Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21
'Uncle Iv" Morgan Writes In
teresting Letter.

will inform who may want to know,
whether I am still alive. For the last
nine months, with the exception of
November and December last, I
have been in very poor health, under
treatment of a physician most of
the time, and even while l write am
hardly able to be up.
d just wanted to know whether all
of the correspondents to your paper
were dead or like myself, just worn
out or just of no account.
{ Where is Mr.. or Mrs. Trenton,
.Hardy's, Cleora, Camp Branch, Col
Iliers and others that used to let us
hear from the four corners of Old
Edgefield county?
Z was so glad to see and read the
first of the Sweetwater letter, telling
about Old Mike (H. E. Mealing) still
being able to milk the cows and feed
the horses and pigs>and also to know
that his sister, Mrs. Lucretia Adams,
was still alive. A better woman |
have never known, and as for Old
Mike, better soldier did not belong
to the Confederate army. A better
friend never had. He, and / bunked
together for quite a while during the
Civil War. He had habit of growl-
ing, scratching and almost barking in
his sleep so much that l would have
to wake him up so that could get to
sleep, so at the last he told me just to
pinch him, so whenever he got to
growing, scratching, snorting and
kicking the blankets off 1 would give
him a good pinch and after pinching
him few times, just as soon as he
commenced his antics he would fetch
snap and a growl and wake up. So
7 broke Mike from having night
mare.
How many are there living now
;of Co. I, End S. C. Calvary? Let US
count them. There is Heavy q. w.
Cliffs, Mike (H. E.) Mealing, Little
Nv (E. G.) Morgan, J. N. Fair, Elias
istFaS5erts.,sand Joab.- Edwards and !
sometimes wonder how man who
belonged TO Co. could be a preach
er, for we were reckless set with
the exception of very few but Joab
Edwards was one of the best boys
that l ever knew. Six of the sixty
eight disbanded at Chester G. H., S.
c., in April 1865. Why, it seems like
it was just yesterday that l kissed
N. D. Zimmerman for parting
scene for Co. 1. We named N. D.
"Buttermilk" from the fact that he
was very fond of it, and some of the
boys told it, that when he went to
farm house for milk that if there was
none in the dairy OF house, the far
mer's wife or daughter would go to
the pasture and milk the cows so that
he could get milk. Now mind you, l
know that he liked milk, but would
not vouch for the truth of going to
the pasture to milk the cows for
him, oh no, but l do know that he
was a good soldier and loved his
horse, Old Ned.
Hugh Scott, the last to die of Co.
Drawer man l never knew. He just
did not know what fear was. He did
scout duty most of the year of 1868,
and when the End Cavalry was sent
to South Carolina in the spring of
1864 General Hampton asked our
colonel IT. ]. Lipscomb) to leave
Hugh with him, which he did. do
wish someone who secuted with him
would write up his adventures.
I notice in your paper that Old
Man Covar is dead, and if my men,
ory serves me, is he not about the
last of the old residents of Edgefield
village that was living in Edgefield
when the Civil War closed?
My, my, how time flies! Why, it
seems only short while since l was
boy and had eggnog every Christ
mas, and cake. And l can see again
the old slaves coming to the house
for their Christmas dram, and hear
them say, "Thankee Maam, Thankee
Sir" Those were good old days, and
the old slaves are about all gone,
only a few of them living now, and
those few love to talk and tell about
how. their old Master and Mistress
and young Master and Mistress treat
ed them. But those days have passed