The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20
I Nav lO.S1864,

Rlt 3-4 Of q mile farther to- the
it and near to Spottsylvania, with
kfford Is brigade Of our division on
2 right, resting on A. p. Hills left.
sP. Hills corps reached from our
q! IS for some distance past Spottsyl-
ia. .l.I, s.:
As we came up TO the place we
IKE to take, We had to wait for the
pps that were there to move farth-
Sto the right. The enemy found out
1--WE were moving about, and began
lshell the pines. We were back in
pines behind the lines. The shells
0Hld pass over the works and come
kkSk and burst over us, which made it
Ahighty unpleasant while we stayed
Ahsle. Young Franklin, one Of the
litter bearers, says, he was trying to
Rifhimself hole to get in, he had
Just $passed his shovel over to another
faan and was resting when he saw a
liSe shell come rolling towards him,
HRStting fire. He lay flat and waited
that shell to burst until he could
stand it no longer, 80 he made dive
36gs the hole and went in head fore
HQst on the man, knocking him over.
said the fellow talked mighty sau-
N but he had no time to argue, but
stTange to say, that shell never burst
81 AS we marched up to the works,
Ws had to wait little. There was a
little fellow who lost control Of his
nerves (as Doc Spence says,) and he
jnmped into a rife pit full of water
Hnd sank himself in the water. Some
6fsthe boys called to him to come out,
hit he could stand the water better
tKRn he could the shells. just as we
Got into position behind the works,
Shell passed through and tore off q
man IS shoulder. His brother came to
help him, and while bending over him,
a1other shell passed through the
works, almost at the same place, and
s&t off his head, he fell on his brother
and in few minutes both were dead.
ISthink their name was Wofford. This
and sharp shooting was kept
apSall the time through the 10th and
ssss'While here, the yankee sharpshoot-
ata OH the night Of the 10th, which
MN very dark, rainy night, with
stIDng northeast wind blowing, came
iSliSsverv cloen tn our picket line, and
dGg rifle pits: large enough for one
man man to lie in with box full of dirt
aBE up on rocks that would hold the
bSx up just high enough for them az
they lay in the pits to poke their
asins under. They could see every
jfaHHove we made after daylight, and it
any man showed his head above the
Works if he did not move quick would
c8tch a bullet. I was out on the vi
dattc line the night they came and
dug the pits. I. don't think ii was
more than thirty steps from where l
SfSod, a yankee came and dug a pit
aud next morning at day he was in it
sssaady FOR business. He must have
done his work ut night while it was
Mining so hard, for it was so close
Mould have heard him. All the next
Iay they kept us down behind the
SV&iorks so close that we could not see
Mat was going on in front. They an
Moved our artilleries so that they
Sonld not work their guns. There was
iio IIS occasion for us to expose ourselves
;0Shstle nth, as there was no fighting
aiong the line. There was little fell
i6% fiS in the third battalion whose curl
soSSity was SO grcat that he had to see
Whnt was going on at the risk of get
8;i,g shot. He had been ordered to
fs,ttol, s,ttol,, as he was drawing the fire of
so Mt last he stuck
Ris head up and let it stay a little too
iiong, and one of the sharpshooters
Slot him through, the mouth, knock
i1ig ii out some Of his teeth and clipping
iis tongue. He was warning to- tho
balancc of us. We were forced to be
still, and naturally we would go to
sleep. 7 was lying near a battery OF
fonr guns, it was about the middle Of
Ire evening, the sun was warm and
IN 'i clothes were still wet from the
Waiting I had gotten the night be-
Yore OIL the picket line, and I had fall
defi asleep. The artilleries could see
||asbody of enemy moving to our right,
Itaey opened all the guns on them at
once. I jumped up, thought the yam
'Eses were on us, and without stopping
Raj see what was going my way, I
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