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In the fall of 1863, all white males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years of age "who have furnished substitutes in the Confederate States Army, resident aliens, and others who have avoided conscription by reason of civil employment, contract or engagement" were re- quired to report to the military authorities for forming regiments for state service. All men between ages of six- teen and eighteen and forty-five and sixty were also re- quired to enlist in these regiments to "repel threatened raids of the enemy within this State."
On December 5, 1863, the following members of the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church were dismissed by order of Harmony Presbytery for the purpose of organ- izing Union Presbyterian Church: Ann Lifrage, Mary A. Lifrage, W. J. J. Lifrage, C. R. Montgomery, J. S.
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Lifrage, J. M. Shaw, Sarah A. Gordon, J. W. Gordon, Margaret P. Frierson, Sarah Frierson, Sarah M. Gordon, Jane M. Salters, Mary E. Salters, John Watson, M. E. Watson, J. A. Salters, M. I. Rodgers, D. E. Gordon, W. B. Gordon, W. F. Rodgers, W. J. Montgomery, Ed- ward McDonald, Mary McClary, Hester McDonald, M. E. McClary, Daniel Barrineau, T. M. Lifrage, H. D. Shaw. The following colored persons were also dismissed to join Union Church: Pompey, belonging to W. F. Rod- gers; and Peggy Ann, belonging to J. A. Salters.
After these members of the Williamsburg Presbyte- rian Church had withdrawn, and among them Elders H. D. Shaw and John A. Salters, S. J. Bradley was the only elder in the Williamsburg Church. About this time, the Reverend D. M. McClure became minister of the Wil- liamsburg Church, which he served for two years.
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WILLIAMSBURG, C. S. A., 1864.
When one understands the almost superhuman vene- ration that has always "hedged about" ministers of the gospel in Williamsburg and this "low country," and reads the following extract from an editorial in the Charleston Courier of January 19, 1864, he will obtain some faint suggestion of the intensity of existing feeling that this country should do its utmost to win the war.
This editorial begins: "The propriety of conscripting the ministers has been discussed. We think it, first of all, very doubtful whether there is any need for the extension of the conscription as to ages or classes. We firmly be- lieve that a faithful enforcement of the original con- scription from eighteen to forty-five years, with the dis- continuance of substitution, unless in special cases, to be decided not by the amount of money nor the position of influence of the conscript, but on just discrimination and sound discretion before a competent board, would give us an army sufficient and efficient, if properly or- ganized, disciplined, and managed. We see all around us not occasions for new laws, but urgent occasions for the faithful execution of extant laws." The editorial continues, favoring ministers and all other able bodied men enlisting in combat units.
South Carolina sustained a great loss when Captain the Honorable Plowden C. J. Weston died of consumption on January 25, 1864. He was captain of Company A, Tenth Regiment, in which were many soldiers from along the Santee in Williamsburg. He equipped his company at his own expense according to the latest and most ap- proved designs both in clothing and arms, and his company was the only unit in the regiment reasonably well armed until the time of his death. Captain Weston was born in
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England while his parents, from the oldest families in Georgetown, were spending the summer in the old home of the family in the "Mother Country." Exposure incident to his military service in the Western campaign under General Bragg caused his death. He was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina and had come home to preside over the Senate of 1863 when stricken.
The reaction from the Confederate losses in 1863 came early in 1864 on economic conditions. Confederate cur- rency began to depreciate. The newspapers in Charleston said on May 28 that they could receive bills only at actual current valuation, one-third discount, stating they had deferred this action for some weeks after these bills had ceased to pass at par.
The prices of articles in Kingstree at that time may be realized from the following: Sugar, $5.00 per pound; flour, $1.00; cotton, $1.00; cotton cards, $75.00 per pair; tobacco, $6.00. On July 6, at Mrs. Belser's sale, a large iron pot brought $105.00; an oven, $95.00; and a match of horses, thirteen years old, $3,100.00. At the close of the year, Mrs. McGill purchased some articles and here is her bill: 4 yards homespun, $24.00; 1 spool cotton, $3.00; 1 skein black flax, $3.00; 1 lead pencil, $3.00; 2 slate pencils, $3.00; 1 cake soap, $3.00; 1 dozen horn but- tons, $1.50; 2 bunches yarn, No. 8, $140.00; 3 bunches yarn, No. 9, $210.00. About the same time, Dr. McGill bought 4 drinks of whiskey, wine glass size, $20.00, and 2 bottles apple brandy, $140.00. (These price lists were taken from Dr. McGill's Reminiscences of Williamsburg.)
