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Henderson Garten, a brother of L. D. Garten, before men- tioned, was sent out with Asbury Tincher, by Capt. Phil. Thur- mond, to bring him recruits and delinquents who had failed to perform army services. They proceeded to arrest Henry Martin, son of Nick Martin, and were proceeding towards camp with him, but never arrived. When on Keeney's Knob, near Stone Lick Knob, Martin was killed, and it was claimed that other outrages were perpetrated on his person. The war closing soon afterwards, Garten and Tincher were arrested and tried at Union for the mur- der of young Martin, who was a boy of age for military services. Garten was tried, convicted and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for sixteen years. He served some nine or ten years, was then pardoned, and lived on the mountain near Hinton until about ten years ago, when he sold out his farm to Jack Notting- ham, and with all of his family removed to Missouri, where he is still residing, so far as we are informed.
While in the penitentiary Mr. Garten learned the trade of gun- smith, and became celebrated throughout this region for the fine rifle guns which he manufactured at his shop. Nick Martin secured a continuance of his case, and was finally acquitted.
After the war the Home Guards were disbanded in 1865. For some time, immediately after the surrender of the Southern ar- mies and the close of the war, Captain Garten and his Home Guards proceeded throughout the county to gather up what was called "Government property." The horses and material which the Southern soldiers had brought home from the army, whether United States property or not, were taken charge of, turned over to the Federal authorities and sold. These soldiers have never received any pay for their services. They have made numerous attempts to secure pensions from the general Government, but, being only what was known as State troops, pensions have, up to this time, been refused. Efforts have been made to secure pay from the State government, and it was understood that in 1901 a bill had been passed by the Legislature providing for pay; but for some reason they have not secured pay.
Squire John Buckland, who lived on Big Creek. about eight miles from Hinton, was the corporal of this company, and kept the records. A few years ago, about 1893, it was claimed that Squire Buckland had drawn the pay for a number of these soldiers and failed to distribute it to the individual members. Upon this discovery being made, some of his old comrades instituted an ac- tion before a justice of the peace, and the trial came on to be
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heard before L. M. Dunn. The trial lasted the entire day, and was held at Hinton. The plaintiff, Wm. H. Cales, was present, and had a large number of the company as witnesses; they claim- ing that Squire Buckland had gone to the Quartermaster Gener- al's, drawn their pay, signed their names and kept the money. Squire Buckland, of course, was present with his retainers, claim- ing that he had fully disbursed all of the money and producing re- ceipts, most of the receipts being signed by mark. he claiming that the soldiers were not educated sufficiently to sign their names. These receipts were repudiated. Judgment was given in favor of the plaintiff, which included many years' interest, the claims being ordinarily barred by the statute of limitations. Squire Buckland took an appeal to the circuit court, where judgment was rendered in his favor, Judge Campbell deciding that the plaintiffs had slept on their rights.
Hon. Wm. R. Thompson represented the plaintiff in this liti- gation, and Jas. H. Miller and Colonel J. W. Davis defended Squire Buckland. The trial continued after dark. The plaintiffs' retain- ers, of which there were a large number, hitched their horses in the alley back of where the Hinton Department Company store is now located, between Second and Third avenues. When they went to get on their horses that night to ride home, they found their saddles were all cut to pieces, as well as the bridles, and some of them carried off and scattered to the four winds of the heavens.
Squire Buckland in this trial produced his records, showing his accounts as disbursing officer, which he claimed was a distribution of the proceeds of each raid made by the company. When they would make a raid and gather in some property, they would then . meet and distribute the same. One man would get a dun horse ; another would get bed clothes; another saddle blankets and sad- dles ; and so on, according to his book of distribution.
W. G. Ryan, the first elected prosecuting attorney of this coun- ty, was the captain of a Confederate company of brave soldiers, who fought throughout the war, being a part of Vir- ginia regiment. A. A. Miller was not in the army, being over the army age provided for military services, but was a captain of the militia before the war, as was also Captain Robert Sanders.
