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PROGRESS AND CULTURE,
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY,
GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1902,
SURRENDER OP GEN. R. E. LEE
hollow
square arouud Gen. John B.
Gordon, whom Gen. Lee had select
ed to deliver the farewell address to
his army. The speech stressed three
things: The valor of the army, the
reasons for the surrender, and an
exhortation to return to our homes
and make good oitizens. We were
astonished beyond measure when
Gen. Gordon, in giving the reasons
for the surrender, said that we only
had eleven thousand stands of small
arms, less than fifteen hundred cav
alry, and less than one hundred
pieces of artillery. Of course it was
useless to keep up the struggle long
er. Next day we received our pa
roles, and Gen. Grant sent an army
of wagons over with rations for us,
allowed the officers to retain their
swords and side arms, and allowed
us to return to our homes and en
gage in pursuits pertaning to peace.
We had many experiences on the
march home—two notable ones. At
a small place above Knoxville, Tenn.,
when we marched in the train had
just arrived from Nashville draped
in mourning on account of Presi
dent Lincoln’s assassination. So ex
asperated were the Federal troops
that wo~ feared they would do us 1 '
harm. • At Knoxville a regiment
negroes w-ere quartered in the rail-1
road round house and as we maroh-j
ed by they cursed us and abused ub
terribly. Of course we had to take
it. Our mess had a frying pan, and
at Knoxville a Yankee offered ub
Written for the Hqme Journal.
The coming .of Gen. Gordon to
Perry to delher his grand lecture,
“The Last Days of the Codfederaoy,”
brings up vividly to my mind the
surrender of Gen. Lee’B army.
Our lines around Richmond and
Petersburg were broken on the
morning of the 2nd of April, 1865,
and we had been on the run for six
days trying to put as much clear
road as possible between us and
Gen. Grant’s army. On the sixth
night we were late getting into
camps. We knew that the enemy
were trying to head us off, but we
did not dream that next day would
put an end to the army of Gen. Lee.
We were within about three miles
of Appomattox Court House. Nezt
morning we were ordered to cook
three days’ rations, anji we had just
got the biscuit on when the bugle
blowed the assembly. We took up
the cooked biscuit, put them in our
haversacks and moved out on the
road towards Appomattox
We had heard heavy firing in our
front, and soon learned that Gen.
Grant had cut us off, and we natu
rally expected a desperate battle.
We learned that Gen. Gordon, with
his corps, had engaged the enemy,
and expected our corps (A. P. Hill’s)
would come next. When we .arrived
in sight of the enemy the firing had
ceased, and wp formed a line of bat
tle on a hill some three-fourths of a
mile from the enemy’s line. Just as
wo filed off to the right to take po
sition we saw Gen. Gordon’s men
falling back, and two of them came
running excitedly up to the head of
our column and said, “Gen. Lee has
surrendered.” We had lost all our
field officers when our lines were
broken below Petersburg, and the
senior captain of the survivors was
in command. Ho ordered these two
men put under guard, saying: “They
shan’t come around here demoraliz
ing men.” We formed line facing
the enemy. Our artillery was com
ing in behind. We could see their
batteries taking position and expect
ed every moment for them to open
on us. Then their line moved to
ward us, passing their field guns
and moving down the slope of the
hill right in our front. Neither side
had put out skirmishers. Our own
batteries had not unlimbered; theirs
had not opened on us. We had no
orders, to lay down nor to fire |on
the advancing enemy, and standing
there bewildered at the strangeness
of conditions, at last we did receive
a command, but not to fix bayonets
and move forward, but a strange
command, one we had never heard
except in practice, “Ground arms.”
How our hearts sank within us.
What terrible thoughts we had of
Federal prisons and ill treatment.
We looked over on th9 other hill
and those who were our foes a few
moments ago had stacked their arms
and were advancing on us with the
olive branch of peace.
Soon our camp was full of Yan
kees in full uniform, and such trad
ing I have never seen before nor
since. A plug of tobacco would buy
almost anything a Yankee had.
Those of us who had valuables hid
them, thinking they would be taken
away from us. We had one lone sil
ver coin and we put it in our coat
collar. But our fears were ground
less. We were treated nicely by all,
from Gen, Grant (who told Gen.
