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

1eorgia to help Gen. Bragg, who was
Gbeing pressed by Rosecrans. We en-
Marked at Petersburg on a freight
Ikrain and to avoid the heat and crowd
1Bng, I rode on top of car all the
2Ray to Ringold, where we arrived
& ate in the afternoon, ate hurried
|&neal of raw bacon and mouldy corn
bread, and about midnight Of the 18TH
of September set out on march OF
about twelve miles to Alexander, S
bridge, on the Chickamauga river
which we crossed about sunrise.
There was a white frost on the river
bottoms. We continued our march
khree or four miles from the river
nd halted in a narrow skirt of woods.
RThe battle was raging a half mile IN
keront of us and bullets were falling
among us. The suspense was awful
while waiting for orders to advance.
In q few hours a courier rode up and
ordered us to the front. We advanced
out of the woods and up the hill
through an old field, the enemy, un-
, der cover of woods at the top of the
hill. pouring a deadly fire of minnie
balls into our ranks. VIM. Evans,
father of our haberdasher in Colum-
bia. was our color bearer. Our battal-
ion being the battalion of direction,
and not moving exactly in the direc-
ton to throw the brigade squarely in
front of the enemy, Gen. KershaW
stepped up and took the flag from Ey-
ans, who supposed the general thought
he was scared, followed, and said:
General, please give me the flag and
point the direction you want me to go
and I'll go.' The general handed It
back to him and pointing, said, ''You
see that large green pine, go directly
to it." and he went. AS we reached
the brow of the hill my orderly, Sergt.
J. W. Ashford, being at my side,
caught me by the hand and said,
Lieutenant, I am shot" I replied,
Goodbye, old fellow, I must go for
ward" I left him, expecting never to
see him alive again. He was hit IN
the right side, the ball coming out
near the spine. We advanced down a
ravine through the woods and I must
say, though I was in twenty battles
and skirmisnes, the balls came thick
er and faster from Snodgrass Hill
than I ever witnessed before. AS we
reached the bottom of the ravine I
saw the enemy bringing up held
niece and said, 'Boys, they are 60
ing ito open a battery on US" and in
stantly there was discharge OF
.nSrape or canister. Capt Townsend,
he was in command of the battalion,
Ii with one side of his face torn
way. Evans also fell and as he lay
on the ground with the colors, pass
ed near him, in command of my
company. He looked up and said,
Lieutenant please take this flag"
seized it with ny right hand and held
it up, and while I did so the flag staff
was struck twice and cut nearly in
twain. I felt the jar when it was
hit, and presently I received a very
severe flesh wound in the LETT leg and
retired from the field. Our little com
pany, reduced to about fifteen men,
lost about half killed and wounded
One man, William Morgan, killed out
right, and three amputations, Matthew
McGrady, William Craig each an arm
and R. R. Milling, a leg, besides 9TH
ers less severely wounded. Col. Ell
bert Bland, in command of the 18th
= regiment, was killed, also Maj. Hard
DR.. Coleman Carlisle of your county
now dead, cut the ball out Of my leg
and gave me an order to report to 9
general hospital. I came home, and II
a few days went to Columbia to the
college hospital and received a "
days furlough from DR.. Prioleau
Ashford also received furlough, ane
when We were ready to return to thu
army it was camped at RussellVllle
East Tennessee, and We had to g
around past LyncEburg, Va, and OF
our train were crowds of soldiers
among them some Georgians, joll!
fellows who made things lively. Ava!
I'D in Western Virginia, near Brlstol
crowd stood on the depot platform
among them an old citizen, whom tn
soldiers were plying with questions
more than the old fellow could an
swer, and as he turned from one side
to the other in his confusion bis
Georgian came to the window pre-