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THE COURANT-AMERICAN. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1889. FREEMAN & WILLINGHAM, Editors and Proprietors. A>NmX(KMtSr A. M. Willingham having purchased ot E. Christian his half interest in the Cour ant-Amekican, the undersigned thereby become its editors and proprietors. Fettling that in an announcement of our purposes in the future conduct of this paper and its columns, either impe rious assumption or immodest plati titudes, to the intelligent reader, would appear —it we fell shoit in our efforts like the sea waves that surge out bouy antly to assuage upon the sands and then sink below the normal ievei, we hope a short outline, void of a too com mon flourish of empty forecasts, will serve us now acceptably before our readers. We feel that we are neither strangers nor aliens, our past lives having been spent among, and in close association with, the people of this noble county and section, and whatever energies we have possessed or mental resources were at our command, have been directed hum bly but sincerely to what we have be lieved to be the best interests of our people and country. The Couhant-Amehican will not at tempt to pose as the model newspaper— the great and only mentor for Christi anity, statecraft or commerce, urge a recognition as the living chart of faith, hope and charity nor seek the acquire ment of the uuestiouable dsstinction of special bulletin fortheembluzouingof the claims of innumerable rivals in the strug gle for the site of the coming world’s fair —but will attempt to prove itself a news paper meeting the demands of an intelli gent, moral and progressive people, fill ing its columns with only such matter as will make it a guest esteemed by fathers, mothers, children, misses, youths, uud even old maids aud dudes. Asa news chronicler, though its übi quitious gatherers ot items may not speed with the velocity with which eagles move athwart the sky, it will attempt to set afloat a knowledge of all current events of the day, bearing an epitome on which is the bold stamp of an abuse of shoe leather and reckless waste of the midnight candle. It will attempt to be, veritably, a reliable and clean journal, eschewing unsafe iines and fit to be read in the purest homes and around the most refined firesides. Itegurding its editorial policy, it will treat the varied topics of the day— always weighing every question in the scales of truth and right—in ft positive manner, yet with that conservatism which recognizes on almost all questions an honest difference of opinion, and on this line may throw out an occasional broadside on the Mormons and the tariff. We do bear our country’s highest welfare deep at heart, and proclaim ourselves urgent for unceasing progress and ene mies of all means which bring petrifica tion or dry rot. If the glory of our hopes is attained, from the modest standpoint from which our expressions have already come, we say, if we are not recognized as a factor in its acquirement, we are con tent to simply joiu as an humble pilgrim in the procession, The Courant-American, now well es tablished, will hope to retain the favor it has already won under its former man agements. With it the Express, which, during a brilliant life of about u dozen •weeks in a field not large enough for two papers, won plaudits and friends by its pluck and progressiveness, Is now con solidated, and on this consumation both journals are to be congratulated. In short, our sails are set to the wind ward. Hoping that the breezes may shift us aright and not leave us the sport of the waves, we ask a licera! support and in return will use our best endeavors to furnish to the people a paper they wil 1 not be ashamed to call their home journal. We part with Mr, Christian with regret, and should his fortunes becastelsewhere, wecommeud him to any among whom he may locate, as a Christian gentleman worthy of their best esteem. The Cou kant-Ameuican is his well-wisher. D. B. Freeman. A. M. Willingham.* As will b? seen from the above, I have retired from the joint editorship of the Courant-American, and in parting with the readers of the paper, I desire to ex press my thanks to the good people of my native county for the generous en couragement they have given the paper since my connection with it. I leave the paper in good hands aud in a most pros perous condition and bespeak for the new firm a continuance of the hearty support received by the old. With a heartfelt wish for the future success and happiness of my former partner and his new co-laborer, together with the genial “devil,” all hands con nected with the establishment, and every reader, 1 lay down the pen and scissors for a season of needed rest, be fore entering anew field of labor. E. Christian. Every one who has used it