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4 THE LANDMARK STATESVILLE The Brave Old Days Of 1861 1865 4 iilli "llXIVPtUl HV I WP)WJ right and Ktewnrt with cavalry I dated 27th day nf May J7'J7 is word on Ilin extreme right next the river led very much like the copy given in Our commnnd was on Longstreet's full extreme left next to the river a (By )V A Day opd TWO CONTINENTS until1 Snow and Biting I They said that cs high" lie finger ring General hig vessel sank with all hands nv Ok mU spread damage was caused along the personal bond (seashore Jin as their conns mwi nvj ua uvujj auvyvunacu Messageto Solons GrantWeds Virginia CHefrill sente legister On the in' Iredell president deshtd bolih branches to I but form on the 'street tX a day their bravery under fny hand at' office in A CAMEL'S COSTLIER TOBACCOS came emp ffcg Appomattox morning President Sends with long backs on printed in large black message will congress after 3 House informed both house leaders that the or A I asked liiin Jle said no I asked Matthews (31) Beard 2 Renfrow 6 Smith 17 Mullis 4 Beard Troutman Beard Shep Barkley (Er jut before the battle was in readiness Every general an and Presbyterian NTENSE COLD AND STORIWS RULE (ffl firv in fnm i 1 inn hiif Hn indirntfi P1 un Tn seen on uniforms showed that many promptly ordered arrest of the dis here today six lower Jlamil They crossed over under cover of While the house continued yester sneeches on bills of local in terest the most outstanding legisla tive move of the day was reserved for late afternoon with presentation of the long awaited presidential message for stock market regulation President be satisfied man Ah Member noy the sutlers and when they friiiyinmg in me eating Line could draw on the sutler for it STREET RIOTING AGAIN EARED vuu mess me nome women of the federate soldier wishes is to tne bronze cross of honor conferred on him by the women of the south land the Daughters the Con federacy for gallant deeds in battle hurricane roared across the night and several persons YOU CAN SMOKE THEM STEAOltYc BECAUSE THEY NtVER GET ON YOUR NERVES NEVER TIRE YOUR TASU a 1 A Dozen onn er Premiers Picked or Crisis and sworn to before of June 1865 A A BRADY and Provost Marshal has complexion short distance above the city where the river made a bend I had been detailed to go with a corporal and two other men to guard supplies at crossing with orders to stay until or ordered away Our quarters were in a large tent with the supplies I was olf duly1 and lying awake in the tent when the signal guns fired It was about 2 AGE THREE Accommodating reind Con Vou! von ing lying down there in the gutter? Drunk agan I Horizontal Why how you talk! Shertainly not drunk day wht only three of the four de fendants on contempt charges show I trial and thereupon it for Monday again threatened Paris Officials refused to mili tary information but the i The marriage license signed also made in rear and the streams bridg over Everything was ready rddicrs had been brought in from thn nrnvinrns The principal fear was that a vast I t'1 letter read to the price I'lruit and hour from the sutlers and wood from the details They were as leather and sold for five cents each Some traded in tobacco iff brought in by the details bought from the farmers up the river Crabs caught in the bay and a nicely cooked rat sold for five cents' In th's way a considerable amount small change floated about in the camp The whole prison pen wag a regu jar gambling establishment The kanno Money clothing Throwing knives a gieat every evening i hmr utmiLI Ihwwtr 4 1iaiu ii' HULUH IUIV L14VI4 with pne evening I whittled Confederacy and over on the other JlollywgojJ cemetery with its acres of graves where so many of our brave comrades lie Rest in peace brave comrades your names and deeds are not forgotten At Burnsville Junction we drew a full ration of loaf bread boiled pork and sugar thanks to the kind ladies at Richmond we were not hungry but the rations were accepted all the same and when we arrived at Dan ville at dark we were ready to lie dovyn and sleep till morning Wm were from 8 in the morning tilj dark in the evening making the trip from Richmond to Danville At 10 next day we took the train for Greensboro arriving there at 2 in the evening ami lay under the trees near the deot till It) next day' The Yankees were encamped near the city mid asked us to go out to their camp and stay all night with them The men had dropped off at the different stations along the road till there were few were whole we hated to re anxious to 186b the rejoicing was sorrow 