This year the fields of Williamsburg brought forth abundantly and at the harvest time all its barns were overflowing. Notwithstanding conditions incident to the deflation of currency, the defeats in Virginia and Tennes- see and Georgia, and the sorrow coming from the death of so many valiant young men, Williamsburg's old men,
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its women, and its slaves labored with that Scotch-Irish intensity that always comes out of emergency.
An independent company, which was organized in Wil- liamsburg and Georgetown Districts on November 5, 1862, for state service, and commanded by Captain W. N. Y. Rodgers, was on March 11, 1864 reorganized and mustered into the Confederate service. This company was known as Captain Steele's company and played a considerable part in the history of this low country from its organi- zation until the end of the War. Here is its roll of March 11, 1864 : J. J. Steele, captain; J. M. Kennedy, first lieu- tenant; N. H. Welch, second lieutenant; T. S. Steele, second lieutenant; J. H. Fulmore, first sergeant; E. Kirby, second sergeant; G. W. Mills, third sergeant; E. E. Matthews, fourth sergeant; James Floyd, fifth ser- geant; J. M. Woods, first corporal; R. Epps, second cor- poral ; C. W. McClam, third corporal.
Privates : E. Baxley, 42; J. M. Bass, 38; R. A. Buck- els, 26; J. H. Byrd, 44; J. D. Byrd, 44; J. F. Butler, 33; H. O. Britton, 18; S. Cooper, 38; S. Caselman, 40; W. F. Cox, 20; M. M. Cook, 43; W. A. Deffee, 17; C. W. DuBose, 25; J. J. Floyd, 42; J. W. Grayson, 20; John S. Graham, 18; H. G. Gaskins, 38; J. Gore, 42; J. E. Howard, 19; A. W. Hardee, 28; W. Jefferson, 39; R. J. Jordan, 37; W. H. Kennedy, 38; W. T. Kennedy, 17; D. P. Kirby, 28; J. F. Kirby, 19; H. Lenud, 43; J. Lee, 19; W. J. Lay, 17; W. E. Jones, 23; S. A. Long, 27; J. Long, 26; W. Matthews, 37; J. R. Matthews, E. E. Moore, 38; B. C. Moore, 37; J. P. Moore, 30; J. B. Mont- gomery, 23; J. T. Morse, 19; S. M. McClam, 44; W. McClam, 18; G. D. Mccutchen, 40; W. C. McCutchen, 20; William E. Nesmith, 23; J. Powell, 40; W. R. Pow- ell, 42; W. K. Parker, 40; T. E. Patrick, 17; S. R. Rod- gers, 43; B. F. Singletary, 42; E. J. Singletary, 39; M. M. Sellers, 22; K. Smith, 17; J. E. Thomas, 42; J. C. Thomas, 37; M. D. Turbeville, 42; J. T. Vareen, 24.
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Williamsburg's battle losses in 1864 were fearful. Cap- tain China, commanding Kingstree's Own, the Wee Nee Volunteers, was killed on May 16, at Drury's Bluff. Lieutenant F. J. Lesesne was killed at Swift Creek May 9th. Captain W. B. Gordon, commanding the Ripley Guards, the Pride of the Santee, was killed at the Weldon Railway. Lieutenant W. H. Munnerlin was killed at At- lanta on July 30th. Colonel James F. Pressley, who had been acting as Brigadier General for more than a year was severely wounded at Atlanta. His brother, Lieu- tenant Colonel John G. Pressley, easily favorite hero of all Williamsburg, was so severely wounded at Walthall Junction on May 5th that his right arm hung limp by his side the remainder of his life. Lieutenant Calhoun Logan and Ensign J. M. Pendergrass were wounded at Drury's Bluff ; Lieutenant Charles Lesesne at Swift Creek ; Lieutenants Thomas J. Kirby and E. S. Sauls at Atlanta; Lieutenant Junius E. Scott at Weldon Railway ; Lieuten- ants R. A. Flagler and R. S. Smith at Fort Harrison; Lieutenant T. G. Britton at Haw's Shop; Lieutenant T. M. Britton at Franklin; Lieutenant T. M. Mccutchen at Trevillian ; Lieutenant T. S. Nelson at Haw's Shop. Here is a list of Williamsburg's losses in 1864 :
Wilderness, May 5: killed, William McCullough and A. M. Gaskins; wounded, D. L. Brown, J. M. Graham, W. L. Graham, John Matthews.
