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First Georgia Regulars at Fort Pulaski, Ga.
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When Georgia, acceded from the union
In 1841. I was a resident of Fort Gaines.
Qa_, and a private In the Fort Galnea
Axarde. As the at a tea acceded one by one
tne town would hare a big jollification,
with torchlight processions and public
speakings All of th» speakers claimed
♦hay would drink all of the blood spt-.ed
in th* war. AU we had to do was to vote
ourselves out of the union, and when the
north saw wo were determined to K®.
would say. "Jlrrlr.g sisters, depart In
peace." Southwest Georgia was a hotbed
of secession. aU pretty much the same
way, and those who differed with the se
. esslonists kept it to themselves for fear
a rope might be in demand. I recollect
-no instance that showed the temper of
the people. A drummer for a drug house
«n Mobile. Ala., made some disparaging
remark* about Toombs end Yancey at
Eufaula. Ala. He was drummed out of
that part of Clayton, and from there back
across the Chattahoochee at Fort Gaines
bv the Franklin Grays. Then the Guards
drammed him out of town, but got sorry
for him and let him return. Wo all be
lieved in the right of free speech, pro
vided they believed and talked like we
did While the speakers claimed there
wculd be no war. military companies were
being formed all over the state. Georgia's
governor, Joseph E. Brown, must have
believed there was something In the lower
ing war clouds, and decided to raise two
regiments of regulars tor the defense of
the state, one at Augusta and the other
at Savannah. Ga. He first commissioned
the officers and they opened recruiting
Stations in different parts of the state.
F. T. Cullens, of Fort Gaines, was com
missioned captain and opened an office
for suckers, and X was the first one to be
caugtL and L. B. Wheeler next. Captain
Cullens appointed me first corporal of his
company. I thought I was being rapidly
promoted, and If the war lasted long
enough I surely would bo colonel some
day. I inquired among the boys as to the
duties of my office, and was told that it
would be my duty to keep the dogs out of
camp. That cast quite a damper on my
military aspirations, and I decided I had
rather boa private. On the 7th of March
I. with O. H. Cone. H. A. Morgan. L. B.
Wheeler. W. L. Andrews. James Lavin.
T. C. Beall, John Boyle. Griffin Bowland.
L. B. Stendofer and Peter Lee. boarded
the train for Savannah, Ga.. after bidding
farewell to our best girls, mothers and
sisters. The Guards escorted us to the
train with fife and drum to the tune of
•The Girl I Left Behind Me.”
No doubt the Guards thought they were
giving us a lively send-off. but to a boy
who had been calling on his best girl and
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swinging on the old man’s gate about
seven nights In tne week that tune touch
ed him In rather a tender place. Bight
here I would like to pay a well deserved
tribute to the gallant Guards. Early in
the summer of 1851 the company went to
Virginia, joined the Ninth Georgia regi
ment of General "Tlge” Anderson's brig
ade and did valiant service tn the army
of Northern Virginia up to the surrender
at Appomattox in 1865. Lieutenants Tur
nipseed and Webb had the honor of being
colonel of the Ninth regiment, while Lieu
tenant Tennelle was an aldo on General
Andersen's staff, and John Butllve, quar
termaster of the regiment. During the
war the muster roll of the company con
tained the names of 125 men. and only 23
returned homo after the war.
We had eupper at Fort Valley and left
Macon at 9 p. m. with the understanding
that wr would eat breakfast next morn
ing tn Savannah at the Pulaski house,
take in the city (provided the police did
not take us tn), and some time late in the
evening call at the Oglethorpe barracks
and maybe stay all night. I don't recollect
that wo had any program for the second
day. Wo arrived on the Bth at 8 a. m. and
found Becrultlng Sergeant John Art look
ing out for a lot of boys of our descrip
tion. He formed us In single file and
marched us to the barracks, where we
were lined up in front of Dr. Charlton's
office to await his pleasure, as we had to
be examined again before we would be
received as a soldier. We found about 300
recruits who had been sent in from the
different stations.
The boys in blue flannel shirts guyed us
for all we were worth. ‘‘Hello, tender
foot. Where did you come from? Joined
the army, did you? Well, you have missed
it; this is the penitentiary, and you will
wish you were in Hades before the week
is out.” And a lot more of such talk that
was not liable to make a very good im
pression on a raw recruit. After standing
in line for about three hours we were
ordered into the doctor's one at a
time. Finally my turn came, and after
climbing i«e greasy polo, riding the goat,
turning a few summersaults and having
the breath knocked out of me three or
four times, I was pronounced a fit sub
ject for the army, and retired to parade
ground, feeling like I had run up against
a buss saw.
