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W AR SI I'lit' ?ljootiiiy ol'ie) nine Soldier, by FV To tin.- Kditor of tin; Siiio?iiy New? mention made al.oul the thoittine af-JW. Miller, u Conf. dl rat?- s Ui i. by federal troop'1, i'i r?*iali?t ton, which appeared on Saturday, Aj til ?2, lias brou.u'l) t to my mi ml m >-t vividly the - id incident, Laving been a draw .ui: ! lots t" decide who should be 3I1 o:. Ii wa.* generally understood by ill of us who were prisoners at the time under Sherman, that it was Lhrougl (Jen. Sherman's order that :t was done, and as a rcvcogc for the alleged killing by one of Hampton's savalry of a L'ederal prisoner. As prisoner* w? were, of course, kept in Ignorance of what really did transpire io cause or bring about this retaliation and I cannot, therefore, assert posi tively that such was the real cause ihat led to the retaliation, but that ihc retaliation did take pLce and that the noble and brave Jas. Miller was ihot to death to satisfy the revenge of i.relentless foe are facta that can bo proven without a doubt by the few of vis that are still living and who were participants in that fatal drawiog, and in what was perhaps the lirst and ihe ?ast shameful incident of the kind during the struggle for Southern in dependence, and that there might lave been a repetition of such a cow ardly and shameful act there is no doubt, had it not been, as wo wero in >?med, that Gen. Hampton notified Sherman that for every Confederate "rivate shot by him, Sherman, he, Hampton, would cause to be shot for iuie two federal officers. Whether or not this was the cause of stopping it I can't say, at any rate there was 30 more retaliation with us. Al though wo were continually threatened jrith it. It was in the month of February. 18G.">, and it was oold, bitter oold, *>eing the severest winter experienced in years. About 100 of us were pris sts, a few Georgians and Tennessee ?.n?, the balance South Gaiolinians. 3omo were captured on the way back lo their commands, while others were 3till at home on sick or wounded fur lough and unable io make good their ascape. Boys of 1"> and 16, who had responded to the last call of their country, were among tho prisoners. Old men too were ruthlessly taken from their homes and made to share the exposure, starvation, and cruelties of ihose long weary marches. We wero prisoners captured by Gen. Uiair's corps, Capt. Burns and Lieut. McKec having charge of us, and I jiust say that of all tho brutes und tyrantB that could be in human f.orm lhat man Bums was surely one to ex aell them all. There was no sym pathy in his heart for any of us and any order that ho could give that would tend to increase our wants and suffering seemed to be his delight to inflict. Of Lieut. McKee we all ihought well, for while ho was power less to make us comfortablo or to alleviate our wants and sufferings, ho ^pever did anything to increase them, and had always a kind word, he was a Western man and a true typo of a gen tleman. Major Waterhouse, too, of the 17th corps of artillery, had always words of cheer for us aud often visited the "bull pen after our fatigue of all day marohing, and condemned the cruel ties to which wo wero subjected. He was a fine specimen of a man and was lig hearted. Our marches wero on an average of 25 miles a day, and under ihc most trying circumstances, as I have stated. The woa'cher was bitter cold and most of ur, half olad and shoeless, and in this condition we -sere forced, like oattle, through swamps, over corduroy roads and new toads, cut oui by the pioneer corps, jhixiering with oold, the blood run ning* from our fnet, half starved, sick and Weakened by disease, run away by vermin. Daily we trudged along, only lojie down at night with little fire, no., covering to protect us from the rain and sleet, with the pangs of hun ger gnawing at our very existence. Oar rations were scant, and consisted oj a little meal and about 3 hardtaoks per day, occasionally a small bit of salt meat. We only ate twioe a day, breakfa&t and supper, there being no lalt for dinner. Breakfast was very hurriedly gotten, and half cooked, in irbafce/ten utensil we were fortunate d?fongn to possess. To add to our misery the guards were of the most ruel oharaoter and it was a common occurrence for them to use their bayo nets, inflicting slight, but paioful wounds upon the persons of many who from sheer exhaustion were unable to keep up. Many foil by the wayside, never to rise again. Oae old man, I remember, by the name of Wolfe, from Orangcburg County, was among the number. Ho wa3 dragged from I k?fo line in a dying conditioo, and I /eft by the roadside. Many were shot an the dead line. Jack Stribbling^ DRIliS. ?\I il 1er.:? ( Jon federate uIi I was among ihc number that drew | ! .?.-. night, i> >'>r * i 1 ?w. in :i il?