.
421 Pulliam ST.
tIood,s Sarsaparilla cures radically-that
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GEN. MORGAWS CAPTURE
PLANNED BYA WOMAN

staff was killed but one, and the treats
nent to which the generals body was
subjected after death as reported ny the
cttisans of sreenville, was disgrace to-
a savage tribe, much less q civilized peo~
pie.
with the highest appreciation for ms
Journal and the kindness It Is showing
the old veterans, we can but predict Tor
Il the very highest future which we THINKS
IL so richly deserves.
GEORGE L. CARSON,
Company E. 18th Georgia Cavalry.
Harmony Grove, Ca
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A GOOD WATCH
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we have at last found watch which
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This &c the watch we have long been
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A Useful Invention.

A novel apparatus has been specially
designed for stout and indolent persons
II is fashioned of iron, and consists of a
support. to which are attached three
steps, one above the other. Its object Is
to provide a resting place for persons
foot when he wishes to lace, unlace, but
ton or unbutton a shoe. Hitherto chair
or sofa has been generally used for this
purpose, and according 10 thrifty house
keepers many a piece of furniture has
been more or less furnished thereby.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press.
It's no sin to kiss girl If you don't tell
her you are going to do II.
What a woman calls temper in her sisters
she calls sparkling vivacity in herself.
It's funny that a woman can't lace shape
into fatness yet she can lace fairness into
shape.
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An oak tree OF average size, with IOO,-
900 leaves, lifts from the earth about 123
tons Of water during the five months it
is in leaf.
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Miscellaneous.

HOW TO GET A $50 WATCH FOR $ cents.
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Hoods Sarsaparilla cures radically-that
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better than looping the branches.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-10-31

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Oct. 2S.-The
western slope of the Allegheny noun
tains through Fayette county is now
ablaze from the Yough river through
into West Virginia, and mountaineers
are fleeing from their doomed homes
with their families. Careless hunters
started dozen fires during the past
week, and the brush is as dry as tin
der. Streams that We're never known
to 20 dry are without water, and only
Il drenching rain will stop the swiftly
spreading destruction. The fire has
been spreading for Il week, and the
glare at night can be seen for miles.
The destruction has been enormous to
crops, fences barns, stock and dwell
ings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-10-31

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Oct. 30.-The
fishing season of 190O-1901 is now prac-
sically over, and the tribute in loss of
life and property which the ocean year
~ demands of this fishing port can be
approximately made. SiXty-two men
killed or drowned and nine vessels lost
comprise the casualties. The years
losses are heavier than last year, which
was the smallest in twenty-three years.
The siXty-two men left seventeen wild
avs and thirty-fve children. This
makes the average loss for the past
swenty-four years of ninety-five men
each year. The nine vessels lost had Il
registered tonnage of 6l7 tons, valued
at SCI, 900, and on which there was an
insurance of So. .S43.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-10-31
BOTHA'S CLOSE CALL.
noer Commanders Hat and Pistol In
British Hands.

LONDON, Oct. 30.--A dispatch from
Pretoria says that Remington's col
umn has surprised the laager of Gen
eral Botha, the Boer commander in
chief. General Botha succeeded in
making his escape few hundred
yards in advance of RemingtOn's men.
leaving his hat and revolver behind.
General Bothas papers We're secured.
The war office has received dis
patch from Lord Kitchener saying
that General Methuen reports the
Boer commandants Delarey and Kemp
attacked Vandonop's column on Oct.
"A near the Great Marico river. The
attack, which was made with great
determination, was repulsed after Sc
we're fighting The Beers left forty
dead on the field, including Command
ant Oosterhuysen. Two British Off
GERS and twenty-siX men were killed
and five officers and fifty men wound
ed. The Beers captured eight wagons.
General French reports that the
Beers in the eastern part of Cape
Colony continue to avoid his columns.
Lord Kitchener states that since his
last weekly report on Oct II "a Beers
have been killed, 1G wounded. 352 cap
tured, and there have been 45 surren-
ders. Lord Kitchener also confirms
the previous report of General Botha s
narrow escape from being captured.