The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-24
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$parker's Battery Will Tent, Tent |
Agaii1HonH the .] Battle
u 58f5f field.
PLAY 8 CARDS AT s;fRlNG
Tobacco and Coffee Were the
TX. Stake Between Bite and "a
Cray e. s

r TIE Parker Battery Association held q
regular meeting a few days ago al the.
ON &c OF Cuptain$J u. Thompson Brown, on
Main Street. Some OF the old boys gtl'.it
y not answer there" when tie roll ;sXns
culled--tley lad passed over the river r !. x;
nut some OF them are left, and thuy
4 decided ut this meeting to hold the ems
nunl reunion rs OF yorc nrd TO hold 5:t
at the usual place, on the 40 = Wet
Line.' near the Hewlett tIousc. ,llt t.
the battery stood during the defense u
nichmond. and I where they were sun-!
q nor ted Blythe Fifteenth and Seven teenth
Virginia Regiments. Nj
So This location was, 80 histor cally inter
estng that the oclntion pu v. q s'.
Z and owns the ground upon WI lch 4 their
battery stood, ind have erected a gram an
Ito shaft wtth&the simple Inscription Ic
thereon = Earker's nnttery. ana the
date It occupied TINT nositi
n When this battery moved N " e ~ t az
position they found I In their immediate
front church, known at that time s q y
"yyare Bottom Churcll..'..s ] t was located
edlately between the two Ines ana
5 standIng q IN 81 the way a OF their artillery
fire. This church was eupled ~ FED
oral sharp shooters, which consld FRA DIS
annoyed the Parker Battery.A deta eta
OF three men was made to go out 3 g t
night to burn the church. and thus 81 -
nj out or tile way. 1ifter nightfalls this
detail advanced beyond the $p cket Inc
ana h 81 cceedad Il In setting FIRE X to the
church. and then retired to their pi cket
limo to see 1t burn to the ground when
i was completed In q short space OF tine,
4 1t being frame church. \.
Y 1.-The three men that were detailed o. o.
this have arduous work. were sergeant
James NJ. Tyler. Corporal J. 5Verl ia nd Ll
4 and David AZ. Brown. the present quar- ill
terr11as ter OF the camp and the only sur
svivor OF the trio. IA .:$5s n
The Trysting Place.
b Be tween the church and the battery
there was avery large, masnific al
n spring. AT least six feet In ola meter ana
two feet deep. This spring was shelte reg
iii a valley between the two lines g z '' 9
was the trysting ground for both armies
u for there was q code OF ethics existing
3 between the two armies at this place that
4 either side could approach the spring II
N they came without arms. and here could
3beSseer, all day long tho Blue and era
assembling atisthis spring with large& can
teens to be filled with the cool water
and carried back to their respective lines.
4 Often on these occasions they ~. uld
StarryS too long and when the cause q
i the tarrying was ascertaineds It would te
q found that the boys in 81 Blue and 2. Gray Gray
we're playing cards at the spring; n mar 9.
X a. game OF poker and y seyen-upF decided
the "a ownership OF tobacco and coffee. sucll
familiarity existed betwee sthe two line! Incl
;#thatit had Z oFbe bro ken up and only !,
a. ~, Al 8 ;eGi to 70 from either line iand
y secure he waller. Around this grand old
ware Bottom Church spring and battery
enjoys Its annual reunion. ccasio ol1 "
X accompanied by the members OF the BIZ {.
tenth and Seventeenth Virginia and and the in
entire day is spent in fighting over the
battles and visiting the different ponts
Il Of interest ftherea bouts. Il,