All passed but Peter Lee. He was ob
jected to on account of having fits. I
wished I had been in Peter’s place, for I
would have been willing to have fits or
or anything else if I could only get to go
back home to my mamma. At 1 o’clock
the dinner call was sounded, and we were
marched into the mess hall pretty hungry.
In the middle of the room was a long
table with a tin plate, knife and fork,
with tin cup and spoon for each man.
On each plate was a slice of fat pickled
pork, one third of a pound of light-bread,
and a cupful of Yankee bean soup.
Quite a healthy and appetising looking
meal for a man with a weak stomach. I
ate a little of the bread, but the pork and
beans I could not relish. Our bill of
fare while we remained at the barracks
was as follows: One-third of a pound of
light-bread, with a cup of coffee for
breakfast; one-third of a loaf with one
slice of pickled pork and a cup of Yankee
bean soup for dinner. For supper, one
third of a loaf of bread and a cup of
coffee.
After dinner, if it could be called such,
orders were, "Johnnies, get your hair
cut.” At that time, and ever since I could
recollect, men wore their hair
long with faces clean shaven. The close
shingling of mine gave me pneumonia a
few days later.
During the evening we were assigned
to different companies. Gnffin, Rowland
and myself to company D., Captain Gill’s
company, who was afterwards colonel and
chief of ordinance on General Bragg's
staff. Captain Cullens had appointed O.
H. Cone and H. A. Morgan first and sec
ond lieutenants of his company, which
was K.
We had three drills a day in green
squads. The officers were men who had
either attended military schools or West
Point. ’ Captain W. D. Smith was in com
mand of the barracks. There was but
few officers there when we first went,
nearly all off at recruiting stations.
Among those I recollect was Lieutenants
Willis, Kirkland, Milledge. Brench, Har
rison and Berrian, all well drilled and
knew what to do w.th a raw recruit to
make a soldier out of him.
Smith, Willis, Kirkland and Harrison
were promoted to brigadier generals dur
ing the war. Company D., with Lieuten
ant Brench in command, and Harrison
and Berrian second lieutenants was furn
ished tents and went into camp near the
commons. All three were clever officers.
Lieutenant John Brench was killed at the
first battle of Bull Run. adjutant of the
Eighth Georgia regiment. Berrian re
signed. George P. Harrison went with
the regulars to Virginia as adjutant. Dur
ing the summer he was promoted to be
colonel of the Thirty-second Georgia, and
later to brigadier general.
Lieutenant George P. Harrison was a
handsome man and as good as he was
handsome. He had one of the most pleas
ant faces I ever saw. Always in a good
humor, and always spoke kindly to his
men. At the same time he was every
inch a soldier. There was something
magnetic about him that seemed to draw
his men to him. and I will make the asser
tion without fear of contradiction, that
there was not a man who served under
him during the war but what loved him.
May he live a long and happy life, and
when summoned to the last roll call may
he pass quickly over the river and sweetly
sleep beneath the shade of the trees, is
the prayer" of one who served under his
command at the beginning and ending
of the war. The boys from Fort Gaines
decided to try and all get into Captain
Cullen's company, so we could be togeth
er. I was to carry my recommendation
from Captain Cullen for a corporal's po
sition in his company to Captain Smith,
and ask for a transfer. Captain Smith was
one of the best disciplinarians I saw
during the war. He had served 19 years
In the federal army and was a soldier
from the crown of his head to the soles
of his feet. I sauntered into his office with
my cap on. He was busy writing for sev
eral minutes and then looked at me with
the curt command, "Take off your cap,
sir, and place it under your left arm; now’
take the position of a soldier and right
hand salute. AU of which I did to the
best of my ability. Scared was no name
for it. "With practice, sir, you will
make a good soldier. Now you can state
your business.”
He had me so badly rattled I had for
gotten what I called for, but finally I
thought of my mission and handed him
the paper. He told me he would see my
commanding officer and if he w’ould rec
ommend me I could make the exchange.
I left his office with the determination
that I would not tackle him again for a
major general’s commission. I had often
heard of black Friday, but the first Sun
day I spent in the army was black Sunday,
especially about the time I would have
called on my best girl if I had been at
home. I felt certain my rival would call,
al! covered in smiles, and I could not de
cide which I preferred, to see my girl or
clasp my fingers around his throat and
choke off his gab. During the day Private
Alvin Parr imbibed too freely of Savan
nah tanglefoot and was not quite so
steady on his pins as he should have been.
