The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-12

l~g 4: Chickamauga, VAS in charge.
He administered morphine IN TWO
large doses, which deadened the pain,
and sent me back to the field il
firnlary in an ambulance, where DR..
Simon Baruch, a Hebrew doctor, our
battalion surgeon, examined my arm
and found it necessary to amrutate it.
I slept on the ground that night and
next morning, the 29th of July, 1864,
I was taken to Jackson hospital in
Richmond, where I lay all through the
long hot month of August. It was
there that I heard the explosion u
Grants mine at Petersburg, % miles
away. There were no trained nurses
in the hospital, and my nurse was
David Gladney, man detailed from
our company on account of sickness,
whom I shall never forget for MS
kindness to me. He was as gentle
with me as a woman and as kiHd as
"a brother.
On the first of September I was able
to leave the hospital, and reached
home on the third. My arm was a
good while in healing, and before it
was entirely we'll I made two
trips to Richmond and Petersburg to
bring home three of my dead neigh
hor boys, Butler Mcconnell, Oscar
Bookman, and James Lyles, who lost
their lives in the service of their coun-
try. Thus ended my military career.
There were many other incidents
in my soldier life of which | might
speak, but I fear my address is al
ready too long.
In conclusion, let me say: One OF
the evil effects of war is the harden
ing of mems hearts so that they be-
come so callous that the sight Of a
dead man has no more effect than a
dead horse. I look back on the past
and shudder at the thought. While
feel that We were in the right and
Abraham Lincoln and his adviso@
were responsible for the inception and
continuance of the war, yet to my
mind it was horrible in the extreme
to think that We were forced into
such brutality. He set the negroes
free by a stroke of his pen, which he
had no right to do, and with the aid
of Gen. B. F. Butler put guns into
their hands to kill their masters. A
war measure, it was called; q wicked
and diabolical measure it was, there
being no reason for such acts, unless
it was to humiliate the South, for they
had plenty of white men to replenish
their army, and the ports of the
world were open to them. This in
justice to the poor darky was nothing
short of a crime, but it was in keep
ing with the policy of reconstruction
which followed the close Of the war
! by which an effort was made to pu1
! the negro's heel on our necks. I dc
not mean to be- unfair to our Northern
brothers, I am only stating facts which
must go down in history.
Supplementary, I append & few
names Of the Third regiment with
whom I was familiar. There are many
others whose names have escaped m!
memory: Col. James D. Nance, killed
at the Wilderness, May S, 1854; VIM
Drayton Rutherford, when I first saw
at old Mt. Pleasant camp grounds, ii
Richland county, before the war, wher
he went down to make a speech t
, Capt. Bookter's company. He was
first adjutant, then promoted to ma
jor, lieutenant colonel, and colonel
wounded at Fredericksburg, Va, De
cember 12, 1852; killed at Strasburg
October 13, 1864. Young John Pope
adjutant of 3rd regiment, wounded a
Fredericksburg December -, 1862, a
Gettysburg three wounds, July, 1858
seriously at Chickamauga September
1863, shot in the mouth at Berryville
1864, lost an eye at Cedar Creek, Va.
November. 1854 Elected chief justice
of South Carolina after the war, diet
recently. Capt. Goggans, Capt. Dick
ert, Capt. Chesley Herbert. Ton
Paysinger, the noted scout. Cap
John K. Nance, who at Deel
! Bottom, Virginia, ii command O
the picket line at night, captures
a squad of Yankees and a captain o
lieutenant, with fine sword. I won
der if any of his family has tha
sword. Andrew Kilgore. Lieut.
Thomas S. Norman. There wer
quite a number of others, who's
names I have forgotten, al .gallan