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FACE EIGHT
THE BANNER, FRIDAY V ORNING, APRIL 26, 1912.
DAYS SUCCEEDING THE SIXTIES
The Reconstruction Days—A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan—True Story of Abraham Lincoln’s
Assassination, With Facts Never Told Before—John Wilkes Booth*
Not Shot as Was Reported.
RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
————— t
Andrew Johnson became President j not one of her own slaves but hired
when Lincoln was assassinated. On J after freedom, to sweep the front
the 29th of May, 1865, lie published . steps. The reply was, "Sweep them
Ills proclamation of amnesty—horri- ] yourqelf. We is de ladies now." The
ble to think about!
On June 17th James Johnson was
made Provisional Governor of Geor
gia. The proclamation under which
he acted, disfranchised all the clti-
sens as to federal ollices, and was in
effect an invitation to scalawags and
carpetbaggers to fasten themselves
upon the body politic of Georgia.
Lincoln had given promise that the
South should become a part of a
more perfect union—but this militarv
despotism instituted by his successor.
Andrew Johnson, dispelled all hopes
of this, and the passages of resobi
tfons by congress in March. 1866,
treated the Southern States as con-
Indy slapped her face for the im
pertinence. She was summoned be
fere the Freedmen'.t Itureau and
stars. He was instru ted to print and prise and make diversion on Lake Rocky Mountains hunting and truo-
b nd in the night and on a certain J Erie, he promptly responded to the ping. He said In this letter that his
date between the hours of I and -’leal! of his government. With a hand
a. m., to place the bundle outside the
door. He did as ordered and unseen
bands bore them away in the dark
ness.
"The only two copies of this ritual
now known to exist are to be found
in the archives of the stale of Ten-
loreed to pay for insulting the negra nessee. Its author is Gen. George W.
girl. | Gordon, of Memphis.”
The Scalawag was a Southern born Necessity for Such an Organization.
man—a deserter, a traitor, who Join
ed the republican forces to fasten ne
gro rule upon the South, nud get the
money offered for the service. The
contempt or the South for him w.is
even greater than for the "Carpet-
logger". He was the man from the
North, of low tastes and vulgar
thoughts, who stumped the Southern
states aiding in organizing I-oyil
Leagues, becoming himself a mem-
Ciuered provinces. Every state was pul ( ber, and teaching so> ial equality by
under military rule and the Freed practicing it.
man's Bureau was established to fur
ther humiliate the South.
Herschel V. Johnson was elected
. Governor. Under his administration
of two weeks the ordinance of seces
aion was repealed.
Charles J. Jenkins was then made
by
During tlie Reconstruct ion Days
the South it became an absolute nec
essity to have an organization suc.i
as the Ku Klux Kian to pro’ec-t South
ern firesides. Confederate soldiers
organized it and they were men of
the best blood in the land. When
they returned to their desolated
homes after the surrender they met
slave confiscation and reconstruction
under negro rule. Submit to it? No!
They were forced »o keep the freed
negro in subjection until he could be
fiom under the influences of the
scalawags and carpetbaggers. At first
there was only the thought or social
p'easure and recreation in the orde-,
but discovering that their queer cos-
The education of the negro began
i nder tlie direction of these influ
ences—the man of the South was
forced to say "hands off", and the re
sult has been disastrous to the negro.
This race was not ready for sudden . Dime* and their weird .and mysterious
freedom. They had for generations j do ngs were affecting the minds of
Governor tly the President's direc- ( been cared for as children. They did the ignorant and vicious and unpriii-
Hon. but his hands were tied and j not know responsibility and when ( ciple,i nnegroes and whites they turn-
although the state had by the Presi I iliriist upon them were unable to fd their efforts into a means of de
dent's own admission, its rights re j meet it. An incident now is recalled
stored. James Johnson refused tu I,ere in Atfceus where a grown negro's
give up his office as Provisional Gov- j first wages $10.00 paid him the day
before Christinas was s|>enl $8.00 for
an accordion and $2.00 for tire crack
ers—and yet lie had scarcely the nec
essities of food or clothing, for from
April to December lie had been res'
iug. and attending League meetings.
