The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-11-03
LESS WE FORGET
TWO BOOKS SOUTHERN BOYS
SHOULD READ.
So as They Will Know What Our
People Endured for Ten Years
After the Close Of the War.

After the Close Of the War.
The following letter was taken
from the Keowee Courier:
I We were asked short while ago
If we did not think that "The Leop-
ards Spots" was oyerdrawn? We
declare that it is not, while it may
be tinctured little with fiction, but
even that is based upon solid facts.
Read. if you please, history witt
ten by DR.. Leland, Of Greenwood, S.
c., called "a Voice from South Car
olina.' This book was written in
about the years 1872. Then you
will agree that the Leopard's Spots"
is a true story.
"Rest on, embalmed and sainteG
dead,
Dear as the blood We gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor sproudly sleeps"
This is one of the verses on a
beautiful monument we looked upon
with fearful reverence while walking
through Rosemont cemetery, at New
berry. Such acts as the murder j.
Crozier are some Of the things that
keep a man from forgetting the war.
Does history record any nobler
sacrifice?. Damon was the friend of
Pythias, but this man Bowers was
stranger to Crozier Much more Of
this pathetic story is recorded in the
annals of Newberry" Crozier
yielded UP his life that another
might not suffer. The memory Of
that day is of tragedy never to he
forgotten. The war had ended, and
the soldiers of the discharged Con-
federate army ard paroled prisoners
were passing through South Carolina
to their homes in the West. Among
them was Calvin Crozier, a Texan,
who arrived at Newberry on Septenl-
ber 7th, 1865, and was delayed there
over night. He mad some ladies
under his care, and. as hotel accOln
modations were very meagre. they
decided it would be best to pass the
night in the car on which they had
Travelled. Late in the night some n"
gro soldiers, under the command of
Colonel Trowbridge, who had arrlv-
ed at Newberry that day entered the
car where CroZier and the ladies
under his care were quietly repos-
ing, and made themselves very Of
fensive to the ladies. Crozier re-
quested them to leave, but they re-
fused to do so, and a difficulty en-
sued. In the scuffle which followed
one Of 1he negroes was slightly cut
by Crozier with his knife. The reg
iment to which they belonged was
encamped in graveyard near the
depot. and very soon after the diff
ficulty occurred number Of them
appeared at the depot bent on re-
venging the one who had been dealt
with by Crozier. In their madness
they seized Jacob 8. Bowers, who was
then General Superintendent Of the
Columbia and Greenvil]e Railroad,
and were about to lynch him When
Crozier learned what they were
about, without a moments hesita.
ton, he presented himself and told
soldier. He was 1t once tied ard
taken to the camp mentioned above
and was shot eto death by the fiends.
His body was thrown In a shallow
grave, and they danced in ghoulish
glee upon his new-made grave. The
officers Of the negro regiment. prir-
cipaly white, were appealed to in
behalf of Crozier, but in vain.
ThroWbridge, the colonel Of this reg
iment. declared that he took upon
himself all the responsibility Of the
act.
Prince Rivcns. negro officer,
wishing to save the life Of Crozier
went to him and begged him to deny
the fact that he cut the negro, but
he refused. Seldom indeed do we
find such heroic. self-sacrifice as IS
embodied of this noble Texan. He
might have gone free to his far
Western home had he permitted an
innocent man to suffer. How fondlE
he may have dreamed Of his arrI'al
at his Texas home, Galveston. and
the greeting of loved ones there!
He gave it all up and laid down his
life that another might live.
No ignoble spirit could have acinl
as he did, and where he now sleeps
must be holy ground. His body re-
mained there where it was buried by
the negro soldiers until 1891, when
the people of Newberry had mis- re-
mains buried in Rosemont cemetery,
and erected All enduring monument
to his memory. In erecting this
monument they have honored them
selves.
These are stubborn facts know,
to this writer, and are in kecpinT
with the Leopard Spots. Ever
Southern hoy (and girl as weln
should read book written ny nr
Ii:land. Of Greenwood, called i
"Voica from South Carolina" and