The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20
KELTON

Union County Field Day last Satur
day and found large gathering of
young people and many old ones. All
were enjoying themselves. 1 like to
see people enjoy themselves. / was
at the park but short time, only to
see two or three races.
The looked-for cyclone in the person
OF w. ID. Upshaw arrived in due time
time and gave the Pea Ridge people
and interesting talk on prohibition.
Tie is very interesting speaker, hav.
ing something to say and no trouble
to say it. At times he would have his
audience in an uproar of laughter, and
the next minute having them seriously
thinking. We don't think enough, we
sit Idle and let others do our thinking:
we had better have been beasts than to
have minds and not use them, right.
l heard in Union Saturday that the
johnson Rifles would leave for camp
life Sunday, the 18th. That carries
my mind back Sc years and two days
when the Pea Ridge left Union for
Confederate service on the 18th day of
April, 1861, many Of them never to
return to see their loved ones again.
L will give your readers the names of
one family connection that fell on the
battlefields or died with disease during
the four years of dreadful war, most
OF them belonged to the same COM
pany, all of them first cousins except
one. 1 will begin at the family that
suffered heaviest: John Gallman, four
sons, three killed on the battlefields,
and one died with disease. Daniel
Gallman, three sons, one killed, one
died and one came through. George
Gallman, one son survived the war.
Lemuel Gallman and only son Abram;
he is living today but his father was
killed in the first battle that he was
IN: Reuben Gallman, only one son,
killed. David Gallman, only one son,
died since the war. Waters Farr, five
sons, one or two died or were killed
during the war, only one living. D. J.
Farr, Abram Free, one only son still
living. G. w. Gault, three sons, one
died since the war, two still living.
Twenty in all. 10 first cousins and one
uncle; ten killed or died during the
war, five still living. You will see
one-half lost, one-fourth still living.
These figures show you the fruits of
war; all of them in the bloom of life.
save one-and brave men, not one of
them having blot on his fair name.
When you read such records who
wouldn't say war is terrible. Our dear
boys who are enlisting in the army
now and leaving may fare even worse
than the families named above. hope
that none of our boys will be called
to go across the great deep for the
vessels might strike mine or be tor
pedoed and whole companies or repi-
ments be sent to the bottom. These
are serious things to think about. es-
pecially we who have had war expert
ence.
We hear much talk of the high cost
OF living, but some of us know what
high prices were during the Civil war.
In Richmond, Va, paid SO cents for
one medium sized cooked sweet po-
tato and in camp have paid $500
for single loaf of bread not near
as light as we can get now for 10
cents. AS soon as war was declared
the president should have issued
proclamation calling on all the cotton
States to make only five bales of cot
tor to the plow and if they made over
that it should be taxed 10 cents a
pound as war tax. With all the
pleas for the Southern farmers to
raise more food stuff the greater part
of them are going to plant much land
in cotton and it is as much duty for
the farmers to raise something to eat
as it is to send men to the front, for
if they can't get something to eat in
the army and something for their
lved ones at home to eat the war
would 500 mend or we would have Bel
GUMS suffering women and children
in our country. If there is not a stop
to supplying Europe with our food
supplies. If they haven't got supplies
let them stop fighting. G. T. G.
P. 81 forgot to mention Uncle
John Gallman, who lost four sons and
one grandson.