Walthall Junction, May 6: killed, John Ard, E. Brow- der, John Davis, W. D. Duke, T. M. Lifrage, J. G. Player; wounded, Lieutenant Colonel John G. Pressley, Captain T. J. China, H. G. Nelson, John Pelt, W. E. Mitchum, Sam Mitchum, C. W. Matthews, E. Ard, W. R. Burdick, W. Dennis, D. Manton McClary.
Swift Creek, May 9: killed, I. Ard, J. L. Barthley, E. B. Bentley, W. R. Burdick, E. Browder, J. E. Cub- stead, J. Davis, D. I. Dennis, W. D. Duke, J. A. Fagin, J. W. Gordon, Robert Lamb, Lieutenant F. J. Lesesne,
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P. H. Lesesne, J. G. Player, M. M. Scott, H. H. Stukes, John Wilder; wounded, Lieutenant C. Lesesne, S. Mitchum, W. E. Mitchum, Isaac K. Gamble, John M. Grayson, John Wilson.
Spottsylvania : killed, John A. Altman, Henry A. Poston, Nathaniel M. Johnson; wounded, J. G. Cox, Frank Cox.
Drury's Bluff, May 14-16: killed, J. T. Barrineau, M. A. Brown, Captain Thomas J. China, B. F. Duke, J. A. Fagin, B. M. Guess, H. W. Matthews, J. E. Kaler, T. A. McConnell, J. F. Montgomery, Samuel Montgomery, William Hallford, D. M. Smith; wounded, J. H. Brad- ham, B. R. Browder, H. J. Brown, Lieutenant C. Logan, B. F. Duke, R. E. Duke, E. S. Ellis, J. A. Fagin, A. M. Gamble, W. E. Graham, William Guess, H. L. Grayson, J. W. Jayroe, D. S. McClary, S. A. McClary, J. N. Mil- ler, Isaac Montgomery, J. F. Montgomery, C. G. Par- sons, J. C. Parsons, Ensign J. M. Pendergrass, H. M. Pressley, D. M. Smith, H. Tyler, H. G. Wilson, John Wilson, R. B. Walters, J. Wisson, J. H. Young.
Haw's Shop, May 28: killed, S. W. Crapps, William Henry Davis, J. J. Marshall, Lieutenant T. S. Nelson; wounded, Lieutenant T. G. Britton, J. E. McCullough, J. P. Mouzon, R. J. Patterson, T. E. Ragin.
Trevillian : killed, T. J. Spooner; wounded, Lieutenant T. M. Mccutchen, J. Harper, R. B. McClary.
Cold Harbor, June 30: killed, S. I. Barrineau, Major J. C. Wilson, John T. Burrows, W. J. Cox; wounded, R. S. Smith and Thomas McConnell.
Clay's Farm : killed, Jacob D. Casselman, John W. Collins, Hugh Gunther, Benjamin Matthews, William G. Williamson; wounded, John J. Godwin and Samuel A. Scott.
Atlanta, July 22: killed, G. S. Cook, G. Cook, A. J. Council, Washington Emanuel, G. W. Huggins, James S. June, J. F. LaRebour, J. M. Matthews, T. A. Matthews,
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S. W. McClam, S. W. McClary, Lieutenant W. H. Munner- lin; wounded, J. T. Kirby, John J. McCallister, Colonel James F. Pressley, Lieutenant Thomas J. Kirby, Lieuten- ant E. S. Sauls, John J. McKnight.
Bermuda Hundreds: killed, F. F. Parsons.
