The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-26

He was a fine companionable nan.
! Six or seven years ago / traced for
| him and finally located him way up
at White River, Colorado. He died
about three and a half years ago.
Last year in going to the New Or
leans reunion. L. C. V, / met his
brother Claude T. Foreman OF Nor
folk. I then met him again at the
| Richmond reunion and then went to
| Norfolk and was his guest for a couple
OF days.
Did you go TO the Richmond reunion?
| Sure IL was grand and I shall always
be glad that | a with the old fell
lows who As years ago helped to pun
of the mill between Joe Johnson anc
Little Mac" at Seven Pines, where
Little Mac dealt Joe a foul I'm the ribs.
but Bob Lee more than paid him OF in
his own coin in the Seven Days"
Those old fellows are passing over
the great divide rapidly low. Sti.l
there were between 10. 900 and 10000
OF those old gray boards and bald
heads ranging from g. To % years in
evidence. The next years meet Is to
be at Birmingham Ala Now you be-
gin 10 lay your plans to be there.
Start now and il life and strength per-
NIT don't miss IL.
II is TO me a great pleasure to fore
gather with those old chaps VINO
IS years ago constituted a Nv
ing, animated breastwork. and stood
between the yankee host and southern
homes. | met one man who claimed
TO have been wounded Il times, Two
others who stopped or partly stopped
each 9 bullets. two who got in the way
each I times, and o on down 20 those
who successfully lodged the yankee
balls. or the latter class Their" are
not many OF the ia enlisted mcL. In
my old troop. | think II can b. &C
counted for. The old man with the
scythe has been and is still very busy
moving down the old chaps who are
not active enough to escape the swing
OF his scythe.
And Dick. YOU and | cant dodge
the old chap much longer. General
SOrrell who was for more than ,hr.c
years chief OF stan to Longstre,t. IN
his charming "RecOllcctions of "A Con-
federate STAFF Officer writes When
good old st Peter unbars the CATS Of
Glory TO let him in h. will ask:
Where camps the army OF Northern
Virginia." There | pitch my tent"
And if in the land of spirits such be
possible loyalty I o that incompara-
bic army will require you and M 10
make the same request and then 20
and mingle with the spirits of Lees
veterans.
Write me If you can recall any Of
those We knew at Point Lookout ana
Elmlra that are still in the land OF the
living.
Do you remember the time when
three or five fellows ~tunnelled u Of
Elmira?
One Of those fellows is living in Col
ulnous, Ga, his name is Jarvis.
met him last fall 1t the Georgia Di-
vision en- route to Savannah.
Well now, old chap, write me a let
ter; be sure and tell me if any OF the
prison comrades are still living.
You remember the coan shells
L carved and inlaid at Elmira? Wen
they are still with me. have had
them mounted and trimmed with sill
yer and as goblets the arc
part OF the bric-a-brac Of my humble
home. T.
MY FAMILY consists of wife and n
son. We buried three children. onlv
'ne one son surviving Of our four
children. ~
Cordially you comrlGc.
G. N. SAUSSV.
To X. A. Watts, Esq.
Golds0orO, N. c..
l'lr. Saussy is auditor Of the Eawk.
H'SVlile and Florida Southern with
e~daquarters at Hawkinsvil =. Ga.
mo IS colonel and A. @. NJ. G.. Con
elaI SIAN Department Of Tennessee of
the United ropfo5 IL