The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-08
CLAIMS The BRIDE
OF HIS YOUTH AFTER FORTY
YEARS sEPAR ALTON.
a War Story That Beads Like it
Vas Tak.n Cut of a
Story Book.

Augusta Chronicle says people at the
terminal station Thursday noticed ao
:gsd man, feeble in body, gray, hesi-
tatlng in walk and manner, leave a
north G org,a train. H. passed
through tie city, staring at the busy
streets and tall skyscrarers In perfect
gon6 6erment. H. seemed afraid,
am; ia, cut Of place, Doystifed. On
II 1qllry it was found that the aged
passenger had but few Gays ago
came from living death. he had
Just complete q term Of thirty nine
years service in northern per1.en
tiary. He was on his way to Carters-
vile. where he went to fno the wife
be left over forty years ago, to 60 and
fight for his country; a wife sho lad
taken him to be dead, and had mar.
ried again and considered herself no~
second widow.
The aged man was Anderson Pitt.
man, formerly Of Habershan county,
This State. In 1863 then young
man, be kissed his young wife good
bye, and, j inins a local company,
vent away to fight the battles OF the
South. For months regular letters
reached the young woman from her
fond husband: Finally, cns day, they
ceased TO arrive.
The battle Of Chickanauga had
been fought few days before, and
Pittmsns regiment had been che
against which Sherman had thro Tr
his brigades Many brave Southern
ers were left on the field. But that
is history. Pittman's wife believed
that be had died with others. Bat
she waited, and grieved and longed
Her aIdow's weeds were doom ed In
sadness, and the years rolled by. Tte
husband came not nor wrote.
One day a neighbor wooed and WOE
her. Surely Anderson was dead, she
thought, and married again. Sac
lived happily several years and one
Gay her new husband, man by the
name Of Whttton, was Ailed by a
man WHO accused him of informing
the authorities of bis Illicit distilling
operations.
But Andersen was not dead. He
vas among those taken prisoner by
the northern bordes, and was sent
away to q northern he'll house OF con-
6nemsnt. Oas day near the time
when he should have been exchanged
be resented the mistreatment OF a
prison cf6 ,er and killed him.
| He was taken away into civil court
and tried. Little wonder Is there
when the prejndices Of the time are
considered that be ever escaped with
his life. But life confinement. wa;
pss portion. To penitentiary be
was sent to serve his sentence. The
right of communication with lovs6
ones and friends was denied.
Thirty. nine long years be spent be
hind prison bars, knowing nothing o.
the mighty progress his section hao
made In the meantime. Ooe day
like the Fsahrt ot,the Marshelsea o.
old, his release came, and be founc
himself out in cold, strange world
with most OF his life behind him.
His thoughts TUNED homeward
and back to the Hills OF Hsbershan
and to the V .llsys Of Hall" be came
he arrived there a few days ago, the
modern type OF Rip Y.n Winkle'
startling all the natives, few OF whom
remembered him. q i'd that bill
wife was In Gainesville. and an ole
friend of his former captain assisted
him in, reaching that place.
I There, it is stated, he found hi
wife connected with the family .o1
General Granger. She didn't know
hin, though he called her by the
name OF old, but in tone softened by
the enforced lisp OF prison life. How
ever. she recognized him by q ws1t or
the forehad, and the two who hao
parted IN the halcyon days OF youth
met in the autumn OF old age, ano
will spend the remainder OF Their
lives as God first intended they should.
man and wife. And here let US draw
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