Weldon Railway, August 21: killed, J. M. Brown, Alexander Cook, Captain W. B. Gordon, J. W. Jayroe, E. J. Kelly, R. W. King, William Cantey Lesesne, J. E. McCants, F. McCallister, J. S. Mitchum, J. W. Mont- gomery, Thomas Warren Montgomery, J. A. Odom, Thomas Odom, C. Powell, E. Powell, Barney Wallace; wounded, J. H. Bradham, J. R. Cook, H. D. Shaw, J. D. Young, W. H. Young, H. L. Graham, Edward John- son, R. K. Liles, James B. Montgomery, James M. Young, Joseph C. Duke, I. Player, G. W. Terry.
Fort Harrison, September 21: killed, Samuel Flag- ler; wounded, Lieutenant R. A. Flagler, Lieutenant R. S. Smith, and J. C. Mccutchen.
Franklin, November 30: wounded, Lieutenant T. M. Britton, J. L. Nesmith, Thomas Altman.
Petersburg, 1864 : killed, R. W. Chandler, B. M. Guess, George W. Hicks, Ira Lee, Timothy Lee, John J. McGee, James E. McCallister, J. R. Mckenzie, William J. Mills, John Yarborough; wounded, Samuel Cooper, Robert Ne- smith, W. H. Young, Robert F. Tilton, John W. Cameron, W. J. Hicks, Isaac E. Lee, Leonard Miles, R. W. Chan- dler, R. D. Rollins, Ira Coker.
Nashville, November 15: killed, J. W. Brown, G. W. Burrows, J. W. Carter, J. T. Carter, F. S. McCants; wounded, J. E. Holmes, G. L. Ellis, L. H. Pipkin, S. J. McCants, T. L. Altman, W. A. Marshall, G. W. Scipper, W. J. Vareen, D. E. Coward, A. M. B. Coward.
Somewhere these men were killed in action. Records and tradition say one place and another. Wherever they fell, Williamsburg dust is forever there. Robert Ander- - son, Frank McCants, John Rodgers, J. Cooper, William
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Game, John Garner, W. H. Bunch, W. D. Burrows, John Missola, G. B. Townsend, H. J. Ervin, S. B. Harris, D. S. Owen, J. C. Singletary, James A. Owens, H. D. Cusack, T. J. . Blackwell, T. S. Chandler, W. J. Matthews, S. C. DuBose, J. C. Hyman, T. Hyman, W. T. Rowell, L. V. Scott, John Wilder, Jesse B. Ellis, Stacey June, W. J. Wilson, R. Ard, Henry Buckels, Thomas J. Burrows, T. E. Ragin, T. J. Harrison, Thomas Williamson, James Mulken.
In hospitals, in camps, in kindly homes of Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and North Carolina, these soldiers of Williamsburg died of disease during 1864: B. J. Avant, J. A. Guess, C. R. Martin, Joseph Ard, W. N. Boatwright, James Martin, E. R. Martin, William Montgomery, T. J. Hughes, E. C. Keels, J. H. McClary, W. D. Singletary, J. Mckenzie, S. E. McCants, W. J. B. Wall, L. W. Cockfield, W. S. Allen, S. M. Flagler, William G. Christmas, Henry Gordon, Lieutenant J. R. China, S. S. Mitchum, M. R. D. Baker, W. D. Cook, E. S. Ellis, S. Edgar Montgomery, John Salters, S. W. Cockfield.
Out of all this suffering and death grew hatred for Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. From the beginning, the Southern people seemed to realize that this man stood between them and the destiny they desired. They called the North Lincolndom and its people Lincolnites. The Southern people were about correct in their estimate of Lincoln's powerful personality. He seems to have been the only man of the War who could have controlled.
Hatred for Abraham Lincoln was, and is, powerful in Williamsburg. No man can measure what this hatred has wrought in Williamsburg. It is interesting to know how the newspapers fed this flame of hatred. In the Courier of November 9, 1864, appears the following under the caption : "God Bless Our Noble President."
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"A Republican paper in the North exclaims 'God Bless Our Noble President.' To this a Western paper says : "God bless our noble President.
"And for what?
"Bless him for being the poorest apology for a Chief Magistrate the world ever saw.
"Bless our noble President for being the only clown, buffoon, and story teller ever elevated to a position of influence in this country.
"Bless him for filling the land with smutty jokes, with vile mouthed and obscene stories which even blackguards by profession are ashamed to repeat.
"Bless him for over-riding all law, both human and divine.
"Bless him for his imbecile incompetency and for his success in ruining a great nation.
