REMOTES
OP AN OLD MAN
(Continued)
It is told of a Georgia Major that
he was retiring rather precipitately
from the fight, when it was getting
very warm. When the Colonel of
the Regiment stopped him and began
to remonstrate with him about
running away from his post of duty,
and ordered him to return at once
to, hi? place, the Major replied,
' "Colonel, the spirit are willing, but
the flesh are very weak." So it is
f with this writer, "The spirit are willin
a hnt. the flesh are weak." In
y ? ?
my last I finished with the Third
Company of Infantry that was raised
at Bradley's Old Field.
There was a company of old men
from forty-five to fifty years old, but
I who the officers were, if I ever
! knew. I do not remember now. But,
I do know this, they were first carried
to Adam's Run, and from there
to Florence, and possibly other
poinu> to guard prisoners, commissary
stores and police duty. There
was also a battalion or regiment of
boys from 17 to 18 years old who
were doing the same kind of duty,
and as fast as they reached 18
years, they were ordered to join the
different commands at the front.
There were only a few boys from
that section left for the militia, as
soon as they became 16 years old,
most of them went to the front, and
from that on did the duty of a man,
and many of them sealed with their
life's blood their devotion to the
country.
While this company of old men
were camped at Adam's Run, many
of them died from cerebro spinal
meningitis, among whom from the
Bradley's Old Field community, were
Williun Gibson, Elias Gibson, William
Sullivan, William Puckett, Allen
Puckett, two of the Beasleys,
and I have no doubt others that I
fail to remember. William Sullivan
reached home before he died,
the Gibson brothers died in a day
or so of each other. The Puckett
brothers in about a day of each
other, the Beasleys very close together.
Nearly every train brought
home a corpse. They were moved
soon from their unhealthy surroundings,
when their health was improved.
But we must move on.
Gen. J. B. Stuart use to sing, "If
you want to have a good time, join
the Cavalry." A number of men
from this community joined Co. A
and Co., G. of the first Cavalry.
Others joined Co. G. Second S. C.
lAinprl the 4th. 5th
Kyd\d.Ll J , v/utv,*.? ,
and 6th Regiments of Cavalry. The
first officers of Company A, First
South Carolina Cavalry were Capt.
M. H. Owens, Lieutenants Lomax,
' Russell and Jones, with T. B. Crews
as orderly sergeant. The last officers
of the Company were Capt.
Henry Jones, T. B. Crews, first lieutenant,
W. G. Roberts, 2nd lieutenant,
and Ed Moore as 3rd lieutenant,
with John Knox as orderly sergeant.
Capt. Owens was wounded
and died from tetanus, Lieutenant
Lomax was retired on account of
health, Lew Russell shot himself accidentally
and was put on light duty,
serving as enrolling officer till the
:end of the war.
The roll of company A. at the first
of the war was quite different from
what it was the last 14 months of
the war. The roll as I recall it
the last of the war was, Capt, Henry
Jones, 1st Lieutenant, T. B. Crews;
2nd Lieutenant, W. G. Roberts; 3rd
Lieutenant, Ed Moore. The roll was
as follows:
Mug Belher, Lew Blackwell, Archie
Boyd, Ben Bouchillon, Sam
Brown, Drayton Brooks, John Bullock,
Tom Clark, Chestut, Burt
Cobb, Frank Cowan, Charley Dendy,
John Crawford, Jim Crawford, Tobe
Cothran, Bert Dill, John Evans, Jim
Evans, John Ford, White Jones, Ben
Harvey, Cicero Hughes, Zack
Graves, A. M. Hill, Pat Hazard, Tom
Hazard. Tom Hutchinson, John
Knox, Sam Knox, Cato Ligon, Will
Lyon, Lockey, McCuoir, David
Morrah, Billy McClinton, Billy McMillan,
W. McCord, Bud McCord,
William Moore, Tom Moseley, John
"Martin, Tom Martin. Jim Martin,
John Murrell, John Miner, W. G.
Neal, Geo. Patterson, I. L. Gibert,
Bill Sprouse, Bill Robinson (white
eye,) David Waralaw, J. A. Wide
T T?;il Willi* ::
man, O. VV. (I lucman, JLJW1 ..
Jim Shillito, Harper Shillito, Jim
Verrell, Belt Verrell, W. T. Penny,
John Penny, and John Young. These
r helped to give General Stuart
"name" and Wade Hampton his
glory. The first Regiment did duty
on the coast, on John's and Wadmalows
Islands. When they were carried
to Virginia and made a part of
Hampton's Brigade, which was composed
of the First N. C. Cavalry,
the First and Second S. C. Cavalry, I
the Phillips, Jeff Davis, and Cobb
Legions and Hart's Battery, a noble
and dashing band of men, not only
rods around McClellan's Army, but
warn onnrnrrpfj in PVPrV CaVall'V bat- !
I tie fought in Virginia till they came
back to this State. Many thrilling
adventures could be told of the
gallantry of some of them if time
and space permitted.
