Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-07-26

made deep impression on our
hearts. N.3t
Orr's Regiment of Rifles come to-
day In their annual reunion, happy
to meet your cordial hospitality
here In your beautiful city. ON thfa
21st day, on which all other a,1bsa-
quent days would have poured its
nght, providence has permitted these
survivors, sons and countrymen. to
meet here in the name of Liberty
and Peace. Time and the sword
have thinned their ranks and wa
miss the forms and faces Of those
who met with us last, and they arse
not here.
Thinner and thinner the long limo
grows;
One by one they are mustered out.
Silently, softly, each one goes,
Far from the noise Of battles shout.
TO the, sleep that knows no waking
TIL the dawn Of Judgment hreak-
ing"
NO warning elements invade their
resttul sleep up yonder. All Is peace
These veterans are remnant or
a well-fought battlefield. Some OF
them bring marks OF honor froma
Gaines's Mill, Frazer's Farm, Mai-
vern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Second
Manassas, Harper's Ferry Sharps-
burg, Berryville, FredericksDures-
Charlottesville, Gettysburg, Hagers-
town, Failing Waters, Mine Run.
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Bloody
Bend, Jericho Harbor, Deep Bottoms.
Frazer's Mill, Beams's Station, bat
ties around Richmond, Jones's Farnas
Bellefeld, Burgess's Mill, R1vn
Forks. Switzerland Station, ana
many other scenes OF carnage In
their youthful days they put every
thing at hazard for their country'K
causy. There Is an air of holiness
and pure incense floating in che
phere Of good feeling and cfresr.
Welcome, welcome Is whispered
around, and the Confederate Veteran
Is made to feel at home.
Your town, lying in its majestic
grandeur at the foot Of the Blaze
Ridge, OFFERS a most inviting place
for reunion Of these Confederate
Veterans. Walhalla, famous I'm In
dian lore-here leap the Issaquena.
Falls, or called Cateechee, an Indian
maiden who in the time Of the Revo-
luton made famous the Keowee,
River, Chenille Creek, Four-MTfe,.
Six-Mile, Twelve-Mile River ana
Eighteen-Mile, One-and-Twenty.
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where, the legend reads, Cateechee
met her fate and saved the Indian
massacre. Here close by is the beau
tiful Jocassee Valley on the White
water river There Is much Of ia
terest in Oconee and Pickens for US.
Here mountain breeZes fan our
brows, cooling waters slake our
thirst, and In these green hills and
sloping valleys you find the men
reared from stock Of brain and mus
Gle; hospitality and good cheer, re-
fnement and culture distinguish, the
higher class Of gentlemen and wo-
men. Our sister county sits entllron-
ed on thousand. hills, and is justly
entitled to her part of the glory
achieved in the great drama OF war.
her minister's, her lawyers.
her doctors, her justices, her mer-
chants and farmers, whoever they
be. South Carolina never furnisheH
better citizenship in her State
For whole year we have looked
forward to this day; we have
thought Of Walhalla, dreamed of
Walhalla, and have gone about our
work with Walhalla on our brain. Ina
the minds of these Veterans as they
thought Of your hospitality woula
come visions that in Walhalla we are
to be filled
Oh, luscious turkey! oh, plump
duck!
Oh, brown lamb and other truck!
for these Vets sure can eat, for X
have seen them at 1t. In the four
years service they forgot how. hay-
ing nothing to keep them in prac-
tice, but you may believe it they
have most aptly learned how again
SO look out. Walhalla, for a seven
years famine after this reunion, for
worse than seven years locust
plague are they Now If any or
these quiet, meek, gentle Confede-
rates should get giddy or obstreper-
Gus and unruly, why what better hid
ing place than these culverts, tun-
nels and caves. But | am their
chaperone and viii look after them
You have with you remnants on
the army Of rifles who joined with
the great and brainy Orr, South Gar
olina's distinguished statesman.
These men went out with MaEshafl
Led5etter, Livingston, Perrin, Cor.
Norton, F. E. Harrison, G. McDuffia
Miller. |. N. Robinson and Leonard
Rodgers from these mountain topR
to the valleys and coves. Their
ringing Rebel Yoll awoke the
echoes of these hills. Only two or
the reglmental officers are left
John b. Moore and Leonard Rodgers
The commissioned officers left arc
Jas. II. Reid, Capt. J. #. Fatt, Lieut..
$. X. Dendy, Lieut.. A. M. Guyton
and w. A. Barron. ooh, staIwart
line Of gray, Did your old gray coat
closer; 1t was your country's badge.
IN It's faded, threadbare seams,
there's glory in 1t yet"
We have in our mind as connected