The Semi-weekly leader., 1921-12-10
Commander A. M. Summers, Sylves-
ter Gwin Camp, Pays Tribute
to Veteran Dead.

James Allen Scarborough, another
valiant Confederate soldier passed to
his Anal rest in Lawrence County,
Miss, on January 27, 1907.
One by one the old Confederates
who followed the stars and bars Of
the Confederacy through the stormy
days Of the war are passing away;
one by one those old heroes are
registering at the Silent Wayside
Inn, where all human flesh at last
must sleep; one by one the men who
followed Lee, Joseph e. Johnston and
Sidney Johnston, Hood, Forrest and
others are falling from their posts.
]. A. Scarborough was born in
Lawrence County, Miss, 1916. He
though lad, was one of the first
to enlist as a soldier in the army Of
the South. He was member of the
22nd Mississippi Regiment, Company
A, Featherston's Mississippi Brigade.
He participated in nearly all the
prominent battles fought by the ar
my of the Tennessee at Shiloh where
his regiment captured the famous
Lady Richardson, one of the finest
guns the Yanks had. He loved to
tell of the noble act of his then Cap
tain, afterwards Col M. A. Oats, as
they passed out of a neck of timber
into the open field. Seeing the beau
tiful gun, and 1t being bravely han
died by the enemy, pouring it's dead
ly missiles right into their ranks, the
Captain yelled, Boys, take that
ID gun," and to it they went to
find only one brave Federal who
would not leave the gun, but fell
upon 1t with his arms around it.
Then is when Capt. Oats displayed
his bravery and won his own mems
hearts by going UP and yelling,
Boys, don't hurt that fellow. He
is too brave man to kill" Such
was the heart Of Scarborough. He
was with Loring's Division while in
Mississippi and back to the army of
Tennessee at Dalton, Ca, and down
to Atlanta where he received a ser
we're wound.
At Peach Tree Creek on July 29,
1854, he got home for a while; but
was soon back to take his post of
duty and remained with his COM
mander to the end. Passing thru
that horrible slaughter at Franklin,
Tenn, and on to Greensboro, N. c.,
where he and the writer and few
other living men on the 26th day of
April, 1866, heard for the last time
STACK Arms. He and we, then as
we do now, humbly bowed in sub
mission to him, the chief command
er, and he then turned his back to
literal warfare and returned to
Lawrence County, Miss, poor farm
er boy of only 18 years.
His father as most of our Missis-
sippi fathers were, was broken up
financially and with large families.
So Allen had first to help his father
get back into living circumstances.
Then he married a noble christian
help meet. He joined the Baptist
Church and soon began to study for
the ministry at Mississippi College
and soon began active work in the
Gospel Ministry with great success
until his health failed.
He was Mason. 1t was the wri-
ters pleasure to raise him to the SUI
blime degree of I'M. M"
He was member of Sylvester
Gwin Camp, Brookhaven, Miss, and
it's chaplain. In all these relations
he was great success, never falter-
ing in any duty.
He left noble christian wife who
helped him in all his labors. He
left sons and daughters, all pure and
clean, following in the footsteps of
a godly father. He will be missed
in all the walks of noble manhood.
Sylvester Gwin mourns him as one of
it's most useful and influential mem