The best thinking men and women
ernor. A convention was called
(Gen. Pope's Convention) which last
ed from December 9 until March
Gen. Meade, the military commander-
ordered Governor Jenkins to pay th-r
expenses of that convention—$40,000
—out of thee state's treasury. Gov
ernor Jenkins emphatically declined,
and was removed from office in con
sequence. Then Thomas Huger wa9
made military governor, and finally
Rufus Bullock was forced upon the
people. He stood for negro suprema
cy. He finally had to leave the state
secretly for fear of being Impeached
for his illegal management or the
state's affairs.
Benjamin Conley was a slight im
provement over Bulloch's administra
tion, but not until the Democratic
convention. Dec. 1871. which elected
James.M. Smith, did the people of
Georgia tael they "had come Into
their own.'’
What years of trial and hardship*
—four years of W5.r and seven of
reconstruction!
'’If.*' as some wise person once said,
‘‘our foresight were as good as our
hindsight” things would be so differ-
, ent in this world today.
Looking back now over forty years
or more of history here in the South
we can see the many mistakes that
were made by the North and the
South.
Those Reconstruction Days are the
days that bring to the minds of the
HonlTiern people a shudder even over
the lapse of years. How we lived
through them is a mystery!
The greatest calamity that coiibl
I’ave befallen the South was Lin
coln's death. Had he lived Thad Stev
ens' Reconstruction Hill would never
have been passed. It is true his bill
lost two sections of it—those of di
viding the property of slaveholders
among the freed slaves, and counten
ancing miscegenation—but without
those two it was bad enough. It was
Thad Stevens who conceived the plan
- of organizing the negroes into loyal
Leagues—hence our old faithful ns-
,. groes were alienated and separated
. - from ns—old tie* were broken and
distrust taught. The -Exodus Order"
tore the negroes from their o!J
homes, old farms, old associates, oi l
■ influences, and forced them to seek
homes elsewhere. This was cruel.
The excuse given was considered a
political necessity, so as to speedily
estrange the old negroes from their
old owners, the influence of the
whites must be destroyed. The ne
groes must be scattered—no two fam
ilies going to the same place. Tlie
consequence was tlie young negroes
grew up without restraint and with
out the influence of the old negroes on
the plantations, and so were reared-
without respect for elders, and wifi
little or no regard for law or order.
If the negro problem of today can-
be attributed to any one cause. It
seems it could be laid upon this "Ex
odus Order.’
Then came the Freedman's Bureau
forced upon the South by the Federal
government and backed by military
rule. This was a direct insult to
Southern men and women, and an in
vitation to the freed negro to insult
and humilate their former owners
One ot the most prominent ladies
In Athens told a young negro girl—
at the north today see the mistakes
that have been made and are trying
to right them.
The best thinking negroes of tli-J
day are discussing educational prob
lems as never before. Tlie conflict
Letween the white race and the negro
race Is not from the educated white
but from tlie illiterate white— "po"
white trash" as the negro has always
i-een prone to call them. This class
of people must have an education C>
cope with that given to the negro—
when this is done much of the fric
tion will be removed between tlie
races.
Social equality in the South be
tween the races c-in never tie—and
the true negro of the South does n-u
expect it or desire it. He wishes the
respect and re-ope rat ion of the South
ern people among whom lie lives and
upon whom in a measure he will al
ways tie dependent. The Southern
people know the idiooynrwsies of the
race best, sympathizes with the n--
groes and is fairer and more just to
them tnan the people of the North
who do not understand them.
if they are let alone and allowed
to work out with their own peop'e
the errors that have come from He-
construction Days much can yet be
done to solve the ever recurring ne
gro problem.
KU KLUX KLAN
The Ku Klux Klan was a great law
and order league of mounted night
cavalrymen, called into action by the
-intolerant <-ondition of a- reign of ter-
tor under the negro rule in the South
at the close of the War between the
States.
"Its rise was due to the mind of no
leader. It was an accident. A group
of boss at Pulaski, Tenn.. organized
it first as a local fraternity. They
found a name in Greek word ‘Kuklo-C
a hand or circle, and to tills they ad-l
ed clan, and then split the germ word
into two weird monosyllables, spelling
the clan with a K to heighten the ap
peal to the superstitious, and of the
awe-inspiring Ku Klux Klan.
"In 1867 a secret convention of
peace loving, God fearing, patriotic
Southerners met in Nashville and or
ganized this society into ‘Tlie Invisi
ble Empire,' adopted a ritual and ad
journed.
