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MONUMENTAL EDITION.
The Lexington Advertiser.
Edited and Managed by the Benjamin C. Humphreys Chapter U. D. C. AM Advertisements. Extra Sale of Papers, etc., Co Towards Erecting a Monument to the Holmes Connty Veterans.
LEXINGTON, MISSISSIPPI, DECEMBER (5, 1901.
ISSUES OF THE WAR
By a Son of a Veteran.
Address by lion. VV. VV. Farabaugh of Paris, Tenn., to the
Stonewall Jackson Bivouac. |
In tliflt- wonderful production of 1
Thomas i
jig
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I thank you for the opportunity I
to speak upon this occasion of a
Confederate reunion. I
Warning,
Campbell wrote these words:
ihe sunset of life that gives me mys
tical lor-.
Locluels
Ai d after twentv v.
's
? he finished the verse wher
7 'O' 1 •
i, ling tvenjs e
shadows fiefote.
The great conflict (if 1861, that
shook a continent and made a na
tion to trouble as the aspen leaf,
-east its lengthening shadow almost
a century before—hack to the very
mi in which our Federal ('(institu
tion was framed. There the .eo.n
:
..
flictiog ideas clashed which con
tinued to grow and he intensified
until hostile cannons lioomed and
gleaming sabers Hashed and frater
nal blood ran like water. Tic con
flict was over (lie reserved rights of
the States and as to what rights arid
power* were ceded to the general
government upon a State becoming
a..iiiornher of the Federal compact.
There was one man in particular in
a convention in Virginia, called to
ratify the Constitution,
Henry, who saw that shadow al
most as distinctly as did Stonewall
Jackson see the substance when he
■ said at the first Manassas: "Sirs,
we will give them the bayonet." Mr.
Henry wanted it placed in the Con
stitution of his country- in black and
white, so that there could be no con
troversy about it, that all the rights,
powers and prerogatives .not express
ly ceded to the general government
were reserved by the respective
States. 11 is argument and 'conten
tion were met with the statements
that of course the powers and pre
rogatives not expressly granted were
reserved. Then it was that the old
'Patrick
• orator and statesman, the very father
of our independence, whose elo
quence had electrified the colonics
Constitution
there upon the floor of the hall with
the shadow of inevitable conflict, fall
possibility.
stood
a
ing full upon his mind and heart,
tears coursing down His wrinkled
ehee
his prophetic vision sweep
ing the span of a coming century,
when lie said:
I see it, I feel it.
1 see the beings of a higher order
anxious concerning our decision.
When i see beyond the horizon that
hounds human eyes and look at the
final consummation of all human
things, and see those intelligent ba
mgs, which inhabit ethereal man
sions. reviewing the political decis
ions and revolutions, which in the
progress of time will hapepn in
America, and the consequent happi
ness or misery of mankind. I am
led to believe that much of the ac
count on one side or the other will
happen on what we now decide. Our
own happiness alone is not affected
by the event; all nations are inter
ested in it."
mind goes I
hack to the bloody fields of Bull |
Run, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Anile
While Mr. Henry was thus speak
ing the heavens suddenly blackened
■ring tempest, which
was the last speech that lie made in
the convention.
w
a gi
hurst with such terrible furv that
he could proceed no further, and it
in its terrible fury on the 12th of
April, 1861 ! Here this statesman
and orator seemed to have some
thing of the spirit of the ancient
prophets, enabling hi
into ijje distant future and to pro
1 1 let with certainty a conflict fiercer
than anv of modern times, a conflict
that drenched the country in its best!
What a prophecy were those
words! How significant was the
bursting storm, typical of the storm
of the great civil war, which gath
ered for almost a century and burst
see far.
re
Idood. And thus the question was
left unsettled bv tin Constitution,
ll was left unsettled bv the fierce
debates in t ongress, bv the Mason
and Dixon line, by the nullification
act of South Carolina, by Mr. Clay's
omnibus lull. It was left unsettled j
bv the Dred .Scott decision bv the
Supreme Court, and it was left un
settled until at Appomattox Court
house Gen. Robert E. Lee, that
grand old leader, grander in defeat
than most men in victory, said to
Gen. Grant:
Mv brave army
destroyed, the remnant is exhausted,
I surrender."