14000 Police Are Braced for ight Paris eb 9' Prerherie'r elect Gaston Domergue struggled grimly to bring about a political truce in rance today while troops were concentrated in Paris for a threaten ed shock tonight His new cabinet was expected to be formed by the time the commu nists defying police plan to occupy the Place de La Reoublioue in the? a heart of the workers district i Wt vi vr nfltw WJiipajjj anvi VUltiptUiy UJL piu vincial forces 'were bivouacked in iand around public buildings and 14 000' police were braced for a fight 10 UH Kiixiaiib nigger oi a ign uiai i win near true laivii southern scalawag ten times worse i'legiance and loyalty to the i HV cvuiu aim VUIU Ul UlIlcUlVU JVUMllULL VI Htwo A A man who had held an office of any any state convention or legislature held up a I Hr! fnrn Ihn tr 11 4 I 1 I (1 i 1 of us left The anu souled good fellows i refuse them but we get home and a train 1 The Yankee already there nigs' I a kt read He said no re couiu si him what kmd of book ho nni ir imsHionarv tract and snil in dat Mu is i all agcs and we lelt Greensboro at 10 4V441 Wijvt U11BVU au OUUJS bury at 3 clock in the evening and lay in a box car on a fide track all night A terrible thunder storm camo up but we were in a good dry place We were told we could draw rations in Shlisbury but we did not need thc im 1 A Mr Hamilton if Mecklenburg of artillery was a a a A Kenumscences Of An Old Soldier Of rpi j) i I A fool Irishman that ranked as when brigade (I love to Ine Brave Old Oavs Of Ixfil lxfih sstu0 iwurv iwuv uuu nuuvnvu ua um vu ns way IQ join uenenu Lee 4 army the little town and set us to work jn the Seven battles The moving a house We lifted and ity was then in all its beauty Now pulled at the house till wc got it in June 1865 we wore in there moved while the low bred skunk again on the way home am it was walked around and cursed us We in ruins but it was still Richmnnl op the James and we love it yet Next morning nt 8 wc walked across the burned railroad bridge p'n planks to Manchester now called lmjtli Richmond and board ed the train for Danville John Dan ner anu Kepu logeiner ran a long way up the river I'luter tne surrender said: General Lee might surrender if he wished but for Gi lll part they would never surren I' and as soon as they were released M'rnni prison would go back a nd con Lpiue the war until independence was gained They talked loud but were careful to mot let th? Yankees hear them It was disgusting An old confederate in the prison said it re Ki I I ii i 0 i 'i a cowaraiy rooster put him in a coop and he would crow Death of President Lincoln TUESDAY EBRUARY 13 1934 I Longstreet commanded on the leftby Clerk A Sharpe for Benjamin A ll Hill in the center' "Jackson on thooung and Mary Higgins widvw) I I WlliriMQlVfc A 1 1 Defeat Matthews Washington eb f) Thn defied today by William Mac Hoover assistant secretary of commerce for ordered his ar rest He failed to appear for the sched uled opening of his trial on con tempt charges challenging the sen authority Three co defendants all attached to air companies that benefited from air mail contracts in the last ad ministration were on hand howi Once the MacCracken position had been' read to the senate Black Democrat Alabama chair man of the committee investigating air mail contracts introduced a res olution for immediate anest and it was adopted without a ecord MacCracken had been free on his He as their counsel and the oth er three were cited on charges of contempt of the senate in removal of evidence from MacCracken's files after they had been subnoenaed 7 Negro Guards After we had been thertf about month the white guards were ml ir rd by a regiment of negroes as black and ugly as was ever seen together They were very insulting to anyone who was fool enough to pay any at to them' One evening an old confed walked up to the nigger guardpt the cate and said: What do uimk they wdl do with for suc i reding Think they will confiscate i property? The old mg answered: dunno white man but I specs we will I svmperfise wid but jj knows belled ns hah ter whutsbber we gibs I Pficc nn A VI') VY UVU ter wid you' de bottom rail am or top of about one hundred each Each company in charge of one of our own sergeants whoso dutv it xv 1 uw Ulav 14UV 'hno us up every morning and night could not help feclin mu luii anu iv port ne sick i Thoie were 21000 prisoners in the pen and the! death rate averaged suddenly turned to sorrow which was on the battlefield twenty five a day If General shared by the people in the south I Thomas Gilleland died at Point co nave had that