"Mr. Ijips D. McCord of Tennessee,
was the printer in the office of the
I’niaski Citizen who set the type,
printed and stiti-bed the complete pdl-
t : on of the ritual of the order, lie
never knew until years after the au
thor of the manuscript or from whose
hands he received it. He got one day
an anonymous letter telling him to
remove the middle brick in the space
heneath a certain window in his print
ing office. He did so and found that
the brisk in the center of the wail
liad been taken out and in its place
lay a roil of manuscript containing
the ritual of tlie "Invisible Empire.’
It was merely marked with three
tense as was needed at the South. At
tliis time Confederate soldiers wer-
denied the right of the ballot—nr
roes held the offices—they were the
legislators and magistrates. White
men were at the mercy of negro
rulers. The very foundation of south-
rn civilization was threatened, and
t was tlie genius and the greatness
of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who
devised this means of righting mat
ters. He was the Grand Wizard of
tlie Invisible Empire, assisted by the
Grand Dragon, the Grand Titan, the
Grand Giant, the Grand Cyclops, and
other Genii. There were Hydras,
Furies. Goblins, Nighi Hawks, and ail
sorts of Ghouls. They dressed in
pure white, rode white horses whose
feet were padded. They could or
some sort of apparatus rise in the sad
dle to the height of sixteen feet or
more. They could by some sort of
arrangement drink seven buckets of
water without stopping and calmly
remark: "1 have had no water since I
was killed at the Battle of Manassas.”
The poor fright ned negro, made to
dip up the water irom the stream
in which the horseman was standing,
would at this run in terror from what
he supposed was a it al ghost.
IT white or black in any community
were giving any trouble he would
find written on his door in letters
or blood the mysterious K. K. K.
which all knew meant leave the
.• ountry at once or death will follow.
If they left all well, if they did not
woe betided them.
Many, many dreadful things were
done by fake Ku Klux Klan. and the'.r
work was branded as oftentimes crim
inal and cruel, but the real work ot
the real organization were necessities
that the times demanded, and *t
should not be condemned.
Mrs. ,S. E. F. Rose of tlie Mississippi
Division IT. C. C. has written a verv
tine account or this organization,
and her booklet includes the letters
Horn the only two living members of
the first organized Klan. Send for
il. Price 25 cents. West Point, Miss.
II is sold for tlie benefit of Arlington
Monument Fund.
full of brave seamen, lie seized a
steamboat on l-ake Erie, made its
crew prisoners, converted it into a
war vessel, captured or sank one or
more boats, terrorized the commerce
ot the great lakes, produced a panic
in Buffalo and the cities on the lakes,
and thoroughly alarmed the Northern
people. In due time he was captur
ed. He was tried by a court-martial,
and sentenced to death as a pirate.
John Wilkes I Soot a inlerested him
self it. h:s behalf, obtained from the
Confederate government at Rich
mond, Va., the evidence that he was
a commissioned officer of the Con
federate navy; he obtained also evi-
den e that his acts were only those
of legitimate warfare, and that he
was acting under specific orders from
tlie Confederate government. Booth
went to Washington armed with these
documents and secured from Pres !
dent Lincoln tlie promise that Beall
should not be put to death, but should
be treated as a prisoner of war. This
promise of Mr. Lincoln gave offence
to Secretary Seward, who persuaded
him. in the face of it, to sanction
Beall's execution. And Capt. Ilea’.l
was hanged at Governor's Island,
New York, on February 24, 1865.
John Wilkes Boo'ii was not a w -il
balanced man at his best. Doubtless
lie inherited a streak of the insanity
with which bis father, though a great
actor, w.is from time to time afflicted.
Be that as it may. lie was fearfully
wrought op by the death of his
friend, under such circumstances. Ho
denounced the killing in cold blood of
a prisoner of war, after he bad sur
rendered. as a "murder." and the
doing it after the President had given
Ills word that it should not be done
as a "falsehood" and 'treachery,"
and vowed vengeance against the au
thors of this wrong.
At once lie organized a conspiraci
tor the assassination of President Lin
coln and Secretary -Seward; and on
the night ot the 14tn of April, 1865.
ci-.ly seven weeks after Capt. Beall
was hanged, the plot was executed.
Booth shot Mr. Lincoln at Ford's
Theater, Washington, exclaiming "sic
semper tyrannis,” and on the same
■light, Paine, one of his fellow eon
spirators, in Dieted serious but no:
mortal wounds, on Win. H. Seward,
Secretary of State. The United States
was fearfully aroused by the assass!
nation of the President. At first it
was suspected that the crime had
l.-een instigated by tlie Confederates.
