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Comoany 8., 30th Ga. Regt.
Of the companies soing ont
from Henry county during the
Civil War there was none which
did more effective service than
Company 8.. of the 30th Georgia
Regt. It was organized at Stock
hridge in the summer of 1861, with
R. M. Hitch, Captain, T. A. Ward
J. C. Dabney, and Oscar S. Berry,
Lieutenants, and Raleigh High
tower, Orderly Sergeant.
After its organization the Com
pany went direct to Fairburn
where it was organized into the
30th Ga , Regt.
Just before its departure from
Stockbridge it was presented a
Beautiful silk flag made by Miss
Margaret Dailey, who made the
presentation speech, standing on
the veranda of the house now
occupied by Mr. Joe Dorsey in old
Stockbridge In a few touching
words the flag was accepted in be
half of the Company by Lieut. T.
A. Ward, who, among other things
said, “It shall never be allowed to
trail in the dust.”
Leaving Fairburn, the Company
with the Regiment, went into
camp at Griswoldville for three
months, and from there was or
dered to Savannah, where in April
’62, it was reorganized. Hitch was
re-elected Captain, Raleigh High
tower, Oscar S. Berry and J. A.
Arnold elected Lieutenants Wil
liam Smith, Orderly Sergeant, J.
A. Berry, J. W. Spence, E. Graden
and H. H. Hinton, Sergeants, C.
H. Jones, E. J. Foster, C. M. Mar
tin, and J. Milam, Corporals, J. C.
Hightower, one of the company’s
most popular men, was appointed
Quartermaster of the regiment,
and J. A. Berry was appointed
Quartermaster Sergeant of the
regiment.
A' spending the spiing and
sum. . in Savannah, the entire
regiment was ordered to Jackson,
Miss., where it engaged in engaged
in a slight skirmish. From this
time on the company was in active
service.
In August of the same year it
went to Chickamauga and on the
20th of September engaged in the
famous battle of that place, a num
ber of its men being killed and
wounded. In November was fought
the noted battle of Missionary
Ridge in which the Company was
actively engaged in this battle the
Southern army was repulsed and
fell back to Dalton where Company
B went into winter quarters.
When the spring campaign opened
and Johnson’s army retreated from
Dalton and battle followed battle
in quick succession the Company
fought gallantly in every engage
ment, and in the campaign in and
around Atlanta kept its place in
the front ranks.
With Hardee’s corps it retreated
to Jonesboro where it engaged in
the battle of that place, which was
one of the most noted of the cam
paign. Falling back from this place
to Lovejoy, it then proceeded to
Palmetto where it remained during
the ten days armistice.
Leaving Palmetto it then started
on the campaign known as “Hood’s
Raid” through Tennessee, partici
pating in the battle of Franklin and
Nashville. In this campaign the
men suffered many hardships, the
food was poor, the weather bitter
cold and their clothes worn and in
sufficient to protect them, many ot
them being without shoes during
the severest weather.
In February ’65 the Company was
ordered to the Carolinas, and here
engaged in the battle of Benton
ville, N. C., the last engagement
cast of the Mississippi. From this
place Johnson’s army feel back to
Greensboro, N. C., where it surren
dered on the 26th, of April ’65.
At this surrender only two men
of Company B, were present, J A.
Berry and T. A. Ward, the other
members being either dead, wounu
,ed, sick or in prison. These two
with others of the regiment secur
ed a pair mules and wagon and
proceeded to Hamburg where v they
sold their team and divided the
proceeds.
The ranks of the Company are.
fast thinning out as will bo seen
from the roll given below :
R. M. Hitch, Capt. Dead, Raleigh
Hightower, who succeeded Hitch
as Capt. O. S. Berry, Lieut, killed
at the battle of Decatur, Ala. J. A.
Arnold, Lieut, dead, W. H. Smith,
orderly sergeant, J. C. Turner
dead, J. J. Walker dead, F. M. Ellis
dead, E. Harris dead, T. A. Ward
dead. J. A. Berry, J. C. Dabney
dead, T. A. Dabney, W. M. Kersey,
Janies Clark, Josiah Askew dead,
James Lewis dead, Richard Stan
ley, Jack Kean, Lewis Kirkland
dead, Tom Farmer, J. F. Rowan,
Josiah Burk, Joshna Wyatt dead,
R. R. Shettlesworth dead, Jack
Coogler, M. B. R. Morris, S. A.
Morris, J. M. Blackman dead, W.
