Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-04-11
Early gee0IlectiOnS
4 Old NOxubee.


same Of the plentiful amount of Coz
sedafate money. with which most e,
=. cry individual was supplied. into som.
thing that could be turned into greer
hfck," should the Union arms triumph
sHd remember that q physician q
shuqaalak BY the name Of. H. San
ders. centered upon the idea Of buyir
up NEGROES and carrying them to th
Csrolinas and swapping them for tobac
60 and having the tobacco shipped bacl
to Shnqualak and stored at bis resi-
dence, determined at the time to hold i
through to the end. regardless Of an,
influence that might interviews in tn,
meantime.
Dr. Sanders made several such trip,
to South and North Carolina. carrying
with him on his trips from FIVE to ter
negroes and each time exchanging them
tor tobacco, until every avsilable place
about his home was filed with boxes Of
the "weed.,'
However, soon after he had made bis
last trip the Confederates won two or
three decisive" big battles and fer a
while It looked mighty like, despite
the overwhelming odds), that the Con-
fsderacy was going to win. this causing
the doctor to lose faith in what he first
thought was the wisdom Of his pur.
chases. these victories continuing at in
tervals up to the fall and winter Of
1884 the Doctor getting the sicker Of
his purchases sll the time. until finally
he decided 10 60 up b Macon and Gee
what he could do towards unloading
his stock Ut tobacco to some one, for
Confederate money. up there.
After making TIVE or three trips he
returned one evening 90 delighted that
he told every sons in town of bis good
luck- -that he had sDid his stock 81 to- |
badco fsf ~, 900 ID Confedsrsts money
TO : drug firm Or medical Arm. .pfif Lre-t
member well). either Dent r& Minor or I
Murphey & Minor. At &ny srate he |
sold 1t and the next day shipped it. the |
Macon firm storing it and holding It 4
only about eight months until the sur
render came. and soon had no trouble
in disposing Of it for about 81, 200. 90 / n
greenbacks..
Had DR.. Sanders 1853 impressions of
how things were going continued just
eight months longer he would have
found himself the possessor Of the little
fortune of $4,000 90 instead of the bum
die of SAG, 900 90 in Confederate money ,
that wasn't worth the paper that it
was printed upon, and recollect that :
this misfortune prayed SO heavily upon !
DR.. Sanders mind that he was taken i;
sick. which, caused him to lose his
erstwhile prestige as physician, until !
finally he gave up practice altogether :
and left Shuqualak, but for what place :
I never knew.
In one of the gangs of negroes that
The Doctor carried with him to South q
Carolina and swspped for tobacco | re- ),
member that there were two boys, one /.
named "Shep" and the other Aaron, T
who were experts as "jig-dancers" and
'patters," and these he said he re-
,eived a fancy price for, he having
,old them to wealthy tobacco raiser
,ver there who was fond of seeing ne
.roes pat and dance, and placed pre-
mum upon such talent. 81"
Going back to the years before the
in lS57-s-9 there was an
backed with some features
hat caused the story 10 sound truthful,
hat the mountains out from Shuqualak =
tx miles, from the top Of which Macon, z
ourteen miles away, could be seen,4
,ere inhabited bya dangerous band of
md pirates. and that thousands of dol
.rs in gold were buried out there
,hich they had gotten from wealthy
len whom they had held up and robbed
n the highways.
This belief, for while, was SO strong
hat man would have to be brave. in
eed, who undertook the journey to
Tor Gholson as it was la
,r called, without going well armed
,r emergencies,
remember the name the clan went
y, but as you still have good families
Noxubee bearing the very same
sme, | withhold il in justice to them. -
Just after the battle OF Shiloh re- =
ember that freight train from the wo
,rth pulled into Shuqualak loaded with in
ounded soldiers, many of whose ths s
ounds had never been dressed --some /
ith legs shot off; others with arms La
ot in two, and still others wounded in tnE
lrious ways, and that the train had to :" Z
il over for twenty or thirty minutes fer
cool hot box and that before it vii
q myriad Of bussardn could Be seen ne ,s
,ered IN the air overik drawn there NV
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