At the battle of Gettysburg, the
regiment was in disorder for a tima,
when Capt. Jones saw a member of
Co. H. surrounded by the enemy, j
who, under the excitement, did not
notice that he had thrown down his I
arms, and were cutting at him with
theii sabres. Gathering what men
were around him, he charged them,
^ and unsaddled three of their number
three licks. He was a most powerful
man, and a very fine swordsman.
Here Billy McClinton got a
whack over the head, and was run
throigh the arm with a saber. A
day or two after, his mare became
lame, and as he led her up to the
wagon train with bandaged head an 1
arm, some one asked him if he was
wounded, he replied in his quiet way,
"Yes, got a little hack." Billy rode
an old bold face mare that would
pace a few steps, and then bring a
hop. Jim Verrell would whistle a,
tune for the old mare to pace by
I and when the mare would hop, th
j tune would hop too. Bill wouli
J say r few cuss words, the rest o
the crowd of course enjoyed it. Th
last of the war Belt Verrell was pro
moted, and from that time on wa
one of Butler's Scouts, not much o
him physically, but what there was
was pure steel.
Tobe Cothran fought a Yanke>
hand to hand with sabres, till thi
Yankee ran. He refused to hal
when Cothran shot him off his horse
Burt Cobb had a hand to hand figh
with a Yankee. 'ihe Yankee ra:
into his own lines, before Bur
caught him. burt brought hin
out, passing in a few feet of th
Yankee line, holding his prisone
between him and them. He defie:
them to shoot. Some men could no
stand the sight of blood, thougl
they were good soldiers. A fev
days before the end of the struggle
a wounded horse had rubbed again:,
Archie Boyd's leg, one of his com
radei seeing it, told him, "Archi<
look at the blood on your leg, you'iwoui.ded."
He looked down at hi:
panto and exclaimed, "Lord, I an
shot all to pieces." We helped hin
down off his horse, rolled up hi:
pants and found there wasn't <
scratch on him. Aii joined in i
hearty laugh, none enjoying it mor<
than Boyd did.
The last of the war a great man:
of the two Abbeville Companies wer<
dismounted, and sent to fill in thi
shattered lines of the Infantry
About forty of them from Abbevilli
county were captured and recaptur
ed, by Hampton's Cavalry the morn
ing he charged Kilpatrick's Cam]
near Fayetteville, North Carolina
My recollection is that Co. G. cami
out of the war with the same officer
-they went in with. Capt. Johnson
T .iontpriants McLauerhlin. J. F. Liv
ingston and Grant Jackson. Capt
onnson was a cool and brave offi
cer. Ed Moore, when about thre<
sheets in the wind, swore the Cap
tain wouldn't bat his eyes if thirt;
pieces of artillery were playing oi
him. A number of Co. G. wer<
from the vicinity of Bradley's 01<
Field. There were four Link bro
thers, Dr. W. E. Link, Sam, Bol
and Tom, Thos. Ligon, John Ligon
Bob Keown, W. H. Pennel, San
Seignor, Ben Napier, Nathan Na
pier, John Brown, Henry Frith
Henry Shumate, Walker, John Hem
j minger, McGaw and a number o
j others that I can't recall now, Pan
land John G. Edwards, Arch Douglas
Bob Link, in a Cavalry charge, un
horsed his man with his sabre. Oi
another occasion he and W. G
Roberts were presented with a Colt
Navy pistol each, in presence of th;
two companies. Bob's family art
in Texas. He had been a brave sol
dier, and a worthy citizen. Jus
after the battle of Brandy _Station
Dr. W. E. Link, and Dr. Urewton
from Company B. were returning
from home with fresh horses. The]
rode over the battlefield on their waj
to the regiment. They came upoi
a number of dead horses that ha:
been killed in a charge. Both o:
them were pretty well loaded witl
Api>lt Jack. Brewton came to th<
concluion that the riders had beei
running. I will leave it to Dr. Linl
to tell why he thought so. .John E
Bradley, R. F. Bradley, Thos. J
Hearst, William Morrow, Jim Mor
row, John Morrow, Clint Belcher
John and George Sibert, all belongec
to Co. G. Second S. C. Cavalry.
They came back from Virginia a
the same time the First Cavalry did
At Columbia the two regiments wer<
separated, and were not together anj
? ? c aitqv A nflH
more till CliC wai na^ Viw> 2
of all of them were present wher
Fort Fisher was taken. Tom Brad
ley, Jim Adkins, and Sam Cothran
belonged I think to the 4th S. C
Cavalry. Tom Bradley was killec
in a charge in Virginia. San
Cothran was killed at Fayetteville
N. CM when Kilpatrick's companj
was charged, Lieut. Thos. Hearst hac
a horse killed under him in Virginia
John E. Bradley had a horse shoi
and killed under him, J. W. Widemar
had his horse shot in right breast
William Morrow was a scout foi
Stuart and Hampton, Bill Brad]
was promoted to a scout for M. C
Butler the last of the war.