J. Betts dead, H. C. Fisher, J. D.
Rodgers, J. G. Prather, John Deth
ridge dead, J. F. Fowler, James
Bivins, Rev. Sam Crawford dead,
Joe Veal dead. M. M. Harrell dead,
Allen Winfrey killed at battle of
Atlanta, J. W. Spence, Sam Bivins,
Stone Spkes, W. S, Dnnn dead,
William Mitchell, J. M. Cal'oway,
J. C. Hightower dead, HampTram
mel, E. J. Foster dead, B. C. Mob
ley, Ace Mitchell. John Mitchell
dead, Bale Phillips. John N. High
tower dead, David Farmer dead,
William Paxton dead, Charley
Hardy killed in battle of Atlanta,
John Farmer dead, T* E. Moore, J.
T. Kelly dead, J. H. Burks, D. A.
Burks dead, G. F. Dickey, Ephriam
Black dead, N. F. Jones dead,
W. G. Hinton dead, H. H. Hinton
dead, J. C. Morgan, J. R. Nolan,
M. C. McPeek dead, T. M. Martin,
W. M. Martin, J. F. Turner, dead
W. A. Turner dead, J. B. Turner
died at Savannah in ’62, John Ray,
Joe Terry, W. M. Morgan, dead.
William McPeek killed at Franklin
in '64, Henrv Milam, C. H. Junes
killed at battle Chicamauga, Lewis
Jones, Green Mitchell, Green
Mitchell Jr., Jones Mitchell, W R.
Thomas, Sam Mills, James Mc-
Clendon, Manse McLendon dead,
John Adams died in Savannah in
’62, William Adams, James Adams
John Martin, H. C. Dunn, Clay
Dunn, Alexander Dunn, all dead
G. W. Phillips killed at, Franklin
in ’62, Dolph Berry. Sam Dukes
dead, James Allen died in ’62,
Thomas Trammell died in Colum
bus in ’64, S. D. Johnson died in
Miss., in ’93, John Wilson dead, A.
O. Hardy killed at Franklin in ’64,
James Martin died, William Hud
son killed at Atlanta in ’63, W. M.
Dickey and Pack Hightower dead,
Elilm Graded killed in ’64, Wil
liam Bledsoe, J. W. Hightower
dead, John Milam dead, William
Day, J. A. Morris, Robert McCul
lough dead, J. J. Patillo dead.
Wheeler at Santiago.
Into the thick of the fight he went, pal
lid and sick and wan,
Borne in an ambulance to the front, a
ghostly slip of a man;
But the fighting soul of a fighting man
approved in the long ago,
Went to the front in that ambulance, and
the body of Fighting Joe.
Out from the front they were coming
back, smitten of Spanish shells,
Wounded boys of the Vermont hills and
the Alabama dells;
“Put them into this; I’ll ride then to
the front,’’ he said,
And he climbed to the saddle and rode
right on, that little old ex-Confed.
From end to end of the long blue ranks
rose up the ringing cheers,
And many a powder-blackened face was
furrowed with sudden tears,
As with flashing eyes and gleaming
sword, and hair and beard of snow,
Into the hell of shot and shell rode little
old Fighting Joe!
Sick with fever and racked with pain’
he could not stay away,
For he heard the song of the yester-years
in the deep-mouthed cannon’s itay.
He heard in the calling song of the guns
there was work for him to do,
Where the countrj’s best blood splashed
and flowed ’round the old Red, White
and Blue.
Fevered body and hero heart! This
Union’s heart to you
Beats oqt in love and reverence, and to
eaeh dear boy in blue
Who stood or fell, ’mid shot and shell,
and cheered in the face of tne foe,
As. wan and white, to the heart of the
* fight rod** little old Fighting Joe.
—James ijxosEy Gokdon.
I keep on hand all the time hors
as and mules. A. B. Mitcham,
Hampton, Ga. tf.
“The Blue and the Gray”
Frances Miles Finch, who died at
Ithaca, N. Y., July 31, at the age of
80, was the author of the well
known and popular -poem, “The
Blue and the Gray.” Mr. Finch was
a graduate of Yale and a lawyer.
He was an associate justice of the
New York court of appeals from
1880 to IN; 8, and declined re-eltc
tion to become dean of the Cornell
university college of law. Judge
Finch wrote other verse, but his
most noted prod notion is “The Blue
and the Gray.” This poem was
written in 1867, and it was inspired
so it is related, by the action of the
women of Columbns, Miss., who on
Memorial day of that rear, strewed
flowers alike on the graves of Con
federate and Union soldiers.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
(Francis Miles Finch.)
By the flow of the inland river
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
"Where the blades of the grave grass
quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the deap—
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement, day;
Under the one the Blue,
Under the other the Gray.