body of men soldiers as well The most of the I Lookout He was last man in back in Ins army and plenty to feed Southern soldiers were bravo menCompany I that died in the service v01? have taken the fiery and headlong in battle but and Reuben Gilleland wasithc first A ankces another twelve months to their hearts w'ere as tender as wo About the first of June they be siiiuniY inc sick iioiii vnu nos pital camp all that were able to go home Then a call was made for the? men whose surnames commenc ed with the letters A and Several days were spent in sending them off They w'ere to land at Mobile Ala Several men tried to flank out on names but Paris eb '9 Gaston 71 year old premier designate turned bis back on youthful enthusiasts this afternoon to name a cabinet of ex perienced veterans banded together bv the crisis threatening rance Lir Villi lint I I ijt II 1 1 VJ I 1 wwe named in the ministry which Doumergue plans to present later in' irth sea shipping was the dav to President Ix Brun for the to harbor by the storm Wiiie chief approval rii 1 1 1 1 1 1 two 01 inc sironRCSL jioiuicai vei erani in rance today former Pre raiers Andre lardieu and I Herriott agreed to serve as isters of state without portfolios The cabinet is slightly Leftist or advanced liberal in complex 'on with only the communists and the social igl 1111'1 iiinu Ki in i n7 I 1 Irt 1 1 1 1 1 tr I iti 1U11J UUVIl'lll UVUUVU l'jr MVjlUI JI 'vUll Blum left out of the selection Washington eb 9 The sen Evcn as Doumergue selected his Inf'1 intent on its investigation of air cabinet however street dvorders asjma'l contracts ran smack into a prelude to the general strike called fresh challenge of its authority to invil LUl i V0G1 whatever and' At tho surrender the 49th bclong to keep the to brigade Bushrod 1 I 11 I I a viHwwH uvision Andersons At ine name ot i ivn i nrkc where the brigade was destroyed we served in Pickett's division being 'sent out to re enforce the extreme Tight of our lines Company I had according to the report 12 men in tne surrender at Appomattox most of them being members of the band and detailed men The whole num ber surrendered in the 49th was 95 men The whole number surrender ed in brigade was 41 offi cers and 394 men the smallest num ber of any infantry brigade in the army This was easily accounted for We had been exposed to all kinds of weather and to every death dealing missile known in modern warfare during the long siege of Petersburg and it had told fearfully on our ranks Almost any hour of the day the ambulance corps could be seen carrying the wounded to the Peters burg hospitals and the dead to Bland ford Cemetery CHAPTER 2 nml Ships hugged harbors in the north pljm and Baltic seas winners The New England and North At Lineup: lantic seaboard bore the brunt of the i (50 sub zero weather in this country and rgGirds in several cities were shat 1 1 tered Wagner 15 Brown 12 Combs Substitutions Young Matthews Referee The Battle of redericksburg About 2 on the morning of December 10 1862 General Burnside began throwing his pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock river in front of the city and moving his troops across Up to that time there had been no picket fighting across the river It wag a bright starlight night and the ground crusted over with snow about thretf inches deep General Mississippi Brigade held the city while our main army was encamped a mile or two in! rear Our ne extended from the bend in the river above the city to crossing three miles be low where the cavalry guarded the right flank to the river Our brigade was encamped in the heavy woods two miles in rear where we had been since the first of December under orders tn ho rnmlv South! The highest honor a con i to move the moment we heard the Wnar 51271211 PUBS which was tn hn twn L() SQiemil ZD anti rp nbmtP tho 4 V4 4 zx A iiT I ft 1 1 4 1 IT games were seven up faroLce and wheel of fortune tcbacco knives and even were gambled for a about dark knives into each hat: out looKintr out a wooden knife of a sernn of plank threw it lhat rJ hi nna nr was on me giith datf anegiance: nrettv i mvI nifo nw no ua rtuu 01 ulu salnt terms on i uo solemnly sweat the next fellow tlf on flnz nni April and on the same terms on once of Almighty' God mt Appomattox Thule iiere aJl kinds of the prison camp almost every coun i try wag represented Some were very mischievous continually telling I stories' to the othor prisoners One day the word came arouciJ that the 4 A ankees were going to take five men ut of the camp and shoot them They were giong to put a bean in a box for every