The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
A NOBLE HERO
Whose Remains Repose il the Gene
terry a: NewOerry, 5. c.
CALVIN cRozLER, AsON OF TEXAS
Story OF The Splendid HeroiSm OF a
Man Who Mas Murdered at
Newberry by Negro Fed
eCai Troopers

Newberry by Negro Fed
ecai Troopers.
Near the entrance to R2>emont
cemetery, this city. STANDS a mohu-
menU to the memory Of Calvin Gro
zier, a heroic son OF the Lone star
state, whose sacred remains rest oe-
meath. The story OF his Splendla ne
roism. which inspired hin 70 rlSk nlS
life to defend the honor OF South Car
olipa women. and to give that HE 10
save that Of an innocent man, anG OF
his murder by negro ruitianS who
wore the uniform OF the United states
army, is we'll told in The following
article by Octavia Zol,icotfer Bond,
which appeared 10 q recent issue CT
the News and Courier:
would be glad TO cat the Stop
from your kitchen" wrote Calvin
Crozier to bis mother when about to
leave the indianapolis military prison
in April, 1868.
To say that he was ''one Of Nor
gan's men" presents 20 the magma
ton the picture Of stalwart Ken
tucky trooper, which CroZier was not.
On the contrary be was rather BOY
ish looking Texan TOR h:s - years OF
age. Barely five feet, eight inches IN
height, slender. with IA r complexion
and dark brown hair. n had mlid
expression Of countenance which, eS-
cept for the Steely CLEAN. OF theS STEADY
blue ewes, was not SDgG estive OF the
bold and determined character OF the
captive Confederate. Few would have
taken him to be what be really was,
one Of the most daring Of Morgan 5
intrepid raiders. one. moreover: VINO
had been early seasoned in arms, an
Indian fighter on the border, under
Gen. Ross, just before the outbreak Of
the civil war. Especially did he ap-
pear now, at the end Of nearly two
years imprisonment and Ill treatment,
a. harmless creature. Almost starved
to DEATH" as be wrote his family,
sick and piSifully thin, he had hardly
the strength to button his faded gray
Jacket and walk out Of the prison
gates that lad been thrown open by
the surrender at Appomattox. The
type Of thousands who like himself
had fought for a principal with al his
might, and lost, he faced about and
began TO consider, in a daZed sort OF
wav, how he was TO reach home. Ah,
the Galveston home with its sunshine
and flowers and its tountiful board,
should he never see it again? How
clearly he remembered the patriotic
exalarion of spirit in which he hae
left it to ioin Goods Light Artillery
at Dallas in 1851. Well, too, he re-
membered the enthusiasm Of his hrst
great battle at Elk HorE, pea
RIDGE where brave NcCulluch fell,
the march eastward to Corinth, where
he was transferred to the command OF
Gen. Cans, as well as the reckless ar,
dor with which he had refused to re
turn to Texas when Cans was ordered
back, and had persisted in going for
ward to join John Morgan, where
there is more lighting"
Now all was changed. There were
no drums and flies, no comrades and
: worst of all. no hope. 1t was long
way to walk back to Galveston, ano
he was i'll. Yet the effort must be
made. For there alone might he tino
rest from his utter WEAKNESS in the
loving ministrationS Of father. moth,
e5 and two dear sisters, and possibly a
reunon with the five brave brothers
who, like himself, had dedicated al
to the South in the beginning OF the
great conflict. By slow stages the re-
turn was begun. Three States IN sue,
cession were crossed by the ragged.
foot-sore Confederate. With the help
of sympathizing compatriotS, many Of
whom had been left by the chances OF
war almost as destitute as himself, he
painfully pursued his journey. In the
"Ol6 North State a benevolent dec
tor was his good Samaritan, nursing
him back to comparative health by
weeks OF faithful care and enabling
him, with timely aid, to make the
rest If the journey home by rail. On
leaving the kind doctor, with CRATE
ful heart he proceeded to Newberry, io
South Carolina. Here be was half
way home and his thoughts turned
with increasing eagerness to the home
folks; for this was the native State OF
his mother, who came 0; hardy South
Carolina stock, but later knew to
dare the dangers Of the newer West
and brave the perilS OF surrounding
savages in Alabama. From here ne
had the traditional pioneer manhood
that made him the natural cham plOn
Of the defenceless, the il Stinctive pro-
tector Of women against all that was
brutal, low, strong or coarse. From
his Irish father be had the inpulsive
blood to strike swiftly ino freely for
the right.
DuS.ng the night Of Thursday,
September :, he reached NeWberry,
expecting to make close connection
with the south-bound lrain. In those
6isjointed reconstruction times
travel was not altogether safe for a
man, much less fer woman. E>peci-
ally was this true in Newberry, where
: the SD regiment Of I. s., negro
troops, under Col. Trowbridge, was en-
camped in an adjoining grove. There
fore, when two young women from
Orangeburg, S. c., going the same
route as himself, were placed in his
care by a fellow passenger Calvin
Crczier accepted the charge as sacred
trust. AS a gentleman should as a
manly Sou,herner would, he felt honor
bound to stand between them and
every danger.
Through an unfortunate accident
the train On which they were leaving
was derailed whether done by the
negro troops or not was never known
,oS &c r},ara were no Suita Die accom-