-li rio'i* condition, brought about i<y starvation and sickness, wandered too hear the dead lino aid wa i shot. Of the destruutiou of property that marknl ShctUian's march through South Carolina, bo much had been al ready written ili;it 1 will say but little more Plantations, with their tine dwellings, hums, mills and fencing, wen; ali laid in a.sllCH, even orchards were destroyed, the very heavens along the route being illuminated for miles and miles nightly, nothing but 1 the chimneys being left standing as monuments ia memory of his revenge ful acts. It was a scene thit beggars description; horses, mules, cattle and j hogs, the whole country was left a I wilderness us compl?te as his numer ous pillagers, vaodalsaud incendiaries could make it. Every day brought its miseries and sufferings during those ; long and continuous march?s until wc reached Newborn, on the coast of North Carolina, where we remained, a few days, quartered in the jail yard. We were then divided into two batch es and sent on transports, some to Point Lookout, Md., and others to Fortress Monroe, to be subjected to further sufferings. Your Lancaster correspondent gives the execution of the victim as having taken place near Lynch's River, and so it might have been, but according to my recollection it took place after crossing the ('ape Fear River, and not far from Fayctteville, N. C, but forty j years is u 1-mg time tu accurately state from memory the date of the month, and exact spot. No uotes were kept by any as far as I know under such trying circumstances, and if there was there certainly has been no publi cation of it that I've seen or heard of, and I am only sorry that I did uot make a noto of the circumstances years back while my memory was still fresh and perfect in the recollection of the outrage. There were about twenty of us selected to go through this retaliation ordeal, and it appeared that it was in tentionally ordered that those select ed should bo South Carolinians, as follows, viz: James Miller, Chester field County; Samuel Wood, Barn well County; Jarnos B. Patrick, Charles ton; Butler Phelphs, Orangeburg County; George Hnzelhurst, Charles ton; Jack Stribling, Edgefield County; Charles Scanlon, Charleston; Tom O'Bannau, Barnwell County; Godfrey Magwood, Charleston; Bascoui Cor borno,-; and T think Dr. Stew art, of Beaufort. The others, South Carolinians, I cannot remember. Out of the number poor Miller was the vic tim upon whom vengeance was wreak ed. The following are those that sur vived, reached home, lived some years and have since died, except Jack Stribling, who was killed on the dead line as before mentioned,- viz: Samuel Wood, Tom O'Bannon, Godfrey Mag wood, Bascom Corborue. Those still living arc: Butler Phclps, James B. Patrick, Charles Scanlon, George Hazelhurst, Dr. Stewart. I can't say whether living or not. Notable among the prisoners be sides Dr. Stewart were: Dr. Albert Tabor, brother oF the editor of the old Charleston Mercury, and Major Manning, son of Ex-Governor Man ning. The two last named wero brought in some time after the retali ation, if I remomber rightly. Their stay with us, however, was short; their ranks of oflicc, we suppose, obtaining for them better consider ation. There had been a steady, cold and drizzling rain all day and we wore thinking of the many long miles to tramp before night would come to givo us rest, when suddenly a halt was ordered. (I think between the hours of 2 and 3.) The place seleoted for the bull pen and oamp was an oak ridge to the left of a publie road. At tho foot of the ridge and winding along the edge of a bay or swamp was a settlement road which joined the publio road. We had not settled down good, trying to rest our weary bones on the oold and wet ground, congratu lating ourselves on the unusually short march of the day, when an officer, (rank of lieutenant, his name we oould never learn,) appeared and from a paper in his hand commenced oalling out the names of those he had record ed, about twenty altogether. ?s eaoh one answered to his name he was or dered in line, md ^oder a strong guard we were all then marched out to the settlement ro?d and down it for a dis tance of about twO hundred yards. At this point there was in waiting a fquad of about twelve, (infantry,) in command of a sergeant. At the com mand given one of the squad, with hat in hand, cohered with a red hand kerchief, took a position in front of u?. We were theu ordered one after the other to draw from tili- hut a slip I I paper, nil blanks except one, which hud some mark, which when drawn, would d?termine the one to be shut. A each one drew hi- .-l.j. of paper it was handed to this sergeant, who looked at it and then ordered you hack in line. About adoz.ua or so hud drawn when it came Miller's turn. He drew and handed it to the .-er gca t, but he p ;?