Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-07-22
THE lRREpREssIBLE CONFLICT
Continued from Page 2.)

S"ibSd ~ hio SluS Wy lily SlaI uurlnS
the night. early next morning the
battle was renewed, and the follow
ing day, and then clme the retreat
OF Lees immortal amy. thought
no more of that gallant son OF the
North, Gen. Barlow, except to count
him among the thousands Of Ameri-
cans who had gone down 'on both
sides in that dreadful battle.
strangely enough, as the war pro-
gressed, Barlow concluded not to die;
Providence decreed that he should
live. He recovered and rejoined his
command; and, just one year after
that, Barlow saw that | was killed
IN another battle. The explanation
Is perfectly simple. A cousin of
mine, with the same initials, Gen. J.
.. Gordon, OF North Carolina, was
Killed in q battle near Richmond.
barlow, who, as | say, had recovered
ana rejoined his comnland-although
knew he was dead, or thought 7
hld--picked up newspaper and
read this item in ii: Gen. j. b. Cor
don, Of the Confederate Army, was
killed to-day in battle Calling his
staff around him, Barlow read that
Item and said to them, Il am very
sorry to see this: you Will remember
that Gen. j. b. Gordon was the OFF,
Ger who picked me up on the battle
field at Gettysburg and sent my wife
through his lines to me at night |
am very sorry.
"Fiftecn years passed. Now /
wish it understood that, during all
those fifteen years which interviewed.
Barlow was dead to me, and for
fourteen OF them | was dead to Bar
low. In the meantime the partiality
nj % Il
me in the United States Senate.
Clarkson Potter was member of
Congress from New York He in
vited me to dine with him to meet
his friend, Gen. Barlow. Now came
my time TO think. Barlow said,
arlOw?-that is the same name,
but it cant be my Barlow, for | left
him dead at Gcttysburg.' And | en-
deuvored TO understand what it
meant, and thought ! had made the
discovery. ] was told, as | made the
inquiry, that there were two Bar
lows in the United States Army
That satisfied me at once. I CON
Guided, as matter Of course, that
it was the other fellow l was going
to meet; that Clavkson Potter had
invited me to dine with the living
Barlow and not with the dead one
the Gordon he was TO dine with. He
supposed that ] was the other Cor
don We met at Clarkson Potter's
table; ] sat Just opposite to Barlow,
and in the lull OF the conversation |
asked him, General. are YOU re-
lated TO the Barlow who was killed
at GettysbUrg?' lie replied. I am
the man, sir. Are you rclatcd,' he
asked, to the Gordon who killed
me" 'Wcll.' | said 1 am the man.
sir. The scene which followed beg
garS all description. No language
could describe that sccnr at Clark
son POticrS table in Washington. fif-
teen years after the war was over
Trr1h j.; indeed stranger tham &c
ton. Think Of it: What could be
stranger? There we met, both dead
each Of us presenting 20 the other
the most absolute proof OF the rcsur-
rcctiOn OF the dead
But stranger still, perhaps, is the
friendship, true and lasting. begun
under such auspices. What could be
further removed from the realms OF
probabilities than q con.iding friend
ship between cOmbatantS, which is
born on the field OF blood, amidst the
thundcrS OF. battle, and while the
hostile lcgiOnS rush upon each other
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