The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-28
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| "iu nioSl'lldll ulNiSiOnh OF Long
street corps wore transferred from
Virginia to Georgia. Tho 3d $. G..
regiment was placed on Tn cars at
flchmond for Petersburg. was
ordered by Cot. Nance to got guard
OF tw" ,nen and kcep the roar car
vacant, except Con. Law and staff
were to have Il few seats. Before
o tram started, rs Gen. Law went
on another tain, let ono half Of the
car fill up with our boys. Some la
dies also went in on car. The Sur
geon of the 7th regiment insisted on
going in our car. ! told him he
could not go. lIc insisted | should
lot him talk with Col Nance. This |
refused to do. He threatened to run
over mo. ! had my guard to bring
their bnyOnets to his breast and he
retrented. At Petersburg | came
near getting sel io'!oly hurt. When
we left the train | had forgotten my
rations. went back to get them
aud the train started rapidly towards
Richmond. | took flying leap and
got badly bunged up, but had 40
| bones broken. We took another
train for Wilmington. Here we
spent several hours. saw the two
large cannon that had Just come
| through the blockade and wcrc
shipped to Charleston. They were
known rs Gen. Riblcy's pocket
pieces. They wore tho largest can
non l had over seen. Lying fiat on
tho ground they reached above my
waist. We left Wilmington about
ono o'clock p. m. We certainly had
slow train. We ran tat evening
and night and the next day and ar
rived at Sumter Just before sun set.
The good people Of sumter gave us II
royal welcome. The whole town
tlrncd ont and gave lis a magnif-
cont supper, and we had nice lime
indeed. | rode Oh top Of the cars
from Petersburg to Georgia. In fact
| SLEPT at night on the ears. We
left Sumter in the night and reached
Kingsville after sun up the next
morning. We waited while for
rations to be sent us from Columbia,
aud rs none came we took the ears
for Augusta via Brnnchviilr. News
Of our coming had reached Orange.
burg aud the people rushed to the
railroad with baskets Of rations ]
was on top Of the car, and as the
train slowed up to stop | started to
get down the side of tho car, when
the engine started the train off rap.
idly, and the people tried TO throw
baskets Of rations on the train. \
mile or two below Orungcburg the
train WAS stopped and the engine
was surrounded by angry soldiers
and it was by hard begging that the
engineer got oil With whole bones.
But he promised not to pass another
place without stopping. We got
something to cat at uearly every
station, and at Blackv,lle we COL a
square meal.
Col Nance issued orders for the
train to pass through Aiken without
stopping, and of course we let the
engineer off as he had orders to run
through. We passed. the night in
Augusta and in tho morning took the
trp IN for Atlanta. Before leaving
Augusta we went to tho engineor and
asked him if he would stop the train.
He said he was n soldier detailed to
run tho train, so we know wo were
all right. We got something to cot
at all tho stations, but ut tho 80 mile
station we were treated to M lino u
dinner as soldior over got. A few
miles above thero was another grand
sproad. The tram was being slowed
mp when Col. Nance waived for tho
train to go ahead. AS we hnd played
n sweep stake game on tho rations,
and M our train was being followed
by tho mississippi boys. Col. Nance
thought it right to lot them have Il
dinner. We wore fed at Union Point.
We reached Covington in the night
and most of tho boys were asIoop.
This scribe and two others of our
company dropped off to geo if thero
were any rations around. A lady
and soldier camo along and the lady
said, "let's feed the Rebs. She