Many prominent citizens of the Con
federacy were arrested. The most
thorough and searching examination
was made. And it was conclusively
),roved that no representative of tlie
Confederate government, and no one
in the Southern Confederacy had any
part in it. It was as sincerely re
gretted anu as severely condemned
through the South as in the North.
Mr. Lincoln was killed, not by a cit
izen of the Confederate States, but
tv a citizen of the United -States—a
partially deranged man, to avenge the
wrong he claimed had teen suffered
bv his friend at Mr. Lincoln's hands.
companion and friend could not send
his name, for he bore a dead name,
yet sent him his photograph to let
him know that the original was still
alive, and sent his kindly remem
brances to him and myself. This
photo was a true likeness of John
Wilkes Booth.
I then remembered that no one who
had ever seen Booth was permitted
to see the body of the dead man that
had been killed, and a reword claimed
for the capture, dead or alive, of the
assassin Booth. That no coroner's
inquest had been permitted to sit on
his body. That everything pertaining
to Ills remains were secret, even the
s)iot where buried was unknown to
the world. Since that time I have
frequently seen vague rumors of
some one thinking they recognized J.
Wilkes Booth in various parts of ths
v.orld—once in Mexico, again in
Havana—-then in several European
cities. Yet no one gave any credence
to it.
It is my op'nion that Booth w-as
not the man killed by Corbett, and
may he alive yet. You may take this
for what it is worth, yet I think ! will
he the only reader of your splendid
work that will answer this question
correctly.
1 am.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES GORDON.
The First “300”
(Continued from Page 4.)
THE TRUE STORY OF LINCOLN'S
ASSASINATION.
(Christian Observer.)
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinat
ed Mr. Lincoln, was a citzen of the
Cnited States—not of the Confeder
ate (States. He was at no time a resi
dent of any of the seceded states. H:s
southern sympathies did not lead him
to come to the Sou’h and make com
mon cause with the South. It was
not an ardent love of the South, or
of the Southern cause, that prompted
Mr. Booth's crime; but rather a spirit
of revenge for tlie personal wrong
that Mr. Lincoln had done in havins
Capt. John Young Beall, one ol
Booth's friends, executed -unjustly.
The editor of the Christian Observ
er was acquainted with Capt. Beall
He was a native of Virginia, a mem
ber of a good family, a college grad
uate, a brave young man of attractive
personality." In Richmond, Va., we
boarded at the same -house, ate at
the same table, and we learned
appreciate his sterling worth. He
possessed traits similar to those,
which during the Spanlsh-American
war made Rk-hmond Pearson Hohso.t
the idol of the American people. And
when. In the fall of 1864, a man was
wanted to lead a iazardrous. enter-
John Wilkes Booth Was Not Shot.
The following is an extract from a
letter from General James Gordon, of
Mississippi to Miss Mildred Ruther
ford of Athens, Ga.:
Okolona. Aug., 11. 189L
Dear Miss Rutherford,
• • • •
I have puzzled my brain consider
ably over your Plus Questions in your
American Authors. And will answe:
cue you cannot answer yourself.
Page 565—What was the fate of John
Wilkes Booth?
In 1864 I escaped from my captors
and not being able to # reach home
sought refuge in Canada. In Mon
treal at the Queen's Hotel. T think it
was. I met Wilkes Booth, who was
a star actor at that time. He was a
very-handsome man, and quite an in
telligent and agreeable companion.
And as he sympathized with the
South in her struggle we became Inti
mate friends on a brief acquaintance.
When he left for Washington 1 bade
him good-bye with many kind wishes,
little thinking that I grasped the hand
in friendly farewell that would soon
he stained with the blood of an as
sassinated President. Nor do I think
he had such thought at that time. In
a fev- days I was shocked at the re
port of Lincoln's death by the hand
c.r John Wilkes Booth!
Five years after that I visited Mem
phis, and there met a friend who was
also an intimate friend of Booth's.
He showed me a letter from a mutual
friend who -had been absent since the
close of the war, who was then In the
Sergeant Thomas E. Jackson, C!«.
H, Cobh’s Legion Young's Cavalry
btigade.
A. ft. Jackson. Co. L. 3rd Ga. Regi
ment. Wright's brigade.
Lieut. -S. P. Kenney, Co. 1), Cobb's
Legion.
Regimental Orderly D. M. Kenney,
Co. H. 43rd Ga. Regiment, -Stovall's
brigade.
