Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-03

lam sending you Uncle Iv"
Motgan's reply to my letter of last
week in your issue. | ought to
have mailed it last week, but didn't
getit in time for last weeks issue
of yeur paper. l will write Uncle
Iv'fsin a few days and tell him
about the time a Yankee soldier
told me that Grant had captured
the whole of Lees army, and he
wasrnot prisoner.
Very truly yours,
H. H. Scott, Sr.
Margana, July 25, 1916.
Harlem, Ca,
Rt. 9, Box Ill,
July l3, 1916.
Mr. H. Scott:
Dear Old Comrade:-Yours of
sth4instant came to hand yesterday,
andI was certainly glad to get it.
AS q have just finished hoeing a
small potato patch, ate my fill of
watermelon, picked up the peaches
from under the trees and fed them
to my shoats, and am little tired
(thstis my legs, arms and back, 1
willfchat you just little. Yes, l
am Sorry to say it, but it is true,
when boots and saddle call was
sounded by our bugler it had
strange effect on just few of Com
panysI. They were either sick, as
yousaid, or their horses backs were
sore. Well, Hugh, I guess they
just couldn't help it.
But let me tell you how one of
them was cured from saying his
horses back was sore. Il shall call
no name, for I guess you know
While we were camped at Sandy
Spring, not far from Stevenburg,
the Yankees crossed the Rappahan-
nook river, somewhere above where
theIrailread that runs through the
town Of Gulpepper, and was about
z, "a lSy The E'iirst NJ Scavalry and
the old Second S. G.. cavalry off,
and came very near hemming the
two regiments up in the forks of
the Rappahannock and Rapidan,
but they were not successful, but we
sure had to get about in a hurry.
Capt. Clark missed a few men from
Company I, and he went to see
about them, and found the one l
spoke of riding a horse that belonged
to one of the men of Company L,
who had gone home on furlough,
and the captain told him to come
with him to the front, and his reply
was, that the horse did not belong
to him, and if it got killed he would
have to pay for it, but it didn't
work. The captain brought him,
and put him in between Aus. Boyle
and myself and told us if he
wouldn't fight just to kill him and
to leave him there, as the Confeder-
ate government was not able nor
wouldn't feed men to follow the
wagons. And Boyle looked at the
fellow and called him by name, and
said: You had as well be killed by
the Yankees as for myself, Morgan
or Bear (Sam Adams to kill you,
and one of us surely will if you
don't 60 TO shooting at the Yankees
just across an open field" Just
then Yankee officer came out from
a thicket and ran behind a big
dwelling house, and Boyle said to
the fellow: Now, you are a good
shot, and when that mans horses
neck shows from behind the house
YOU get either the Yankee or his
horse" and just as the horses shoul-
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fellows rifle and down went the
horse, but the rider jumped off and
ran behind the house, and at the
same time the fellows horse jerked
loose from his arm and ran off, leav-
ing him afoot, but all fear seemed
leave the man, and he fought on
foot, keeping along with us till we
crossed the Rappadan two miles
away; and after that if his horses
back was sore no one knew it, and
he told Boyle and l that he had just
got it into his head that he would
be killed the first fight he went in
He was wrong, and after that he
made good soldier, and was one
of the best rifle shots in the old
second. ! could tell of other incl
dents that took place that same day
Lumus, from Company D, was
shot through and through, and be
was riding just in front of me, and
as he fell from his horse | saw
Lieut.. Talbert throw his hand tc