The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-29

Martin being made Lieutenant Colonel, John Forney, Colonel and Henry Forney commanding the company. John Francis, Nose Renfrow, Lon Grant. Tom Jeff. Walker, Macon Abernathy and Geo. Trumby were mess -mates-a royal set of fellows. John T. Francis was made col onel of a Tennessee Regiment and was killed at Resaca, Ga, and Macon Aber- nathy was killed at Frazer's Farm. One week in the capital where the Confeder- acy was born, where Jefferson Davis had only recently been made President of the Confederate States and Pope Walker, Secretary of War, we left for Virginia, the seat of war, carrying with us not only the flush of success and fight im- bibed from our mountain home, but we were inflated with the warm blooded stimulus of the atmosphere around the capitol grounds and gardens of Mont mosphere was an inspiration which last ed us all through the four years of war, to the 9th of April, when we handed in our checks to the renowned General Grant. We were taken to Richmond by rail and in a week ordered to Strausburg and there made our first march of about seventeen miles to Worcester where we camped few days.
 '"At a moments notice we expected to be sent on to Manassas where fighting was going on, as we could hear the roar of cannons, but we were not moved un- til after dark and reached the junction too late for that memorable baptism of blood. The creek we crossed next day was full of dead men and horses, the water muddy and bloody. We remained in camp near by all summer and lost over one hundred men as a result of drinking that bloody water. The first battle engaged in was at DranesVille, where Lieutenant Colopel James Martin was killed. Then followed in succession the battles of Fredericksburg Seven Pines, Seven Days Battles around Rich mond. James Mil, Chickahominy and Frazer's Farm. On a campaign up the Rappahannock River, and in slight engagement Esculus Ferry was killed. This takes us up to the second battle of Manassas. We ascended the hill and found the New York Zouaves in real uniform covering the grounds. We pass ed over the dead men, halted and wait ed for Georgia Brigade to come up be- fore we began firing; just then General Toombs of Georgia, came riding down the line and after telling us to wait for our friends. said: Lie down men, lie down or you'll get hit Some one from company G replied: General, you had best get off your horse and lie down. me, boys he replied, Jeff Davis can make generals, but 1t takes God AL mighty to make soldiers. Lie down an l protect yourselves. Now we moved erick, Harper's Ferry and Antietam from which last named point we retreated to the Virginia side. At Fredericksburg our brigade lay under heavy fire and we re- treated to Salem Church, then up through Charlottesville and on to Gettysburg battles. In the first days awful charge. General Forney was shot down. and as our brigade retreated, he was left on the field and captured by the enemy and held prisoner until the winter of '64 or '65. This was terrible days fighting for our men, two battles in the same day Our brigade fought in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, then down through all the bat ties around Richmond. We evacuated Richmond. then fought our last battle at High Bridge, surrendering on Sunday, April 9, 1885, making the last report ever made of the 10th Alabama Regiment then in Forney's Brigade and Mahone's Dl- vision. signed A. J. Morris, Captain; G. l. Trumby, Acting Adjutant.
 'Son of a sire who, when asked. If this small boy should be mustered into service with his consent' said. "Yes, and I wish I had a thousand more to send Is it any wonder his soul burned with patriotism and he gave the best of his mind, strength and heart for his countrys defense? Then in the mellOwed time of life, just between noontide and the setting sun. he writes: I can truly say. l am not ashamed of that war, nor the little part I bore In 1t; nor ashamed of the great living principles involved in it, and my conscience smiles with happy triumph now when I see our defeated. down-trodden people and land rising each day like a great swelling stream to hush and prestige of former years, with here