The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-31

broke through their lines, and many
were bayoncttcd. The Tenth Georgia
only fought at such close quarters
when was with it once and that was
at Champion Gap, in 1862, but the
bloodicst hand to hand struggle they
ever had was at Cedar Creek in 1864.
The faces and mouths Of the wounded
and dead were blackcncd by powder.
Near the bloody angle looked upon
wounded and dead men actually piled
up on each other, and near the hospi-
tai | saw pile of human arms, legs,
hands and feet three or four feet high
General Longstrcct had band Of
sharpshootcrs composed of the best
shots in the corps, among others
"kansas Tom Johnson" of company
i, Tenth Georgia. He killed Gen eral
Scdgewick, who | believe was one Of
the best generals and best loved men
in the Federal army. A few days
after johnson was shot and killed in q
tree that he had climbed to see move
mcnts of the enemy; he was called
kansas Tom" because he had fought
before the war in Kansas against John
Browns forces. Phc Fifty-third
Georgia had band LED by Professor
Henslcr, good man and musician.
On the 18th he and his band had to
move past the Tenth; as they ploddcd
along through the rain they wore
jcered and hooted and piled with all
sorts Of questions such as: ooh,
Professor. please give one toot, just
one little toot for a sick man; oh,
Professor, dom t turn that end Of your
horn towards we'uns, please play
When This Cruel War Is Over, etc."
When he got nearly by the regiment
Henry Daniel in tones of sympathy
told him not TO pay any attention to
the boys of the Tenth; they were
always troubling some d-n fool, and
asked him what they had been saying
to him. The professor, although
pious, God-fearing man, had become
SO wrought up that he Indignantly
told Daniel that they had been trying
to get him to play, even Tis Got Dam
War Is Over" BY some means Dan
iel got small jackass on one of our
marches and was riding along slowly
when musician with big horn met
him; he fell of the ass. pleading with
the man with the horn not to shoot,
and for mercy's sake turn the big end
of his horn the other way.
Bafflcd and beaten, Grant again
tried to slip around our right, but
MARS Robert" was always too smart
for him, and when he got to North
Anna River we wore ahead Of him.
Wet, weary, hungry and mad as hor-
nets, the men of the Tenth were an
ugly set to tackle at any time, but
about fifteen days marching and fight
ing with scarcely an hour they were
not under fire had made them reck-
lessly desperate. When Grants men
tried to approach the bridge over the
North Anna they were met by such a
destructive fire that they rushed in
wild disorder back over the hill to
escape it, and did not try it again till
aftor dark, when they quietly placed
their pickets on the north bank.
About II o'clock that night an order
came to me from General kershaw to
burn the bridge. The stream was
narrow; the north bank rose perpen-
dicular to considerable height; the
south bank was quite low, and the
bridge extended out forty or fifty
yards over the low ground on the
right side. The Yankee pickets lined
tho north bank closely; the Confed-
crates were some distance back from
the stream on account Of the fiat
ground. To set FIRE to that bridge
was dangerous job. am sorry that
l cannot recall all the names of the
men who on that night crawlcd out
under the bridge, shielding themselves
like Malcolm ut Dunsinane with bush
es aud pinetons as they approached
its end. 1t. George Stovall, of
Thomaston, Ga. Capt Auvergne
D. D'Antignac, of Augusta; Lieutenant
Sam Fuller, Of Jonc sboro, Ga. j. NJ.
Dorsey, of Fayetteville, Ga. l.. L.
Cochran, Of Alabama; Wilson, of
Thomson, Ga, and Brown, of Fayette
County, were among those who in the
very teeth Of death set fire to the
bridge. The Yankees had placed
line Of brass coehorns' just across
the river, and were dropping shells
with frightful precision; our works
gave us no protection; we soampered