The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-02-08
CONFEDERATE WRITES OF
HIS FRIEND GIDEON LONG
Macon, Ca, Jan. 25.
Col. E. H. lAull, Editor Of The New
eDrry Herald and News.

Col. E. H. Aull, Editor of The New
eDrry Herald and News:
Dear Friend As a regular reader
of your esteemed journal, please ac-
cept nay compliments to yourself and
ali otners who may chance Of care to
read what or what-not l may write.
To begin with, l know not what
may write, but as the spirit moTes me
you will find what is written. feel
constrained to write a word Of consola-
ton in behalf of my old friend and
patriot, Gideon J. Long, ex-sheriff of
my native county, old Union. A brayer
quota of patriots who fought in the
commands Of Generals Lee, Longstreet
and Stonewall Jackson were not to be
found in South Carolina say no
Drawer. Old Union county, God bless
her old hills-my native home, the
place where | first saw the light-the
home of six generations Of Bishops.
My sires grand and great grand sires,
On down to three or four more genera
tons who trace their lienage back to
the loins of old Union county, and if
eyer old Union county showed the
white feather in any patriotic emerg-
GnZy / never heard OF read Of it, and
H. few days, Goo be praised, shall
! b, g YEAR ,' GO, ard, though am
fa:ing we'll in Macon city, Ga, and
| love tne people Ct this splendid City
and state. my mind and heart revert
to the old oaken bucket that hung at
the we'll; yea, in deed and truth, and
when l hear of anything detrimental
| to the peace and harmony. Of dear old
South Carolina l feel interested. 1t
touches a tender chord in my heart.
And very especially when I hear of an
Old comrade in arms, in the days that
tried mems souls, who offered UP their
life-blood for the honor, for the right,
in a bloody war, and although their
coIors went down in defeat they have
ever stood up for the right, and re-
main as true as steel.
say it touches my heart. My blood
Will boil up to 80 degrees if 1 were
placed in an ice house, or at the north
pole. Yes. it will. The ties are too
binding. The chain is too strong ever
to be broken this side of the grave.
Now. Mr. Editor, snail try to come
direct to the point and personal inter
est I feel in behalf of Gideon ]. Long,
ex-sheriff OF Union, county, S. C. First.
vt appears from his record in The Her
AID and News as published few days
ago, that he has been inconsiderately
and shamefully nistreated. That is
the way it looks to an old Rebel UP a
tree way down in Georgia. Not only
has the ex-sneriff been mistreated. His
friends and the whole county Of Union
have been mistreated; and also sadly
disappointed. And I am not so far
away, either by distance, lost memory,
friendship or interest that I will not,
or care not, to enter a>protest in de-
fense of the faithful, the true and the
brave of my native heath, Of whom
Gideon J. Long is not the least.
The ex-sherif mentions the name Of
u. Banks Lyles, who was captain Of
company C, Fifth regiment of s. c. v.
in the Civil War. Our company was D
in the same regiment. Our captain
was the late J. T. Douglass. am a
living witness that these two captains
and the men they commanded never
showed the white feather. These cap
aims were both graduates of the South
Carolina college And when saw
mention of J. Banks Lyles in the ex-
eheriff's reminder that he call Capt.
Lyes to the colors, or rescue, I know
whereof and of whom speak. Yea,
verify he called on the true and the
tried. the daring and the brave