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Thus it became the unwritten law
of our Constitution that the rights
and prerogatives not expressly re
served by the States are granted
upon the State becoming a member
of the Federal compact, yet at what
a. fearful cost in human blood and
in human woe did this become an
unwritten part of mir Constitution ! \
In contemplating this cost in human \
Idood and treasure, mv
.
1 ike Ionves in nutunin, wnoiu . ^
i ) ,r *de and chivalry of the nation j
rushed willingly into the very jaws.
1 ot death, yielding up their lives tor
what each thought to he right; and ,
I thought of how many happy homes j
were made desolate, how many moth -1
ers. hearts were broken and how .
maiiy ugei t ier- trembled as the
wnid-shakfii! reed when :.ie repo'i.
came from these' Moody fields, ami
tin-.. di.it this arid all of this death
and human desolation might and
doubtless would have been averted
lmd thirteen words contended for by
Mr. Henry been added to the F'ed
oral Constitution, only one word
for each of the thirteen original col
Righis not expressly
ceded to tlv gtrhemk government are
reserved by Uie*fcttnti!S."
But the Avar is long since over.
Every man that fought 111 that fear
ful conflict is now getting some
what gray. His hair is to the silver
turning, the evening shades are
creeping-upon him, and you some
times near the questions asked:
"Why do you have Confederate
camps, build and unveil Confederate
monuments, and have published the
Confederate Veteran, and hold Con
federate reunions, which but cherish
and keep alive the bitterness, preju
dices and feelings engendered by the
war?" Ah, a man that asks this
question mistakes the objects and
purposes of these things; he mis
takes (lie character of the Confeder
ate soldier and his children. These
things commemorate the glories that
are, the common heritage, not only of
our Southland, but. of all mankind,
wherever liberty is loved, where vir
tue and patriotism are revered.
Without cherishing one ignoble
prejudice, without one spark of sec
tional hate, these organizations are
kept up, monuments built, that
splendid periodical, the Confederate
Veteran, is maintained, and < 'onfed
uuiOiiS Hit? I 'MU. 1 IUT(* S a
social feature in these things, when
you meet and talk over or when you
write of the stirring scenes of other
days, when privations and common
dangers made you kindred indeed.
You talk and write of flic camp-fire
incident of fun, the weary march,
the especial feat of daring of some
brave soul, of where this man fell
and that one lost a limb; hut above
and beyond this social feature they
have a deeper and more significant
meaning. They do and will see to
it that the history of that great
struggle which is to bo. taught to
the youth of our country shall be
I tarn, Cold Harbor, Brice's Cross
Roads, Keunesaw Mountain, Frank
I lin and Bcntouville, where men fell
ontes, via.:
fair and impartial.
Thev will see
to it that the history of that conflict,
while giving due meed of praise to
the Federal armies, will not and
must not class the Confederate sol
dier as a conspirator or traitor, or
the cause that he fought for as trea
sonable. unholy and wrong. Some
histories, written in some parts of
the country, have intimated that this
was so, hut even a casual glance at.
certain well-known historical facts
you
you
I were guilty of treason to your gov
| •-rnmeni; and does any man among J
you fed so, or believe the cause you
shows this to lie both malicious and
At the close of the war,
| after a long confinement in prison,
I Mr. President. Davis of the Cont'cd
untrue.
craey was put under bond to appear
and answer the government on a
charge of treason,
according to the tenor and effect of
that Loud, but the prosecution was
abandoned and the case was never
tried. Was it because they feared
hostile armies? It could not have
been, for every Confederate flag had
been furled. Was it because they
, the Confederate soldiers had been
j handcuffed with the ignominious
i shackles of disfranchisement,
it
He did appear
feared political revolution? No;
Was
They did not
J arn constrained to
magnanimity ?
I claim that,
j the opinion that the thoughtful sta
dent of history will readily conclud
that it was because the prosecution
| knew full well the charge could not
| be legally, truthfully and constitu
j tionally sustained: and flint
e
nn in
vestigation and trial, bringing out
all the facts under the law and Con
stitution, would have placed the
prosecution in an unfavorable light
before the gaze of the civilized world.
Then, again, in less than a third of
a century from the termination of
the war, one of the conspicuous act
ors on the Confederate side, Mr.
