The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-06-01

| other trees, which he hacked down
and hew"d into Slabs with the ind;s- |
pensable pole axe. He fashioned these
chairs according to his own fastidious
tastes, bored round holes in them
somehow and furnished them with
legs, arms and backs that looked like
they had been through planning ma
chine and turning lathe. But per-
haps it was on brar root pipes that he
exemplitied the Projections of his
tastes and reached the highest achieve
ments OF bis art. Many Of thefe 9
pipes, fashioned and finished with =
pocket knife, would have looked well
in Won Santen's bazaar or done honor
to showcase on Broadway. If he
did not smoke himself some favorite
officer would probably be compliment
ed with this exquisite production OF
the pocket knife; otherwise he enjoy
ed it hi.'self and seated in his arm
chair beiorea good FIRE in his quar-.
ters with plenty of tobacco, which the
army usually had, he whitfield away
the wintry hours; with apparently
nothing to disturb his equanimity or
ruffie his serenity, except perhaps
the dread Of call to guard or picket
duty.
Such was the typical Southern
soldier in camp as kne him in 1863.
What he was in'battle the Tcrld has
already heard and the world will con-
tinue to hear for ages to come. For
though the pen Of the historian may
be dipped in gall and guided by the
hsnd OF prejudice to ditcort, discoIor
and suppress the details, there are yet
some stupendous facts that tower like
gigantic pillars of cloud before the
gaze Of mankind that can never be
distorted, disoolored nor dissipated.
The partisan historian may sooths
his wounded pride with the harmless
looking euphemism that Mcclellan
only changed his base from the Pa
munkey TO the james when his i'm
mense and superbly equipped army was
hurled out Of it's formidable intrench-
ments, driven in confused mass from
the Chickahominy and left huddled
and covering under the protection of
feet of gunboats at Harrison's 8
Landing; he may deny the Confed-
crates defeated two combined armies
at Second Manassas; they ewept from
the plains of Fredericksburg the
mightiest army vet brought into the
field, and whipped three to one at
Chanoellorsville on ground chosen
and fortified by their antagonist-he
may distort or deny all this and more
in the same category, but so long as
the world gazes upon the stupendous
and all-convnoing facts that the Fed
erals brought into the field 2,679, ,557
men against an army of less than 6OO,-
OOO Confederates, that the war cost
the United States ten millions of dol
lars and nearly one million of human
lives, and that it took this immense
host, supported by this fabulous sum
OF money, four years to crush the life
out of the little Southern Confed-
eracy-so long as these facts stand,
and they will stand forever, just so
long will the brave and generous of all
nations and of all times contemplate
with wonder and admiration the
name and fame of the Confederate
soldier.
81 have attempted to give you
slight picture of the typical Confed-
crate when off duty; there was anoth-
er type which two of our Southern
poets have embalmed and immorts.
lised in song, that Of the boy soldier.
Nearly every company had him in it's
ranks, q fair.haired, tenderly-raised
boy, often Of fewer than sixteen sum.
mers, the pride Of his mother and sis.
ters, full Of the simple faith and art
less ways Of childhood, pet and o
favorite among che men, enlivening
the weary march with his childish
glee and proving a veritable hero in
battle. He was not demanded, hard
ly wanted, in the army during the
first years Of the var But he man
aged to get there in spite of inspecting
officers and anxious parents.
"Young as the youngest he donned the
gray,
True as the truest that wore 1t,
Brave as the bravest. he marched away.
(Hot tears on the oheeks of his mother
lay,l
Triumphant waved our flag one day
He fell In the front before it.
In the solemn shades of the wood that
swept