Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-15

his attack upon Ines camp, and the
death of Hugh Habersbaw by bis
own hand, and finally the death of
Jim Curry, are all narrated pretty
much AS they occurred, in the old
Veterans own language: "There Ia
a heap of truth in it, though the
writer has nightly furnished it up"
That the names of Butler Mildred
Lindsay, Mary Musgrove, John Ram
sey, Hugh Habershaw, Jim Curry,
and, in fact, almost every other used
in the book, with the exception of
his own, are real and not fictitious.
His own name, he informed us, is
James, and that he did not go by the
familiar appellation by which be is
now SO widely known until after the
war, when he acquired it from the
form of his plantation in the Horse
shoe Bend of the Fair Forest Creek,
which was bestowed upon him by the
Legislature of South Carolina in
consequence of the services he had
rendered during the war this estate,
we understood him to say, he still
owned.
He was born, he says, in 1859, in
Virginia, and entered the army in
his seventeenth year. Before the
clcse of the war, he says, he com.
manded troop of horse, 80 that his
military title is that of captain.
Horseshoe, although in infirm health.
bears evident marks of having been
man of great personal strength and
activity. He is now afflicted with
troublesome cough, which, in the
natural course of events, must in
few years wear out his aged
frame. Yet, notwithstanding his in
firmities and g, neral debility, his eye
still sparkles with the fire of youth
as he recounts the stirring and thrill
ing incidents of the war, and that
sly, quiet humor so we'll described by
Kennedy, may still be seen playing
around his mouth, as one calls to his
recollection any of the pranks he
was wont to play upon any of the
"tory vagrants," as he very properly
styles them.
The old gentleman received us
with warm cordiality and hospitality !;
and after partakipg of the bounties
of his board and spending night
under his hospitable roof, we took
leave of him, sincerely wishing him
many years of the peaceful enjoy
ment of that liberty which he fought
80 long and 30 bravely to achieve. 1t
will not be uninteresting, we hope,
to remark that the old hero still con-
siders himself soldier, though the
nature of his warfare is changed he
is now jealous promoter of the Re-
deemer's cause as he once was in Sc
curing the independence Of his
country.
Since the above was in type, we
have heard of the death of the aged
partner of this venerable patriot.
An obituary notice will be found in
another column.
The novel, Horseshoe Robinson, is
interesting reading, even in this criti-
cal and blase twentieth century.
Judge A. B. Meek, fine literary
critic, says that "Mr. Kennedy, the
author of Horseshoe ROBINSON ihas
in that inimitable Tale of the Tory
Ascendancy' in South Carolina,
proved the suitableness of American
subjects for ficticious composition of
the most elevated kind. Although
in his incidents and characters he
has done little more than presented
a faithful chronicle of facts, using
throughout the yeritable names of
persons and places as they were
stated to him by his hero himself,
yet such is the thrilling inter-
est of the story, the vivid
pictures of scenery, manners,
customs and language, the striking
contrasts of characters and the per-
vading beauty and power of style