The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
HELLO, YANK!"
Two Brothers Meet On the Battery in
Charleston Very Recently
AFTER FIFTY YEARS

" ullN ho 'eo
a Confederate Veteran and Recog-
milton Follows as the Old Soldiers
Shake Hands.
To meet ones brother suddenly
by the merest accident after a separ-
alton of fifty years Is a thing that
has happened to very few people ON
earth, yet that Is what befell Capt.
Robert Graham, of this city, not
long ago says the News and Courier.
Capt. Graham is a we'll known citizen
Of Charleston, being manager oil the
American Brewing Company, OF this
city, and formerly clerk of Court.
He was among the earliest TO enter
the Confederate service after SOltl
Carolina had seeded from the On
ion, and he served in the Washing
ton Artillery with courage and fidel-
ity throughout the war. He was d.
so a prominent member Of the South
Carolina Jockey Club In the old
horse racing days in this State. The
story of the dramatic reunion OF
Capt. Graham and his brother, Sam
uel.. who served in the Union army
and who Is now a resident Of Bay
onne, N. j., is told as follows in the
New York Telegram:
Parted nearly a haf-century,
four years of which they spent on
opposite sides of the blazing, shot
torn battlefelds of the civil war, two
brothers have just been reunited by
a chance meeting in a Southern city.
One of them lived in Bayonne, N. j.,
the other in Charleston, 8. c., ever
since the early eighties, and both
have achieved success.
Mr.. Samuel Graham, who lives At
No. AZ East 42nd. street, Bayonne,
is a grand Army man, with a most
brilliant record Of service IN the
Union army during the civil war.
Naturally proud of the organization
If which he is a member, he wears
its button wherever he goes.
On a recent visit to Charleston,
S. c., the home of his childhood, he
was standing on the Battery looking
across the bay at Fort Sumter and
musing on the stirring events which
occurred there nearly half a century
ago. He was suddenly slapped on
the shoulder, as a genial Southern
voice exclaimed:
Hello, there, Yank!"
Hello, there, Johnny Reb!" ans
wered Mr.. Graham, turning with a
smile to greet the fine looking Con-
federate Veteran who had Interrupt
ed his musings.
Both smiling, they extended their
hands and exchanged a hearty greet
ing.
Then, as each man was about to
make some commonplace remark,
the smile died on his face. Their
looked at each others face with a
curious interest, which was not with
out a touch of awe. Memories of
days long past surged into the minds
Of both, and trembling hands were
raised as the simultaneous ~ejacula-
eous calculations sprang from their
ton sprang from their lips:
Robert"
Samuel"
"Brother!"
Reunited after fftw years, the bro
theirs, who as boys had parted, one
to fight for the Confederacy, the 9TH
er for the Union, fell in;o each 9TH
er's arms.
Mr.. Graham, of Bayonne, was TAX
en- forthwith to the old homestead
by his brother Robert, and in a TO-
union with his relatives there, marx
ed by all the warmth and affection
which has made Southern hospitali-
ty famous, he enjoyed a most men,
orable visit.
With the firing Of Fort Sumter,
the brothers relations were abrupt
ly severed. Robert, the elder, then
only nineteen years old, enlisted in
the ranks of the South under Gen.
Beauregard and later fouht through
out the war with Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton. Samuel was only fifteen years
old at the outbreak Of hostilitics.
but in the second year of the war
he enlisted in the Saith regiment OF
New York.
Mr.. Graham, Of Bayonne, has the
distinction Of being one OF a dozen
survivors of a party Of two thosand
who stormed a rebel battery at the
battle Of Williamsburg. The party
was almost annihilated by the enc
my's guns, a mere handful, of which
he was one, escaping rolling d.
the hill torn by the deadly fire Of
the Southern artillery.
At the close of the war the bro
theirs went their separate Ways alrl
never met until the dramatic reun-
ion of d few days ago at Charleston.
Robert, the elder brother became
prominent as a breeder of thcouorSlI-
bred horses in Charleston and achiev
ed considerable success as a dealer.
Samuel learned the printers trade
in New York and worked at differ
ent times on most Of the daily news