There were but two voters in favor of secession, who voted for that ordinance on Lick Creek, when voted on by the State of Vir- · ginia, in what is now Green Sulphur District. They were John Richmond ("Sprightly John"), who lived on Hump Mountain, and Jefferson Bennett. John Richmond, with pride, said "he was the
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first man in Virginia who favored 'succeedin"' outen the Union." This shows the almost unanimous sentiment and love for the flag in those days of bitterness and strife in the county, although it provided many of the bravest soldiers who ever fought in the his- tory of the world. After secession was determined upon, they were true and loyal to their commonwealth, as was Lee, and as Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, said he would have done in a similar situation, in his speech at the one hundredth anniversary of that great soldier's birth, delivered at Lexington, in 1906. Though opposed to the secession of the South, they were loyal to their State, and their glory is none the less because they were so. And they are just as loyal to that Union to-day as those who took the opposite position and remained loyal throughout. Each had the right to hold and stand for his opinion.
The war times for four years were distressing to the people. The men were in the army, and the women and children had to raise the crops and provide raiment and maintenance, being in per- petual fear of the scouts, bushwhackers and guerrillas, more than the regular armies. They manufactured all their clothing from wool and flax ; carried salt on horseback from Mercer Salt Works; wove wearing apparel from flax; wore "tow" suits and dresses woven and spun on the old-fashioned wheel and loom; manufac- tured all their sugar, and hid their grain, cattle, horses and house- hold goods in the mountains, to prevent their being carried away. The women and children made, with their own hands, their support for four years, and aided for years after in the labor of recupera- tion, living in constant and incessant fear during all this period.
Up to the beginning of the war there was an organized militia in eachi county, and they mustered and practiced soldiery once a . month, meeting at a public place in the neighborhood.
There was a company of scouts or guerrillas connected with the Federal Army during the war, known as Blazer's Company, which made frequent incursions into the lower end of this county during the Civil War. A man by the name of Blazer, from Gallipolis, Ohio, was the captain. This company was the terror of the Lick Creek region of country, and Captain Blazer was a cruel, relentless soldier, not disposed to ameliorate the necessary hardships always incident to war. On one of these raids into the Lick Creek coun- try, his men surrounded the house of William Holcomb, who lived just below Hutchinson's Mill, in the property afterwards acquired by the late Dr. N. W. Noel. Holcomb belonged to the Confederate Army, and had come home the evening before on a furlough, to
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visit his family. He was arrested in bed and taken from his house, in the presence of his family, and was shot in the neck by orders of the commander, and without provocation, except that he was a Confederate soldier. The first shot not killing him, he was taken a few hundred yards down the road to the dwelling house of Zech- ariah Wood, and there shot in the back and killed, no pleadings or supplications of his helpless wife making any impression on the raiders and merciless men. Mr. Holcomb's widow survived him, and resided in that country for many years after the war. She was a Hix, a well-known family of that community-daughter of Wm. Hix.
Blazer's company, on another raid into the Mill Creek neighbor- hood of Green Sulphur District, met a squad of Thurmond's men on the creek, who were temporarily encamped at the residence of the Widow Crotty, at the Long Bridge, about a mile below Hutch- inson's Mill, when a skirmish ensued. Neither party expected the other; neither party whipping the other. Green Rodes, a member of Captain Wm. Thurmond's company, was dangerously wounded ; M. Gwinn had his belt shot in twain at the waist; but no one was killed. Blazer and his men escaped.
It was reported that one "Yankee" was killed at the bridge. and for years it was understood that that place was "haunted," and boys, as well as grown people, were fearful to go along that road after night. J. Houston Miller, a son of Captain A. A. Mil- ler, now residing in Texas, being of a venturesome disposition, accepted a wager that he would not remain at that bridge the whole of one night on account of ghosts, which were reported to frequent this spot. Miller accepted the wager, went to the bridge, and re- mained there from dark to daylight in order to show his pluck, which required a good deal of stamina for a boy of his size and age to remain, as a lone sentinel in a pine forest and on a lonely road, through the entire dark hours of a dark night, when ghosts were holding nightly, as well as knightly, revels. J. Houston Mil- ler is now president of the Watahachie National Bank, of Texas.
Another raid was made by Blazer into the Lick Creek country, going as far up the main creek as Wm. E. Miller's house, from which they carried all the sugar, flour, meal, bacon and substance the family had accumulated for subsistence, and shot at a boy. Jehu McNeer, a son of James McNeer, deceased, who was on a ridge in the woods, but missed him. They carried all the plunder they could find along the creek to Gwinn's storehouse, at Green Sulphur, where they heard Thurmond's Rangers were after them,
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whereupon they unloaded themselves of their plunder and "ske- daddled" out of the country, and the people thus regained their property.
THE DEATH OF ALLEN WOODRUM.
