The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-03
sIkETUIIES OF ARMY LIFE.
lntorc1ting InCIdontB or the Ciyn Var re
hicd by "N Con. Fed" n Member OF
Third =. G. Regiment.
Written for Tho Herald and News. |

Written for Tho Herald and News.
On the morning Of the 18th day Of
December, 1862, Lees anvil was in
position and Burnsido's hammer
ready to strike. There was fog
over fredericksburg for some time,
but it finally cleared up, and Burn
sides boys rushed forward to tho
slaughter pon. The 3rd Regiment
was Oh Leo's Hill near the telegraph
road, but were finally carried down
it and up tho hill to Mayree's house.
Hero tho rain Of shot and shell WAS
terrific. 1t did not look az IL any
once could 1.-Two. Instead OF hurrying
,ls TO tho rock wall, we wore ordered
to lilo down Just over tho slope to-
wards the enemy. WAS severely
wounded ut once by rifle ball, and
hobDlod back to gnrtlon place and
romainod thore for an hour or two
with tho shells bursting over mo, but
was not hurt. Every man in Go.
B. except 1 or . were hurt that day.
One oi Tho exceptions waH man who
had managed to keep out Of every
fight boforo this. Capt. Gary told
that man if no ran that day he won'd
% court martialed and shot. lie
managed to got in tho fight, and all
his fear WIS gone lic fought as u
hero that day, and from thon until
ne lost his arm yoar later, wo did
not hnvo better soldier. Although
[ WAS sevoroly wounded and in dan.
gor Of being killed for several hours,
had II good deaf Of fan. SAW q
captuin and Iioutonant Of another
regiment desert thoir men and squirt
across the hill to tho roar. saw
young soldier cry because 1 told somo
mon whcle their regiment was, and
told tnom they ought to carry tho
rations they had to their mon. They
were i'll cooking dotall, and had
rutions for tnoir mnss. | SAW tho Same
aoI"4er and MS iutnor spurt ACROSS
tho hlll. A lull finally came in tho
firing, and | buckled strap around
my thigh just above the wound and
got mo big corn stalk for stick
nnd hohbl"d across tho fold and got
out Of tho firing. Horo I found a
great many wounded mon and quite
number Of slkulkore. Night finally
came and Col. Nance WAS wounded.
lilo and Liout. Abernathy were be.
ing placed IN nn ambulance to be oar
ried to the roar. | asked Mai. NIaf-
fett to lot mo get in also. Tho
driver objected but Maj. Mailett put
mo in tho ambulance and l WAS car.
riod to tho field hospital. Here I
was placed on tho ground to await
my time to have my wound dressed.
| rolled mysclf up in Il blanket and
went to sloop l woke up about 8
o'clock the noxt morning and finally
| got my wounds dressed. I was
placed in an ambulance and carried
to tho rail road and shipped to Rich
mond. | arrived at Richmond about
day light and was carried to the
ChimberaZo Hospital and placed in
tho North Carolina division. I wae
fortunately placed under tho caro- Of
Dr. John Cannon Of our county and
| wGa we'll cared for. Here I found
my brother soldier, Nj. II. Gary. He
was furloughed i'll few days but
was kept for some time, but was
! lnally given a furlough and remaiu.
oil at homo for 100 days. l had
forgotten to montion that | had been
shot at Savage station in hand urG
foot, but the wounds were lig..t
While at homo ! wont to Longshore's
store to 500 tho militia "muster."
Here MIR. II. NJ. Neel WAS drilling
his aqu"d, and had as his right guide
MIR. Nonh Ma. lin. Every time Mr..
Noel would say left for tho left foot
to go down, Uncle Noah would turn
to tho loft, and right he would turn
to tho right. 1t was real picnic to
SEQ the boys muster" Here the
mon were discussing tho Fredericks-
barg fight. Mr. Washington Floyd
made tho statement that tho yal keea
PIT up poor fight. I told bim ho
was 'IrihtaEcn that they fought we'll
Ho stated that some newspaper man
WAS back some distance in "a tree and
said they had fought poorly, and