The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-31
WAR STORIES.
Tenth Georgia at Spottsylvania.


house May ;, 1864, just ahead uf the
Yankees. The battle was on in few
minutes and was hot and furious, but
only for short time. The firing sud
denly stopped and VIC marched rapidly
about half mile, went into line OF
battle and were ordered to build
brcastworks. BY daylight Of the 9Th
we were behind works that we held
during a!! that storm Of lead and iron
which ragged with such fury till about
the 18th. On the 10th was ordered
with eight companies to doubled uick
about half mile to the left to help
the Texans rccapturc their line from
which they had been forced, but with
the help of Colonel Jack Browns seth
Georgia regiment they had rctaken
their line. Colonel Brown was in his
shirt sleeves, his arm in sling, his
shirt and pants bloody, his face pale,
but grim and defiant as Atrdcs. A
boy, who trcmbled at the sound Of u
gun, and who could not be kept at the
front when fight was on, dropped to
the ground just as We started in run
to help the Texans. The Yankees
poured heavy fire in his direction
and gave him bad wound-thc only
man hit in that affair.
The Tenth went back to its works
and remained comparatively quiet till
the 11th, when we again moved q
short distance to the left. While We
were having some lively skirmishiDg
with the enemy Mr.. Dan Rhodes, of
Hawkinsville, whose courage bordered
on rccklessness, concluded he wanted
some coffee, and while the regiment
was lying in an old road blazing away
at the Yankees, who were pouring
hot fire into us Dan built fire and
put his quart.cup coffee pot on to
boil. He would jump up and go to
his fire to test his coffee. About the
third time he stood by his fire bullet
struck him with great noise and force,
giving him wound from which he
suffers to-day. On the 18th the Yam
KEGS broke through our lines about
200 yards to our right. The regiment
next on our right held their lines, as
did ours, but we suffered terribly.
They began to enfiladc our position,
and many poor fellow was killed by
bullets coming from our right. They
kept shooting all night. It was rain
ing and dark. Captain Auvergne
D'Antignac. Captain C. G. Kibbee,
afterwards promoted to lieutenant
colonel, for skill and valor on the
field, and got log about eight
inches in diameter, laid it at right
angles with our works, put our heads
against it and went to sleep. About
? o'clock man who had made barri-
cade similar to ours was shot in the
shoulder and shrieked 80 as to wake
me. felt for our log and it was
gone. I walked my comrado, but We
never found our log. just after we
were aroused word was brought to me
that the Yankees were between US and
our pickets. I sent D'Antignac, Sto.
vail, Fuller and some others who just
fairly reveled in such hazardous work,
to investigate. They crawled through
the darkness to where they had posted
our pickcts and found all in their
places. It rained all night and part
of next day. General Goodc Bryan,
his adjutant, John II. Dobbs (now
living in New York;, and a courier
we're sleeping under tent some dis
tancc in the rear. Dobbs asked the
courier to get up for some purpose.
AS he did not rise Dobbs took hold to
awake him and found him cold in
death-a bullet had pierced his heart.
Another boy, James Rivers, from
Fayette County, was washing his
handkerchief in branch and Manse
Dorsey and j. r. Griggs were just
below him washing their hands when
they heard a rifle shot. The water
became bloody and they looked up and
saw Rivers lying in the branch dead.
A man Of the Eighteenth Georgia,
attached to ordnance department, fired
off his gun in that direction and the
ball struck Rivers. He was in great
distress when told Of Rivers death.
In the Wilderness and at Spottsyl-
vania it looked as if every bush had
been hit. Great big trees, some of
them Is inches il diameter, were cut
down by bullets. You could not see
through the tangled underground in
many places more than so yards.
Several times We were warned of the
approach of the enemy by the fight of
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