So he crawled off to his bunk and went
to sleep. Some of the lynx-eyed officers
had noticed his condition and sent a
guard after him. Alvin did not like to
be disturbed in his slumbers and refused
to get up. The guards caught him by the
feet and started to drag him. Hold on.
boys; hold on. said Alvin; you might stick
splinters in Joe Dutton that way. So he
got up and decided to walk to the guard
house, but the name of Joe Dutton stuck
to him through the war. While not on
duty we would get passes out into the
city. My favorite place was the wharf,
where the flag of every nation was unfurl
ed to the breezes. Vessels were tied up
as far as I could see up and down the
river, loading and unloading. I loved to
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1901
hear the merry he-ho of the stevedore
gangs as they worked with a will. The
drays were coming and going like a lot of
busy ants, but were different to any I
ever saw. They had two wheels and three
shafts with some of the finest draft horses
I ever saw. The port at Savannah with
Its vast amount of shipping and jolly
jack tars In blue caps, shirts and white
pants climbing up the ropes like squir
rels was an interesting sight to a Georgia
cracker. In the way of a uniform we drew
a blue flannel shirt. But don't understand
me to say that was all we wore for we
retained the pants we had on. and di
vested ourselves of coat and vest. The
commissioned officers were handsomely
uniformed In dark broad cloth. Something
similar, I suppose, to the uniform of the
federal army. _
In about a week I was taken with
pneumonia and sent to the hospital at
the barracks. I thought If all hospitals
were conducted like that one the good
Lord deliver me from another one. Ser
geant Mansfield was hospital steward
and as destitute of the milk of human
kindness as a hog Is of wool. I never
heard him speak a kind word to any one
while I remained there. As to nourish
ment for the sick we received the same
the well ones did. Private Gus dower,
of Company G was sick In the same room
with me and If his mother from Athens
had not visited him I would have fared
worse than I did. The delicacies she
brought him she divided with me. A few
years ago In Atlanta I called on her to
thank her again for her kindness to the
sick soldier boy in the long years ago.
No doubt she, like my own dear mother,
has long since passed to that bourne from
whence no traveler returns. Peace to her
ashes.
While I was sick the recruits from Au
gusta joined those at the barracks and
all went to Fort Pulaski. The 31st of
March I was ordered to report to my
company. Before leaving I went to Cap
tain Smith and obtained a transfer from
D to M, where my brother was. With a
number of other soldier boys I boarded the
Ida which steered down the river, pass
ing Fort Jackson four miles out. Fort
Pulaski is 18 miles from Savannah.
When we arrived we found Colonel
Charles J. Williams In command and the
boys working like beavers, trying to put
the fort on a war footing. The troops
had been divided up into twelve compa
nies—s 6 men to a company. The captains
were W. J. Magill. John D. Walker, R.
A. Wayne, Miller Grieves, John M. Pat
ton, Louis Kennon, S. P. Hamilton, Can
non, William Martin, F. T. Cullens, Wal
lace and Jacob Reid.
I know whereof I speak when I say
the first eight belonged to the old blue
hen's chickens. Good officers and hard
fighters. Captain S. P. Hamilton com
manded Company M, with Lieutenants
Wade and Bass. The fort was a formida
ble looking fortress, and according to the
Ideas of a new recruit could not have been
taken. Columblads weighing 17,000
pounds, carrying a 60 pound shell were
being mounted on barbet carriages on the
ramparts. They were dumped on the
wharf some 300 yards from the fort and
were hauled on a large log cart by
placing 2 by 12 inch planks on the Oyster
sheel road for the wheels to roll on, with
about 200 men pulling on the ropes. To
hoist them on the fort we had derricks
made of ship masts with rope and blocks.
With mounting guns, drilling in Infantry
and artillery, with guard duty to perform
kept the boys pretty busy. We were
given to understand that there was no
misters or gentlemen in the army, and
none of your "Gentlemen of the Banks
County Guards, will you please come
around like a gate?” Orders were given to
be obeyed with alacrity. I saw Major
W. D. Smith on the ramparts one day
call to an officer on the parade ground
to double quick and perform some duty.
The officer started in a walk. “Halt," says
the major. “When I say doublequick I
mean run. Now, do you run, sir," and run
he did.
Our bread rations were changed from
light bread to sea crackers, two-thlrds
peas to one of flour. There was no social
equality between officers and enlisted
men. Their quarters were separate and
distinct. We were learned courtesy as
well as drilling and had to show our re
spect to our superiors. I downed my first
oyster on the beds near the fort, a raw
one at that. I never saw but two things
on the coast a soldier would not eat—a
stingaree and horse shoe turtle. Measles
broke out in the regiment and as I always
g<A my share V>f the good things floating
around I had them, too. For several days
I had dumb chills and would go to Dr.
