Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-14

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find anything. I fear the grass has
got him in prison. And Mr.. Ro-
chelle of Texas-I am anxious to
know something of him. / fear
that the same sentence is passed on
him that Bro. Iv got. Now,
Bro. " and Bro. Rochelle, this is
no reflection on either of you, for if
my attorney is a hard hitter, I'll re-
ceive the same sentence. Each one
of you write long letter to Tie
Advertiser, giving the farming con-
dition of your section.
A we'll wishes to The Advertiser.
j. D. White.
Hephzibah, Ga.
drive them in, and they went for
them, but after emptying their pis-
tolls the Yankees still stayed in the
road, and Singleton and Chatham
fell back, and Col. Butler called to
me and man by the name of John
Bull of Company g to follow him,
and we charged the videttes and
they wheeled their horses and broke,
with Col. Butler, Bull and myself in
close pursuit, but just ahead was a
piece of woods, and as they passed
out on the other side of the woods
they turned to the left, and Col.
Butler and myself right in behind
them (Bull had gotten behind), and
as soon as we cleared the woods l
saw a battery of three guns in less
than hundred yards, and force
of Yankees (don'tknow how many,
didn't have time to count them) not
over two hundred yards from US,
and formed in hollow square with
their guns in position of bayonet
against cavalry. The Col. and l
wheeled, and l seem 10 hear him
now say Run Morgan, and we put
spurs to our horses, and we had
hardly gotten in the woods before
all three pieces of that yankee bat
terry called for US to stop, and hav-
ing fired on us with grape shot the
road was strewn with limbs cut off
by the grape shot, but the Col. and
I were oD the move to cooler place,
and as we passed a school house 1--WE
then had gotten some distance from
those cannon) | saw good looking
pistol lying in the road, slowed up
my horse and was in the act of dis
mounting to pick it up and the Col.
called Out, what in the h-ll are you
doing, and | told him, and with an
oath he told me to come on. Yes he
would curse you and at the same
time he would die for his men.
After passing the school house we
turned to our right and was then
out of sight of the yankees, and the
Col. said to me this: Morgan, you
ought to think. l ought not to
have cursed you, but that pistol was
dropped there for the purpose of
getting some one to stop to get It,
and l haven't a doubt, says he, but
what that school house was full Of
yankees, but they did not shoot
at you and me because ourm were
then near enough to have captured
them" Yes Col. Butler could think
clearly in the thickest of a fight.
We got back into our lines on the
evening of the 3Oth, and our Christ
mas frolic was over, but men and
horses were tired and hungry, for,
with the exception of two nights,
we had no sleep, and but little to
eat, but we had been all around the
yankee army, and when they did get
in behind us they gave us chase,
but after we got within our lines
there were wagons with food for
men and horses, and l remember
very we'll what l had for supper--a
few hard crackers and piece of fat
side meat, and l ate it raw. Yes,
sir, raw meat was often eaten, espe-
cially when on the move. How we
went through with what we did is a
mystery to me.
The cavalry sometimes got into
the row and had all the picketing to
do during the winter months, but