The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-22

lgreed not to shoot at each other. Ooe
morning a yankee stepped out and
houted, Hello Johnnie Reb!" 'He!-
%, Yank." he shouted from the south
Arn side. Come over and let's trade
,nme," said the blue coat. "All right,
Meet me half way" So, dropping
uns, they met and traded. Our hero
ave tobacco and got from the yankee
sugar, coffee and pocket knives for the
southern boys. After friendly CON-
nunicatlou they parted to meet again
~. When? Where?
From Richmond they went to Peters
'urg twas in the fight there), reaching
here early Sunday morning. The
Yankees were in s: ht of the towa, and
hey got in between them and the town
and kept them out until Lee and his
armv could evacuate. "We fought
them ten TO one that day." he said with
,riue. "Bratten's brigade came out at
II o'clock that night. bringing out the
ear OF Lees army. The most pathet-
ic thing that happened to me that day
was while We we're marching out OF
Petersburg. It was midnight, but the
ladies were all out on the sidewalks
when one of them came up to me and
said, Are you going to leave US at the
mercy OF the yank -.??' We have done
Ill we can do,' l answered her; but I
couldn't keep back the tears" IRE
member he was only a seventeen year
old boy theD,) "Then came the tug OF
war;" be said. "The next morning we
ate three crackers piece. which was
the last bread We tasted for six days
and nights. We picked up and ate the
grains OF corn the horses would leave
where they had eaten. We fought all
day and retreating all night. Every
time we came 10 a crowd of yankees
there was fight. The largest battle
was that OF Farmsville. From there
we went to Appomattox. We had left
Petersburg one Sunday night and
closed the struggle the next Sunday
oightat Appomattox. There we gotta
little raw beef to eat. There, too. we
found ten Northerners to one South
erner. Yes. I was at the surrender,
but the yankees didn't get my gun. I
was standing near tree when we got
orders to stop fighting, Lee had sur
rendered. I broke my gun against a
tree, saying, if / can't use it, the yans
KEGS shall not Appomattox we stay
ed three days, during which I bought
TWO ears of corn, paying one dollar a
piece for them. and took a grain at a
time and crushed it between stones
making hominy, which bo led in tin
cup without any salt" But 0, was
there ever such good hominy as that?
One day he was out with comrades
looking for beeves, and killing one, be
started back to the camps with large
piece in his hands when be met the
army chaplain, DR.. Bogs. Or course
be expected to be sermonized on the
awfulness of stealing, when to his sur
prise, the chaplain said, Will you send
me q niece of that when you get to
,amp?"
The news got circulated around Ap-
Domattox that Lee had surrendered
under a tree and he saw men cutting
pieces from that tree TO take home
Tie fact is, Lee was sitting under a
tree but was invited into building
where the terms of surrender was
made. He offered Grant his sword but
Grant refused to accept it. After stay
ng there three days without food, for
the yankees had nothing to give them,
they left for home, walking. II was a
ong journey to begin thai "ay, 500
miles. When they ha3 beer oo the
road three days tae yankees sent 1heu
cations which th@S glad; a9crp,>=@
At DanviHe, vs.. trey took posses
sion of a train, there being an e1gi-
oeer in the crowd. aud ran 1t as lar as
Raleigh where they found toe railroad ;
% torn up they had to abandon the
train aud walk the rest of the way.
There they saw President Davis trying
10 make his escape to the West.
From Appomattox he brought some
Confederate money which he has yet.