The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-15
SURVIVING HERO COMES
Mr., W, R, Wallace, of Texas,
in County Last Week, One of
Those Who Figured in Hair
Breadth Escapes From Sher-
mans Men and Who Was
Finally Captured

Sometime ago this paper printed an
account taken from the Confederate
Veteran, of two Confederate soldiers
and their WanderingS after having
become separated from their COM
mand near Raleigh just about the
time that the city fell into the hands
of Sherman'S : raiders
The story related how near they be-
| came to being captured by the en-
| envy. After several hairbreadth get
aWayS they finally came TO q huge
| whiSkey still. belonging TO a man by
! the name Of Jim Penny and known as
| tn. old Penny still. It's remains can
be seen now down in the Holly Spring
Ineighborhood and near the head OF
Penny'S Pond
Here, after weeks of wandering.
the desperately tired and harried
men found a nights rest with an old
lady who allowed them to stay with
much fear and misgivings, for the
Yankees were everywhere and she
knew that if Confederates We're found
in her house she and her home would
fare badly at the hands of the invad-
erS.
The next morning the two comrades
, left the house and rode down by q
fense that ran through a dense thicket
, and into swamp. Before they had
gone a hundred yards from the house
three infantrymen of Shermans army
2 rode up through the woods and they
endeavOred to pass by them unobserv-
Y ed but the enemy proved too sharp
r for them. In the fight that occurred
\ one Of the fugitives was desperately
: wounded before they managed to kill
the three Yankees and the other one
7, was compelled to carry him down TO
f a ferry that they had to cross TO get
n out of the enemy's reach.
On their way they managed TO pro-
n
and the wounded man rode in that
: with much more ease. So they set
out for the ferry early one morning
: to try and elude the swarming North
I erners.
= They had not gone very far down
: the road when they met some fright
" ened farmers hurrying in the oppo-
t site direction and they warned them
: tha: they would surely be caught il
!. they persisted in their attempt &c
d cross the ferry, but they were in such
G haste to rejoin their company from
/ which they had been away for nearly
IS a month, they decided TO go on any
2 way, hoping to pass off as "Yanks'
y il they were aCcOSted.
t. The first time they were seen how
q ever, they were detected as Southern
n ers. In the subsequent fight for free
dom only one was able to fight. H
is succeeded in killing one Of the en-
r. emy but just as he was aiming at an
1t other one Of them he was shot from
IF behind and instantly killed.
i The remaining Southerner was tax
N en- desperately wounded, TO the Fed
l. erals camp and when the war wa
le over return ID to his home. His nam
in is w r. Wallace, and his home i
IS MeXa, Texas. His heroic Compan
n, ions name was Dave Walton, and h
Us lies buried down in Holly Spring
e. township about three miles south 0
US the town Of Holly Springs.
e. Mr.. Wallace read an account o
As their adventure in the News and OBJ
n server Ind when he came througl
en- here from the Reunion in RichmOn
this month he stopped off and wen
ne with Mr.. c.. =. Afford, himself a vet
ee eran of the war between the State:
IN out to the grave of his dead comradt
h Mr. Wallace spent about four days a
V the guest of Mr. Afford and, togethe
u they verified the accuracy of the fact
ms Of the story as they were copied /
rk this paper.