"Bless him for turning a war for the preservation of the Union and for the suppression of the rebellion into a wicked, murderous, crusade for cotton, negroes, and power. Bless him for making a million of widows and five millions of orphans.
"Bless him for robbing the North of its bone and sinew, and for using the bodies of those who have served for enriching the soil of rebel territory.
"Bless him for piling mountains of taxes upon us- for the stamps we use for the depreciation of our cur- rency-for the the poverty, ruin, and suffering in the land -for the thousands of women who have been forced into houses of prostitution-for the thousands of broken hearts -for the thousands of orphan children who will curse him forever-for the army of cripples-for the corrup- tion in high places-for the trampling upon the liberties of a free people-for the freeing of negroes by a stroke of his pen-for continuing this war until slaves are free, thus proving the foolishness of his proclamation-for the
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failure of our armies-for the deprivation of its rights which has made America the home of the oppressed.
"Yes, bless our noble President."
President Jefferson Davis, of the Confederate States of America, was first severely criticized in the South in November, 1864. His proposition for immediately eman- cipating forty thousand slaves and training them for ser- vice in the army, giving them fifty acres of land each, and to continue emancipating them for service in the army, created great resistance of sentiment in the South. The real basis of the secession of the Southern States was economic. This fact is nowhere more clearly revealed than in the scorn President Davis received when he made this recommendation to the Confederate Congress.
However much contempt was shown for President Davis' proposition, when it was realized that Sherman would probably march through South Carolina on his way North from the Sea, many of the best men in the State warmly advocated training slaves into soldiers to resist him. This was not done.
November 16, 1864, was set apart by executive author- ity as a day of prayer, confession, and thanksgiving. The Courier said, "Various and checkered has been the char- acter of our fears for the past six months, which gives rise to feelings of a diverse nature. The reverses that our armies have sustained have been so grave as to admonish us that our sins have provoked the wrathful displeasure of Almighty God. God has greatly humiliated us at the hands of our adversaries. All our victories and successes have come from God, it is at once our duty and privilege to implore the continuance of His favor."
At the time of all these serious national matters, it seems that soap and vinegar were scarce and that whiskey and potatoes were plentiful in Williamsburg. One man in the district showed how good soap could be made from myrtle wax; and another asserted that good vinegar,
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very much like white wine vinegar, could be produced by mixing three bushels of ripe persimmons, three gallons of whiskey, and twenty-seven gallons of water. Wil- liam Gilmore Simms, the historian, endorsed this vinegar recipe.
Editor Fulton, of the Wilmington Journal, came to Kingstree in November 1864, and P. B. Mouzon, agent of the Northwestern railway, gave him twenty sweet potatoes that could not all be contained in a bushel basket. Editor Fulton went back to Wilmington and wrote about Williamsburg's sweet potatoes. The editor of the Charles- ton Courier read Editor Fulton's article and came to Kingstree immediately. Mr. Mouzon gave him a bushel of "uncommonly fine" potatoes, one of which measured twenty-four inches in length, and of "other respectable di- mensions." The editor of the Courier wrote: "It appears that large potatoes are quite common in old Williamsburg, as we saw a negro with six of unusual size, for which he was asking $1.00 each. When told that his price was above the market, he consoled himself by say- ing that he would take them home and keep them until spring, when potatoes would be scarce, and he could readily get his price. How much like 'ole Mossa.'"
Williamsburg elected in 1864 as its delegation in the Legislature: Senator, James McCutchen; representa- tives, James F. Pressley and W. A. Hemingway. Colonel McCutchen declined the honor, preferring to remain with his regiment. Colonel Pressley was at home recovering from the serious wound receievd at Atlanta.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at its con- ference in December, 1864, appointed Reverend J. W. Mur- ray for the Kingstree Circuit and the Reverend J. C. Stoll for the Black River Circuit for 1865.
CHAPTER XXXI.
WILLIAMSBURG, C. S. A. 1865.
The ragged remnant of the splendid Southern armies that had gone to War in 1861 refused to surrender dur- ing the autum of 1864, although all but the spirit of the men had been crushed. Southern regiments had been so decimated that not even a full company of effective fight- ing men could be had from many of them. All possible old men and boys and others who had been doing state service were sent to Virginia in the vain hope of strength- ening the thin gray line of battle.
