The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-05-10

our duty to say that he carried with
him the highest respect of every
soldier in the command-whether
officer orr private.
OF Lieut.. j. w. Crider I remember
very little. He was never on duty
with me, consequently 1 did not have
the opportunity to know as much
about him as Of the other officers.
He was christian gentleman-a
minister of the Methodist church, and
lost no opportunity to use his high
office for the advancement of Cbrist's
kingdom. and was, beyond doubt, the
most influential parsonage in the
command in that respect. Neither
he nor Lieut.. Thomas were can
didates for re election. never saw
Lieut.. Crider after he left us at
Camp Shearman.
1 have said before that Camp
Spearman was at the jenkins farm
and mansion. Around the house and
in tho yard was almost all kinds of
native and exotic plants, the frag-
rance of which perfumed the air for
some distance around. Col. Shing.
ler's tent was inside Of the yard
under q large water oak. The head
auartpns, o6ufslae Aia-T6 af the. ~ q6e.r11. =
A few wells were suHn III 'ho
camnment. over which brush arbors
- nrotect them from the
sun. Here we spent the month OF
Nav aud part of June, '62. Com
pany and squdron drills we're kept up
rreaolariy, together with picket duty
and camp guard, the latter OF wnich
was kept up by regular detail. :,
Farms were neglected-the HANDS
taken off-and thousands of acres Of d
uncultivated land were covered witf
strawberries. These we would gathe'
and make into pies. The land wa
rich and sandy-not rock was T.
be found anywhere on it. AT tnl
camp we had less annoyance iron
mosquitoes than formerly. We coul
oct the sea breeze as it came up !oe
eadoo Creek. We made brush arbor
, over our horses to protect them t'o'
> the sun; al,o over our tents IN man
:, nlaces. On our street grew lare
0 sycamore tree under which the who
It company would sometimes assemo
g and pass off the time. Bob DaV
Y used to be the champion fiddler al al
: wrestIer Under this tree he b
|, mt many backs on the ground:
,r was under this tree that Joe Lee
m cot spider bit; and when an over d'
cs of medicine (used principally
snider and snake bites) had be
II. given him he forgot who he was
r. asked: ..Who am |, any how
,e, Somebody said, ''its Joe heec'
I'm No it amt. not much, it ain e
Mt. I,eech." "Ned, (aldressiog
IN, cook) d,you know me- Yes s.
yht was NcI's answer. "Well, wh'
hat ;t?" "Its Mas Joe" Mas
ade who?" MAS Joe Leeeh,' Ned $
the No it amt, Ned, its Jim Stra
for "Don't belong to this mess! -
fair air" "Well, what's the matter
t of me. anyhow" ''Don t know u
TIE YOU are d-k." Poor Joe n
title heard the end of that spider
nen. After we got to Virginia, on VI
, for mas eve Of '62, Joe got jolly
part and Billy Kennedy said, 81
To- Leach has got spider bit ag
,cted Jake Porter got spider bit
, not the same time Joe Leech q
G up Camp Spearman, but we did not
i'm 1 any fun out of him. He came
spect near dying. At this same Plac &C
ldier. about the same time, David U
oned, sick. He and I had just spent a
N the at Kings Point, as couriers tor
same James battalion. We had
owner comfortably quartered in a hou
alities enjoyed ourselves hugely. heI'
and l to Camp David took sick and
but as in the worst fix | ever saw a
s con- get up again. He was as WIN
feel it Corpse, and it looked like