The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
TWO BROTHERS.
One te His Bride and 0ns ts His
 Death.

One te His Bride aAd One te Ills Death.
 Lieutenant Joshua L. Moses was tho | elder of two brothers who fought | throughout the Confederate war. their
 noble. brave mother 50 full of patriot | ism sending them forth with aching
 heart and smiling countenance. charg- ing them to do their duty in defense of their beloved Southland.
 Three of her sons were only seven
 teen when she gave them up for her country. God give each youthful arm the power he gives to men of might. prayed this patriotic mother as she blessed and sent them out one by ono
 to battle for. the right. But of
 all her brave. manly boys the one nearest and dearest, the pride. glory
 and joy of her heart. was her first
 born: and well he might be for all
 who knew him proclaimed him one of natures noblemen. Mrs. o. H.
 Moses was called the Spartan Mother of South Carolina, she was 50 brave
 and loyal.
 Lieutenant Joshua Moses in com
 mand of Culpepper's Battery was sta Lieutenant Perry Moses; the latter was just about to be married to charming girl of New Orleans but the i fights of Spanish Fort and Blakely were so imminent that not even his own wedding could tempt him to de-
 sert his post of duty, so his bride-elect
 had to repeat the words of old, said to Lucasta on going to war: T would not Hove thee dear. loved not honor more." | During the first day of that last bloody, fatal battle, Perry Moses was
 wounded and sent back into the city; as soon as he became sufficiently con- valescent they were married but such a sad. sad wedding, his bride in name only had to go one way, while he
 was torn away from her captive not knowing if they would ever meet again; but they are now living in the midst of a large, happy family of children and grandchildren.
 As Lieutenant Perry Moses was be- ing married his brother. Joshua, was slowly but surely meeting his death. After nine days bravely fighting to hold the fort he was overpowered by numbers and forced to osurrender-first' then he was ruthlessly killed by sharpshooters, the Yankee officer re- proved his men for shooting so brave | a man. Lieutenant Moses only lived | a few moments and his last thought
 was for his men. He said. For Gods sake spare my men. they have sur | rendered." He was deccntly buried where he fell by the enemy, he and | his three comrades who shared his fate.
 At the same hour he was shot his | brother was being married. Such IS war.
 For six weeks after his death the | family did not know of 1t. they thought he had been taken prisoner and sent to Ship Island with his bridegroom broth | CT and the rest of his company. Who 1 can describe the anguish of that moth- | CTS heart when the cruel fact was made known to her? Her remaining | children had to remind her that they | still lived and craved her mothers love. She seemed so heartbroken 1t was months ere they dared to turn the face | of his portrait from the wall, for the sight of his beloved countenance was | too much agony. Years after the war the brothers came and found the body and removed 1t with the three com rades to our Soldiers Rest" with the | kind permission of the Memorial Asso- citation, where now lie the remains of Lieutenant Moses and his three com rades in one grave. His sister had a stone erected in love and admiration; he was the idol of her heart.
 After Time. that great healer, sent to poor mortals by a merciful God. had soothed the anguish of a stricken mother in Israel, Mrs. o. H. Moses, she wrote some lines on the death of her beloved son.
 The last lines of the poem allude
 to those renegade sons, one especially
 who turned radical and robbed her na- tive State, South Carolina, which later was redeemed by our war lion, Cover
 nor Wade Hampton. Mrs. Moses was
 among the first to organize a Memo rial Association in her native South Carolina, and was President up to the
 time of her death. She never ceased to mourn for her first born, but as she wrote me once: Though my heart Is
 often oppressed by sorrow, so many
 rich blessings are still mine I do not
 allow myself to repine."
 She has now gone to her eternal rest
 and found her beloved son where there
 is no more parting and sorrow. Let
 us hope that she is reaping the reward
 of the blessed.
 "How Jim Crow Went to War;"
 While our South Carolina cousins
 were deep in the fray at Blakely Island,
 our boys of Columbus, Ga, were called
 out to help defend the bridge connect
 ing Girard with Columbus. When the
 cry of troops, troops. to defend the
 bridge went wild through the town.
 children and women wanted to rush on