Herbert of Alabama, was placed by
the President of these United States
in charge of all her navies upon all
her seas—a strange place for a con
spirator guilty of treason. Incident
after incident and many facts might
he mentioned to show that the men
men who
on the other side—the
\ fought vim—did not believe
\
•ire traitors, did not, believe
fought for as unholy and wrong? Is
any man among you sorry or
ashamed that he was a Confederate
soldier? Have 3 'ou ever seen or
heard tell of a Confederate, soldier
that was ashamed of the fact that
he had worn the gray? -No, you
| hav ^ no '" nd never will. This
teaches a lesson ; this points a fact—
'the fact that you were sustained at
the time by a consciousness of right,
and that consciousness has been your
consolation in all the years that
liavo followed pflnd no soldior in tin*
j wor |ff ,, Vl , r w( . n t t„ ,[ 0 battle for his
e<nin | rv w ith more patriotic heart,
ivitli more unselfish devotion to his
, country, with loftier or purer aims
j anc j purposes, with less promise or
pf roward gilve (lI1(1 excep t
. the n . ward of ,| llt y done, than did
the Confederate soldier from 1861 to
was no promise or
prospect of conqueet or empire,
there was no promise or prospect
that at the end of the struggle lie
would revel in the abundance of Ids
enemy's country or be indemnified
for losses sustained. None of these I
questions passed through the mind |
of the men who put on (lie gray in |
answer to the bugle call to arms in !
1861. And no soldier ever set about
a mure hopeless task with such alae-!
rity and cheerfulness. His govern-1
men t had hut recently sprung into
existence without a ship, a soldier!
or a gun; without financial credit at J
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Should old Confederates he forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old Confederate* be forgot
South of Dixon's line?
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In the army South, my dear,
In the army South,
Sing tlieir praise from every mouth
In the army South.
They have fought the bloody fight
And oft felt death's cold dew,
And wandered many a ! "ary foot
*\lid darkness and
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And here's my hand, rny trusty friend,
And give your hand to me,
And here we our truth will plight
To the Confederacy,
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And ever through the burning day
And in the stilly night,
We will work and we will dream
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To keep their honors bright.
M ts. Cl. A. Wilson.
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home or commercial standing
abroad. Yet with a full knowledge
of all those disadvantages and diffi
culties the Confederate soldier left
liis wife or mother, brushing the
tear of love from his manly cheek,
and stepped from his home of com
fort into the firing line of death,
with the sunlight of a high-born
courage falling full in his face,
humming the words of that now
world-renowned song: "In Dixie's
land I'll take my stand, to live and
die in Dixie." And thus, not
counting the cost nor the conse
quences, but putting his trust in
his God, lie marched and fought like
a hero by day, and watched and
slept out in the storms by night.
Can you find his-parallel in all the
history of all the ages? Kverv six
men m the Confederacy lighting
twenty-eight men of the
much better armed and equipped,
gaining practically every battle un
til completely exhausted and worn
out, not conquered, for that word
is not in the lexicon of chivalric
Southern manhood.
He returned to his desolate home,
his former slaves free, his planta
tions laid waste, with the very sky
hungry above him, and the earth,
ns it were, parched beneath hi* feet.
Ho did not give up in despair, hut
took up his new task, making the
most orderly and law-abiding of cit
izens— for four years of battle, strife
and bloodshed could not corrupt his
incorruptible heart, could not make
a ruffian out of the Southern gentle
man—taking his rightful place at
the head of the civic procession, en
couraging every enterprise for the
upbuilding of his blackened and
ruined country, and how well he has
succeeded is a matter of common
knowledge known to all. "Thus
from the crosses of war came heroes
J in worn
enemy,
row ns.
Confederate sold ion, 1 take off ray
e civil
hat and stand with uncovered head
in your presence, for 1 recognize
your worth and acknowledge your
merit: but, having been reared in
the old Southland, I do not wonder
at your being heroes and patriots,
for the old South was a land of
story and song, a land of soul ami
of sentiment, a land of right and
religion, a land of mirth and mag
nolia-:. of precious Memories and
purest patriotism, a lend of homes
and hospitality, of fairest sweet
hearts and best and tenderest of
mothers, a land whose nrusic, like
her history, has thrilled the world.
These characteristics of sentiment,
soul and song heloiayrtA the Smith
as to no other part of the republic.
