The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-04-17

. speedily cOnSummatod; nOStlle guns
= must not cover the capital; tho siege
must be raised, the enemy beaten to
cover. Jackson in the valley receives
message, his foot cavalry are put in
motion. lie beats Banks and Shields
down the valley as with ilail. Con-
s;crnation is in their path. One takes
refuge in Harper's Ferry; the other
across the Potomac. The great fail
cr returns and brushes Fremont out Of
his path. drops back few foot-sorc
Spartans as pickets for Fremont to
cape at until his (Jackson's) return.
Lee crosses the Chickahominy at
Meadow Ridge and drives the enemy
| to It's common center about Grape
vine Bridge and Woodbury. bridge.
The Seven Days battle is on. The
second day, June 27, 1862, Iongstreet
strikes the cncmy's left and jackson
the right flank. The battle RACES all
the afternoon. The enemy hold their
glound. Late in the evening Lee
makes the final effort to count that
days victory his own. The Texan
brigade under Hood arc hurled like a
thundcrbolt against the left center.
Colonel Micah jenkins with his vail
ant Palmetto regiment and one other
against the extreme left. The left
center is broken and shattered into
fragments. jenkins fires one vollcy
and charges with cold steel. The enc
my IS broken, slaughtered, and the sur
vivors driven INTO the swamps of the
Chickahominy-and only the shelter
ing wings of night saved us from COM
plctc annihilation.
The writer's regiment, one of the
most magnificent regiments in the
army, II companies, ,l40 men, was
| almost total wreck and jenkins held
our beautiful banner. Col. James A.
| Uoyt, editor of TIE GKEENvILLE
MOU NTAINEER, then au officer in Col.
Jenkins regiment, has told the story
correctly in the Confederate Veteran.
Ice is victor. Mcclellan is on the
retreat to the James river. The siege
Of Richmond raised. The 5th cf the
battle days, June 30Lh, Jenkins takes
the advance of the battle at Frazier
Farm. Beats back the enemy. Holds
the battle ground. lie has commanded
II. II. Andcrson's brigade in both bat
ties. His rcgimcntal loss is severe, him
self severely wounded. The Palmetto
reg iInCnL alone sustaining Il loss OF 81:
and no prisoners reported. After /;
march of over two hundred miles or
half rations, we find General Jenkins
again on the old battle ground Of Bul
Run, or Manassas No. ,, on Long
streets right. POrtcrs' Federal corps
left, this time he fights MaXcy Gregg
old enemies of Gaines Mills. Jenkins
brigade has some desperate fighting
and again himself severely wounded
and brigade loss about $50. He is on
Of the officers mentioned III Gen
LOngstrccts report of this battle 70
extraordinary bravery and uncXccl
D led hcrOisln.
Ills brigade, now IN command {
5 Colonel Joseph Walker, of the Pa
!, mctto Sharp Shooters, advances int
i Maryland and goes into action in I'll
II battle Of South Mountain, sustainn
: Il loss OF 20, then back to Sharpsbur!
i or Antietam. Their field of opcratlO
), was not far from Gen. Lees hoat
Il quarters, becoming desperately CT
- gagged and drove the enemy at even
point, losing POS officers and mel
|. holding their battle ground and crown
" inc their wounded Jenkins with glol
and sustaining !ho proud record Uf iii
= old brigade.
% Thus Lee had beaten Mcclellan
a army of the Peninsula, destroyed II
II grand army of the man whose hca,
" quarters were in the saddle, and Ii;
W fought the combined armies of Anti
'' bloody and desperate of the age
~ NIL.
, credited TO either was their batll
" fields.
Inc During the Gettysburg campai.
nv the gallant Jenkins, being assigned
TO- the department. of North Carroll,
''' performing valuable service a
ere around Richmond, l'ctcrburg, and I
o'. Black Water, he very urgently
say uucstcd in his many applications
lc' the department commander and
var authorities in Richmond TO be p
on mittcd to share the battlcticlds
"a, Lees army along with the divlsi(
ith with whom he had been 80 long, I;
lic often in bloody conflict in defense
'o- his cherished rights and glorious st
OF and Bars, but alas, his wish was OF
,'d granted when Lee and Grant met
nc the Wilderness on the Orange Hla
H. road, that fatal 9th of May, lSt
'P Although his cause and mine WAS
CIy war, | loved him none the less.
10 was noble and brave, and such as
w gave IL Worldwide glory to the Anne
'h can field cmbattlcd. The spirit
ii, such men do not sleep with the ter
81 mcnt OF clay, but lives again in gre
n deeds. The newer generations Of t
Southland will have thoir Lees a
: Jenkins, but nowhere else on this CO
3, vcX world. 1t would be sad indie
"' were we only to find them in dus
g and time. worn volumes and on &C
l. mutilatcd stone. 1t is pleasing to no
Is the presence Of the distinguished oilic
y of whom my feeble pens has writ,
C pcrsonilicd in young Major Micah Je
&c klns, the hero Of Santiago, one who
q daring deeds have won the applaud
IL of the Western Uemisnhcrc