These in the rollings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat—
All with the I tattle blood gory
In the dusk of eternity meet.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgement day;
Under the roses the Blue,
Under the lillies the Gray.
So with an equal splendor
The morning sun rays fall
With a touch impartially tender
On the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement day;
Broidered with gold the Blue,
Mellowed with gold the Gray.
O, when the summercalleth
On the forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain.
Under the sod and the dew,
Wiating the judgement day;
Wet ’th rain the Blue,
Wet with rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was yon.
Under the sod amLt.he dew,
W'aiting the judgement day;
Under the blossoms the Blue,
Under the garlands the Gray.
No more shall the war cry sever
Or tlie winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
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We Grieve, But We Rejoice,
The sun that slanted its light
from the eastern sky this morning
was no brighter or more beautiful
than the memory of the south for
the rr.'tn whose unselfish patriotism
ami heroic death we call to mind.
We grieve, to think of their long
and hitter struggle ; their weary,
footsore marches ; their yearnings,
in the desolate night watches, for
the homes they left so gallantly
but so sorrowfully, the mother’s
tenderness, the sister’s smile, the
wife’s embrace ; their sufferings in
the fever stricken camp, their oft
unsatisfied hunger and nnqnenced
thrist ; the thousand miseries that
marked the progress of a long and
bloody war, even np to the last
when a glorious death came to re
lease them from the final anguish
of lacerated todies and breaking
hearts upon the battlefield or in the
crowded hospital.
We rejoice, because they were
our own ; because they fought anew
for the same priciple that led their
ancestors to shake off the hand of
kings and establish constitutional
government; because they have
forever pledged the south to a per
petuation of the plan of govern
ment that, issued from the federal
convention of 1787, and that still
holds unholy ambition in check,
and guarantees liberty and protec
tion to the American people. We
rejoice because of the strength of
their example upon our growing
generations; because their blood
still flows in the veins of their
thousands of offspring; because
their memory teaches us to revere
name of country and to be willing
to sacrifice all things for her honor
ancl protection ; because they have
gone before to guide us to an hon
orable grave, as the beginning of a
happy immortality.
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—the cough syrup that tastes near
ly as ood as maple sugar and
which children like so well to take.
Unlike nearly all other cough rem
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on the ofher hand it acts promptly
yet gently on the bowels, through
which the cold is forced out of the
system, and at the same time it al
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Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup.
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War Prices Down South
In 1865 an ounce of quinine could
not be purchased for less than sl,.
700 in the south. Provisions were
simply enormous in price. Here
are just a few instances; In Feb
ruary a ham, weighing 50 pounds,
sold exactly for $750, or at the rate
of $5 a pound. Flour was at S3OO a
barrel.
Fresh fish retailed all over at $5
a pound, and ordinary meal was at
s•>o a bushel. Those who lived in
boarding houses paid from S2OO to
S3OO a month. White beans retail
ed at $75 a bushel. Tea went for
anything from S2O a pound to S6O,
and coffee in a like ratio, says Spare
Moments.
The most ordinary brown sugar
was sold for $lO a pound. Ordinary
adamantine candles were sold for
$lO a pound. In a cafe, breakfast
was ordinarily $lO. In April sugar
went to S9OO a barrel and articles
of wearing apparel sold, coats at
$350, trousers at SIOO, and boots at
$250.
Butter was sls a pound. Pota
toes went for $2 a quart. Tomatoes
of the size of a walnut sold for S2O
a dozen. Chickens varied froms3s
t.o SSO a pair.
The prices on the bill of fare of
the Richmond restaurant in Jan
uary, 1864, were: Soup $1.50, bread
and butter $1.50, roast beef, a plate,.
$3, boiled eggs $2, ham and eggs
$3.50, rock fish, a plate $5, fried
oysters, a plate, $5, raw oysters $3,
fresh milk, a glass, $2, coffee, a cup,
$3, tea, a cup, $2.
These figures are taken from va
rious sources and have the virtue
of accuracy. If nothing else. Al
ways was present the fear of famine
and time and time again did the
soldiers donate a portion of their
rations, taken from their appoint
ment in the field, to relievo the
pressing necessities.
The shrinkage of the currency
was, of course, responsible, and
some idea may be gathered from a
store that went the ronnds at the
time. A soldier galloped along a
country road and a farmer leaning
over a fence admired the animal.
He called to the trooper, offering to
buy the horse:
“Give yon $30,000 for him, John
ny,” he said.
“Not much, old man. Ijustpaid
$15,000 to have him shod,” was the
reply.
