Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-11
down in the wagon with his heels
hanging to the seat.

hanging to the seat.
Riding up to the wagon, I was about
to drag him out when the driver Of
another wagon that happened to be
passing set him on his feet and found
that he was not hurt. 1t was a mys-
terry how he passed under the trestle
without getting mashed up. He insist
ed that he could drive the wagon to
camp and did do 1t. When all the
things were taken out of the wagon
that belonged to the company I was
looking after, there remained trunk.
a dress-suit case and a sword In q
leather case.
The driver knew nothing about these
things so took them in my tent and
finding card with the name Of the
owner attached to the suit case, re-
ported the matter to our brigade head
quarters; but the next day Sergeant
Dodd came to my tent to inquire IL I
knew anything about the articles and
in this way they were returned to their
owner.
On Monday afternoon, canteens,
haversacks and shelter tents were Is
sued for use in the battles, dress pa
rade was had and the necessary pre-
parations made for the start to the
war in the early morning. The cooks
were instructed to prepare cooked ra-
tions for two days.
An orderly came to my tent about
o'clock Tuesday morning and deliver
ed me an order to report to the colo
ners tent at once. could not imagine
what was wanted Of me; but hoped
that the colonel was not going to
order me to go to battle with the regi-
ment as I had made no preparations
for going out to fight-had no rations
ready. When got to headquarters
tent, / found Colonel Boyd in all the
hurry of getting the regiment formed
and he only took time to put me in
charge of the camp during his absence.
and to instruct me to go to division
headquarters and see about the details
of making up the regimental payroll.
In a few minutes after had receiv-
ed my orders, the regiment was formed
and marched away, and I was left the
master Of a silent and apparently de-
serted camp.
/ am proud to be member OF the
First South Carolina regiment. Can
anyone be surprised then when con-
fess that on that Tuesday morning,
felt secretly eaated to be standing,
with folded arms, (no, they wouldn't
fold as was holding my lantern) in
front Of the colonePs tent, In charge Of
the whole camp, watching the slow
pace of the sleepy sentinel, and think
ing that Miss Dogan, in picking me out
as a military looking man Of high
rank had beer prophetic.
A sneaking memory of picture rep
resenting Napoleon Bonaparte with
folded arms and his head bent under a
load Of responsibility flashed across
my mind. I was not exactly in a
trance, but simply uplifted, suppose.
However, the feeling was short lived,
for happened to remember that had
the same feeling some years ago In
New York city, when met two pleas
ant gentlemen on Broadway, and soon
after I told them my name and where
was from, they knew lots Of my peo-
pie and friends and was delighted to
po with such pleasart fellows until I
found myself in close place In
gambling den. Since then I find 1t a
very dangerous thing to be over pleas
ed with anybody or anything and
quickly came to myself and got down
to my every day bearings.