Capt. J. S. King. 3rd Ga. Regiment,
wilaeteu Texas brigade.
John C. Kirk. Co. K, :t7th Ga. Regi
ment, Rain's brigade.
John l.Tlly, Caball's Battalion, Troup
Artillery, Cobb's brigade.
T. N. Lester, Co. C, 4th Ga. Regi
ment, Doles brigade.
Lieut. Robert C. Latimer, Co. B
Phillip’s Cavalry, Ga. Volunteers.
Isaac Lowe. Co. C, 4th Ge. Ragi
ment. Doles' brigade.
W. M. Lee. Co. K. 4»th Ga. Regi
ment, Thomas' brigade.
S. S. Lindrum, Lumpkin's Battery.
I*almer's aBttery. Bates’ brigade.
H. L. Miillihs. Caball's Battalion,
Troup Artillery.
J. P. Moses, Co. C. Regulars.
George T. Murrell, Co. (!, 12th Ga.
battalion.
A. 1* Mitchell, Co. K, 3rd Ga. Regi
ment.
George W. Mabry, Co. K, 3rd Ga.
Regiment.
Quartersmaster W. J. Morton. Capt.
J. Turner's Co. Toombs' Regiment,
Ga. Volnteers.
.1. l\ Murray, Co. A. 11th Ga. Regi
ment Cavalry.. Hammond's brigade.
.1. A. Mealor, Co. K. 38th Ga. Regi
ment, Lawton's brigade.
Lieut. S. D. Mitinell, Co. K. 3rd
Ga. Regiment.
Lieut. W. H. Morton. Co. A. 3rd Ga.
Regiment, Wright's brigade.
W. II. M-uheffey. Co. E, Cobb's Le
sion Cavalry.
Lieut. R. M. MoAlpin, Co. K. 3rd
Ga. Regiment. Wright's brigade.
John S. McKie. Co. ’ A, 11th Ga
Cavalry, Hammond's brigade.
David S. McWhorter, Co. H. Cobb's
Legion Cavalry. Young's brigade.
J. J. C. McMahan, Co. F, 5th Tenn.
Hegiment Cavalry. Ashby's brigade,
Capt. James McCllucb, Co. A. 34th
Ga. Regiment. Taylor's and Cum-
ming's brigades.
Courier John McCune. Co. K, 4th
Ga. Cavalry, Wheelr's brigade.
J. G. McEvov, Co. K. 16tli Ga. Caval
ry, Vaughn's brigade.
R. A. McMahan, o. F, 5th Tenn.
ment Cavalry.
•Surgeon Edwin D. Newton, in
charge of the Field Hospital of the
A. N, Va.
T. W. Nicholes. Co. A, Stiles' Regi
ment Ga. Volunteers.
C. T. Nash. Co. C. Cobb's Legion
Cavalry, Hampton's brigade.
W. C. Orr. C. C. Cobb's I-egion
Cavalry, Young's brigade.
Corporal W. T. Osborn. Co. C, 44:9
Ga. Regiment.
Adjutant Tom P. Oliver. Co. A. 12th
Ga. Regiment, If. Cobb's brigade.
Sergeant James O’Farrell, Co.. K,
3rd Ga. Regiment, Wright's birgade.
E. A. Ogletree, Co. B. 14th Miss.
Regiment, Tillman's brigade.
J. M. Orr. Co. C, 18th Ga. Regimen?,
Wofford's bribade.
Corporal Henry C. Poss, Co. C. 44th
Ga. Regiment.
Lieut. I. H. Pittard, Co. H, Ga.
Cavalry, Cobb's Legion.
Serget. R. K. Pridgen. Cobb's I-c-
gion. Troup Artillery. Longstreet's
Corps.
II. C. Pollard, Co. A. Cook's Battal
ion. 23rd Ga. Regiment.
J. W. Peeler, Co. I.. 3rd Ga. Regi
ment, Wright's brigade.
J. E. Pittman. Troup Artillery,
lohb's Legion Infantry, Cobb's brig
ade.
Major W. B. Pruitt, Co. A, 2nd Ga.
Regiment, Toombs' brigade.
Sergeant George H. Palmer, Co. K.
3rd Ga. Regiment, Wright's brigade.
Corporal John Potts, Co. H, Lump
kin's Battery. Palmer's Battalion.
Captain A. F. Pope. Gen. Howell
Cobb's Staff, Troup Artillery.