Thompson's office at sick call every morn
ing, but he claimed there was nothing the
matter with me and would not excuse me
from duty, which I was too sick to per
form. John Ash, a kind-hearted son of
the Emerald isle, w’as orderly sergeant of
my company and took the liberty of ex
cusing me himself. About the fourth
morning I went up Dr. Green was on
duty, and when Dr. Thompson again re
fused to excuse me Dr. Green told him I
was then breaking out with the measles.
Then he had to excuse me. I retired to
my tent on the ramparts and again sought
my blanket. In the afternoon I was or
dered to the hospital on the Island. A
mattress was placed in a dump cart and
myself on it and we went rumbling out
of the fort. It has been 40 years ago, but
in memory I still hear the rumble of the
wheels on the oyster shell road. Should it
ever be my lot to ride on my coffin to the
gallows I may feel more forlorn and deso
late, but not before. The hospital was a
storm-beaten two-story house on the is
land. The upstairs was all in one room,
where the sick were placed on mattresses
in rows on the floor with a narrow walk
way between them. Two men on each
mattress, with a shovel full of sand oppo
site each one's head for a spittoon. That
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would remain there all day covered with
flies. Every morning the sand would be
shoveled out and fresh sand put in the
place of It. For nourishment we had hard
tack, rice and New Orleans molasses. If
you could call the man who carried out
and replaced the land and chunked our
rations at us a nurse, then we were
nursed. I never eaw a surgeon while at
the hospital. For several days I was de
lirious and when I changed for the better
there was nothing I could eat. Never
before had I known the worth of my kind
mother. There was nothing I would not
have given to have heard again her sooth
ing voice and felt the tender touch of her
gentle hands as she smoothed my aching
brow. I remained at the hospital about
two weeks and was then sent to convales
cent quarters In the fort. There I saw
but one officer, Captain Wallace, officer of
the day, and he was not on an errand of
mercy. Instead of Inquiring about our
condition and treatment he ordered us to
get up and salute him. After a hard
struggle I succeeded In getting on my
feet, but could not steady myself, the rest
of the sick doing the'same way. I con
sidered it the most uncalled for, heartless
act I saw during the war. Captain Wal
lace may have distinguished himself dur
ing the war, but if he did it was not with
the First Georgia regiment.
There were over 100 cases of measles in
the regiment, and I don’t claim that I
suffered or was neglected more than the
rest, for we all fared alike, but I do claim
we should have been given proper care
and attention. It was at the beginning of
the war when everybody seemed wild to
do something for the soldiers, and within
eighteen miles of the hospitable city of Sa
vannah, where everything could be ob
tained from both sea and land that was
eatable. But not One thing did I see that
was sent to the sick from any source.
It we had been as wealthy as the Van
derbilts we could not have procured one
thing on the island. Savannah was the
nearest point, and so far as we were con
cerned everything might have been in New
York.
For twomonths I was unfit for duty, and
if we had remained on the coast my dust
would now be smoldering in the sand on
the coast. Going to Virginia restored my
health and strength. More men died dur
ing the war from hardships end neglect
than died from the bullets. For my part
I would prefer fighting over any ten bat
tles I was in during the war than to go
through with again that case of measles
and the treatment I received while I had
them. As General Sherman said, war is
hell at its best, but it can be made worse
for the want of proper treatment.
One that has never served In the army
knows no more about it than he does
about heaven. For a money consideration
I would not go through the war again for
all in America, But for the love of coun
try and home I would again bare my
heart to the storm of iron and lead.
I see in The Journal where Comrade
Johnson, of the Second South Carolina
volunteers, admits he never traded any
tobacco for coffee during the war. I was
on the picket and firing line in Florida,
Georgia, North and South Carolina, Vir
ginia and Maryland, and I saw no trad
ing or meeting between the lines.
W. H. ANDREWS.
Sugar Valley, Ga.
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THE SWORD OF ROBERT^E. LEE.
By Henry Whitney Cleveland.
By old Savannah’s turbid stream
Lee gave the sword to me.
And in that early hour when hope
Believed our South-land free.
He gave the sword, ’twas stainless then
From blood of northern foe;
And when the glorious Stars and Bars
Met no defeat nor woe.
Born of the lion line of Lee
He w’as our idol then.
The bravest of the brave to lead
The lines of hero men.
In Mexico, the sword of Lee
Led fpr the Southern line,
For, o'er theAztic ruined halls
His gleaming steel must shine.
I
Virginia next gave him her sword
_£and, by a mother’s right,
Commanded him to lead her line
In the unequal fight.
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While farmers, poor but free,
Came from all southern states to form
The Stonewall line of Lee.
