The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-05-21
WAR STORIES.
Hampton's Splendid Scout, Jim Sloan.
F. B. Mcdowell, in Charlotte Observer.

hair was long and hung around my
shoulders, and was streaming with
blood. Throwing away my gu1 I
seized my pistol aud shot away a. the
trooper coming to finish me. I could
not tell whether my pistol fred or
snapped. | had been shot in the arm,
and didn't know it, He made saw
age stroke to sever my head. I threw
up my hand to ward off the blow aud
it was split open. You can see the
scar. lie jumped upon me with both
feet, stamping my face aud body and
cursing me. I isy as if 1 was dead.
| was shot through the leg and arm
and badly wounded in the back of the
neck.
Shadburn was shot through the
fleshy part Of the neck and federal
soldier was about to brain him with
the butt end of a gun. Sloan reached
up from the ground and shot him
through the stomach. He turned pale
and fell from his horse. 1 saw it as I
was lying on the ground. Sloan
dragged wounded Shadburn into the
woods, and the detachment, fearing an
ambuscade, pursued no further.
"Sloan wrote home to mother that I
had been killed. That he saw me
shot to death and was powerless to
prevent it. Capt. John r. Erwin also
wrote to her that was dead. When
/ arrived in Concord after the surren-
der, Ed Mcdonald drove me out home
in buggy. Father, mother and sis
ter we're sitting upon the porch.
Mother and sister were dressed in
mourning for me. None Of them re-
cognized me until I stepped upon the
porch. Mother never spoke for two
hours.
"Legare and myself were taken to
prison. | could have escaped the first
night, but he begged me for God
sake not to desert him. Seeing me
talking to him they suspected me and
guarded me strictly, wounded as 1
was. Hampton through Lee sent
flag Of truce to say that we were both
enlisted soldiers. else we would soon
have been hung as marauders or spies.
after the mine explosion at Peters
burg and the death of 80 many negroes
81 Of us were placed under negro
guards out of revenge and forced to
throw up Notifications before Confed-
crate batteries. We soon learned
how to watch the coming of the shells,
and by lying low, dodge them success
fully. They never skimm d the
ground, though often covered us With
dirt. They few upward after expo
sion, and killed many Of the negro
guards.
"Legare and I were dragged from
place to place handcuffed together,
and taken to Washington. After
about two weeks of sickness from i'm
prisonment and dysentery Legare
died. They took of the handouts
that bound us together in life and
placed ball and chain upon me.
II must go back to Sloan and Shad-
burn. They were captured shortly
after we were and condemned to death
and handcuffed together and placed
under guard on vessel at City Point
on the James River. During the
night Sloan, who had small wrists and
hands, soaped his hands md slipped
his handouts. 1t scraped of the
skin and swelled his hand to twice the
normal size. He let himself down by
a rope used to draw up water from the
river. He was good swimmer. He
SWAMI to boat some distance at an
chor, upon which Yankee officer and
his family were staying. He lowered
one of the lifeboats. Some of the
crew heard him but fearing it was the
work of desperadoes, abstained from
giving an alarm. He rowcd back to
where Shadburn lay anxiously waiting
and watching, jerked the rope as
signal, and Shadburn came down into
the boat. This was done under the
flare of the ship lights, beneath the
shadow Of the cannor and while a
guard was pacing the deck.
"When the pursuers found the row.
boat floating upon the water at sun
rise, they concluded the prisoners who
had been handcuffed, had been drown
ed and so reported. The fugitives
concealed themselves in a swamp all
day, and marched through the federal
lines at night as often they hsi done
before. Sloan had taken the rracau-