man in the camp and we were to reach in and draw them out through a small hole in the box ive beans were to be black and all i the rest white and every man that4 drew out a black bean would be shot Some of the men who were always ready to believe everything they heard were scared almost out of their wits 4 asvoi Lmcoln as much as the tJ Ull'V OVZlltV U4 111V piiD mere were irom inc slums ncMnAi Iawa i i cities tol svoull cents Some of the northern carpet baggers nmo ers tnUtia and southern scalawags ruLMthe ni irp1 Othrr yanfccs at Ltood country when the best white men in south had to go ami be examin cd by an ignorant nip rpr nr remain in session until the message reached Capi Iff Hill and will be done Meanwhile validity of the gold 11 i Iniir Ln 11 nuuiuiiiL OUO UUUiUllKCU III case that reached the Supreme court from New York today Cold Grins State ri MacCracken a i 1 to I he winters hrst fairly genera! snow swept over North Carolina to Appear for Opening day on the wings of high winds tho precipitation was light I 01 xTiai Generally skies are overcast gray hen the snow flies but at Win A A TIV A Drrn sVin Sniem a heavy blanket of white vH AXvtxjED fell in the sunshine I I CONTIVfPT A Lil ine cub innod did nl 1 A 'rl VULXI 1 TjlVlt 1 forecast were for a hard freeze in an parts the state tonight Among points reporting snow were High Point Raleigh Wilmington Salis bury Hatteras Goldsboro and Eden ton Mr Ralph McCrary Undergoes Ton sil Operation Mr Ralph McGraty who lives Yiear Statesville underwent a tonsil onera at the Khvne llf 1 tie clinic He is doing well who had been bn the hal tlefiell fn Oath and Parole search of his son who had been Lili The following was the oath and cd in some of the elneimr manges had to bo made' and the fl 'parole in addition to the' oath of came on with us to and nal surrender was on the 26th dajj allegiance: jgavo us our suppers out a box oil inn fiftinn toimia nn I dn snlnnxnlxr cwnnn in tho nrnc fiT mhnne ho hnI it it Mil 44 LUV J7LV I X4OV4 MU HUH 11C that 1 will1 could not lind hia ornun nvirl I henceforth faithfully support pro had to come back and leave him to tect and defend the constitution of rest with his comrades on the field Smith Surrenders im TTm i wr al mi 14 i uniivu vuves umruie uniun ivi i uiiHbe iw niorJiini? Di Jiinn Mirren to he states thereunder and that I lOjiSCBwe bAardhd the 4 western itI 'Genil a I will in the manner abide by and train and arrived at Catawba our wV 1 he trans faitbfuiiy support all acts of con 'starting point for the war nt 10 inrJTt1 PPt 110 gross passed during the existing re clock But so different! The little div Te as on the 26th bellion with reference to slaves so town was then full of people Now hid nlmv iT as not repealed modified or held jthere appeared to bo no one about liorJ vn OfJlCr soi void by congress or by the Supreme there Mr Henderson Sherrill at cnnml hey1es" C0Ult and that I will in like man the depot and two women in a house nn4 401 a'd i abidV by faithfully support on the hu were all the people vve ns 4 in T'all Proclamations of the president saw John 9 Danner and army ioPw made during thie existing rebellion 'comrades prisoners together came CS nrmy anid bavin irence to slaves so far as together clasped hamli and i hf wheie they muderol modified or declared void by de parted I started home ten miles on a reco rd fig hting Indians The rest clskn of the Slupreme court So help 'foot soon met a friend went to he homes the most of mc Godi and give my solemn p(nie a rj(Je lo be 1 unhe bJndtfShMtei J0 roe of honor to be enforced accord 1 stopped at lod Uncle Pasler vL inf dropped tour jng to military law that I will hold'ate a good dinner and arrived at n4 nn ft no correspondence with or afford any I home a little before night At home ends today on the foundation ir id aii or tn nnv nnmv Linin' nc posers of the United States save as I an act of humanity to administer to 1ie 'onS war was over the blood the necessities of individuals who on record General Lee in his in sickness and distress and I do address to his soldiers said: solemnly declare that this oath and had fought the war together and parole is taken and freely given done all brave men could do i willingly without anv mental reser 1 our cause was lost vation or evasion Willi ill ITiinnhinn 1 game Johnstons Alter swallowing this iron clad oath we were given a certificate rebase in the following form: Certificate of Release of Prisoner War Headquarters Point Lookout Md June 1865 I hereby certify that A pris oner of war having this day taken the oath of allegiance to the United