God set our banner In the sky,
The red—the white—the blue;
The rainbow of eternal hope,
Token that he is true.
Unsullied yet our banner rests,
Protected by the brave,
We ll fly it till the last old vet,
Shall find an honored grave.
Boy children, southern women ralsa,
Our unstained flag shall fly,
And leave It o’er their own green graves
Till Freedom's self shall die.
I sheathe It now, the conflict done.
No more in victory.
And to my children's children leave,
The sword of Robert Lee.
—HENRY WHITNEY CLEVELAND.
Savannah, Ga., May 14, 1865.
LIBERTY BELL AT FAIR.
America’s Most Valued Relic to Be
Put on Exhibition.
Chicago American.
America’s most valued relic, the old Liberty
Bell, will be'sent to Charleston on January
3 next, to be exhibited in the Pennsylvania
building, at the exposition there.
This will make the bell's fourth trip out
of Philadelphia within little more than a
quarter of a century. Preparations for its re
moval have already begun. The work will be
attended with all the dignity that national
and civic pride demands, and the bell, dear
to the heart of millions, will go out of Phila
delphia to the music of bands aad the march
of men.
The parade will not be imposing for its slxe,
but it will be important on account of those
who will have the honor of participating in
it. An escort of councilmen has already been
appointed.
A local safe building company will have the
contract for removing the bell to Charles
ton. The truck on which it will be hauled
from the state house to the Pennsylvania
railroad yards will be decorated with the
national colors. Six or eight horses will be
attached to the truck, on each side of which
will stand a cordon of police. A dozen re
serves, all more than six feet in height, will
take their places beside the bell when it is
secure on the truck, and the procession will
move up Chestnut to Broad street.
The flat car on which it will be placed will
have a railing built around it. At one end
of the car there will be a cabin to be used
as a shelter by the guards. Cabin and rail
ing will be decorated with gay colors and an
inscription on the side of the car will read:
"Philadelphia to Charleston.” A long Uno of
police will form a guard when the bell is be
ing loaded on the car.
The car will then be attached to a special
train containing the councilmen. city offi
cials and other prominent persons who will
accompany the bell on its journey.
In the cities and at their intermediate
towns and villages along the route the jour
ney of the bell will be marked by patriotic
demonstrations. Appeals are already being
received by Chief Pierce of the city property
bureau, asking that the bell be sent through
certain towns on the way to its destination,
so that the people may voice their reverence
in public festivities.
Tito bell was sent to Chicago in 1893 and to
Atlanta in 1895.
Three blue diamonds valued at $540,000
are to be given as Christmas presents to
three women by three American million
aires. When you take down your little
stocking full of nuts and candles next
Wednesday morning you can sit down
and think over just how much ice you
cut about Christinas time.
| Journal’s
| Christmas
| Sermon
It is Impossible for one to truly charac
terize our Saviour’s teaching whether we
regard the matter or the manner of It.
His enemies declared that never man
spoke like this man, and it is stated more
than once that the common people heard
him gladly. The peculiar charm of his
teaching perhaps arose from several char
acteristics. In the first place he was
thoroughly familiar with human nature
and was able to play on every chord of
the human heart and Illumine every point
of the human intellect. He also used the
familiar occurrence of everyday life and
the current history of his times for the
enforcement of religious truth with a
faculty that no other man has ever ap
proached. It he sat on the hillside the
flowers blooming around him and the
birds flying above him he said to the mul
tidues, "Consider the lillles." Behold,
the fowls of the air, and enforced a les
son, of freedom from anxious carklng
carei that they could never forget. If the
husbandman pursued his work in full
view of the great teachers, he gave and
applied the beautiful parable of the sower.
If he watched the vine dresser care for
his vineyard he told this story of the bar
ren fig tree and impressed all who heard
him with awfulness unfruitfulness In the
kingdom of God. Would that I could
bring out the lessons that He wrapped
up in this parable with all the simplicity
and attractiveness of the master himself.
Then should I leave my hearers without
excuse should they pass into the new
year barren fig trees in God’s vineyard.
There are four things in this parable
which we do well to ponder:
L The vineward in which the fig tree
grew and what it represents. In eastern
lands the vineyard was the favored spot
of all the plantation. The southern slope
of some sunny hill side was usually se
lected. It was cleared of stones carefully
hedged about, richly fertilized, dilligently
cultivated and constantly watched and
pruned by the vine dresser. And yet it
had in it a barren tree. A fitting repre
sentation this of Christian community
with its Christian culture, stated worship,
trained ministry and multiplied means of
J
Recapture of the Crater Again.::
Editor Journal:' See some time ago In
your valuable columns a request from a
lady that some old veteran give his experi
ence In the battle of the Crater, near
Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864, I have wait
ed to see if some one better qualified to
describe the scenes enacted there on that
dreadful and never-to-be-forgotten day,
but having waited in vain, I concluded to
try In my feeble way to tell of some of the
soul trying experiences of that day, also
to give one of the closest calls I had dur
ing my entire period of service.
