The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-31
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:OaGs, whore we fought on the morn
.ng the Sth Of May, l-"i. ""
wc.: moved from this position on the
.0lL TO one farther TO the right about
.hroo- uartcr, Of mile near Sroit-
3yivaaia courthouse and about half ii
mile 10 the left Of the horse shoe
Jcnd or The bloody angle. as il, is
,om monty called, where on the 18th
Of May McGowa brigade immortal
izcG itself by holding the angle for IS
hours in hand to- hand fight. | saw
owo men from the first regiment Of
this brigade at the infirmary the next
DAY after the battle with bruised
shoulders caused by rcbounding of
their guns Wilson Davenport and
John +. Golden.
On the morning of the 10th, as we
we're drawn up in line of battle just in
rear of battery, the shelling was
pretty lively. Shells passing directly
over us through the pine tops and
bursting over US made us want TO get
TO the works very bad, but we had to
wait aud let the other troops move
farther to 3he right. While We we're
in this position, at one time battery
Of the enemy's threw several shells
right over, bursting right at us.
There were some pits right in front Of
1s full of water; one man could not
stand it any longer-he made dive
for one Of these pits, and like frog
},e sank his body all but his head in
the water. Some of the boys laughed
=, him and called to him to come out;
la, he preferred to stay in it.
We were soon moved up and took
our position behind the works. We
had hardly gotten in position before a
ahell passed through the works and
struck one Of Co. K, mortally wound
ing him. His brother went to him TO
help him, and another shot passed
through the works at nearly the same
place, striking him in the head, tear
ing away his whole head. lie fell on
his brother; both were dead in few
minutes. That company was from
5pariauburg county, aud my recoiiec-
.ion is that these brothers name was
Wotford. During the shelling Young
Franklin, member Of the litter-bea
srs, tells story on himself. He had
been handling shovel and had just
passed the shovel over to another man
and he was lying down resting, when
ne noticed shell coming rolling to-
wards him splitting fire from the fnse.
He just spread himself on the ground
and waited for it to burst; he waited
sill he could stand it no longer and
made frog leap for the hole in the
ground, going in head foremost on the
other man. He said the other fellow
did some "saucy talk" to him, but he
did not take it to heart at all, for he
did not think him half as dangerous
as that shell. Strange to say that
shell never burst-thc fuse went
out.
During the day, while shooting at
some of the Yankees away over in q
deld to our right, my gun tube got
stopped up and it would not fire. I
got out my tube wrench and had ta-
Ken out the tube; when they got up a
considerable racket right in our front.
We expected line of battle on us
every minute. In the confusion and
excitement at the time l lost my gun
tube and never found it until after the
excitement was over. If the enemy
lad come on think I would have
done like the Irishman said when they
gave him bayonet: "Well, begorra;
if they don't run before I reach them
with this thing I will run meself."
On the night OF the 10th the ene.
my's sharp.shooters came nearly up to
our picket line and dug little pits in
the ground, just large enough to hold
one man. Rightin front Of these pits
they would place u box filled with
dirt and rocks, with rocks placed un-
der it to hold it two or three inches
off the ground. They would lie in
these pits and poke their guns under
shese boxes of dirt aud shoot at US.
We could nat see them aud if we
showed our heads above the works the
chances were we would get hit. One
man By the name of jenkins, right to
cur left, kept shooting, attracting
their Gre to that point. 1t annoyed
Lieut.. j. G. Wilson, and he told the
man to stop, he was doing no good;
but the fellow persisted in shooting
regardless Of Lieut.. Wilson's order.
After awhile he stuck his head little
too high, and bullet passed through