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Brock s Cr Coitii 1. James ki On the morning of May the 8th, after the enemy had made their first charge as they were beginning to fall: back, I noticed' a great big yankee a little bit behind. He let them get off and leave him and then seized a little fellow of the 7th S. C. regiment, and was running away with him, carry'-7-il him through the woods. Lieutenant Denny and one of his men went to his rescue. They caught up with the yan kee and captured him, but he would not let his man go. When they got back to the line, they asked him what he was going to do with the man, and he said he was taking him along for protection, he thought we would not shoot for fear we would kill our own man. Said he would turn him loose as soon as he got out of danger. The lit tle fellow was red in the face, and said he was putting up the best fight he could, they had both lost their guns in the scuffle. As the yankees retreated, we fol lowed them a piece. We halted in a ravine, where we waited a while be fore we came back to the works, where we stopped. A dead yankee ay right in front with a larige knap sack. One of our boys got down on his hands and knees. reached out. and caught the yankee by one foot and was. dragging him to himself when his captain saw him and made him turn loose and get back to his place. As he was getting iii his place, he whispered to the next man and said, "I'd give half of my life to get into that knapsack." As we were going on after the yan kees, I saw a color-bearer lying with his colors rolled up and stuck under him, trying to 'conceal them. He was in a dying condition, but when I tried to take~his colors he clung t.o them with what little strength he had left. I had to take them from him, he would not let them go. It was here that I saw the first eartrigde pistol that lever saw. Henry Bonds, of Company~ C., picked it up on the bat tlefield and sent it home by his father.I When we caime back to the works, we found that some yankee sharpshooter had taken lodging in~ the Brock hoaise and were annoying our cannoneers. General J. E. B. Stuart ordered them to put hot shot into it, and a very few shots, they, fired the house, and a those sharpshooters were runnmng from the house, we would shoot at them. I don 't think that we hit a single one. We did not have to wait long before the yankees reinforced and came agaili, but they didn 't get nearer than 400 yards before they broke. They rallied and tried a third charge, butl, like the other, it was a failure. We were under heavy shell ing all the time, the shells cut downI nearly every tree along our lines. ToI give you some idea how much shoot ig we did that dag. -we carried for ty rounds in our cartridge box and forty in our pockets, and some of them got out before the fight was over. As the enemy's second line of bat tle advanced that morning, they fol lowed with their partillery, and took up a position just 'in the'rear on a lit tle rise in the field, and they were tearing things up around us as long as the lines held the ground for them. We soon, made it too hot for their line of battle, and as they ran back, they left two guns of this bat tery there in the field. One man brought up two horses, and there in the face of a fire from our whole line, succeeded in hitching up to one of the pieces and carried it a good piece before we could shoot down his Shorses. One horse was killed, and he ied the piece on with one horse ntil it was killed and then ran ob iquely across the field to our right. I think the whole of the right of the brigade shot at that man before lie was killed. After this the enemey seemed to be satisfied at this point of the line, and rested for the balance of the day. We were then given time to gather up our dead and wounded. The enemy made an attempt to gather their dead or wounded and they were left until next day. And I think the most piti -ful sight I ever saw or heard, was the wounded yankees calling for water and help. General Lee sent details on the bat tlefield and buried the dead yankees on the second day after the battle. They would dig a hole hy the side of the body and roll them in. they were too badly decomposed to be moved. On the evenin2' of tho hattie I was sent out with a detail to gather up the iknaaks, haversacks. blankets. Poss Roads..I ed. it ehell. tents, guns. cart ridge boxes, etc. Now we were not told to search the bodies, b)ut as we were out with orders to bring in everything that would be use ful to the confederate army, we strain ed the orders a little, and it was these thins tiat we made no report of. I remember the dried currants, vege table cake, ground coffee and sugar mixed in right proportion that atable spoonful would make and sweeten a cup of coffee. The vegetable cake looked like a fine brand of tobacco pressed into hard cake about two inches thick. To prepare it for use, you would chip off a small block and drop into water, boil about thirty minutes, and season to taste, and you would have some fine vegetable soup. The night after the battle, the yan kee bands over in our front began to play, and their soldiers would cheer. Sergeant Wilson and I were out on the picket line at the same post, and we thought they were getting ready for a night attack, so we kept a sharp lookout. After a little, we could hear something tramping in the leaves and we could tell that-it was getting near er. It was a very dark night. but by puttinz our heads, close to the ground we could see the bulk of a man. We waited until he got within a few steps of us when Sergeant Wilson gave the command "halt, who comes here.'' The old fellow replied, "I am lost, and am hunting my command.' We knew from his speech that he was a yankee. When commanded to throw down his gun and surrender, he thought we were joking him, and did not give it up until he got back to the lights and saw we were confed erates. The yankee band, after play ing all of their pieces, struck up some of the southern pieces, Homespun Dress, Southern Mocking Bird, and Sunny Southi, but when they commen ed on Dixie, it was more than John nie could stand, he had to yell a little, he didn't care if it was a yankee band playing, they played Dixie, and we made those woods ring. Then our band got out their horns and taunted them back and played Yankee Doodle beforeiquitting. While this was going on, just .to our right, two shots rang out almost at the same time, in a few minutes, a relief came around and told us that Lieutenant Denny and a man by 'the name of Moody, both of the 7.th regi ment, were going the rounds on the picket line, and by mistake had gone too far, and in coming back from the front, came up to a post where two men were stationed, anid they mistaking them for yankees, fir ed into them without warning and killed them both. Talking to Her. Exchange. "You never talk to me,'' complain ed the lady. "Now I just want you to put down that everlasting paper and make yourself agreeable. Some husbands enjoy a little conversation with their wives, but all you seem t care about is your paper.'' "I don 't think, my dear-'' "I know vou don't think. That's just the trouble with you. You don't consider that I'm here in the house all day with no one to talk to but the children and the servants and trades men and peddlers and any friend who may happen to come in, unless I hap pen to go out, and you're in town all day long, meet many people." 'I don't meet many people. I just Yes, vou go. I know that. You go where you like. but I have to stay at home so that you can have a pleas nt place to come to when you arc tired of going. Then you just take up your paper and I can never get a word out of you the whole of the ''I'm perfectly willing to talk but" 'I wish you wouldn't interrupt me when I'm speaking. Yes, you're per fecly willing~ to talk but you don't want to talk to me. I suppose that 's it. I 'm not sufficiently appreciative I suppose. I'm just your wife. Some husbands even take an interest im tehir wives. They come home and tell them all the little things that have happened during the day, what they have been doing and where they've been oing and whom they've seen anndwhat they said. There's Mr. Coaway. He tells Mrs. Conaway evveything and discusses books anc pootics and things with her.' "But you nevPr care for polities 'Dnt car if T don't. There are other things to talk about besides books and politics, I should hope. If I attempt to tell you anything you never pay the least attention to what I'm saying. I was telling you last night about the troubles the Gens prews were having with their land lord. I talked to you a straight hour I do believe and it turned out you thought [ was saying something about Enticoe. You simply, wern't paying the least attention to what I said. I inight go on talking forever and vou wouldn't. If I were any otlier wo m1an1 she wouldn't stand it. I'n sure I sometimes wonder I have the pa tience T have. John Henry Jillings worth. 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