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| the salute fred over his grave, his cap
turing the four men under the command
i OF the younger st. Germyn, his ATTACK
i upon Inez's camp, ana the death of Hugh
! Habershaw by his own hand. and finally
the death of Jim Curry. are all narrated
4 pretty much aS they occurred, is certain.
i In the old veterans Is language, There is
/ q heap of truth in it, though she writer
has nightly furnished it up.v That the
names of Butler. Mildred Linsay, Mary
i Musgroye, John Ramsay, Hugh Haber-
i shaw, Jim Curry, and in fact almost
every other used in the book, with the
exception of his own, are real and not
fictitious. His own name, he informed
as, is James; and that he did NOT go by
the familiar appellation by which he Is
now 80 widely known until after the
/ war, when he acquired it from tire form
of his plantation In the Horseshoe Bend
of the Chauga creek, which was bestowed
upon him by the Legislature of South
Carolina in consequence of the services
he had rendered during the war This
| estate, we understood him to say, he still
owned. :. 81 ~
He was born, he says, in 1859, and eli-
| tered the army in his seventeenth year.
Before the CLOSE of the war, he says he
commanded troop of horses, SO that
his military title is that of Capt. Horse
shoe. Although in infirm health, he
bears evident marks of having been s.
man of great personal strength and
activity He is now afflicted With a
troublesome cough, which, in the nasli-
raj course OF eventsb must, in few
years, wear out his tged frame. Yet
notwithstanding his inoirmities and gene
raj debility, his eye still sparkles with
stirring and thrilling incidents of the
war, and that sly, quiet humor, so we'll
described by Kennedy, may still be seen
playing around his mouth as one calls to
his recollections any of tho pranks he
was won't to play upon any of the Glory
yagrants,o as he very properly styles
them. The old gentleman received us
and after partaking of the bounties of
his board aud spending u night under
his hospitable roof, we took leave of him,
sincerely wishing him many years of the
peaceful enjoyment of that liberty which
he fought so long and SO brayeiy to
achieve. 1t will not be uninteresting,
we hope, to remark that the old hero
the nature of his warfare is changed.
he is now as zealousea promoter. of the
Rodeemer's cause as he once was in
securing gtheindependence of his country.
Since the above was in type we1have
heard of the death OF the aged partner,
of this venerable patriot. An obituary
notice will lie found in another column.
Truly in friendship, -
Signed: Thomas p. Clinton.
Within few weeks after the visit
thus described the old soldier met
ssthe last enemy that shall be over
come" His grave is near the Black
Warrior river, few miles from Tus-
caloosa, Alabama, and the inscription
on the marble marking his last rest
ing place is:
Major James Robertson, a native of
South Carolina, died April 20, 1888, aged
70 years, and was buried here.
Well known as Horseshoe Robertson
he earned just fame in the war for in
courage, patriotism and suffering. He
lived fifty six years with his worthy
partner, useful and respected, and died
in hopes of a blissful immortality. His
children erect this monument as tri-
butte justly due gone father, husband,
neighbor, prtriot and soldier. Name de-
rived from bend in a creek in South
Carolina.
Anderson and Pickens Districts,
comprising the territory of Old Pen
dleton, were represented in the
Secession Convention, Columbia
Charleston, 1860, 1862, by the fol-
lowing illustrious, trusted and
honored sons: Anderson, j. N.
Whitner, James L. Orr, j. p. Reed,
r. f. Simpson and Benjamin Frank
lin Mauldin; Pickens, William
Hunter, Andrew #. Lewis, Robert
a. Thompson, William S. Griaham
and John Maxwell.
This convention at Charleston,
having left Columbia on special
train on account of smallpox in the
the capital CITY, on the 10th day of
December, 1850, by vote of one
hundred sixty,nine yeas, nays none,
adopted the Ordinance of Secession.
A fac-simile of this ordinance, sigma
turesincluded, the gift to the College
of the Hon. William A. Courtenay,
NEATLY framed, may be seen in the
historical museum of Clemson Col
lege.
OF these signers from the territory
of Old, Pendleton, all have crossed
over the river and are sleeping with
their fathers, save one, Robert A.
Thompson, now living in Walhalla
Two weeks ago to-day your speaker
heard him address an educational
meeting at Seneca. His subject was
Memorial Day" The venerable
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