Hates in conformity with instruc tions the war department is hereby released and discharged In witness whereof I hereunto af fix my official signature and stamp A BRADY Major and Provost Marshal The Richmond Ladies When the news spread in the ruin ed city that a batch of paroled pris oners had arrived on their way home the ladies 'brought in baskets of rations opened thenr up and told us to help ourselves The baskets were large and packed full Imag ine how a set of men who had been cooped up and starved in a northern prison threa months could cat! Those Richmond ladies were young then all but those who have passed into the bright beyond are old now' jut never will I forget their beauti ful faces and kind words and so th all the women of our beautiful southland their patriotism kept alive cue fire in the hearts of the south ern soldiers as long as they had an army or a general to command them and when worn out with marches battles and starvation and at last whon oomnollorl In cn 1 i to overwhelming forces they return I Ari A 4 1 1 1 had I nonius wien proua nearts I and tattered uniforms they were met oy their wives mothers sisters and sweethearts wTfh tears for their Issued In Iredell Near 150) Years Ago 1 rri 1 I 1 1 mey were caned minute mins wrnmr or dead mens All the flags were lowered to half they were all detected and made to mast tne soldiers wore mourning walk about the camp were lionrils tioil across their It was several which was quieted letters the crime for which they uown were punished The next call was fob teen be assassination of Mr Lincoln the Cs and Ds to land at Richmond Hurricane Sweeps Germany Berlin eb 9 A near swept tiermany and Scandinavia during early today killing and in hiring scores It was one of northwest worst storms in years Three were known to lie dead in addition to an uncelcrmined number of sailors who drowned when a fish on i no corresponuence with or anortl anv 1 1 i i tt i i i xii vt hi 1 1 ui lu ei i iivin or op ib! I by General Robert old soL I i i jc i i i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 hit I i i t4 i vu xrn i i a diers Presflent Proclamation On the death of Mr Lincoln Vice President Andrew Johnson a native of North Carolina but a resident of Tennessee and elected from that state a man the southern people re garded with supreme contempt as a renegade from the south who should have taken part with his mother and adopted mother states in their he roic struggle for independence be came president of the United States and it is well known 'traitor as he was all that he could against the fire eating bonibproofers of the north for his native southland An drew Johnson was then president of the United States of America and issued his proclamation St the city) nf Wnshinfrtnn nn Iho 90th Jnxr iintli nf 1 1 a A WVHV ivjay louo (leuiarnier me war au an 1 A 11 1 I fin 1 11 i ii1IzU 1 1 wb posieu end and invoicing the aid of all good the board announcing the purren citizens in pre serving th peace of icr ot General Lee That was a gala these once more United States and that there was no longer any rebel lion as they called it in the land Wo were then once more in the un ion it was thought as we used to be wtih the exception of slavery but it was not so to be The bitter days of reconstruction were come when the most ignorant negro in the south could vote and the most in telligent white man could not Comrades old Southern soldiers call yourselves rebels You were not rebels Please call Un to the vear union that its Troutman eb The Troutman All Star quintet their win ning stride here Thursday night when they took the fast Matthews five into camp by a score of 50 to 31 Despite the apparent one of the final tally the gam' wai a I thriller for tbu fans who bAVed the blustery weather i Opening the first quarter Mat thews led by their pivot star Smith flashed into beautiful form and led i I 4 4 rt 4 11 A I al a in I lairness Many All Time Low! this fellow Smith is one of the clas rii 4 (Sicst players seen on the: local floor 1 empcratures Being in manv moons Let him get past iylfz tbe half way mark1 and the scorer lyiclllV was almost suie of marking up a goal In the final three periods EUROPE SUERS however Troutman kept him fairly ri A vdl while Loftin Wagner ROM STORMS and Brown racked them up for the 5 j10me team Score at half time was Intense cold and storms ruled over atthews 19 The last two continents today halt found Troutman gradually The Uniled Slates nther bureau margin on beauti celebrated ilsGIth nnniversary by court sbots by Brown and rein ding many all time low' teni 1 