One of the interesting reminiscences and true accounts of valor and heroism is related by the old comrades of Allen Woodrum, who was killed at Cold Harbor, in 1864. He was a member of Edgar's Battalion, and some account of his death is related in other pages. He was a member of Company D and its color- bearer. He was born and raised on Wolf Creek, then Monroe, but now Summers. Colonel George M. Edgar, the gallant commander of the famous Edgar's Battalion, relates that on the morning of the 2d of June, 1864, at the second Battle of Cold Harbor, that part of Lee's line held by this line was desperately charged by the Fed- eral Army. The carnage was dradful. The Battle of the Wilder- ness had just preceded, and those awful days were telling upon the Army of Northern Virginia. The soldiers on both sides were as dauntless and devoted as the armies which followed Napoleon at Austerlitz, Wagram and Lodi. The Confederate lines had been thinned, and it was not possible for Edgar to concentrate upon the charging Federals a fire sufficiently strong to repulse them before they reached the breastworks. The Federals struck the intrench- ments, and the conflict became a hand-to-hand affair. The Feder- als swept over and seemed to engulf the few defenders, and a num- ber of Confederates were taken prisoners, among them Colonel Edgar himself, who had received a bayonet wound in the shoul- der; but before this, as related by him, he saw Allen Woodrum fighting desperately with the Federals on the breastworks above ·him, thrusting at them with the sharp lance point of the staff of his flag. In a few moments, just as the Federal line surged over the Confederates' defense, Woodrum was pierced by several bul- lets, having thrust, however, as he fell, the point of his flag-staff clean through the body of one of his assailants, thus giving him a mortal blow. Woodrum, as he fell, tore from the staff his battle- flag, and attempted to thrust it beneath his clothing, out of sight; then falling, in death he lay upon it, interposing his body between it and his enemies. In a few moments a counter-charge of the Confederates repulsed the Federals, driving them back with heavy slaughter to their own lines, and recapturing most of the Confed- erates who had a few moments before been taken prisoners, among those recaptured being Colonel Edgar himself. Later Allen Wood-
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rum was found lying in the intrenchments dead, but even in death still protecting his flag, which was hidden beneath him. Faithful was he until death-a modest, big-hearted country boy, who lived and died a hero. General Gordon was deeply moved by this inci- dent.
This is the account as given by Colonel Edgar; but the Feder- als claimed to have secured the flag from Woodrum after he fell, and to have preserved it among their trophies.
Allen Woodrum was a brother of the late W. C. Woodrum, of Forest Hill; of Phil. Woodrum, now living at Foss, and of Richard M. Woodrum, the merchant at Wiggins.
W. C. Woodrum was also a brave soldier, serving in Company T, under Captain Morton, Edgar's Battalion. He was also a nephew of Major Richard Woodrum and a cousin of Charles L. Woodrum, the enterprising engineer, farmer and school teacher of Wolf Creek; and John Woodrum, the other son of Major Wood- rum-a soldier of the Spanish-American War-now resides in Avis.
Another incident of the heroism of a son of Summers County in that war is told of Peter M. Skaggs, now a shoemaker of Hinton, and who lived for many years in the upper end of Forest Hill Dis- trict. Skaggs, in an attack upon the Union forces, became so en- thusiastic that he abandoned his command, rushing on in front some ten paces. Reaching the guns of the Federals, he mounted on top of a cannon, placed himself astride of the same, and hallowed to the boys to come on; that he had his gun and intended to hold it.
Another incident of the heroism of another son of Summers was that of Captain Robert Gore, who alone captured one hundred Federal soldiers on the field of Gettysburg, which is recited in an- other section of this book, and the story is authentic history, and was detailed to the writer by Mr. William Brown, a most truthful and reliable citizen, now living in Pipestem District, who was pres- ent in person and saw the daring enterprise successfully carried out with his own eyes, and it is from his own lips that the incident is recited as authentic history.