M. D. L. Pittman, Co. C, Cobb's Le
gion Cavalry, Young’s brigade.
It. H. Patterson. Co. B, 10th Ga.
Regiment, M<-Law's brigade.
Corporal Thomas J. Poss, Lump
kin's Battery. Palmer’s Battalion.
Capt. J. E. Hitch, Co. C. Cobb’s Le
gion Cavalry.
Corporal B. O. W. Rose, o. G, 16th
Ga. Cavalry.
T. |S. Richards, Caball's Battalion,
Troup Artillery, T. R-. R. Cobbs
brigade.
t'orporal II. T. Rogers, Co. C, Har
dee's Corps, Elliott'* zrigade.
W. II. Reed. Co. C, Cobb's legion
Cavalry, Young'a brigade.
W. A. Sims, Co. K, 3rd Ga. Regi
ment. Wright's brigade.
F. M. Smith. Co. H. 42nd Ga. Regi
ment. Stewart's brigade.
L. -Schevenell, Co. G, 23tH N. C.
Volunteers.
Lieut. David K. Sims, Co, K, 3rd
Ga. Regiment, Wright's brigade.
J. W. Saye, Co. A. Pat Mell Regi
ment. Ga. Volunteers.
P. W. Sutlierlin, Owen's Batallon,
Ringgold Battery, Va. Volunteers.
M. B. Saye. Co. A. Adams' Battalion,
Wright's brigade.
C. W. -Shackelford. Cobb's Legion
Cavalry, Hampton's brigade.
Crate -Shaw, Lumpkin’s Battery,
Palmer's Battalion.
Drummer I-. L. Seago, Co. B. 19th
S. C. Regiment, Mannegult'a brigade.
B. M. Smith. Co. A. 16th Ga. Regi
ment, Wofford’s brigade.
X E. Saye. Co. D, 5th Ga. Regiment,
Frazier's brigade.
Capt. Charles H. Smith. "Gilmer
Blues" Co. Capt, of eGn. Morgan's
Scouts.
Sam Shaw, Co. A. Adams' Battal
ion. Wright's brigade.
David Stephens. Co. I, 3rd Ga. Regi
ment. Wright's brigade.
W. A. Strickland. Caball's Battalion,
Troup Artillery.
C. M. Stephens, Co. C, 37th Ga.
Regiment, Bate's zrigade.
John K. Talmadge, Co. D, 11th Ga.
Regiment Cavalry, Hammond's brig
ade.
T. R. Tuck. Co. C. Cobb's f-eglon
Cavalry, Young's brigade.
T. B. F. Todd. Co. H. Cobb's le
gion Cavalry. Young's brigade.
W. R. Tuck. Lumpkin's Battery,
Palmer's Battalion, Chaetham’s corps.
James Tenley, Co. G. 25th N. C.
Regiment. Ransom's brigade.
Orderly Sergeant Grisbv E. Thomas,
Jr.. Co. A. 2nd Ga. Battalion Infantry,
Wright's brigade.
Lieut. J. P. Wilson, Co. C. 3rd Ga.
Regiment.
S. B. Wier, Co. If. Cobb's I-egion
Cavalry Young’s brigade.
J. 11. Willingham, Co. K. 8th Ga.
Regiment. Anderson's brigade.
James J. Williams, Caball's Battal
ion. Troup Artillery.
.1. W. Woods, Co. D, 16th Ga. Regi
ment
Sergeant W. J. Whitehead, Co. C,
44th Ga. Regiment. Doles* brigade.
John W. Wier. Co. A., Aiaras* Bat
talion. Wright’s brigade.
W. T. Witcher, Co. K. 3rd Ga. Regi
ment, Carswell's brigrade.
M. Watson. Lumpkin's Artillery,
Palmer's Battalion.
W. J. Williams. Co. G. 25th 25th X.
C. Regiment. Ransom's brigade.
W. I). Williams, Co. G, 25th N. C.
Regiment. Ransom's brigade.
James Waters. Co. A, Adams’ Bat
talion. Brown's brigade.
Joseph VViglev, Co. A, Adams' Bat
talion. Brown's brigade.
James Wright, Co. A, Cook's Bat
talion, Ga. Volunteers.
Capt. James White, Co. A, Adams'
Battalion. Wrights brigade.
Corporal John R. White, Co. F, 3rd
Ga. Regiment. Mercer's command.
(Continued on page 11.)