Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-01

That tell of the memories of long-van-
Yes, give me land that. hath story and
song,
Enshrining the strife of the right with
tho wrong"
A friend furnishes us the follow
ing lists of the names of Confederate
soldiers buried in the church yards
of the town of Pendleton:
Baptist Church Robert Maxwell, Ed
ward Maxwell, Priestly Maxwell, John
Maxwell, Jr., Frank Maxwall, DR.. James
Sloan, j. ID. Smith, B. II. CAN'T, James
Duke, Richard Wilson, David Keisler.
Episcopal Church-Gen. Barnard e.
Bee, Gen. Clement Stephens, Henry
Stephens, j. @. Clemson, Alex. Marley,
Smith, Harry Miller, Earle Seaborn, Will
lie Seaborn, Sam'l Taylor, DR.. Il. l.. Cuth-
bert, j. w. Wilkinson, - Stark, Major
Jos. Adams.
Methodist Church-Henry Knuff, John
Frasier.
Presbyterian Church-Jsmes Hunter.
AS tribute to their memory, suf-
fer your speaker, Daughters of the
Confederacy, to read the inscription
on the Confederate monument in the
State !Hcase, yard, Columbia, S. c.:
This Monument
Perpetuates the Memory
of those who,
True to the instincts of their birth,
Faithful to the teachings of their Fathers,
Constant in their love for the State,
Died in the performance of their Duty.
Who
Have glorified fallen cause
BY the simple manhood of their lives
And the herOism of Death,
And who,
In the dark hours of imprisonment,
In the hopelessness of the hospital,
In the short, sharp agony of the field,
Found support and consolation
In the belief
That at home they would not be
Forgotten.
Let the Stranger
Who may in future times
Read this Inscription
Recognize that these were Men
Whom Power could not corrupt,
Whom Death could not terrify,
Whom Defeat could not dishonor;
And let their Virtues plead
For just Judgment
OF the cause in which they perished
Let the South Carolinians
OF another generation
Remember
That the State taught them
How to live and how to die,
And that from her broken fortunes
She has preserved for her children
The priceless treasure of their
Memories,
Teaching all who may claim
The same Birthright
That Truth, Courage and Patriotism
Endure Forever
These words might be read with
profit at any and every memorial
day celebration in South Carolina.
At this place to read them seems
most appropriate. Their gifted au-
thor's grave is in your Episcopal
cemetery. They came from the pen
of William II. Trescott, the most
llustrious diplomat South Carolina
has produced.
Every school boy knows that Bar
nard E.. Bee gave Jackson at Manas-
sas his immortal name of Stonewall,
the name bestowed on the bloody
field, displacing that given beside the
baptsmal font. Every Carolinian
should know that Bees ashes are in
Pendleton church yard !; that Maj.
Il. f. Simpson, a veteran of the war
with the Seminoles, while a Con-
gresham from the native State of
both, appointed Bee cadet at West
Point, and every member of the
Pendleton Chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy should
delight to tell that when Bee fell
from his horse, soon after pointing to
Jackson and calling on his men to
stand like stone wall, shot to the
death, his mind turned to his old
home and his school-mates and he
called out, "Where are the Pendle-
ton boys? Let them take me off
the field" Color Sergeant Robert
Maxwell and Lieutenant Richard
Lewis were two of those who did SO.
Most appropriately to-day does a
granddaughter of Major Simpson,
representing the Barnard Il. Bee
Camp Of Confederate Veterans, at
Aiken, S. c., place on Bees monu-
ment wreath of flowers presented
by that camp for such sacred pur.
poses
"War's richest spoils are the ashes
of her brave" Rich in such sacred
dust is the soil of Old PendletoD.
Here sleep soldiers Of the early wars
with the Cherokees, of the war of
the Revolution; David Sloan, Gen.
Blassingame, Col. Warren, Zacha-
riah Taliafero, Andrew Pickens, Sr.
of the war of 1912, Andrew Pickens,
Jr.; of the Florida war, Major II. f.
Simpson of the war with Mexico,
Lieut.. r. t. Shubrick !; of the war of
Secession, whose names are regularly
read on these memorial occasions