There is one other truthful incident we mention, that of the capture by M. M. Warren and his brother, W. W. Warren, of Riffe's Crossing and Jumping Branch, of the famous Federal spy, near the Greenbrier County line, during the war. These two soldiers were mere boys, and had stopped late in the evening to stay all night with their aunt. Later this spy called to secure lodg- ing with this widow, who was noted for her generosity and kind-
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ness to all people. He claimed to be on a search for laborers to work in the saltpeter mines, for the purpose of securing material to manufacture powder for the Southern Confederacy. These boys pretended that they would like to join him, but when he retired to bed that night, they stood guard at the foot of the stairs all night. In the morning they pretended to have agreed to go with him, and when they had gone some distance, he not being able to shake them off, suddenly seemed to arrive at the determination to return to the house and secure a large bowie-knife which he claimed to have left under his pillow. They proposed to return with him against his desires, as he directed that they proceed and he would overtake them. This they declined to do, and when they had arrived at the yard fence, he suddenly attacked them, and a desperate fight ensued. The ground being covered several inches with snow, the gun of one of the brothers fell into the snow, and the other brother could not shoot, as the spy kept one of the broth- ers at all times between him and the other. Finally, by sticking the muzzle of the gun into his face, he was subdued, thrown to the ground, and his hands tied behind him. No bowie-knife was to be discovered, and it was only a ruse to escape. They carried him before their commander, on Monroe draft, where he was ques- tioned and finally sent on to Richmond, but before his arrival he jumped from the train and made his escape, and he was never re- captured.
Lack of space prevents the detailing of many other interesting incidents of this character on our soil. The incidents detailed are only a few of the many recited to the writer by brave soldiers of both armies from this region, whose tales of war are more inter- esting than those of which we read concerning the great battles of the greatest warriors of Europe.
SOLDIERS.
The territory of Summers County, though sparsely populated in 1861, furnished a number of the brave soldiers who fought in the Confederate ranks, and a number also who fought for the main- tenance of the Union. These Confederate soldiers from this re- gion were generally violently opposed to the secession of the States; were usually Democrats of the old school, that held to the ideals of a self-balanced and self-governed State, where every man stands erect in the fullness of his rights and in the pride of his manhood, neither cringing nor overbearing, owing no allegiance
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but to duty, claiming none but from the heart, fulfilling every ser- vice, and exercising every right of a citizen ; a government founded not on the traditions of remote ages, nor of usurpations, nor of conquests, but on things older and firmer than all-the equality and brotherhood of man. The lists I am able to give are not per- fect, but are as near so as I am able to make them more than forty years after the termination of that great war. No soldier of the South from the territory of Summers County ever went to jail for theft.
Confederate soldiers in Talcott District :
W. W. Jones, Co. B, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars. John B. Thompson, Co. H, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars. T. C. Maddy, Co. F, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars. C. R. Crawford. Co. F, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars. T. J. Holstine, Co. F, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars.
Wilk Meadows, Co. F, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars. Calvin Meadows, Co. F, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars. Mason Altair, Co. B, 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgars.
A. P. Lowry, Co. B. 26th Virginia, Battalion, near the close of the war.
E. D. Alderson, Co. Lowry's Battery.
W. C. Hedrick, Co. Lowry's Battery.
A. P. Pence, Co. Lowry's Battery.
John C. Mann, Co. Chapman's Battery.
James Kirby, Co. Chapman's Battery.
John Coiner, Co. Chapman's Battery.
A. J. Wallace, connected with no company ; on detailed service.
J. C. Burnes, Co. C, 17th Virginia Cavalry.
H. J. Davis, Co. G, 23d Virginia Battalion.
James Cooper, Co. H, 60th Virginia Regiment.
A. C. Kesler, Thurmond's Company.
J. B. Hedrick, Thurmond's Company. Wallace Keller, Thurmond's Company.
George Keller, Thurmond's Company.
Lewis B. Meadows, Thurmond's Company.
M. M. Warren, Thurmond's Company.
Joseph Huffman, Thurmond's Company, and afterwards cap- tain of his company.
D. D. Rhodes, Thurmond's Company.
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E. P. Huston, Co. A, 62d Virginia Regiment.
Wm G. McCorkle, Co. A, 22d Virginia Regiment. David Washington, Co. D, 51st Virginia Regiment. A. J. Blake, Co. A, - Virginia (McCausland's) Regiment. J. A. Houchins, Co. I, 50th Virginia Regiment. Thomas Shoemaker, Co. G, 17th Virginia Cavalry (Jenkins').
David W. Leftwich, Vawter's Co., Clark's Battalion.
Conrad B. Pack, Co. A, 60th Virginia Regiment; now dead ; died in Kansas.
Samuel D. Pack, Co. H, 27th Virginia Cavalry ; died in Kansas. John A. Pack, Co. H, 27th Virginia Cavalry ; lives in Oklahoma. Allen C. Pack, Co. A, 60th Virginia : lives now in Kansas.