pcralures I 'll'ith with 17 points and Renfrow Europe Germany and 5 1'HninnriM for Mat were struck by a gale which caused Lottm of '1 routman with 22 wide spread damage and was directly counters was high scorer of the eve resptnwible for several deaths 1 while Wagm with 15 and showed well for 3 ho train clock in the morning and in a short A Vv Il 4 I a 4 4 ahzaaz a I a a al IlltJ' UUt vlL 1 1 (J 1 1 1 111 ilIlU back in the rear we could see thb forming line of battle along till city the onep pioud capital of the he ghts in rear of the citv The mo 4 AlltvtnVOAV onl nvln 4 ZM imeni the federals began to placet their pontoons General Barksdale's men opened on t'u from behind and in the houses along the river bank killing great numbers of them while at work with the boats They held until the Yankees crossing in boats and on their pontoon bridges swarmed into the city and raking tho streets with grape and canister drove them back to the stone fence at the foot of Heights The feder als had tafford Hills on the other side of the river crowned with ar tillery in all 275 guns which gave them an enfilading as well as direct fire on our ire I hey threw pontoon bridges across the one being ns far down as ton crossing all these bridges their guns Soon the roar heard intermingled with the rifles of men holding iii the city It was truly a barbarous affair The city was full of people Soon after daylight they came swarming down the railroad to our guard camp Old men anil women young' men and women little children some of them barefooted and half clothed coining through the snow the women and children crying and wringing lheir hands We piled on vood and made good fires to warm them Some of'them did not want to stop They wanted to go as far away as pos sible boy about 15 yeai'g of age who after getting safely cut of the city ran back to his home after his watch which he had forgot ten came in wounded but had the watch 1 (To Be Continued) cannon shots quick succession oi marriage between the said Hugh General Lee inspected all the trooph Robinson and Hannah Barr and jnin everything mem Logeiner in noiy matrimony Ci i ven unaer mv ntnu at onice in knew exactly what position he was Statesville the 27th day of ebruary jqjiqid lUi tiigJjpcvJtpAXs zbgdvbeenUjjr cd miners from the Lens region respectfully to ap tnurhi tn mnrrh An Ptiriu 1 The Place de La Rcpubliquc was violate his constitutional rights sanded to give tooting horses in case a cavalry charge were needed Suspicious pedestrians were search 1 ed by police for concealed weapons Mr Lnstcr intrictnr nf deeds of Iredell county has received be sent to from Mr 7m Kizziah register of I be White deeds of Rowon county copies of senate and marriage licenses county nearly 150 years ago The original copies are now in pos session of Mr McCorkle Rowan county who is a descendent of Rev bamuel Eusebius McCorkle eminent scholar minister of the iatter part of the 18th century for some time pastor of Thyat ra church Dr McCorkle was born in Lancaster county Pa in 1746 and came to Rowan with his parents in 1756 He graduated from Princeton in 1772 and was licensed by the Presbytery of New York in 1174 and so on to different places all were gone It was said the last one that out closed the big gate on tho ty prison The Oath of Allegikmce We were all required to take the oath of allegiance to the United Spates which was in the following form taken in a room under a large United States flag suspended by its four corners to the ceiling above: I A of the County of 1 and State of do solemnly swear that I will support protect and de fend the constitution and govern ment of the United States against ah enemies whether domestic or for eign: that 1 will bear true faith al samp before he could register and vote 'anv ordinance resolution or laws of Hina oeiore tne war was not allowed to the contrary notwithstanding and to vote white southern lady school further that I will faithfully perform sizes were going to school nu O'rl TA 1 cP i vt! a a Oil 1 ha dlir inc ink i hi i nl 1 Vl ni AATM AA1A 4 1 jz CM III 11 44 14 411 It UULV1 VI Illi I I llll 4 ltT 1 lllll I I til committee for of me by the United States and I in the morning and arrived at Salls T' 4 1 il! 1 1 1 1 1U VUU 8 1HC1 VtV such days again! from niy narrative General Johnston Surrenders On the 19th of April the cannon boomed attain for the surrnndor nf I General Joseph Johnston but the Major United States authorities were not' The above pivuM wun terms instead of Sherman terms to Johnston it was Johnston dictat ing terms to Sherman Several may we never see take