<r fellow was not or dered in line, us had beeu our good fortune, but was detained and put in charge of this Fqiiad. Wc weie then ordert d about face and with sad heart, we left pour Miller as we marched back to the buil pen. [i was t 1m-ri sleeting heavily and we were trying to build such fires as we could to keep from freezing to death, when a volley rung out on the air and i which told too well the fate of poor Miller. He had be^n shot, yes, mur dered. Miller was a Que specimen of a man, standing perhaps six feet in his stockings, of line physique, with regular features, and woru a black beard. He was the senior of the ma jority of us, being, I should judge, between UO and .'?."> years of age. I never knew positively, but it was said that he had a wife and chil dren. In conclusion, let me say that as it has fallen to my lot out of the few of us that are left to write this, perhaps the saddest episode of the Civil war, I have done so truthfully and to the best of my memory; and, too, that it may be handed down to our children, and our children's children, that they may kuow of the sacrifice mado in vin dication of our right and honor and in defence of our beautiful and be loved Southland. But the span of forty years has wrought many changes to the world; we have shown that we are as brave and good in peace as we we wore stubborn and unconquerable in war, our wrongs oao never be for gotten, but are forgiven, the bitter ness of feeling has about died out, and iu tho luugU4ge of the eloquen t Terrell, of Georgia, we are a regener ated, reunited, an indissoluble peoplo, and under one flag are striving togeth er for the common good of all, and for the advanoemont of this great and grand Republic. B. Frank Ford, I Company D, 2nd, S. C. liegt, S. T. i No. G'J, Bay street, Charleston, S. C. May 10th, 11M)5. aiutuc io Forrest Unveiled at Mem phis. Memphis. Tenn., May 1G.?To the accompaniment of martial music and in the presence of thousands of citi zens and visitors]the equestrian bronze statue of Lieut. Gen. Nathan B. For rest was unveiled this afternoon in the park that bears the Confederate general's name. The statue is the work of sculptor Neihaus. It was cast in Paris. Little Miss Bradley, a great grand daughter of the dead hero, pulled the silken cord which exposed to view tho handsome monument. The munici pil otlicers declared a half holiday for the occasion and the city was crowded with visitors. In the parade whioh preceded the unveiling were: Capt. Wm. M. Forrest, son of Gen. For rest. With Capt. Forrest was his family and iu other earriages rode Coi. D. C. Kelly, of Nashville, sur viving member of Gen. Forrest's old staff, who* surrendered with him at Gainesville, Ala., and several of For rest's old escort. The ceremonies at Forrest park be gan with an invocation by the lit. llev. Thomas F. Gailor, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Tennessee Gen. S. T. Carnes then made a brief speech giving a history of the monument, lie wa9 followed by Gen. George W. Gordon, who delivered the dedica tory address. Gen. Gordon said in part: '.'We have not assembled here today to glorify war. We are not here to exalt the direful art and sanguinary science of human carnage, but to sa lute and aooentuate the name, and to commemorate in language, in bronze and io marble, the masterful prowess and martial genius of Tennessee's, if not America's, greatest, moat original and dazzling soldier?Lieut. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. We declare this durable testimonial, so imposing, so impressive and so expressive of the oharaoter and career of (he man to be the imperishable proclamation of our veneration for his memory, oar grati tude for his services and sacrifices and our admiration for his valor and genius. "His natural endowments both phys ical and mental were extraordinary. He began his military career at the age of 4(>, the same ago at whioh Caesar began his conquest of the na tion, sad like the great Roman, he never lost a battle. He was one of the world's few commanders who could personally engage in the combat and at the same time direet the action of his men. Ho accomplished more with the resources at his command than any commandor developed by tho war?at tho same time displaying more personal prowess than any; and thereby establishing a greater olaim than any to be called "tho American Mars." Mayor J. J. Williams accepted tho statue ou behalf of the oity of Mem phis. $ tien. Fitzhugii Lee. The leading journals in the North and lia st art; piling some handsome tributes tu the memory of the late ? Ii. L'itzhugh Lee. and it really does ' us good tu lead them. As a sample of many of the editorials we have] r<-a<J. we clip the following from the j I'ittsburg (I'd. I Dispatch: TIic news of the death of General [ 'itzhugh Lee carries with it a sense of deep regret. f11a position wan such that his sudden removal from the scene of his useful activities can only