Lee, when he offered him his sword,
“Put your sword back in its sheath
and keep it”) down to the humblest
private.
It was not a great while before it
was announced that Gen. Lee was
returning from Gen. Grant’s head
quarters. It seemed that 6very one
of the twelve or fifteen thousand
men composing the remnant of
Lee’s army lined the road for half a
mile, and as cheer after cheer rent
the air, the old hero would raise his
hat and bow his head. I saw more
men weeping that day than I ever
saw in my life, especially that even
ing as we stood in ranks forming a
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Personal Application,
W. A. DAVIS
GEO. H. LOWE,
A truth is of no value unless per
sonally applied and made a motive
for action. The people read, and
hear, and talk, and write of educa
tion; the truths and ideas about bet*
ter schools are cried aloud every
where; the duty of each citizen to
promote the educational interests of
his children and his community is
emphasized in the press and on the
platform; the thousands listen, agree,
applaud—but only the dozen act.
Why not the thousands? Public ed
ucation is no less dependent upon
the individual because it is public,
and the individual’s duty cannot be
shirked on the principle that, every
body’s business is nobody’s business,
A community holds each man re
sponsible for the payment of his
taxes; so should each man bo held
responsible for his personal efforts
toward the betterment of public ed
ucation. To his own children, to his
neighbor’s children, to society as a
whole he is accountable, and a neg
lect of this duty is a parental and
social breach of trust which no in
difference of the community should
allow to go unrecognized.—South
ern Education Board,
W. A. DAVIS & CO
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the train at that place for home anc
would not need itjauy more) and ‘
would not need ltjauy more) and m
vest the money in bread and crack
ers. We sent a man up in town t(
invest it, and we were greatly as
tonished to see him come back witl.
a greajfcjarmful of bread and crack •
took the cars for
ers. We soon
home, worn out in body and clothei.
A large crowd met us at the train--
motbera, fathers, sisters, brothers,
cousins, neighbors and sweetheartn.
The seats of most of us were badlp
out of repair and we were badly in
need of frocktail coats, but we had
nothing but jackets and blankets,
and before we left the trail? we ad
justed our blankets in frock-tail
fashion,
And could with grace and ease
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Dixon, of
Pine Brook, N. J., celebrated their
golden wedding a few days ago in
the house they have lived in contin
uously since they became husband
and wife. They were married in
the town of Caldwell, N. J., in the
room in which Grover Cleveland was
born. A pleasant feature in connec
tion with the golden wedding was
the statement that during the fifty
years they have lived together nei
ther has ever spoken an unkind word
to the other.
Bow around and scrape as we pleased.
J. D. Martin, j
Wit of the Blind,
Father Joseph Stadelman of the
Jesuit foundation of St. Francis Xa
vier devotes himself to work among
the blind and the deaf and dumb,
says* the Minneapolis Journal. He
says that, contrary to the general
impression, the blind are peculiarly
happy and fond of jokes.
Illustrative of this, not long since
a blind acquaintance of his, whose
remaining senses, like those of all
blind, are exceptionally keen, was in
a room where were some lady visit
ors. Finally, one of the ladies left.
“What remarkably white and per
fect teeth that lady has,” laughing
ly remarked the blind man.
“Why, how do you know?” asked
Father Stadelman.
“Because for the last half hour
she has done nothing but laugh.”
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Asleep Amid Flames.
Breaking into a blazing hoipe,
some firemen lately dragged the
sleeping inmates from death. Fan
cied security and death near. It’s
that way when you neglect coughs
and colds. Don’t do it. Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption gives perfect protection
against all throat, chest and lung
troubles. Keep it near and avoid
There are more men in the pres
ent House of Representatives who
give 'farming as their occupation
than any other vocation. Accord
ing to the statistics gathered by
Messenger Penn, there are sixty
members who are farmers, fifty-
three lawyers, twenty merchants,
fifteen doctors and ten editors. The
remainder of the total membership
is divided between capitalists and,
mechanics.—Cedartown Standard.
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that wholly cured a horrible Fe
ver Sore on his leg. Positively
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tions, boils, burns, corns and piles.
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It is said that hundreds of horses
and thousands of cattle in the
mountains, of the Hawaiian Islands
never take a drink of water. A joint
grass known as manino is food and
drink to them.
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