The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-28
ELF-SACRIFICE MADE
BY HEROIC CALVIN CROZIEK
Puts Deeds H Damon and Pythias
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Charleston American.
Columbia, Sept. 22.-The name o.
Calvin S. Crozier, of Clebourne, Tex
as, among the privates in Company
x, 56th infantry, U. S. A, now at
Chickamauga Park, Ca, recalls the
heroic sacrifice made in NeWberry at
the close of the War Between the
States by Private Crozier's uncle, an
other Calvin Crozier, who fought with
Texas troops in the armies OF the
Confederacy, to whose memory a
monument now stands in beautiful
Rosemont cemetery at NeWberry, ana
in whose honor one of the chapters
OF the Daughters of the Coafederac9
there is named.
Calvin Crozier was on his way to
his Texas home, after the surrender OF
the Confederacy, and was delayed IN
! Newberry, where he was compelled
eto stay on the night of Septen,ber g.
! 1865. There were several ladies un'
der his care, and they all decided, for
want of better accommodations, 70
spend the night in freight car which
was at the station. During the night
some negro soldiers intruded, making
themselves obnoxious to the ladies':
They refused to leave when Grocer
requested them to do so, whereupon
a difficulty ensued in which one OF
the negro troopers was slightly cut.
The other members Of the negro reg
lment, learning Of the affair, rusnea
to the scene and seized Mr.. JACOB >.
Bowers, a railroad employe, VINO nao
inst come in, and whom they m1stooH
for the man who had injured mem
her of their command. They were
.hont 70 Iynch Mr.. Bowers, when
Crozier, who learned what was gong
on. and that an6aer man was about
TO suffer death in his stead, came up
and announced that it was he VINO
had wounded the negro. He was SELF
ed and. at daylight was taken to q
spot near where the Newberry COTTON
oil mill now stands, and just at aay-
break was shot to death.
In Chapman's Annals OF NewDerry
II is related that Prince Rivers VINO
was then an officer in TroWorlose )
regiment Colonel Trowbridge oeins
:, command of the negroes), wish
5ne 70 save the lif> of brave man.
went to him after he was bound anu
/ HELPLESS and begged him to say 1naS
s. he was not the man who hao Tue
difficulty with the negro soldiers anu
@:Loose me and will show you Wne1h-
<Ioose me and I will show you Wne1n-
or am the man or not"
Twentv-six years ago, and just 20
wears after he was murdered, Croz-
5er,s remains were moved by the Cit
izons Of Newberry from the village
rrayeyard to Rosemont cemetery ana
handsome monument was erectea
to his memory. Several years, ago d
newly formed chapter of the Daugn-
+ars of the Confederacy took MS
name.
Damon and Pythias were warm per-
sonal friends. They knew and loved
aocb the other. Crozier and Bowers
wore strangers. They had never seen
eacb other until the night OF Croz-
Ier,s deed of heroism. Crozier SUI
fered death rather than to see a TO-
4al stranger die in his stead, Tor d
blow struck in defense of womanhooo'
The neople of Newberry have honor
ad themselves in honoring his mem
orv and 1t would be well If the story
wore written large in the histories
ond readers used by the public schools
of South Carolina.
sergt. Ralph B. Ward, Of the COM
ranv in which Calvin S. Crozier, the
nanbev. is now serving as private
under the Stars and Stripes, writes
hook to his Newberry home that Fri
vate Crozier will probably visit New
berrv where sleeps his gallant uncle.
John H. Aull.
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