The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-05-28

mand at the post and were now in pur-
suit of him. Lieut.. Carpenter and I
galloped back across the river and
down the turnpike in the direction of
Madison Court House, hoping to reach
that place in time to inform the citi-
zens of the approaching raiders. We
rode at a gallop for mile or two,
then we slackened our gait as We as
cendcd long hill with fences on both
sides of the road. We were laughing
and talking about the boys being cap
tured, when Lieutenant Carpenter
asked me for chew of tobacco. 1t
vas raining little and I had on my
\. NJ. |. ovcrcoat and he had an oil
cloth over his uniform. He was
watching for me to hand him the
tobacco, and in my efforts to get
at it | had lost sight of the road n my
front
We were just nearing a sharp turn
IN the road when suddenly he turned
to me and exclaimed: "Look out, we
are into them We we're within fifty
steps Of eight or ten Yankees. Aswe
wheeled our horses a volley from their
carbines was poured into our faces.
The bullets whistlcd around our heads,
but none took effect. They ran us
down the pike for half q mile, and two
OF them were gaining upon us, when
suddenly we came to pair Of draw
bars over which we jumped our horses,
and were again soon out Of their reach.
We halted a short distance from them
but fearing an ambuacade they de-
clincd to follow us The lieutenant
took off his oil cloth and found eight
or ten holes through it from the bull
lets. John Rose, one among the
number captured at the post, suffered
the horrors of prison life for months,
and finally the poor fellow died on his
way home, after having been ex-
changed. DR.. Sprinkle, now of Gull
pepper Courthouse, Va, was among
the number who was captured. These
are little personal matters, but we old
soldiers love to look back over the
past and bring to light again those in
cidents that SO interested us in our
boyhood days, for as we grow old cv-
erythlng seems to US wonderfully
great, even down to the ashcake our
old colored mammies used to make for
us. 1t is useless for me to recount
the many hardships suffered by is
while soldiers in the Confederate
States army under that patriotic and
pure man, Jefferson Davis, who was
second to no man who graced the halls
of the United States Senate at the
breaking out of the civil war. Future
historians will record the heroic deeds
OF those who stood by each other for
four long years and fought to the bit
ter end. The memories of the great
struggle told y Colonel J. j. Dickin-
son, of Florida, are cherished by every
patriotic American soldier. He says:
I'VE cannot find in all the annals Of
history a grander record OF prouder
roll, nor more just fame for bravery,
patient endurance of hardships and
sacrifices The noble chieits;n, Rob-
ert E. Lee, said. Judge your enemy
from his standpoint, if you would be
just"
Whatever may be said of the con-
tention of the two great sections of
the union, whether by arbitration of
council every issue might have been
settled and fratricidal war averted,
there will be but one unalterable de-
cree OF history respecting the Confed-
crate soldier. His deeds Of heroism
are wreathed around with glory, and
he will be ever honored, because he
was not only brave and honorable, but
true to his convictions. The sacrifi-
ces made BY our loyal defenders and
their glorious deeds shall not perish,
but the pen of the historian shall
hand them down through the ages-a
proud heritage to our race and to all
mankind. Now that the people who
SO grandly illustrated their loyalty to
the Confederacy are passing away, the
South claims from them truthful,
dispassionatc history Of the causes
leading to their withdrawal from the
Union and the subsequent events when
the tocsin of war sounded throughout
the land.-Dr. j. B. Conway, in At
lanta Journal.
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