To begin with, the command to which I
belonged, Wright’s Georgia brigade, had
about the 10th or 11th of July, 1864, been
ordered to take position on the breast
works, where the Jerusalem plank road
crossed the works, nearly, or quite, south
of Petersburg, and afterwards was moved
a little farther to the right and across the
road, and then still farther to the right
until we were about one mile from, the
above mentioned road.
As I remember, Wilcox’s Alabama brig
ade, commanded by General Saunders,
was on our left, Mahone’s brigade on our
right. These three brigades, Mahone’s,
Wright’s and Wilcox’s, were the ones de
tailed to re-capture the works.
Wright’s brigade had no general officer
In command, but one of the colonels, I
forget which, was In command. We were
ordered up about 2 o’clock that morning
and placed In position behind the works,
just a few steps in front of where we were
lying under our bush arbors, and after
being there some time most of us had
slipped back to our arbors to snatch an
other snooze, when just after daybreak
we were rudely aroused from our peaceful
slumbers by a horrible trembling of the
earth, followed by a most terrific explo
sion, and then by one of the heaviest dis
charges of artillery and musketry I ever
heard. We could see between us and the
light of the eastern- sky the smoke of
shells as they hurtled through the air or
burst in mid air, and it seemed to us the
air was alive with them, while the huz
zahs and yells of the combatants, com
bined with the other horrible sounds,
seemed as if hell had torn loose sure
enough. And right well we knew a ter
rible and sanguinary conflict was going
on and we expected every moment to be
ordered into the midst of it.
After waiting nearly two hours, we had
orders to fall in, left face, and forward.
We were rushed over hill and vale, with
shells screaming overhead and an occa
sional bullet whistling by, and above all
the roar the command, “close up, men.”
Finally we reached the Petersburg ice
houses directly in the rear and about
one-half mile from the crater, where
we halted to let the rear catch up. Then
forward again, up a zig-zag path cut
round the hill and toward the front, with
the wounded filing out,some on stretchers,
some walking, some leaning on sticks or
guns improvised as crutches; others be
ing carried in blhnkets by four comrades,
and all uniting in telling us boys “it’s
the worst place you ever saw. You’ll
never be able to retake It."
The groans and cries of agony, and the
sufferings of these poor fellows we were
obliged to pass, was enough to sicken the
hearts of the bravest among us. When we
got to the top of the hill where we could
peep over the ditch and see the works,
all we had heard seemed verified, for the
captured works were bristling with bat
tle flags and from the number indicated
a strong force, but nothing daunted on
we pushed.About this time Mahone’s brig
ade, which was in front of us, was or
dered to charge, and right gallantly did
they respond, and although met by a
withering fire from the ditches as well as
from the Yankee breastworks about 100
yards away, they precipitated themselves
on the foe with such a determined rush
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CHRIST AND HIS TEACHINGS.
I TEXT—Luke 13: 6-9,
> BY REV. CHARLES W. BYRD, D. D.,
c Pastor of the First Methodist Church.
grace, and Its unfruitful souls.
The Lord’s vineyard was once the Jew
ish people with all their exalted privileges,
special dispensations and glorious herit
age, but It has now come to be highly fa
vored Christendom with all the privileges
of the Jews multiplied and enlarged be
yond measure. The barren fig trees of to
day are those who have been reared in
Christian homes, trained in Christian
schools, who cannot remember the first
time they ever heard the name of Jesus
pronounced by the lips of maternal ten
derness. And yet these are all privileges
for which we seldom think of being held
responsible.
2. Let us briefly gather the lessons that
come to us in the complaint of the pro
prietor, "These three years I came seek
ing fruit on this tree and found none.”
These words suggest to us that God is
looking into our lives estimating our
characters and marking our conduct.
There is nothing more awful for the man
whose purposes are not right than the
realization that they are all naked and
open before him with whom we have to
do. And yet it is true that God sees our
every thought in its very inciplency and
His estimates of us is correct You may
think less of your neighbor than you
ought, and it is quite probable that your
opinion of yourself is higher than it
should be, but God’s estimate is correct
What does He think of you this evening?
What is your true standing before Him at
this hour?