Captain John Tucker's Company, afterwards Captain John McDonald's, that had been guarding the coast from the Pee Dee to the Santee until late in 1864, was sent to Virginia to unite with Company A, Seventh Cavalry. Among the men of Williamsburg who then became sol- diers in the Seventh Cavalry were W. H. Britton, J. W. Britton, D. Z. Martin, W. F. Thompson, W. T. Thomp- son, Robert Godwin, S. B. Green, John Green, Richard Green, Thompson Green, Eli Rodgers, Claron Rodgers, Furman Rodgers, Stephen Rodgers, John Ferdon, James Hanna, Robert Abrams, Duncan Fitch, John Hill, and others. J. W. Britton, and Robert Godwin were killed in the battle of Farmville on the retreat from Richmond to Appamattox.
At Fort Fisher, these died of wounds: J. B. Johnson and D. Powell; these at Fortress Monroe, R. M. Footman and Edgar Montgomery.
William G. Gamble and J. T. Moreton were killed at Bentonville, North Carolina, in almost the last efforts Johnson made to resist Sherman. G. P. Anderson was wounded at Kinston, J. J. Miller at Jonesboro, and D. B. Fulton at Raleigh.
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Kingstree's Own, the Wee Nee Volunteers, then Com- pany C, Twenty-Fifth Infantry, was sent from Virginia on December 22, 1864, to reinforce Fort Fisher. This Twenty-Fifth Regiment spent Christmas Day, December 25, 1864, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on the way. The citizens of this city feasted this Regiment on roast turkey, barbecued pig, apple dumplings, and gave them all the real coffee and ripe apple brandy its men could contain. These things were prepared and served as only the old Pennsylvania Dutch in that Greensboro country knew how, and these broken veterans of a hundred bat- tles enjoyed them and found in them faith to sustain their feelings that all good in the South had not been lost. There were at least three of the Wee Nee Company who enjoyed that Greensboro Christmas dinner in 1864 liv- ing in Williamsburg in 1923. They were Captain Cal- houn Logan, Harvey J. Brown, and William M. Mc- Knight. These venerable and distinguished men recall this dinner as one of their most precious war memories.
The Twenty-Fifth Regiment proceeded on its way from Greensboro to Wilmington, where it was captured with the Fort Fisher garrison on January 15, 1865. The offi- cers were separated from the enlisted men and all were sent on barges to Fortress Monroe, from which point they were sent to Elmira prison, where they remained until the end of the War.
In Elmira prison, Williamsburg's soldiers fared re- markably well. When the Wee Nee men arrived, they found there a large number of their comrades from the district who had been taken in battles before that time.
Among these was Lieutenant Junius E. Scott, who had been wounded and captured at the battle of the Weldon Railway.
Lieutenant Scott fell in this battle on the Weldon Railway and his comrades saw him lying unconscious on the field with a bullet hole in his clothing over his heart.
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They abandoned him as dead. But he had a New Testa- ment and a wallet in his breast pocket. The bullet went through the Testament, but stopped in the wallet. The traumatism was, however, sufficient to deaden him tempo- rarily. Lieutenant Scott afterwards said that when he first revived a big Irish Yankee soldier had him by the collar and was saying kindly, "Come on, sonny." Lieu- tenant Scott was then but a boy in years.
These old Williamsburg soldiers say that they had one pound of good white bread, some beans or peas, and bacon or beef, issued to them every day they were at Elmira, and that all prisoners who were reasonably well behaved were allowed considerable liberty on the streets of Elmira. Veteran Harvey J. Brown says one night he and a num- ber of others did not arrive at the stockade until much later than permitted out. When they returned it was dark and a Yankee sentinel simply would not let them pass until they used a few brickbats on him. These of- fenders were courtmartialled and could, under military law, have been shot. Some of the offenders were required to walk with their heads through one hundred pound barrels for a few hours. But when Mr. Brown came on for punishment, all the prepared barrels were in use. The provost marshall looked about him and finally saw a log weighing about one hundred pounds lying near. He ordered Mr. Brown to shoulder that log and march with it. Mr. Brown took up the log and placed it as ordered. He remembered, however, that he had been wounded in that shoulder at Chafin's Farm, so he showed the scar to the Yankee officer, who smiled and said, "Go on back to your stockade."
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