be regarded as closing the career of a notable man. Believing (irmly in the cause of the South, he left the American army to cast his fortunes with those of Vir ginia. During the long and desperate struggle he made for himself a posi tion among the officers of the Cou- j federacy, and when his usefulness as J a soldier wai done he retired until such time as the results of the v?ar ; could be determined. Then with all the fervor of his nature ho began the preaching of that doctrine which stirred anew throughout the South a feeling of patriotism. He taught the young men the gospel of one flag and one nation and seconded by the efforts of Gordon and Wheeler and others, did a very great deal to heal the wounds of the conflict. His State honored him as its Chief Executive and President McKinley sent him to Havana as Consul Gen eral. During those trying days pre ceding the actual break with Spain he exerted every effort to prevent the rupture, but when war became inevi table he offered his services to up hold the flag against which he had once fought. Following the war he occupied a distinguished position in Cuba, and when finally retired it was with honor as a brigadier general of the United States Army. His place in history will be well understood. Careful in the formation of his views, he was true to his con victions until such time as he could be convinced that he was wrong. He was a splendid type of the progressive American. The Record of Emotione. We cannot always charge it to old age wLen wo tiud our foreheads are crossed with & distressing network of tiny lines. It is not always age that makes those disagreeable rows across our foreheads and around the eyes. There arc some grandmothers whose faces have hardly a wrinkle and some granddaughters whose brows are as seamed as they might be at sixty. Time is not responsible for these exist ing little lines. A good many of them may be charged up against worry. If I one gets in the way of fretting over everything that has gone wroug and everything one thinks likoly to go wrong, the record upon one's face will bo a mark which is hard to erase and is far uglier than the lines the happy years bring.?Philadelphia Inquirer. ? Some men prefer to do their hay making by gaslight. A Columbia ''(terrien of Kdeu." The following account of the transi- ] tioo of the Ogden party "fr:mi para dise to a railroad wreck" is from the pen of Mr. J. K. Chamberlain, the btatl correspondent cf the New York Mail, who was on the wrecked train. His ' story" appeared in the Mail un der a Richmond, Ya., date liue, and is in part, as follows: "The educational pilgrims from the North stepped from paradise at Colum bia into quite the other thing at Greenville. At the capital of South Caroliua there is a college for girls, presided over by Miss MoCliotock, which is located in a garden that comes nearer to being the Garden of Eden than any other place I have ever seen. It is called the 'old l'rc-6ton place.' It is a sumptuous old South ern estate, in the heart of Colombia, that for about a century belonged to the Prestnns and the Hamptons, two wealthy South Caroliana families whoso lives were interwoven by mar riage. They planted ferns of beauty there wbioh were to ripen into per fection only after they, the Prestons and the Hamptons, had vanished from the place and from the life of the city and State. "Some one of those old aristocrats knew trees and shrubs. Not only did he know what beautiful exotics would grow in his garden, but he must have imaged the forms they would take in their maturity and the aesthetic rela tion they would bear to one another. "Here in a triangular group stands a wonderful eodar of Lebanon, whose outline against the sunset glow was the summit of all things majestic and graceful;'a tall white pine that looks as if it might have grown on Maine hills; and a ginkho tree of China fan tastic, delicately pinnacled. "All about grow lovely magnolias of the South, sweet-olive trees, and a soore of other beautiful species; among them wind paths in bewildering mazes, bordered with roses of every tint, hanging in the perfect fullness of lus cious bloom. At one point is a beau tiful old fountain, surrounded by a glistening pool. Tbe fountain is haunted. Once a nun of unhappy life, was buried on this spot, and in the moonlight she rises in the vhito gur ment of her novitiate and broods over the water. "Among these romantic walks, -in this garden of enchantment, the edu cational visitors wandered until the luxurious summer night fell. It seems as if they were not really awake, but were in tLJ midst of some dream of Xanadu. "In the line of contrasts, I think few of us will ever enoounter anything more striking than that jump from the paradise beneath the cedar of Le banon at Columbia to the bloody bend at Greenville. Bucked The Twine Trust. In his article in the May World's ' Work on the Kansas oil tight, Isaac i Marcosson tells the significant story of how the State bucked the Twine TruBt. Kansas raises incie wheat than :tny other State in the Union and the farmers have to buy millions of pounds of twin1.