Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-05-13
"REMINISCENCES FROM THE
PEN OF MR.. LANG,
MEADoWyILLE, w. VA.
April 80, 1915.

Editor Of Progressive:
ia the death OF Henry Clay Rosen-
berger on the 18th instant, in your
city we lost another of our dear
friends. We first became acquainted
with the Rosenberger family IN 1861.
On Sunday morning that the Federal
forces bomharded the Confederate
forces, under Gen. Garrett at the foot
oil Laurel Hill, Mr.. Davis Rosenber-
ger Gather OF Clay) and two OF his
daughters, Miss Catherine, who mar
ried James Stalnaker OF Glade dis
triet, and Miss Ann, who married
Mr.. Able Teter, went to the home OF
James Mustoe, where Webster Hill
ward now lives, within the Confeder-
ate camp to attend the funeral OF
Miss Elizabeth Mustoe, daughter Oh
James and aafter the funeral, Mr..
Rosenberger and his two daughters
fearing to return home, as the Fed
erals had occupied the vicinity OF DIR.
VIM. Biggs' home and were Smelling
the Confederate camp from that po-
sition, they in company with Mir.
Samuel Mustoe, and his wife, who
was daughter of Mr.. r., and lived
where Mr.. James "A. Ryan, now lives,
and near the Confederate camp, came
to our home, so as to be further away
from the battle zone. They remained
there until after the confederate
evacuated Laurel Hill. After hear
ing of the retreat of Gen. Garnett,
Mr.. Mustoe went back to his home to
see if every thing was all right, and
Mr. r. and myself accompanied him,
and finding everything unmolested,
we returned home, and as we came
to the 'old mill race" on Beaver
Creek, we saw five Federal soldiers,
the first we had seen coming down
the Gave Hollow, and we remem-
oered how much frightened we We're,
as we had heard that the YANKEES"
would kill every s'rebel' they met,
but to cur great joy we found them
very pleasant gentlemen, and after
meeting US and exchanging a few
words they went their way We did
not know our friend Clay at that
time, but we subsequently went to
his fathers mill, to have our grain
ground, and there we became ac-
quainted with him, and not with
standing the disparity of our ages,
we became devoted friends. We Of
ten went with him in his canoe, when
he would bring, or take his custom
ers grain across the valley river, who
lived on the west side, and we re-
member the fear we used to have,
and how rigid we would set in the
canoe with our hands clucked on It's
side for fear it would capsIze, as he
would row upon the ''riffieD and let
the canoe float down on the other
SIDE TO make his landing. Tie and
his sisters spent hours, and hours
conveying persons across the river,
and often at the very great peril or
their lives and yet these services
were always gratuitons. We often
went with him to the Old Concord
Church, to preaching, and Sabbath
School, we recall that we We're with
aiIn at Sunday School, at that church,
The Sunday after President Lincoln
was assassinated by John Wilkes
30oth, which was a great disaster to
The southern people, as he was their
friend, and would have done more
OF them than any other man could
In a former article to your paper
we tried 70 say that we believed that
Miss Mary Cooper had taught the
SCliOVi DIT Tic Olu Log aOuSS, uUiit
by Henry Hillyard, in the winter of
1866 and 1866, but upon mature re-
| Election, we think we were in error,
and the school she taught must have
been the winter befor the war closed
n the spring However our mind is
2oA.e Vi oar good ig.e..4s IL t.lsls
Acialty, VINO attended those schools
yid set US right, as half a century,
without any date to be governed by
S not very clear to US. e this is
correct Mr.. VIM Mustoe, must have
taught the term Of 1865 and 1866 at
an old 10 ghouse on the farm Of Mar
| in Hillyards. Mr. Mustoe had lost
his right arm at the battle Of Chan
| seicrsviile, while in the confederate
ervice, and where "Stonewall Jack
son, lost. his left arm, and from which
wound he died and Robt E. Lee said,
jackson has lost his left arm but /
have lost my right" Clay and |
attended this school, and both read
in Frost's History of American Re-
volution, and used Pixies old Arith-