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"BLOODY BILL" CUNNINGHAM i (John T. Boifuellett in Augusta Chronicle.) j If you wish to read a blood-curd-! ling story of the brutal deeds of a ! most atrocious man, peruse this ar-1 tide. I have made it my theme today in consequence of a letter which; il have received from Mr. J. H. Crisp, postmaster at Fender, Tift county, j Georgia, from which I quote the fol- j lowing: . "I should be glad if you would ! tell me where I could find facts in regard to the 'Bloody Bill' Cunning- j ham massacre at Hayes' Station j that was enacted in Laurens county, j South Carolina, in about 1775 or ' 1780. I was born on a farm in that: county which my father inherited from my grandfather, Charles Allen, L of Revolutionary fame. I was reared ^ by a widowed mother. P "I have heard that my grandfather was in the horrible massacre, but by some means he missed oemg Killed, and effected his escape. He died in! 1S52 before I was born, aged ninety-! four years. v "A monument was erected on the 1 spot of the massacre, but it was struck by lightning many, many years ago, and broken into fragments. "I should like to learn particulars about 'Bloody Bill' himself, and the; terrible butchery of human life which he perpetrated." The awful and thrilling facts I i herewith present in this article, I have gathered and synopsized par-j ticularly from Ramsey's "History of. South Carolina," published in 1853,! and from Landrum's "Colonial and ' Revolutionary History of Upper; South Carolina," printed in 1897,1 "Corwin's Memoirs," "Johnson's Tra-1 ditions," "O'Nealls Annals of New-j berry," and Howe's "History of the.1 Presbyterian Church of 3outh Caro-j lina," also contain much interesting i ' " i ? i IFarm Seed For Sale Abruzzi Rye Red May Wheat Alfalfa Crimson Clover Hairy Vetch Dwarf Essex Rape 'x Fulghum Oats Sound and Bright The best Seed and the lowest Prices. Call .tnd see i.1 tnein. Way's Seed & Feed Store i ^ Next Door to Way's Drug Store CLIPPER BE] Any one having a No. 2 Old S ^ . be glad to allow then: $7.50 for Lacer, making price of the No. 3 $17.50 with the Old'No. 2 Lacer we will give you in exchange a N Columbia Sup j 823 West Gervais Street qwn?TWJiiAu HI iinmnmwmKrrxmmmmaMUtnmmamm-mttimm * ' Things for the Tablets. 3 tor Tablets Pencils, lc to Eversharp Pencils, 10c Colored Crayon, 5c to .. f White Crayon, 10c box Erasers, lc to -f Ink, 5c to \ Per-stafts : Loose Leaf Note Books, 1 Palmer Pens. Palmer Writing Paper. Poster Paper, in all colc Construction Paper, in < ' Drawing Paper. Cardboard. Blackboard. L Mayes Book i //it i TTI j information regarding the outrages 'and atrocities of the infamous "Bloody Bill" Cunningham, or "Murdering Bill" Cunningham as he is called on many historical pages. ( William Cunningham ("Bloody Bill") was born in Abbeville county, South Carolina, according to "O'Neail's Annals. ' In "arly manhood he was promising ar. l influential. At the beginning of the Revolution he enlisted in Cap". John Caldwell's company, whien was composed of the most respectable yo ir.g men in the region of Saluda. One account says that Cunningham was disappointed in r.ot receiving the commission of * first lieuten * j * . * j 1 T ant; anorner recital is, mat wnen ne enlisted it was with the stipulation that he was to be carried to the lower country, but his company beingtaken to Charleston, he resigned, but was prevailed upon to accompany the command to James' or John's Island, and was there put in irons oy cider of Captain Caldwell, was tried by court martial and acquitted. Whatever may be the true ?toiy, it -is a fact that Cunningham "deserted the American cause and became an active partisan on tiie British side. His service was, for the most part, directed against Marion." His daring and agrressiveness won the British favor, he was appointed a captain and promoted to major; His command was known as Cunningham's Loyalists, having been recruited largely in the vicinity of Orangeburg. I can not within the limits of this article give an account of ail the cruel and outrageous acts performed by Cunningham and his murderous men in the diabolical raids, especially i^ the up-country of South Carolina, where the most atrocious attacks were made against the detenseiess Whig families. They literally "left the country through which they passed in tears." Cunningham's march "was characterized by celerity and destruction. . . He gave no advertisement of where he was going. . . Plunder, burn and murder Wis his motto ... In the unsuspecting hours of sleep and domestic security, they entered the houses of the solitary farmers and sacrificed to their revenge the obnoxious head of the family ... It was a* heartrending scene to witness, the women burying their dead." Owing to the lack of space, I can ^ n info m AiiC Ulliy tCil U1 a ICn \sx biic uuaiuvuo deeds of "31ody Bill" and his notorious characters, who at times numbered three hundred mounted men. The massacre at Hays' Station in the vicinity of Little River church, in Laurens county is the one about which Postmaster Crisp asks information. As I learn from the historians mentioned by me, at the place there was a small block house inside of which was about twenty-three men commanded by Colonel Hays. Cunningham reached this place unexpectedly to Hays. This was in the close of the year seventeen hundred eighty-one (1781). According to the narratives, the house was set on fire by irons heated in a blacksmith shop nearby, which were thrown on the roof. The only alternative was either to be burned LT LACERS Jtyle Clipper Belt Later, we will it on the