- to biud the sheaves every year. In ISM these farmers were pay ing the twine trust an average of 18 cents a pound for twine-. The price of wheat was low, they were not mak ing any money. The farmers peti tioned the Legislature for relief, and the sum of $150,000 was appropriated for the State twine factory. The Con stitution of Kansas forbids the State to enter any privato business; bo the twine factory, to evade the law, was established to give employment to con victs. The ?uperiuiendency of the fac tory was left to the warden and the board of directors of the penitentiary. The convicts were taught to make wine. The next year the Kansas farmers were buying twine for 9 1-2 oents a pound. Every implement store or crossroads general store in the State was made an agenoy. The dealer bought the twine for 9 cento and made the half-cent for selling it. The Kan sas farmer bought twine for three and four oents a pound less than his neigh- ! bor across the line in Nebraska. The factory soon began to earn money. Now it has a surplus of $65,000, it has paid back the original appropriation of $150,000 to the State; and it owns a well-equipped plant. The factory does not make enough to supply all tho farmers in the State, but it has suooeeded in bringing down the price of twine everywhere in Kansas to a reasonable figure. Cotton Bags Displacing Jute. Charleston, May 12.?The idea of a more general utilization of cotton bags instead of jute is spreading, as was 1 evidenced this morning in the receipt by the Royal Bag and Yarn faotory of a large order from the Orange Rice Mill oompany of Orange, Texas, for bags, ihc mill having determined to use cotton instead of jute bags. The correspondence of President G. A. Wagener shows that there is a general intereet in the subject and as a result of the agitation, there will be a greater ! demand for the Southern staple. A number of very largo orders have re cently been received by the Charles ton mill and there seems to be a gene ral appreciation of the benefit and ad vantages of ootton bagging ove> jute through this seotion. As a result of the increase:! demand for ootton bag ging, tho mill is putting in additional machinery and creoting more .houses for its operatives. Kentucky Hospitaity. A representative in Washington tells this Btory to illustrate ''the strenuous life" as it exists in certain parts of Kentucky, says Harpers Week ly. A well-to-do farmer once invited an acquaintance from a neighboring town to dine with him. The recipient of this courtesy was a man well known in that region for his general cranki ness and his propensity to use his gun at the least evidence of what he con sidered an affront. The fermer, well aware of the toachineBs of his guest, with whom, for business reasons, ho desired to remain on good ternis, al ways kept a wary eye on his visitor. One afternoon the teaty individual, in conversation with his host, remark ed: "I can't account fov the queer feelings and impulses that eomo over me at times. Do you know, the first time I took dinner here I had as much as I could do to master the impulse, when ono of your sons, made a oertain remark, to whip out my gun and let go. "Oh, don't you worry about that," said the farmer. "I know all about your little failing in that line. My son Jake was standin' in the hallway just back of you with a shotgun. You did well to change your mind. At the first motion toward your hip pock et my son Jake had instructions to blow daylight through you!" His First Live One. "During one of my. trips through Europe,' * says Charles Haw troy, "I found myself in a small village with no razors. They had been packed in my handbag, whioh I left at the hotel where I had stayed the day before. There was no barbershop in the plaoe and I was in a quandary as to how I might get shaved. The inn-keeper told me that there was a man in the village who occasionally shaved peo ple, and I determined to risk a cut or two and send for him. The amateur barerb arrived and after a little hesita tion he said to me: "Willyou please, sir, lie down flat on your back while I shave you, sir?' "Thinking that it was probably the custom of the country, I stretched out comfortably on my baok and nearly went to sleep while the fellow shaved me, Fo light was hie touch. When he had tiuished I said: " 'I am ourious to kucw why you asked me to lie down to be shaved?' " 'Because, sir,' was his ingenuous reply, 'I.nsver before shaved a live man.' "I may add that I sent for no moro amateur barbers to shave me during my trip."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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