The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-01-09
Greenville, Tennessee, March 10.


up BY Newmarket and MorristoW1l
to Greenville where we had calnped
for some time doing nothing, but
picket duty and to be near Bulls
, gap, this is the gap through which
the Knoxville railroad passes from
Lvnchburg by Bristol, Greenvllle
and On to Knoxville. On the 10th
at dress parade that evening or
ders were read out for :every SOL
der to clean up hin1slf and his gun
and to put on their best looks for
the 18th for we were to be inspect
ed and reviewed bv an officer sent
Out BY the war department. from
Richmond.
The war departlneat wanted to
see what sort of fix we we're in to
commence the campaign. The 18th
everybody spent in getting ready
for the review. On the morning. OF
the 18th about IoEa. m, we. were
marched out into a large field and
formed into brigades and brigades
into divisions. Our division that
was ATcLaw's were all in. one field.
General McLaws had been taken
from his division and assigned to
duty in this state. We had not seen
him for some time and did not know
he was to be there that day and
when the old general came riding
up with General Longstreet his old
division eheered him till General
Longstreet had to ask the boys to
hush. The old general bade us
good bye with tears in his eyes and
said he had no fears for us, for we
had neved hinched yet. 1t was a
touching scene. I don't think there
was dry eye in the division.
General McLaws spent the night
after the review in Greenville and
nearly the whole division turned
out to serenade him. We had the
bands from the four brigades. We
had two Georgia, one Mississippi
and one South Carolina brigade;
each vieing with one another to see
which could do the most.
On the morning Of the review
lust as we reached the field all OF
the spectators were crowding to see
who could get the best position.
There were two men from Co. & Of
the 3rd S. C. regiment, Henry Rea-
gin and Tom Stillwell, who had
been on guard duty the day and
night before. they were excused
from duty that day. They had gone
out with the spectators along with
two Young ladies by the name OF
Williams. who were Secessionists,
and came up from Morristown and
taken refuge at Greenville. This
portion of Tennessee was a hotbed
of bushwhackers and abolitlon1sts
and had very little love for the Con-
federate soldiers. These two SOL
diers with these young ladies were
on foot and had gotten good place
in the front and the carriages and
horsebackers were kept in the rear
A carriage: came up in their rear
and some one from the inside told
the coachman to drive over the
trash. He cracked up his horses
and they jumped forward knocking
down one of the ladies and would
have trampled on her if Stlllwell
= had not seized the horses by the
brides and set them back. Reagln
ran around and snatched the whip
out OF the coachnaf's hand and
gave him rap or two over the head
and made him back out from there
and go somewhere else. 1t turned
out there were only two Young Ia
dies in the carriage by the name of
Williams, also, and they werec ous-
ms to the two Young ladies they
we're trying to run over. They had
on one or two occasions before in
suited them because they were Sc
cessionists. They called the two
soldiers rebel dogs and the young
4 o.,I loft tna a.