Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-08-03
50 MEN IN 50 MINUTES.
LETTER r GEN. LEE
HELD BY MAJOR LAMAR
FONTAINE VOUCHES
FOR THIS ASSER-
TION.
OF a Famous 6OO-Un-
der Fire for Forty-two Days
at Morris Island Camp
During the War of the
Rebellion.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
Louisville, KY, Saturday.-One
of the unique and picturesque char
acJers who attended the Confederate
reunion here was Major Lamar Fon-
tainn, a survivor OF the immortal 600
who were under fire for;y-two days
1t Morris Island Camp, and who for
foi ty-one days existed on meal and
oickc,s.
OF the 600 prisoners only 218 sur
vived the sto+In of shot and shell
hurled from Confederate batteries,
the fde,ais having placed the pris-
oners in a howell between the co =,
lending armies. Major Foutaine
.as the only III to make his escape,
and accomplished it hy .swimlnllgi
seventeen miles in f~orty-nine hours.
He bars a letter from Gen. raj
tsober. E Lee, setting forth that On
me occasion he killed 50 men in 50
minutes. His prowess as a marksnan
l -IdfluS DCCA uhtASC1ICA OlI Liz nIu
| II battle or on the skirInistl line. He
was wounded sixty-saven times, and
ias scarce a boEie in his body Thai
ICES not bear the mark of a bullet.
lie is seventy-six years old, and
arel. misses a reunion.
Lamar Foltaine took p TT in TWEEN
) sever pitched battles, ifly-seven
70 Ny skirmishes aud a hu "dred
..dividutl skirmishes in which he
If ON o1e to five men killed or
' unded behind him, an individu i
cnd unequaled p rhaps in the
,nais of civilized warfare. He W1s
raj times captur, by the ftderaIs
Ill Was p &C f + two months or
lrc in the dungeon of Fort Della
:. . in solitary. confinement. He
Has sent from that prison, with siA
il tndr d comrades, to Charleston
lrbor, VIII. X the entire six hundred
cson"rswere placed und r fire of tn
nnf. derate batter es th4t surround
ii Charlest n Thf s. prisoners wer
uDssqu nty II moved to Fort Pulaski
here they werefed for forty-oneday
ia corn meal and pickles. The i'll AM
wound. d taken to Beaufort aud Hi
;, IN Head
For than fifty year Majo
+ontaine has been a close student O
archaeology and anthropology, visit
img N his researches China, Burmah
[ .1ia, Persia, Arabia Egypt, ever,
.,art of Mixico, and Central an
South America, besides most of tn
great islands of the Pacific He ha
-urveyed and made sketches of 20
= miles of the great Chinese wall; e4
plored the head waters of the Indus
the Ganges, Barmahpoutra and tn
Young-tse kiang. He was wit
- Bollingbroke is his treaty with China
with Kynch in the Holy Land, with
Maury in the famous congress {
maritime nations at Brussels, an
with Herndon in his scientific explC
Be- | Idt1Ou duA ou1 Wy VI tAO 6AuldLj
river.
& Major Fontaineis the possessor of
q curiou.ity in the shape of a cart
blanche on the Treasury of tho Con
fedorates States, which illustrates tn
OF confidence that was reposed i
Z him. The carte blanche reads a
i folloWs:-s'The Confederate State
Treasurer wiilhonor any draft pre-
: entsed to him signed by Lama
Fonaine."
hisdocumentis properly execute,
;. and bears the seal of the Confederat
States. He also has certificates froL
/ General r. E. Lee, General Stole
wall jackson, General r. S. Ewell
General j. E. Jolnson and Genera
5 J. E. B. Stewart testifying to hi
4 deadly Workmanship on the field {
battle and on the skirmish line. Tn
: certificate of General Robert e. LIE
5 shows that he killed sixty mea i
one hour.