"Oh, carry me bank to my old Vir
ginia homo!" strikes a responsive
chord in the lium-vi heart: 1 lit, do
you think you w»>- 1 ° •sing.- Car
One in Sngi
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Let me
ry me buck to
nnw, Mich., or Ch.
snro von would nev. sing,
live and die in Rock '"sh'-vul or Camp
Douglas." This, ,iai, is not. r
I pecinlly euphonious or sentimental,
| and lias not the same melody to you
| as "Way down on the Smvaneo river,
! fur, far away."
von played well .'r>ur./«frt and acted
noblvwhe role of Ibe hero, the tin
crowned heroines of that great
struggle were the pure find noble
J women of the old South, whose de
But. Confederate , ddiers, while
votion arid self-sacrifice have had no
equals in the annals of all the ages.
Vow, 1 have detained you too long
already, but permit me to say that
the imperishable glory that you
achieved and the undying fame that
you won, 1 in some small way by
inheritance share, fur I am the son
of a Confederate soUier, and this,
next after ray fa there good name
and Christian charmjer, 1 cherish
with especial pride.; and had I to
write his epitaph, lMftiJd put upon
the marble, slab: "Sere sleeps a
Christian gen tlcma.. And a Confed
erate soldier."
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WAR.
By Mrs. Sydney 1. 'Smith.
Firing of siege gum at Vicksburg
were distinctly heard in Lexington.
The ordinance of secession was
passed in Mississippi m January 9,
1861.
All the church bells, as well as
others in and around Lexington, and
we suppose throughout the county,
were given to the Confederacy and
made into cannon.
The hoard of
pervisors) appointed supervisors of
the poor, to look espeinlly after the
families of the Confederate soldiers
who were unable to nake a support.
[mice" (now sn
Company A, Thiry-eighth Mis
sissippi Regiment, occupied the
trench in the Jacksor road in front
of winch Gens. Pimbe'ton and Grant
met to negotiate the surrender. This
meeting place is now marked by a
large siege gun standing on end.
The negroes who we ,t to the army
| as cooks, teamsters, etc., were true
to tlieir masters and the Confederate
cause, many going into battle with
their masters. As a rule they were
faithful at home, and took care of
their masters' families.
The Confederates in Vicksburg
used six-pound shells as grenades,
throwing them by hand. John \V.
Bailey of Aeons, Miss., was detailed
to throw them for Company A,
Thirty-eighth Mississippi Regiment.
He held the shell in the palm of
his right hand, when the fuse was
lighted by another soldier, and as
soon as lighted would throw it over
into the Federal lines.
The first gun of the war was fired
January 9, 1861, by Cadet George
K. Haynesworlh across the bow of
the steamer Star of the West, when
she was attempting to reinforce
Fort Sumter. The second gun aimed
at her was sighted by Major Stevens
and fired by Cadet Moultre Marl
beck. At the third shot she put to
sea.
The Federals were using gre
nades, a small shell with a paper
sail on one end and a percussion cap
in the other. These grenades were
thrown into the Confederate lines
by hand and gave them much trouble
and annoyance. At last they learned
to catch them in blankets,
men would catch hold of the four
corners of the blanket, catch the
Tiv
j grenades and throw them hack into
| the Federal lines, where it would
j immediately explode. The Federals
were at a loss to know how this was
done, and never found out until
after Vicksburg surrendered.
One day the Federals lighted the
fuse of a sixty-four pound shell and
threw it into the ranks of the Third
Louisiana Regiment. As soon as it
fell a Louisianian picked it up in his
arms, the fuse sputtering and the
shell threatening to burst every in
stant, threw it hack into the Fed
eral lines, where it immediately ex
ploded.
Confederate rations in Vicksburg
for about two weeks before the sur
render consisted of pea bread and
sugar. Out of the latter molasses was
sometimes oozing. The cooking was
done hack in the city about two
miles from the trenches during the
day and brought out in wagons at
night, each company cook taking
care of his company's rations,
soldiers as a rule sat down as soon
as rations were drawn, ate all that
was brought them and fasted all
next day, until ration time again at
night. There were two reasons for
this. Gun was the small quantity
issued, and the other was that, pea
bread hud to be eaten while it was
at least a little warm. At no stage
did it have nnieli the appearance of
having been cooked, except that a
thin crust, would form on the out
side, leaving the inside wet and
clammy, and if permitted to get cold
when broken and pulled apart a per
fect spider web would be formed be
tween the two pieces. A few days
before the surrender many ate rats
and mule beef. Those eating rats
pronounced them equal to a nice dish
of squirrel. No one had a good word
for the mule beef, though they
thought it better than no meat at
The
all.
