The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08

soldiers In peeping and looking around | eVerywhere to see what they could find, spled the potatoes. Then they ran to
 Aunt Grace and ordered her to get all the sacks she could find for them to fill ! With potatoes. There happened to he | over two hundred. large white domestic | sacks In the house, which may dear old
 mother, my sister (Mrs. DeArmond) and
 l had made for father to use in shipping | flour. Aunt Grace would have saved them
 If she could. They had been committed | to her care. She said '.1 got no sacks | for you. what use you tink I got for sacks?' but in prying round they came across the sacks, and in great glee went | to filling them with potatoes, dried fruit, or which mother had several bushels, and other things that they wanted. They tcok all of the potatoes except a few bushels of small ones which they had thrown aside. After they had gone away father went out to look around to see if they had left anything. and on looking Into the cellar he said well they have left about enough potatoes for seed for next year. While some of the blue coats were sacking potatoes. others were in the smoke house where father had five hum dred pounds of bacon. all of which they took. l suppose they thought that was all the meat we had, but as father was a little apprehensive that a raid might
 be made on his farm, he had taken the precaution to hide a hogshead of sides
 and hams up stairs in the dwelling house
 He had also put thousand pounds of
 flour up there too.
 Whether they did not think of coming Into the dwelling or not I can not say
 but they came Into no part of 1t. except the kitchen and dining room, SO every thinQ in the other roOrns vpra aavad
 Every one of my five brothers were
 in the Confederate army My eldest brother. Dr. w. c. Brandon, was sur geon in the Virginia army. my second
 brother. MT John w. Brandon went out as a private soldier. also in Vir-
 ginia, and remained so until after he was elected to the Legislature from his home county Cherokee. Ala. My
 third brother, Rev. F. T. J. Brandon. also belonged to the Virginia army. He went from this county as first lieu tenant of a company, but after getting to Virginia was promoted to chaplain. My two younger brothers. Rev. James
 F. and Hines H. Brandon belonged to the Western army and were in several hard fought battles. They were so ex- posed for several days during the bat tie of Shiloh that they soon afterwards 
 of them recovered. Brother James died first. at hospital in Mississippi; Brother Hines partially recovered, got a furlough and started home. and got as far as Gainesville. Ala. was carried to the hospital at that place. and. died that night, among entire strangers, ex- cept one man. whom he had seen be- fore, and was from our county.
 This man. Mir. Blair. was one of the nurses in the hospital. and as soon as he learned that Brother Hines was from Cherokee county, he went to him, and remained with him during his few remaiping hours. Mir. Blair wrote and also told us about 1t after the war was over He said that brother was so weak that he could not talk much but all that he said. was something about home. home. home. He was only about 21 years of age. and my mothers baby boy. He knew that he had started to his earthly home. But he reached his heavenly home on the way, for he was a good. pure Christian boy. His little Bible was in hie pocket when he died. and Mir. Blair sent it home to my poor heart broken mother. After the war was over my mother sent ana had the remains of both of my brothers brought