The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-09-07
WAR STORIES.
E1xperience Of a Confederate Veteran at
Second Manassas.

far until we had to commence see.
saving backward firing and being fired
at IN way that was pretty warm.
Maybe there was some charging back
ward and forward, ani maybe there
was not. | cant say certainly about
that.
"Well, We were standing in line,
leading and firing as fast as ne could.
There was fellow right behind me,
j. Q. Montgomery, from this county.
lie was knecling down blazing away
and every time he would shoot his
gun barrel would kick against my leg.
| asked him to get further out for fear
he would shoot me. He said he would
not and kept on as before. Just as |
had fred shot happened to look
back and saw Montgomery apparently
in the agony Of death. thought he
had been killed outright; but learned
afterward that he did not die until the
next day, after he had been removed
to field hospital.
1t was not but little whilo until
bullet struck me in the right leg
down here between the knee and the
foot, breaking The small bone. That
settled me. | knew l was of no fur
ther use and using my gun for q
crutch, started for the rear. Before
l had gone thirty yards, l saw man
trying to ram down bullet that had
become fastened in his gun by chunk
ing the ramrod against tree. He
said, Here, gimme yer gun and take
this one. 1t won't shoot, but it'll do
as we'll for crutoh as yourn.' l
swapped guns with him, and although
| soon after realized that he could not
have but one shot, because my ammu.
milton was different from his, did
not try to 60 back to tell him. don't I
suppose l could have done so, as it
was not long before 1 went down una
BILE to 60 any further.
Within few minutes after be.
came exhausted one Of our men came
along, picked up my empty canteen
and put all the water he had in it.
Another man came along and did the
same thing, and others stopped to see
whether or not had water. The SOL
dier boys were kind to each other as o
rule.
while | was lying at the foot Of a
tree there came change in the tide
of battle. Our men had to give back
before the Yankees who were coming
forward at the double quick. got
on the same side Of the tree with our
own men. There came volley that
threw dirt and leaves all over my face
and head. l crawled around to the
other side Of the tree, and there came
q volley from the Yankees that cut
the bark all around me. It began to
look like there was no safety any
where, and between you and me I was
real scared.
"On came the Yankees in long
line at charge bayonets. They look
ed like they were going to sweep
everything before them and I was
pretty sure that they would have a
good opportunity to sweep me. 1 did
not care much now, anyhow, but il
anything 1 was still scared. I told
them that was wounded aud unarmed
and they need not kill me. Ono of
them replied: If you had not come
here, damn you, could have stayed
at home. But they opened ranks,
and were careful not to step ON me.
"The first line had hardly passed
before others came along in the same
direction, and some others stopped and
three of them held consultation and
decided that it would not do for me to
lie there aud bleed to death, so they
made pack saddle of their hands,
lifted me up and started of to the
rear that way. I had an arm around
the neck of one man on tie right and
another on the left, while third came
along behind carrying my haversack
still Glled with the provisions brought
from Manassas junction. Before we
got very far l tainted, and the next
thing l knew two men were standing
over me pouring a stream of water in
my face. The soldiers who had taken
me- from the battlefield had secured
an ambulance and brought me back to