pronounces Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup the best remedy known tor the complaints of early child hood. it contains no opiates. Notice. All who owe me either by note or ac count will please settle at once, as I have payments to make myself aud must col lect to do so. J. K. Rowan. CAPTAIN LYON REPLIES To the Charge That He Was a De serter During the War. He Otters tiie Testimony of Men who (iiuclit nilh Him —Some Inter esting Documents. Caktersvillk, Ga., Nov. 11, 1887. To the editors of the Courant-Ameri can: In niv last letter published in your columns, 1 promised that as soon as my business engagements were finished, thai; I would reply to that part of W. II Fel ton’s attack on me as a Confederate soldier. The limited time that I have had, has prevented me from getting much of the evidence that 1 can and will get, if necessary, to refute the infamous and slanderous charges made. I entered the Confederate service as a private soldier at Blairsville, Ga., in April 1801, under Capt. John S. Fain, in company G Ist Georgia Regiment of Regulars; was in Gen, Robt. Toombs, brigade, was ordered to Savannah, Ga., where we took the Oglethorpe Barracks; from there wo went to Fort Pulaski and fortified it, Gov. Brown ordered our regi ment toTyboe Island, where we remained until July, when we where ordered to Virginia. While camped at Manassas Capt. Fain resigned and Capt. 11. 1). D. Twiggs, of Augusta, was made my cap tain. Iu the meantime I was promoted to orderly sergeant. The letters I pub lish below will show where I was and what I did till I was made quarter master of the field transportation de partment. First, I offer the letter of 11. A. Brad Weldon, the same man that Felton says volunteered this information charging me us a deserter, aud never haviug been in a battle, and that I fought on the Federal side. Read Mr. Weldon’s letter aud see what he writes to me. I then offer the letters of officers and soldiers who .were members of my regiment, the Ist Georgia Regulars, who testify of my soldierly conduct iu the late war, also my authority from Gen. A. R. Lawton, quartermaster general of the Confederate States, assigning me to light duty aftei I was disabled for field service. Here I remained, and rendered service under Major James G. Paxton, quartermaster of field transportation in Virginia, until Gen. Bragg issued a general order re quiring all men to go to the front that were ame to uu be. i tit once reported for duty under this order. Not being able to go into the infantry, Major Pax ton agreed to mount one hundred men if I could raise that number. He so stated in a letter to the Secretary of War, and I have this letter now. I went to Rich mond, Va., where I found a large number of paroled soldiers from Tennessee and Kentucky, and had no trouble in raising that number. lat once reported the fact to Gen. Breckenridge, Secretary of War, who gave me orders for transportation to Lynchburg, Va., and ordered me to report for duty to Gen. Colston, w ho was stationed at Lynchburg, and in com mand of that department, and under him I remained and performed all mili tary duty in my power until Gen. Lee's surrender. Oue of the hardest fights I was in, was the day Lee surrendered, between New London and Brush Tavern, just out of Lynchburg; Gen. Wagner commanding on the Federal side. At Lynchburg, in Gen. Colston’s office, a party of Confed erate officers consisting of Lieut. Cabal Breckenridge, Capr. Hall Dudley, of Can ton, Miss., Capt. I‘cttigrew, of Charles ton, S. C., and m self, agreed not to surrender, but to make our way to Gen. Joe Johnston’s army, then at Goldsboro, N. C. We left Lynch;.urg, came through Bedford county, Virginia, and on to Salem, N. C., where ne were joined by Col. Below, who is n ivv the editor and owner of theGalvesion News, of Texas. Our party came dir. tly to Charlotte, N. C., getting there tin- same day that Mr. Davis and his cabinet arrived, and heard him make that famous speech that so much has been said of. That gave us the first information of the assassina tion of Mr. Lincoln. There we all received orders from Gen. Mart Gary to report at the war department, at Augusta, Ga., which I print Is low. Our party, except Lieut. Breckenridge who joined bis father at that place, came directly to Augusta, Ga.,and on my arrival there was ordered Wy Gen. Ranse Wright, with Capt. John Milledge, present State librarian, to assist iu quelling a riot that was prevail ing. I stood within five feet of Capt. Frank Stiner, when he killed Bolter, one of the leaders of this riot. A few days later, at the instance of Gen. Beaure gard and through his influence with Gen. Upton, who was then in command at Augusta, Ga., I was paroled and given the same privilege of the officers of Gen. Lee’s army, being allowed to retain my horse and side arms. This ended my career as a Confederate