Personal Reminiscences of War
and Confederate Days in Mississippi
Read Before the l.exington B. G. Humphrey's Chapter
of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
" that j
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I have many times given thanks I
to Providence that willed that 1 |
should have "war memories;
those years comprised a time ot
youth and not maturity. When first
our war and "rumors of war" dark
ened our horizon 1 was a girl not
quite in my teens, but so eventful
were the following years of strife
that hoys and girls moved rapidly
toward manhood and womanhood.
So often have 1 unwound the cord
of memory concerning those year
to child and grandchild, niece arid
ncpliew, that, for them each separate
thread holds nn interest sacred in its
intensity and knowledge thus gained
from lips that drank from the
"fountain head" need no greater in
centive to carry on the work of our
chapter. "Before the war'' and our
environments are familiar to the
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present generation, hut the stern
and real significance of "during tlm
war" is ofttimes left out of its edu
cation. Lessens learned and taught
of the days of '61 and '6a would give
better fruitage to Southern charao
gained of a cen
ter than knowledg
turv of energy-exhausting condi
tions. Lexington and Holmes Comi
ty sent men who, trained in every
manly virtue, ranked a volunteer to
duty as highest, and holiest, and
their women's hearts heat in respon
tympatliies to those lives seared
by the scorching hand of death and
disaster, but were outside of the
track of grim war ns we who were
in a different part of our State, and
many have no real conception of the
stress and strain and excitement
brought by real war in one's midst
and encampments of
one's door.
SIV(!
un army at
Mv lines were fated to
fall in a part of Mississippi made
historic by the siege and la 11 of
Vicksburg. The tiniest patriotic
boy or girl was well versed in mili
tary lore. Assault, ambuscade and
became fa
raids from the enemy
miliar incidents of our daily liie.
To hope and pray for our
uered army, among whom we num
bered relatives and friends beset by
•I,..; to
succor those in distress near us, fie
"the daily task, the common
•an tell one of
surrender, Sherman's
march to the sea, the desolation of
once beautiful homes; but the un
canit
round."
isiorv
f those
histories
written
counties. Hinds and Warren, when
that retreat
Mississippians began
with Johnston's army, leaving wife,
mother, sister and child behind.
Hungry and weary, hut fearless and
undaunted soldiers of a losing cause,
courageous, cheerful and resourceful
well in our endeavor
'
women, we
to rescue your names from oblivion.
The best in man was dedicated to his
country; the best in woman to her
defenders. The souls of men and
found and their
women were
strength and worth made manifest
during those troublesome times. The
high and ennobling example of cour
age and self sacrifice given by your
soldiers and followed by our women,
if taught and rightly understood,
will constitute a grand heritage to
1 can on 1 v write of tlmsi
posterity.
whom 1 knew, and know that when I
1 think of Hinds and Warren,
Vicksburg and Jackson men and
women, the same will equally apply
to any other part of Mississippi
through which the tub- of war swept.
As 1 live longer and ruiew evenls
the past nothing
given me a stronger exemplification
of the heights to which
f
subsequent.
ha«
'ii and
than the '60s fur
women can rise
liished on .Mississippi soil. ' He who
jests at scars never felt a wound,"
and any person who m-v nothing |
worthy in our organization to per ;
lavs
petuate the memory
imp either been .ill-taught or failed
to yield the bos' that nolde human
beings hold. Our children and
grandchildren should he told higher
and better things of the Confederate
days than its deprivations and toss
of property. We should strive to
imbue them with a veneration of the
patriotism which was the inspiration
of our men and women. Recount
fo them the days when women and
children, left in towns almost de
populated of the male element, lived
closelv-woven lives, united bv a corn
men bond of sympathy for
other and love for one's country's
defenders as to leave no room for
-a eh
The freedom and spontn
gossip.
neitv of every act carried in its train
no obligation. Hospitality was un
bounded. All selfishness was rele
gated to Ihe ranks where abided ex
tortioners. Friendships made in
those days are through life imperish
able and ineffaceable. I have seen
the homespun dress made beautiful
in the wearing by the grace and
spin- of its wearer, and many of
our ladies, by their originality in
conception and skill in exeiul.on,
produced from mutorhils at hand
articles both useful and
onui
that would
favorably with the same,
j and opportunity unlimited. Our
1 Southern girls, though deprived of
the latest things in fashion's acces
sories to their toilets, were wooed
and won. Those were days of ro
mance and chivalry, and through
sullen clouds of war many ravs of
I mental
| pare
now coin
sunlight fall athwart the picture.