The last Cavalry charge of th<
war, so far as Hampton's Cavalrj
were oncerned, was about two mile:
of Raleigh. It was made by Kirk':
Squadron, supported by Co. A. anc
E. of our regiment. Out of all oj
these men nearly all are gone, ]
don't suppose twenty of them are liv
^.1 1-^4
ing. i nose mai, cue icn aic *?*-.
men now. I never see one of then
bowed with the infirmities of age
but that I feel like slapping him or
the back and telling him, "Cheer up
comrade, it's not far to camp, ther
we will have rest." Now my wort
is done, very imperfectly, but I hopt
some of the dependents of thes?
men will reccllect what commam
their fathers and brothers belonged
to. May He who tempers the win<
to the shorn lamb, be ever kind tc
the few who are left.
Said to Be Oldest Tree.
The famous cypress near Oaxaca ir
Mexico, over 5,000 years old. said tc
bo the oldest tree in the world was
discovered by Humboldt while on his
I famous tour of equatorial America
100 years ago. He nailed to it a
wooden tablet, which is now half covered
by the subsequent growth of
the '.ree. Upon it, however, is still
legible the autograph of the fnnious
German naturalist. The last meas
urement of the tree showed its trunk,
four feet from the ground, to have
a girth of 126 feet.
A Chance.
A young author, whose ability was
by no moans equal to his conceit
was discoursing at length upon the
merits of his work. "I 'am tirec
of writing of that which others write
of," he said. "I want to create an
original work, something that no one
has ever written about or ever will
write about." A learned man turned
quickly to the speaker, "Why not
write your own eulogy?" he said.
The door of hope swings both ways,
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f Epworth Orphanage?W B Whar>>
ton, superintendent.
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? M. L. Carlisle, presiding elder.
1 Clinton?W. A. Fairey.
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Greer?W. J. Snyder.
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a P. B. Wells, presiding elder.
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j Blackstock?Ceo. Gary Lee.
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York?Henry Stokes.
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. Anderson.
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OFFICE WILL BE OPEN FROM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15TH,
UNTIL FRIDAY, DECEMBER
31 ST, 1915.
The Rate of State, County, School
and Special Tax, Including One ,
Dollar Poll Tax, One Dollar Com- i
mutation Tax.
In accordance with an Act to raiseV
supplies for the fiscal year cnmmenc- |
ing January 1 1915, notice is here- ,
by given that the office of County
Treasurer for Abbeville County will 11
be open for the collection of taxes!
for said fiscal year from Friday, Octo- <
ber 15th, until Friday, December
Slsst, without penalty. There will be
added?
A penalty of one per cent, on all j
taxes not paid on January 1st, 1916.
A penalty of two per cent, on all :
taxes not paid on February 1st, 1916.
* 1A- - *
penalty ul seven per ucm. uu ?ui i
taxes not paid on March 1st, 1916.
Rates per cent. oT taxation are as
follows:
State Tax 7 mills
County Tax 6
Past Indebtedness 1'% "
Constitutional School
Tax 3
Total 17% mills
In addition to the above, a special
tax will be collected for school purposes
as follows:
Abbeville Shop Bonds. 1% mills
Abbe. Special School 8 "
Antreville 6 "
Bethel 3
Bold Branch 4 "
Central 2
i Calhoun Falls 2 " i
! Cana 2 " <
Eureka 3 " t
Rocky River 2 "
Donalds 8
Due West (5 "
! Fonville 3 " i
Hagan 2 " ;
Keowee 3
I Lone Forest 4 " i
Lowndesville 8 " 1
IMcCormick v 9 "
IVIt. Carmel 4 "
Omega 4 "
Pineville 2 "
I Parks Creek 3 "
1 Reid 2
Rock Springs 2 "
Lebanon 4 "
! Long Cane 2 "
Buffalo 5 "
i Broad mouth 2 "
Bethiah 4 "
j Sunny Slope 4 "
Sharon 4
Vermillion 4
Willington 5
Warren ton 3
Young's 2 "
Cold Springs 4
Comer 2 "
Ray 4
A poll tax of One Dollar per capita
on all male citizens between the age
ol 21 and 60 years, except such as
are exempt by law, will be collected.
A commutation road tax of One
Dollar will be collected the same
time as other taxes from all male
citizens between the ages of 18 and
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icember 6th, at 2:00
jreenwodd, S. C., al
3., the following des
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V Vi J AAVkJkV b4UV/^ VV A WAA V41V
at checked, the piano is
which we sold for not 1
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Piano, the case somewha
condition. All of these
d thoroughly tuned. T
to inspection. They wi
lighest bidder. Do not
[ about 16 other pianos
to $125.00 less than the
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58 years, except such as are exempted
by law. Unless said tax is paid
by first of March, 1916, eight days j
work upon the public highways will
be required under an overseer, if so
tnuch be necessary.
Taxes are payable only in gold and
silver coin, United States currency,
National Bank Notes and Coupons of
State Bonds which become payable
during the year 1915. A tax of 50
cents will be collected on each dog.
Parties desiring information by
mail in regard to their taxes will
please write before December 16th,
stating the location of their property,
and including postage for reply, and
those paying taxes by check must include
the charge for collection.
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County Treasurer.
September, 1915.
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cribed Pianos: ?j|:
o at $300.00. This |ffi|
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ess than $300.00 to |j|j?ion
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t scarred but other- ?jgi?:
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hev are at mv store tlWilE.
11 be sold at Public ISS
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