The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-27

Dear Sir:
For the past week | have beer
enjoying myself riding over the city
and surrounding country taking II
lthe sights and seeing things | have
not had the chance to see before,
DR.. w. A. Shand, patient here
from Clinton, South Carolina; he
served four years during the Civil
War around Richmond. He is very
feeble and he wanted to go over tile
old battle field once more and he
told me if | would go with him he
would pay all the car fare, and !
said all right, Doctor, you do that
and ! viii furnish the chin
music. /" We looked the city over
and then took the interurban cars
for miles around. The Doctor was
in the seven days fight around
Richmond ana with General Cor
don when he made the famous
charge at Seven Pines. We stood
on the old breast works and looked
over the field where the bullets fell
like rain, and tears came in his
eyes and he said: Judge, the shand
of God only saved us from death
here, He said they made the
charge with only one thousand men
against Mcclellan who had ten
thousand men. He said it looked
as if they would all be killed, but
he said the best leaders he ever fol
lowed were Jackson and Gordon.
While we were standing there TAX
ing in the situation | told the old
Doctor Of what one Of Gordon i
men said to the General. During
the seven days battle, when bullets
were thickest, one of Gordon's men
threw his gun down and ran. The
General called him and said stop,
Bill. Where are you going? Home,
was the reply. The General rode
up to him, patting him on his
shoulder, he said: Go back Bill,
get your gun and give them the best
you have. Don't be a coward, be
man and not baby. Bill looked
up into his face and said: Gener-
al, | wish | was a baby and a ga
at that.
Well, COL, l see that the bone
Issue was defeated. Well, after
thinking the matter over | am glac
they were, as | had written you be-
fore $25, 100000 was not enough anc
| [ hope that our commissioners viii
not raise our taxes, but make
another call and make it for $75,.
100000 or $100,000.00. We want
to have enough TO get out OF deb
and plenty to build all the bridges
necessary for the convenience of tht
public and TO put our roads in frs
class condition. l am glad to know
that such few voted against bonds
and / believe if the commissioners
will make the call again and make
lit for at least SIS, 100000 the people
will get interested in it and carry
it through. Try it again, Mr.
Commissioners.
| have had several talks with tht
tobacco growers in and AROUND
Richmond and / am fayorably i'm
pressed with the idea Of raising to
bacco in Lee county. Two Of thes'
gentlemen told me they would b.
clad to move to Lee county and g
into the tobacco business if the
knew it could be grown there sue
cessfully. ! told told them tina
on what is known as the Contra
Settlement of Lee county that Mr.
Christopher was trying it out thi
year on a small scale and if j
proved to be a success 1 would le
them know. Now, if it should
here is the chance to get tive fin
families to go into the tobacco bus
ness in Lee if the people aroun
I-eesburg and smitviIle will go i
with them. They talked the maj
ter over freely with me, They sai
it would take about u to Is barr
each at stpithville and Leesburg
, care for the tobacco. No7, here
the chance for the merchants !