Again this complaint of the proprietor
marks his disappointment at not finding
fruit. God knows the goodness of the
soil in which you are planted, he knows
the diligence with which you have been
cultivated; he has marked the prayers
that have ascended on your behalf from
secret places, where no eye but God’s
could hear. He expects fruit. Does he
find it?
Love, joy, peace, etc. These are the
fruit of the Spirit. Do they hang In rich
and ripening clusters upon you or are
you barren and deserving the sentence,
“cut it down.”
Why did the proprietor wait for three
years before he complained? Why did he
that they were in the ditches before the
enemy were aware of it, and captured
hundreds of prisoners and made them
selves masters of about one-half of the
captured works in a few minutes.
Now, let me say right here that was one
of the most brilliant charges made during
the war a.nd against much greater odds
than are often given In history. Our regi
ment, the Sixty-fourth Georgia, command
ed by Captain Pritchett, was in front of
the brigade, and had to file right up a ra
vine behind the works before we could
form in line. Here we lost our colonel,
John W. Evans, who, while not on duty,
would go into the battle with us. lie
jumped up on the bank of the ditch and
was waving his hat and cheering when
he was shot and instantly killed.
As we went rushing up the ravine the
prisoners came pouring down the hill
from the breastworks, and some one
shouted (I never knew who) to “carry out
the prisoners,” and most of Company K,
the one to which I belonged, started out,
when General Mahone, who commanded
the division, called to Captain Pritchett.
I ran and told him General Mahone was
calling him and as he turned and ran up
General Mahone ordered him to take the
regiment up to support his brigade. Cap
tain Pritchett rushed off, but ran a little
too far to the right and jumped into the
ditch, which was full of Yankees, and
was captured, as was Lieutenant Morn,
of Company G.
I was close behind them, but seeing the
danger in time dropped down behind a
little traverse about 3 feet high. Glancing
around I met a sight that was enough
to appal the stoutest heart. The ground
Just in my rear seemed to be swept clean
by the storm, of shot and shell across it
from every direction, and I did not stop
to think, but began to fire and load as
rapidly as I possibly could, when Just as
I raised up on my knees for a fourth
shot over the traverse in my front a bul
let cut the hair Just back of my right ear,
coming so close that it burned the skin
without breaking it.
Os course I ducked my head and felt
for blood, and was relieved to find none.
Soon there was a shout from the Virginia
boys Just a few feet to tny left: "Look
at those d—d negroes over there!” and
looking hastily up I saw the barrels of
several guns. Jusl overhead, aimed at the
Virginians, who greeted the holders of the
guns with a quick volley. I found that
place a leetie too warm for comfort, and
by a quick somersault threw myself into
a partly sheltered nook in the ditch below
me on my lett, but soon found that I
was the target of some Yankees about
twenty or thirty feet down the ditch, so
with a plunge was across in the ranks of
the Virginians in comparative safety.
Here I had leisure to look around, and
beheld the death of many a brave man
and officer who rushed, as it was, into
the very Jaws of death.
Here Captain Craven, Company A, Cap
tain Buren, Company I, from Columbus,
Georgia, with Lieutenant Captain Boer,
also of Company I, were shot down and
their bodies literally riddled with bul
lets; while Captain Joe McKee, Clark
Rifles, Third Georgia regiment ,and Ser
geant Ben Liddpn, Home Guards, from
Morgan county, were Instantly killed with
hundreds of other brave boys, whose
lives were sacrificed; but not in vain, for
the works were held stubbornly by our
men and for nearly two hours a constant
fire was kept up by both sides, and load
ed guns were cocked and with bayonets
fixed, were thrown over the embank
ments, and everything to make the place
dangerous, as well as unpleasant to hold.
Later in the day, about 1 o'clock, the lack
of water became apparent; for with the
stench of battle in our nostrils and the
scent of blood all around us (for the ditch
es were full of dead negroes and Yan
kees) and a hot sun overhead, our thirst
grew almost intolerable.
A great many, myself among the num
ber, crawled back to the ravine for water,
but the springs were so crowded that the
water was muddied so as not to be fit
to drink, while the branch was filled with
dead and wounded, and there was nothing
to do but wait and take chances to fill
canteens.
There being a lull in the firing, we lay
down and waited. While waiting Saund
er’s brigade came marching up the ravine,
and took position further to the right,
and just in the rear of where the works
had not been recaptured, and about 4
o'clock orders were given for every man
of the Virginia and Georgia brigades to
go up to the works, and when two mor
tar guns, which were being carried up
the hill were placed Just on the right of
the recaptured works, should fire two
rounds each, and when Saunder’s men
were seen coming in sight up the hill on
our right we were to yell with all our
might, and fire our guns as rapidly as
possible, whether we saw anyone to shoot
at or not.