Amid such stirring scenes much ot
surpassing- interest relating to men,
women and scenes na sc.t within tl"*
range m my vision. I he real hc
roes and heroines will never fie
known. Mv mother never alb wed
her family, in summing up the
losses after tlu* elosr of the war, to
|eronoe t0 "Mississippi
inelude property in the category.
Our interest in the veterans' cause
cannot, be further incited by any ref
as a hotbed
of the heroes
■ of secession, for many
my la-art. holds held that step us in
Mv father and his sons,
like (:,.„. K. F. Lee, Alexander H.
Stevens. Vice-President, of the 0. S.
A„ and many great and good men,
believed that "the best interests of
State and individuals was gained by
remaining in the I nion and under
tile Constitution.
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His wisdom
gained by many years could discern
the bloody struggle, though lie did
the dedication of his
We, as
not live to s
family to his Southland,
daughters, will not forget, though
nil passion and bitterness has long
been allayed. 1 can recall the fever
heat, and even then, surrounded by
several instances when tlm
soldier and gentleman were found in
their ranks, and T am sure that every
true patriot rejoices that the long
estrangement, is over.
Their graves are scattered far and
wide
North. South and East and "West,
They sleep near former battlefields.
Or where their loved tines rest:
But whether in the North they sleep,
In South or East or West,
Green grows the grass above each
mound
That shields a hero's breast.
Mrs. Min nib Sharkey Baker.
enemies.
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER
Written by I.leu*.-Coi. J. II. Jones, as to
the [lutt'e of Harrisburg.
"The Thirty-eighth Regimen!
made the charge that day with about
Forty-four
3vorv field
"00 men, rank and file,
escaped umvounded.
and line officer was either killed or
wounded except Jasper Green,
a Baptist minister in Rankin county.
Flic little remnant of survivors ral
in a thicket not
'10W
lied arouiuBBM
over fifty yards from (lie entrenched
line ami a four gun battery of the
Col. Mabry ordered him to
onemv.
the charge, (Col. Mabry was
rone
commanding the brigade), and his
reply, as 1 afterwards was in
formed, was this: 'Colonel, we have
exhausted every round of ammuni
tion, but if you say so, we will try
again with empty guns.' Nothing
could ha\ T e been more spartan-like
than this. They were ordered back
and retired in good order. (Wln-n
Capt. Green told Col. Mabry that
we were out of ammunition. Co!.
Mabry's words were: 'We can't stav
here and live. Order four
mm
, v
I hack. )
"Lxeeul in the numbers engage i
I'iokcU's
not cxc-'l tin
■large at Gettv-burg d
i-f
Mabry's brigade at Harrisburg Vor
did the fatuous charge of the Light
Brigade at Balaklava equal in di -
filtration that of the Thirty-eighth
w" rnav
Mississippi Regiment, if
judge by the percentage of loss iu
•iirreil bv each.
| some'of the most brilliant and beau
; liful fireworks, made by the Federal
mortii • shells. The batteries were
During the siege of \ ieksburg
Confederates at times
witnessci
four or live miies above Vicksburg,
and for the shot to reach the city
the mortars were set at about, an
angle of 45 degrees. The shell, while
was revolving,
making flu
jurve,
and every revolution brought the
lighted fuse to view, giving it the np
•ance of a shooting
Manv
'tar.
pea i
and manv of the shells were in mo
tion at flic same time, chasing and
crossing the paths of each other,
some exploding very high and others
lower and lower on their downward
e, eve. Some exploded after they
lmd buried themselves in the ground.
During the siege of Vicksburg the
two lines of Confederate and Fed
eral breastworks were so close to
gether that in front of Company A,
Thirty-eighth Mississippi Regiment
(Dr. Kiern's company), the dirt
thrown out of the trenches of each
army would fall together.
Youngest "(knifed."
Air. J. It. Johnson joined
f orc p s s , lil( . f,,||
Ue vvas nol n lrll i; > x ,. iU *
h n t .he spring of 1864 hi joint
i Twentieth eighth Mississippi l,Vg.
mwl |, a f, Piekensville. Ah;, i!
| n Armstrong's 'brigade,
Brink
and hclouy
j ed q 0 Mmt cavalry.