The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-04-07

Brown came we made up enough
money to send them both home,
each private giving two dollars,
non-commission officers giving three
dollars and commission officers
giving five dollars. We could not
send one home and leave the other.
These men died in my tent and
why they were not sent to some
hospital i can not tell.
We arrived at Salem church ON
Sunday evening, May 3rd; the
church being situated in the fork Of
cross road, the 18th regiment
took a position in the road to the
right of the church, and Gen. Will
cox, Alabama Brigade in front and
left OF the church. We sent out
pickets and i'll short time the
YANKEES came on, and the pickcts
opened fire on them. On thcy
came, the picket line keeping up a
good fire, and rctreating back at
the same time behind our line.
Wilcox's men were lying down in
the road unobscrvcd by the foe.
when of a sudden they arose and
poured vollcy in their ranks and
killed so, around the church thcy
rctreatcd back one company of the
10Th on the extreme left fired into
them as they were getting away.
by this time night was coming on
and few shots were heard from
the picket line during the night.
The next morning everything SEEM
eel to be at stand still until late in
the afternoon, Gen. Farley was
holding them in check at Fred
cricksburg. Just before night VIC
were ordered to advance and take a
battery which was shclling us. The
pines and bushes being very thick
we could not move far before we
would have 10 stop and form a new
line, here occurred an amusing in
cident. Jonathan George was in
the front rank and> Columbus
Worthy was his file leader behind
him, when the shells commenced
to knock..off tree tops, and falling
about, and every time one would
come Jonathan would dodge or
squat, which impcded Worthy's
progress. whcrcupon Worthy abused
Jonathan for dodging, urging him
to go on and keep out of his way at
the same time using some rough
language which made us bows gig
gle. not knowing nor caring for the
danger we were in. a few moments
later we got orders to go left, OBJ
llque in order to form junction
with Gen. Earlcy's division and
press the Yankees to the river. Our
colors was carried between Co. III.
William Vandcrford was color bear
cr and a good one he was too, for
he was tall and stout and had sand
enough in his craw to carry that
flag anywhere he was ordered. Just
at this time Capt. Warren of Co.
d., did not understand the order
and kept going straight forward un-
til his company ran above the col
ors'and -got all tangled up. At
this time Colonel Jo-
scph F. Gist seemed to get excited
and Maj. Bill Gist one of the best
men we had in the army, quickly
observed the situation and assumed
command and got the men to their
places and on we went.
When we got out of that thickct
we came to an open place where
the timber had been cut year be-
fore and sprouts and vines had
grown up, myself and Alfred
Sprouse got tangled up with them
and we both got a good fall, he
with bruised knee and | with
skinned hand, but we quickly arose
and got to our places. BY this time
it was getting dark, and we were
then ordered by the left flank to
the plank road. We came to deep
ravinc where the YANKEES had been
lying all day, some of Co. III. going
on one side and some on the other
side. There was an old fallen down
shant there and Joe Bailey found
Yankic lying under it and made
him a prisoner, we went little
further and halted for few mo-
ments in that ravinc. The Yankees
had piled up lot of old clothes
and set them on fire and left. I
ramblcd the pockets of Yankee
coat, and found a white handled
razor and it was a jim-dandy one,
Henry Gault found part of a ham
of meat and gave it to Berry Cole
man to keep while he hunted for
more, all of a sudden we were call
ed to arms, and in q double ouick