soldier. I am sorry to have to parade my conduct during the war as I am forced to do; I was never off of Virginia soil sixty days from the first Manassas battle till Lee's surrender. Respectfully, T. J. Lyon. Jenkixsbuhg, Ga., Nov. 2, 1885). T. J. Lyon, My Dear Sir: You ask me for facts, I will give them as near as I can. I weut to Blairsville, Ga., arrested T. J. Lyon and others, all of whom were absent from the Ist Georgia Regulars. I order and them to report to their com mand. Major Galt discharged T. J. Lyon on thegrounds that he (Lyon) had been transferred to the field transporta tion department. Major Galt was sta tioned at Morgantou, Ga., distance ot 20 miles from Blairsville, h went with me without the least trouble. Major Gult turned him loose saying “his paper* are all right.” If T. J. Lyon ever did, either by word or act, aid or assist the Fede ral’s armies in the war between the States, I have no knowledge of it, nor do I believe he did. 1 have been on the field of batth* with him. I have seen him under tire, lie is all right. Yours truly, H. A. Bual* Weldon. Macon, Nov. 1, 1889. Mn. T. J. Lyon, Dear Sir: Yours of 31st ulix>. received, asking me to give you any information I may have rela tive to a charge made by Mr. Weldon, to-wit: That you were a deserter from the Ist Georgia Regulars aud arrested by my orders. 1 have to say, that I have no recollection of any such order. Yours truly, J’earck Horne. Cedartown, Ga., Oct. 28, 1889. Dear Tom : Your letterof the 25th has just Deen received and without delay I acknowledge it. Y'ou ask me to write you at Carters ville, stating what I knew of you as a soldier in the Ist Regiment of Georgia Regulars, and also if you were ever in battle during the late war. With this request I most gladly comply. If my memory is not at fault, we en tered the regiment about the same time —I as a lieutenant and you as a private —and while I remained in active service, L knew no soldier iu the Confederate ser vice who more nobly and bravely did his duty, than yourself. Y'ou will remember that I lost my arm at the second Manas sas—on the 30tli of August, 1832—and from that date I was no more actively with the regiment. But up to that time I wus with you in all the skirmishes, fights and battles in which our command was engaged, and know well that yon bore yourself gallantly and never left the field until ordered to do so. We are all proud of the glorious record made by the Georgia Regulars under Longstreet aud Lee, and I take pleasure in saying that your conduct up to the time I was forced to leave, because of my disabling wound, was such as to win the approval of those illustrious leaders. Y'ou were in battles hot and fierce, aud stood by the side ot some of those nuule heroes who gave up their lives for their country’s good. With high respect, Your friend, Joseph E. Blance. Atlanta, Ga,, Nov 5, 1889. Capt. Thus. J. Lyon, Cartersville, Ga., Dear Sir: A brother soldier of the Ist Regiment, Georgia Regulars, informs me of charges made through the newspaper published iu vour own town of Carters ville, to the effect that you were a de serter from the Confederate service, and has requested me to state what I kuowof your character aud standing as a soldier during the time I was connected with that regiment. It affords me pleasure to respond. You may perhaps remember I resigned my commission as a captain iu that regi ment, on the 25th day of December 1861, to accept promotion to the rank of lieu tenant colonel iu the 36th Georgia Regi ment, and as that regiment was assigned to the Western Army nnd remained iu it until the close of thejwar, I had no oppor tunity, from personal observation, to know anything about the conduct of individuals connected with the regulars; but 1 can say that while I was with the regulars I had opportunity to know much of the status of the non-commis sioned officers, and it was a conceded point among the commissioned officers that you ranked as one of the best or derly sergeants'in the regiment, where all of that grade were considered ex cellent. I learned through newspapers, which occasionally reached us in the Western Army, containing news from the Army of Virginia, that several non-commis sioned officers ot my old regiment had been promoted for efficiency and gallant conduct, and among them was my own sergeant—poor Jack Wells—and your self. As to your patriotism, courage and fidelity to our cause, I have never until now heard them called in question, n*or do I believe such a charge has any foun dation in truth. I fear, my friend, you have been med dling in what is called politics, a trade which proverbially in its methods re quires the slinging of dirt at any honest, decent man who has the temerity to ven ture into its domain. Hence this annoy ance. Respectfully and truly yours. Alex. M. Wallace. Captain Co.K, Ist Reg. Ga. Regulars. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6, 1889. Hon. Thomas J. Lyon, President of the Farmers Alliance of Bartow County, Ga., Sir: In looking over my former home paper—the Courant-American, of Car tersville, Ga. —under date of October 17, 1889, I find an assault upon you as a surviving veteran soldier of the lost cause, as also, an honored official of that organized body of yeomanry waning on combines, trusts and monopolies. Let me assure you, sir, it pains me indignantly, that any veteran soldier that took the field for his convictions, should be charged, by lolty or lowly. with the infamy of deserting his colors. Sir, I knew you as a citizen before the war, since when, as a commissioned offi cer of company A, Ist regulars, I got to know you better, as a patriot and a sol dier; and no bomb-proof demagogue, whether preacher or politician, or both combined, can shake mv confidence in any one of the bravemeu of the Ist regu lars —they, the first troops raised by Georgia, nine hundred strong, and as superbly equipped by Gov. Brown as though each and every man of us were a brother. Now, comrade of the war, accept this voluntary tribute to your worthv sol dierly deportment in the Ist Georgia Regulars. Respectfully yours, Rout. A. Crawford, Ist Lieut. Cos. A, Ist Regulars. Cedartown. Ga., Oct. 30, 'B9. Capt. Thos. J. Lyon, My Dear Sir: I see from the newspapers that you are accused of deserting the Confederate army, and as I was with you in the Ist Georgia Regulars, on my own motive l write to say that there was no better sol dier iu the glorioqs old Georgia Regulars than yourself. The character of a noble soldier shall never be destroyed while my voice or pen can prevent it.. You helped largely to build up the fame of the old Regulars, and I gladly testify that no man in the rolls bore himself with more gallantly or bravery than yourself. I was in all the battles that the regi ment was engaged in from the time we went to Virginia until we were sent back to Georgia, and know that you did your full duty in every emergency. I was 2nd sergeant in company “E” in that grand old regiment and have a just knowledge of all that transpired while we were in active service. I never missed a fight and always I found you in the forefront of the hottest battle. This is all volun tary on my part, but I am unwilling to see the character of a good soldier in jured. With high regard, etc., A. J. Hunt, 2nd Seg’t Cos. “E,” Ist Ga. Brig. [copy.] Washinaton, Ga., April 13, 1883. My Dear Mrs. Lyon: Your very kind letter, ot the 3d inst, has been duly re ceived. I thank you for your kind and generous words. Thev remind me of *■ i • days long gone by, and good friends we shall see no more on this side the grave, but who are “still to memory dear.” I send you rny photograph, the best I have in possession. Benicmher me kindly to your husband, one of my glorious old brigade, to nil of whom my heart still clings with parental affection. My eyes are fast giving away and my health is poor. Very truly your friend, Robert Toombs. ■ ■ • [copy.] Confederate States of America, Quartermaster General’s Office, Richmond, Oct. 31, 1863. Thomas J. Lyon, Dear Sir: Under authority of an act of Congress, passed march 26,1873, and general orders from the War Department, you are hereby designated as oneof the officers or agents of this department empowered to impress army supplies. You will be careful to observe strictly the requirements of the law referred to and its amendments, and also the general orders and regulations of this office, based thereon. A private copy of the same is enclossd for your instruction. Your obedient servant, A. R. Lawton, Q. M. General. [copy.] Headquarters, Charlotte, N. C., April 20,1865. [Extract, Special Orders No. I.] XI. The following named officer of Lee’s arr.iy, not captured, will report to the Secretary of War, at Augusta, Ga.: Capt T. J. Lyon, Ass’t Quartermaster. By order of Gen. Gary. Ed. A. Palfrey, Lieut. Col. A. A. G. Yon sturdy oak, whose branches wide Boldly the storms and winds defy, Not long ago an acorn, small. Lay dormant "neath the summer sky, Not uolike the thrifty oak in its germ, development and growth, is consump tion. But even this mighty foe of man kind positively yields to the wonderful curative properties of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery if taken early. Don’t be blind to your own interests and think yours a hopeless case. This remarkable remedy has rescued thousands. It is the only medicine of its class, sold by drug gists, under a positive guarantee that it will benefit or cure in all cases of disease for which it is recommended or money paid for it will be promptly refunded. LOST NOTES. Lost or stolen from m.v desk In the last week the following notes. 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