The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16

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honestly like to see WARP"
Stonewall Jackson stood in deep
thought for several minutes, then
said slowly with dramatic emphasis
As Christian and gentleman l say
no. AS soldier say yes, / would
Ike to see war. Aud 'Stonewall'
Jackson's eyes flashed into fame as
he pronounced the word soldier
General Gordon's experiences are
graphically set forth in his "Reminis-
cences Of the Civil War" He was
mining coal in the mountains of three
States-Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama when the war came and he
raised company Of volunteers. They
wore 'coonskin caps and were called
the Raccoon Roughs, and became ia.
nous.
"Once in camp we kept the wires
hot with cgrams to Governors of
other States, imploring them to give
US chance. Governor Moore, of
Alabama, finally responded, gracious
ly consenting to incorporate the Cap.
tain Of the Raccoon Roughs' and his
coon-cappcd company into one of the
regiments soon to be organized.
1.-The reading Of this telegram
evoked from my men the first wild
rebel yell it was my fortune to hear.
Even then it was weird and thrilling.
Through all the stages Of my subse-
qucnt promotions and in all the battles
in which | was engaged this same ex-
hilarating shout from these same
trumpet-like throsts rang in my ears,
growing fainter and fainter 80 these
heroic men became fewer and fewer at
the end of each bloody days work
and when the last hour of the war
came, in the last desperate charge at
Appomattox, the few and broken rem
nants Of the Raccoon Rougbs were
still near their first Captains side,
cheering him with the dying echoes of
that first yell in the Atlantic camp"
In his account Of the beginning of
the Bull Run engagement General
Gordon says of General Eweil, the In
dian fighter, who at the last moment
went over to the Confederaoy:
He became very pious man in his
later years, but at this time be was
not choice in his manner of expressing
himself. He asked me to take hasty
breakfast with him just before he ex-
pected the order from Beauregard to
ford Bull Run and rush upon Mellow.
ellis left.
"His verbal invitation was in these
words: Come and eat cracker with
me. We will breakfast together here
and dine together in hell To a
young officer like myself, who had
never been under fire except at long
range, on scouting excursions or or
the skirmish line. such an invitation
was not inspiring or appetizing. but
Ewelrs spirits seemed to be in fut-
ter Of exultation.
IAN hour later, after I had been
recalled from my perilous movements
to feel Of the enemy I found Gen
eral Ewell, as I have said, almost fren-
zied with anxiety over the nonarrival
of the anticipated order to move to the
attack. He directed me to send to
him at once mounted man with
sense enough to go and find out what
was the matter. I ordered member
Of the Governor Horse Guard to re.
port Immediately to General Ewell.
This troop represented some Of the
best blood Of Virginia. Its privates
we're refined and accomplished gentle.
men, many of them university grad.
yates, who, at the first tocsin of war,
had sprung into their saddles as vol
unteers.
"As for myself" says General Cor
don, II was never in battle without
realizing that every moment might be
my last; but I never had PRESENT.
ment of certain death at given time
! or in a particular battle.
"There did come me on one occasion
feeling that was skin to d presenti-
ment. 1t was, however, the result Of
no supposed perception Of certain
coming fate, but an unbidden, unwel-
come calculation Of chances suggested
by the peculiar circumstances in
which 1 found myself at the time.
1t was at Winchester, in the Val
ley Of Virginia. My command wac
lying almost in the shadow of frown-
ing fortress in front, in which General
Milroy, Of the Union army, was
strongly intrenched with the forces