purchase of a No. 3 $17.50. So send your check for , parcel post prepaid to us, and o. 3 for $17.50. ply Company Columbia, S. C. J ' I : School Room 10c 5c 10c to $1.00 10c and up. 10c 15c 5c 2oc to 50c >rs. ill colors. k Variety Store lousand Things" alive or to surrender themselves. Col. Hays surrendered on condition that he and his men were to be treated as prisoners of war. Ramsey's History says: "Colonel Hays and Capain Daniel Williams were hung at once on a pole of a fodder stack. This breaking, they both fell, on which Major William Cunningham ("Bloody Bill") cut' them both into pieces with his own sword. Joseph Williams, a boy four-, teen years old, cried to his eldest brother, as they were putting him to ' death. "0! Brother Daniel, what! shall I tell mother?" Cunningham j turned to him and replied: 'You shall; tell her nothing, you d?d Rebel !i suckling." and with his sword hewed j, him down." ! | The Ramsey recital continues;! "Cunningham turned upon the oth- 1 ers and continued on them the oper- i ations of his savage barbarity, till the ( powers of nature being exhausted, j and his weakened limbs refusing toi( administer any longer to his insatiate,'1 fury he called upon his comrades toi complete the dreadful work by killing! whomsoever of the prisoners they ' pleased. They instantly put to death such of them as they personally disliked. Only two fell in action, but fourteen were deliberately cut to pieces after their surrender. Their names and rank were as follows: Col. Joseph Hays, Capt. Darnel. Williams, Lieut. Christopher Hardy, Lieut John Nell, Clement Hancock, Sr., Joseph Irby, Jr., John Milven, James Feris, John Cook, Grant Irby, Benjamin Goodman and Yancy Saxon." Another of Cunningham's fiendish deeds was the "Massacre at the Turner House," as the crime is called in history. Captain Sterling Turner was a popular and intrepid officer. On one occasion he, with twenty-two ? ^ on/4 A! /4 U1 Ills UCIUiV; pauivio auu Viu v^?j tain James Butler, took refuge in a house and bravely defended themselves against an attack by Cunningham and his forces of two hundred and fifty. When the ammunition of Captain Turner's men was about exhausted and Cunningham set fire to a shed attached to the house, Captain Turner and his gallant band surrendered, on receiving solemn promise that they would be treated as prisoners of war, and were to be sent to the nearest British post. According to Historian Johnson, and as I found it in Landrum's His- 1 tory, they were to march out with i clubbed arms, and to ground them in front of the house. Captain Turner and Butler came out first. As soon as they passed the door of the house Cunningham drew h?s sword and said: "These fellows had better be paroled and I will show you what kind of parole they are to have. Do you follow my example." With this he made a blow at Butler, but missed him, and Butler, with his clubDea rifle, struck one of them to the ground and by a blow from another, he fell dead on the man he knocked down. In a few minutes every man was thus murdered except one, who was saved with difficulty, by the intercession of a relative belonging to Cunningham's command. "Thus fell the venerable Captain Butler and his worthy commanding officers, Captain Turner, tog'e'ther with twenty-three of the^ir brave men. Captain Butler had been a very active and useful patriot in the early part of the war, and had resigned in favor of Captain Turner, by rear-n of infirmities of age." It will be recalled that I stated at + Vs 1 c? o vti r?l P 1 luc l^mincnl^iii^ni kjx. btno mj. viv?v that Cunningham originally enlisted in the Revolution on the American j side in the company of Captain John Caldwell, an uncle of John C. Calhoun. Historical accounts say that Cunningham, at the head of a party, rojle up k> the gate of Major Caldwell and hailed him. The major walk-; ed out, and when within a few paces of Cunningham, "Bloody BHl" drew j a pistol and shot him dead in the' presence of his wife, who fainted as she saw him fall. Captain Steadman was sick in bed at the home of Mr. Charles Moore. Cunningham shot and killed him on his couch. Two other young men who j were in the house tried to escape, j but they were fired upon as they ran, j and fell dead in their tracks. These few instances of a long list j of similar villainous deeds, will serve* to give the reader an idea of the j ~Cl ti UL" JUUd L'iiill IVI L/i iuuiui-iuif. Bill" Cunningham. Be it sufficient, to say that on two of these occasions' hf and h-'s men murdered thirty-five . persons. I Unceasing efforts were made to capture Cunningham, but without, success. On one of these pursuits a number of his men were seized, kill-' ed and buried in a common grave at the foot of the hickory tree where thev met their death. After the RevI olution "Bloody Bill" fiod from South ; Carolina to the Spanish possessions in Florida. His final date has never been recorded by historians, so far as my readings have disclosed. His prop-. erty in South Carolina was confiscat-' ed. j I Columbia, f Sale of Uni By direction of t auction on Saturda lurnbia, Newberry a C., for freight and refused articles of 9 quality, quantity or ? M. Terms cash. ? Newberry, South C @ IMMMHnMMiWHmiHnmiM ^ W-B Sales No. No. Article 7 149?1 1-2 Brl L Oil.. & 1 C Grease @ IS 150?lBx Adv. Matter 338 151?3 Iron Wash Stai 7T 339 152?2 Crts Postal Car 340 153?1 Keg syrup @ 7 154?1 Bx Salmon ? 253 155?4 Sx Dairy Feed 254 156?1 ctn flaps for tin 337 157?1 Crt Book case . 158?1 Ctn Pickles 34 159?1 Trunk 538 160?1 Bx Adv Matter 540 161?1 Bx P. W. 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