The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-24

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| $50 'iiu l Ielt that his life must ba
saved, and got between the nistoI
ninsa thi /. scarborough who had lust
| ~ 60, ms eyes, and given himself mn
GOOD In ne was brave man. He said
| YOU VIII be merciful To my eo,,i ~
hhoWs that l am taken s1ddan,,, az
| ny NY Siis. MY poor wife and chiIdrs,,t,,
| Ailey ordered me away hnf 7 49,
ased 10 stick it out. thongb - -
bandS o 20 KNOW that a pistol in The
| ioi, u drunken man was at no,
back. He changed his ,,;ra 81 my
| KllIlng Mr. SCARBOROUGH A. =, 1oout
OF week Of intense misarr, o eiie elo
prehension by night and hy Az. "p-
ned away, as have said early ~ the
| inorHins DeIoIe the camp was awake
! We did not return home to live e..
| eighteen months, but one Of on Lor
fugees was an English woman ana
when these troopers came to cot g.
to the house, she saved it by cIainoina
the protection of the British flag
AS we hurried on our way. two of
| the girls bareheaded, we heard the
guns of the battle of Bakers Creek.
| We heard them for hours, our men
We're falling back on Vicksburg, the
sound veering in that direction. We
saw something of the grimnesS of war,
when the wounded from the North
| Georgia battle fields were brought to
Macon. Our father took US down to
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of bandages and lint, and all the shirts
that he could spare, and food and
! pots of hot tea. Other women were
there with baskets of fruit and food.
The wounded were laid in long rows
| on each side of the railroad track
IN the station house. They had lain
on the battle field two days and dur
ing that thine had had neither food
nor drink. The surgeons had dressed
their wounds on the field, but they
were now stiff and sore. They were
Shot in every part of their bodies.
Under our fathers directions we
! dressed many wounds. Two moor fell
lows were stone blind, both eyes shot
out. One man had been wounded in
the nose It was swollen as big as
his fist. He said he had been shot
in the nose three times Two lads.
both handsome, and looking like gem
/ tlemen'S sons had been shot through
the head, and were crying out in de-
lirium, both dying. One said "Kiss
me mother" / touched the woman
next him, and said: why don't YOU
kiss him?' She answered, 81 passed
my hand over his lips, and that
| seemed to satisfy him." / wonder if
! she has ever forgiven herself for not
kissing that boy! I am sure that 1
have never forgiven myself for not
pushing myself to his side and kissing
him. Not groan or a cry escaped
one of those wounded except those
who were delirous. But they bitterly
resented that General Johnston had
been removed from the chief COM
mand. 1--WE would have followed Gen
eral Johnston anywhere" they said.
Years after the war | spoke of this
to General Johnston, and tears rush.
ed to the old warriors, eyes
We nursed the sick and wounded
in the hospitals and were met with
h1pCCin iad
my little sisters went from house to
house begging flowers. We tried to let
no soldier go to his grave without a
flower, for we knew he was some
body's darling.
A dinner to General Breckenridge,
and a visit from General Johnston
were two of our proud war memories.
Another proud memory to me is that
l walked the deck of the Merrimac
before she went down to her magnifi-
cent fight in Hampton Roads, vic
tory that in four short hours sunk
the Cumberland and burned the Con-
gress, and drove the armored Monitor
for refuge under the guns of fortress
Monroe, fight that revolutionized for
ever the construction of the navies of
the world.
The most astounding and unlocked
for news of my entire life was that
General Lee had laid down his sword
/ simply did not believe one word of it,
II believed to the last, along with an
the other Southern women. that the
South was bound to succeed, to believe
anything else was traitorous.
One of our war experiences was
keeping house for two weeks in q box
car We were coming back home
from Georgia. The journey consum-
ed two weeks because our engine al
ways stopped US at night, and also
at all the cities for a day or two.
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wants. We bought provisions in the
towns and they cooked nice hot meals
alongside the track. We had beds
tables, rocking chairs, books, and
work baskets Even the cat had not
been left behind, she belonged to the
naval branch of the service, and was
given me by one of Captain Eggles-
toms sailors. She personally had new
er smell gun powder but all her fam
lily, her mother, brothers and sisters
had gone down to the fight in Mobile
Bay, and been captured by the North
Tern fleet in the gunboat Gaines.
1t seems a strange thing to say. but
all that party look back on that trip
as the most comfortable ever made
by rail. While we were eating and
sleeping and talking, and now and
then receiving a visitor, our servants
were improving the fleeing moments
by the most tremendous religious re-
lexhortations, and singing overpowered
the noise of the engine and train, day
and night it seemed to 20 on.
A pleasant incident on that journey
was a breakfast sent us by a former
neighbor as we were Ling near Coz
lumbus, Georgia. l must enumeraIe
the viands. all or nearly all were deli
cacies at that stage of the war. There
was real coffee, with real sugar to
sweeten it (not sorghum SYRUP bis
cults of real wheat flour, butter
though it was selling at four dollaTt.
ia poundl broiled chicken beef steak
and fried potatoes. We did not leave
a crumb! and every member of that
party maintains to this day that
there never was, nor ever can be as
fine a breakfast as that one.
It is now forty years since all
these scenes were enacted. / feel to
this day, and l speak for nearly every
Southerner whom / have heard express
an opinion that it is we'll the war
ended as it did. 1t was always nv
fathers opinion that If the South had
succeeded that secession would have
been but the beginning of many Sc
ressions and we should have hean