These Packs were sons of Anderson Pack, and born and raised on New River. Their grandfather was Captain Mat. Farley, a scout in General George Washington's Army.
Confederate soldier's of Jumping Branch District :
J. E. C. L. Hatcher, 23d Va. Cav., Breckingbridge's Div. Jack Vest, 23d Va. Cav., Breckingbridge's Div. Josiah Lilly, 23d Va. Cav., Breckingbridge's Div. John W. Moye, 23d Va. Cav., Breckingbridge's Div. Mathew Adkins, 23d Va. Cav., Breckingbridge's Div. R. W. Lilly, Sr., 23d Va. Cav., Breckingbridge's Div. Joshua Harvey, Capt. George, Gen. McCausland's Div. Wm. Basham, Capt. George, Gen. McCausland's Div. Isaac Mann, Capt. George, Gen. McCausland's Div. Austin Harvey, Capt. George, Gen. McCausland's Div. J. Calvin Harvey, Capt. George, Gen. McCausland's Div. Ab. Birchfield, Thurmond's Rangers. John Hinton, Sr., Thurmond's Rangers.
John Wayne Hinton, Thurmond's Rangers.
Wm. Hinton, Jr., Thurmond's Rangers.
Capt. White G. Ryan, James W. Pack, Wm. Hinton, Wm. Lilly ("One-arm Bill"), Joseph Lilly, Mathew A. Hedrick, M. A. W. Young, Allen H. Meador, Geo. W. Plumley, Simeon Lilly, Louis Lilly, Andy Lewis Lilly, Granville C. Lowe, Thomas E. Ball, Levi M. Neely, Sr., Wm. T. Meador, J. J. Charlton.
White G. Ryan, Captain of Co. I, 60th Virginia. Thos. E. Ball, wounded.
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Confederate soldiers of Pipestem District :
E. V. Neely, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. R. Hopkin's, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. Joel Farley, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. J. R. Farley, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. Crawford Wood, Co. I, Smith's Br. 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. Squire Meador, Co. I, Smith's Br. 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. Ballard Houchins, Co. I. Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div.
J. J. Vest, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. A. P. Farley, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. J. W. Ryan, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. John Petry, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. John Anderson, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. A. T. Clark, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. James Clark, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. W. R. Neely, Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. A. G. P. Farley, Co. B, Echols' Br., 23d Va. Batl. Inft. H. C. Farley, Co. B, Echols' Br., 23d Va. Inft.
M. Cook, Co. B, Echols' Br., 23d Va. Inft.
J. A. Martin, Co. B, Echols' Br., 23d Va. Inft.
R. A. Wood, Co. B, Echols' Br., 23d Va. Inft. J. A. Williams, Co. H, Smith's Br., 36th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. Ben Becket, Co. H, Marshall's Br., 4th Va. Inft. Jackson Farley, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br.
A. J. Williams, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br.
S. D. Hopkins, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br. W. C. Keaton, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br. J. D. Anderson, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br. Wm. Brown, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br.
J. F. Wood, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br.
Jas. Butler, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br.
J. R. Newkirk, 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br.
S. A. Meador and A. G. Lilly belonged to Jonathan Lilly's Co., and John Dore was wagoner.
Robert Gore, Capt. Co. D, 17th Va. Cav.
Gordon L. Wilburn was a member of McComas' Battery, from Giles County. He was for many years a citizen of Pipestem, and now resides at Beckley, in Raleigh County.
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Confederate soldiers of Greenbrier District :
M. N. Breen, gunner; J. M. Ayres, Wm. M. Cottle, Carl A. Fredeking, Joseph Hinton, W. D. Thurmond's Co., Echols' Brig- ade; Wm. Hinton, W. D. Thurmond's Co., Echols' Brigade; Thos. WV. Townsley, C. P. Browning, Samuel Pack (son of Wm.), Evi Ballengee, Dr. Wm. L. Barksdale, B. B. Burks, Lafayette Ballen- gee, Wm. Hinton, Sr., Erastus H. Peck, Henderson Garten, Andy Bennett, Parker J. Bennett, John F. George, John M. Carden, James W. Miller, R. T. Dolin.
"Jack" Hinton, the founder of the family in this county, was before the war a captain of the Monroe Guards, and Eber Willey was first lieutenant.
Thomas Mustain, Co. I, 60th Virginia.
Win. Mustain, Co. I, 60th Virginia.
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