The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-23

across the Potomac. The great fail
returns and brushes Fremont out OF
his path drops back few foot-sore
Spartans as pickets for Fremont to
cape 1t until his (Jackson's) return.
/ Lee crosses the Chckahominy at
Meadow Ridge and drives the enemy
to its common center about Grape
vine Bridge and Woodbury. bridge.
The Seven Days battle is on. The
second cay, June -, 1862, Longstreet
strikes the enemy's left and Jackson
the right flank. The battle RACES all
the afternoon. The enemy hold their
ground. Late in the evening Lee
makes the final effort to count that
days victory his own. The Texan
brigade under Hood are hurled like a
thunderbolt 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 volley
and charges with cold steel. The
enemy is broken, slaughtered, and the
survivors driven into the swamps OF
the Chickahominy-and only the
sheltering wings Of night saved US
from complete annihilation.
The writer's regiment, one of the
most magnificent regiments in the
army, u companies, LAO men, was
almost a total wreck and jenkins held
our beautiful banner. Col. James a.
Hoyt, editor of The Greenville
Mountaineer, then an officer in Col.
Jenkins regiment, has told the story
correctly in the Confederate Veteran.
Lee is victor. Mcclellan is on the
retreat to the James river. The siege
of Richmond raised. The 5th Of the
battle days, June 30th, jenkins takes
the advance of the battle at Frazer
Farm. Beats back the enemy. Holds
the battle ground. He has command
ed r. II. Anderson;s brigade in both
battles. His regimental loss is severe,
himself severely wounded. The
Palmetto regiment alone sustaining
loss of 3715 and no prisoners reported.
After a march of over two hundred
miles on half rations, we find General
Jenkins again on the old battle ground
of Bull Run, Or Manassas No. 2, on
LongStreet's right. Porters' 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 one of the officers mentioned in
Gen. Longstreet's report OF this battle
for extraordinary bravery and unex,
celled heroism,
His brigade, now In command OF Col
onel Joseph Walker, Of the Palmetto
Sharp Shooters, advances into Mary
land and goes into action In the battle
of South Mountain, sustaining loss
Of 20, then back to Sharpesburg, OF
Antietam. Their field Of operation
was not far from Gen. Lees head
quarters, becoming desperately en-
gagged and drove the enemy at every
point, losing POS officers and men.
holding their battle ground and crown
ing their wounded Jenkins with glory
and sustaining the proud record of the
old brigade.
Thus Lee had beaten McClellan's
army off the Peninsula, destroyed the
grand army Of the man whose head,
quarters were in the saddle, and had
fought the combined armies Of Antie,
tam to standstill. This IS the most
bloody and desperate Of the ages. The
only mark Of victory to be credited tc
either was their battlefeids.
During the Gettysburg campaign
the gallant Jenkins, being assigned tc
the department Of North Carolina.
performing valuable service also
around Richmond, Peterburg, and the
Black Water. be very urgently re-
quested in his many applications tc
the department commander and the
authorities in Richmond TO be per-
mitted to share the battlefeldS OF
Lees army along with the divisions
with whom he had been so long, and
often in bloody conflict in defense OF
his cherished rights and glorious Stars
and oars, but alas, his wish was only
granted when Lee and Grant met in
the Wilderness on the Orange Plank
road, that fatal 9Th Of May, 1864. Al
though his cause and mine was at
war, l loved him none the less. He
was noble and brave, and such as he
gave a worldwide glory to the Ameri-
can field embattled. The spirit OF
such men do not sleep with the tene
ment of clay, but lives again in great
deeds. The newer generations Of the
Southland will have their Lees and
Jenkins, but nowhere else on this con-
YeX world. 1t would be sad indeed
were we only to find them in dusty
and time worn volumes and on cold
mutilatcd stone. 1t is pleasing to note
the presence of the distinguished Off
Ger Of whom my feeble pen has writ
ten personiied in young Major Micah
jenkins. the hero of Santiago, one
whose daring deeds have won the ap-
plaudits of the Western Hemisphere.
T. r. Lackie,
4G7 Vinewood Ave, Detroit, Mich.
Late a lieutenant 18th Mich. Vet.
Vol. Infantry.
Postponed Again.
The B. B. Evans case, which was to
have been tried in Columbia last week