The instructions were carried out to the
letter and from the time that Saunder’s
men came creeping up the hill till they
were in the ditches with the works in full
possession of our forces seemed but a
very few minutes, and the -bavile of the
Crater was over.
Now, all these things happened much
more quickly than it takes to describe
them. I will close by quoting Corporal
not have it cut down at the end of tha
first year? Because he is merciful and
gracious, long suffering and kind, abund
ant in goodness and truth, forgiving in
iquity, transgression and sin.
3. The third thing that calls for our
consideration is the sentence cut it down.:»
Why cumbereth it the ground?
Here we learn many Important lessons.
The unfruitful tree is not only barren
and therefore worthless, but, it Is a cum-!
berer of the ground. The evil Influence
of every barren tree is proportioned to
the time it has occupied its place and the
size that it has attained.
Who shall estimate the blighting influ
ence of the man or woman with rich nat-t
ural endowments and rare social quali
ties arising from great personal magnet
ism?
The man or the woman with such
gifts, who long withstood, the means of
grace and long occupied a place in God’s
vineyard without yielding fruit is pecu
liarly guilty. His condemnation is cer
tain. The heinousness of sin arises not
from its grossness, but from its
guilt. Its guilt is proportioned
to the light against which we sin and the
strength of the barriers through which
we break. If I had to be lost at last I-*
should like to go to perdition at last
from the Jungles of the dark continent or
from the most benighted province of pa- ;
gan China.
4. "Let it alone this year also.” Whose
language is this? It is the language of
the anxious mother for her Irreligious
daughter. It is the language of the pious
father for his prodigal boy. It is the
language of the faithful pastor for his
unfruitful flock. But better than all is
the prayer of our Great High Friest. who >
is himself the offering_as he pleads for us.
We are closing another yew. but for the
Infinite mercy revealed In Christ we
should not have been spared In our bar
renness till this good hour. He has cul
tivated us for another year, he has poured
out upon us the refreshing showers of his
grace, he has softened our hearts by the
bereavements and sorrows that have
come. Shall we close the year with no
buds of promise? Shall we go into 19C2
all barren and unfruitful. God forbid.
Jessee Reese, of Warrenton, Ga., of th®,
Twenty-second Georgia, who made use of
the expression in your columns some time
ago, as well as in Jacksen hospital, Rich
mond, Va.: "That Crater was a little the
hottest place while it lasted I ever got
into. JOHN O. HILSMAN,
Co. K., 64th Ga. Regt.
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TO CONNECT LAKES AND SEA.
In suggesting the possibilities es a.
canal connecting the Great Lakes and |
the seaboard. Harper's Weekly gives ■
some interesting figures on the probable j
cost of the construction of ouch a canal,’
and its possible revenues.
The estimated cost of the construction |
of the canal is about 170.000,000. Hence the
question: Will it pay? This is the ans-1
wer.
The present yearly traffic of the Great
Lakes is about 40,000,000 tons. Assuming
that work on the canal will begin in 180 S,
and the route opened to commerce In 1808,
the traffic will have increased probably to
47,000,000 tons. If of this a minimum ton
nage of 8000,000 or 7,0004)00 can be divert
ed the canal will be a paying investment.
For Instance, it is believed that grain can
be carried, if competition requires, at a
reduction of 8 cents under the precoat
average rate of 41-2 cents via Buffalo to
New York, or Montreal via the Welland
canal. This saving would amount to
about $1 per ton. It is proposed to charge
a toll of 50 cents per ton, or 11-2 cents per ,
bushel. (The rate through the Sues canal :
is 7s 6d per ton.) Tonnage is estimated
for traffiffio in one direction only, and |
no Income is calculated from westbond i
freight. On this basis of 7.000,000 tons the
gross revenue would be $3,000,000. The es- ,
timate for working and maintenance la
$700,000, leaving a net revenue of $2,000,000, |
or about 4 per cent on the investment.
Origin of the Plano.
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Ferdinand de Medici, about 200 years ago, J
a Padun harpsichord maker named Bar-:
tollemeo Chrlstoferi, a man of great In-1
ventlve genius. After many experiments*
he solved the problem, which had been:
a puzzle to the musical instrument mak- f
ers of the period, how to make a satisfac
tory working "keyed psaltery,” and by
the method he invented of overcoming;
the difficulties inherent in the task, pro- !
duced an instrument which was the un- ■
doubted ancestor of the pianoforte of to
day. From 1709—the date when Christo
feri made his four "keyed psalteries’’—
the piano, at first slowly, but afterward
by leaps and bounds, went on increasing
and increasing in popularity, until now its
manufacture has become a great indus
try. *
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