this oath freely and voluntari But I am getting ly without any mental reservation or evasion whatever Uuoscribed me this day (Signed) Wo Were divided inla IL ii ir i uviu uuiviisviess wami'u aiuiuiu uuu vurseu us ho prisoners at the mercy of the bayo 1 rplletj tho house about fifty yards net in the hands of a victorious army and set it pn its foundation were who at that time was almost wild I then marched back to the pen with er uncasv lor out extra rations or wood wnn several days afterward curses foi' thanks How 1 would The rejoicing in the north was have gloried in meeting that brute Twa marriage licenses signed by holding this parking place for tion Saturday A Sharne ccrk of Sunerior court of frinnzl Lnecril 1 11 1 4 1 1 1 1 axivnu uiaiiau UU dlllJC irecieu county were lound among tne effects of the late Dr McCorkle who I died in 1811 One was for the mar riage of Hugh Robinson and Hannah Barr the document bearing date of ebruary 27 1790 the other for the marriage of Bfnjam'in Young and Mary Higgins (widow) is dated May 24 i797 I The first reads as follows: of 2401th Carolina Iredell 1 county any regular licensed minister of the Gospel such as have the curj of souls or to any justice of the Peaci for said county Greetings: Hugh Robinson has this dav entered into bond in' the office that there is ot any lawful cause obstruct the marriage in tended to be solemnized between him and Hannah Barr These are there fore to empower you or any of you London eb 9 Virginia Chcr rill American movie player and Gary Grant also of the films were William MacCracken Thpy will sail from Plymouth I cziigtano lor tne united btates to astonished night aboard the liner Paris mass cf unemployed and discontent anfl sijent senators MacCracken had are both very said xxrtnu is 1 native or nr sw pear on the ground that it would England after the ceremony I Now we are going straight to I he added have got to get back to ff unnse a Yankee soldier ran into almbst see the extra rations powi 1 us Imans and numbers of thorn Would 'on 1 1 1 1 'Juive worn the mourning badge had I weir guarded they bccn permitted 1 nfa" ly am The infantry regiments marched in 11171 art licrYww'catl0 out and fired by platoons all day he point and a line of breast TJ1C artillery fiml three days I On the Hith a cannon xvas fired iii di Sent every minute from sunrise to sun indei guard lo work gardens up the st Th nnllo I IT 111 Tn vmon i'nnn hlnc fii 4 lll vfav VM JVM 4 VV lllw ck in inp nosn rai ramn bi 1 1 11 1 ZS 1 1 aid These details were furnished and a 1 Ahe hous in ava 11 ntinl uraped in inourninr P1XK up ICKS ana mush to selldays bcforc in the camp to those who were for 0 1 4 1 4 1 1 tMV luiiulc 10 nave a Jiit ei nacK money dome oi tne prisoners ermtnd ilmnd A Who had friends in the North or pOw a tho aT( whose homes were inside the Yankee jv(i a lues generally fared well Money Vb0 uah ben! 11 and abetted by the southern 4k leaders but all fair minded and un nreiudiced northern nwn ikie I 1 4HX 44 4X41V V111LJ vn Mv HUUU! wi groundless and untrue for tbe' I or 'WMW 4 vi mi ijiiicoin 1 I4W 411VVO 11 LlbHieilL Ijln coin could have lived we might have VOK ji 01 uenerai Lee A day among the Yankees stationed on the Point their huzzas rent the air from morning till night and two hun dred and twenty rounds were fired irom the guns on the Point They were glad Their arms were rious It was finite amusing to hear some of the men talk after General' 'l ee surrendered Most of them were who had never been particularly 'x noticed for their bravery in battle It V' 1S well known when General Lee 'S'urrcnderid that it would rn1 llw wa wriu uuL icuvis and Ml! his cnlzlizvrt 1 1 1 vzv4 roiuivu mi iiiiii siiKHi vAnrcn vziiwici Hr! to 1 a 4 4 KZM1M KJ 17 I 1 uv iifiii ami inncTht trt fhn iu 1 ri any state in me nnovMiig ineynaa tulhlled their thought it was not ettinrr Tlwr 1 YCre righs had a right to secede Since on by the enemy that time laws have been passed! pnd knew they could do no more Oui1 binding the Union and if vou secede okl commander surrenclered to save now you wM be rebels in every of hs army Those men seps? of the word But you will not ik suiHiemv Become very brave and if the eomimr tim hnn rhn cn erond a 1 arcurieclared and if our northern friends need our help our young men will go out and show them how1 a southern soldier can fight The long bloody war was at an PDtl flTlfl XVA lin GfJ Tt 4" lzzlr in 4 1 niTi Tn Intron 4vajvi 4 I num pioiun ixiiu ruLurn to our nomes oi which we heard nothinsr for two months Point Lookout: V2c fhn place I ever saw Nnthino rlr onrl nnou AH 11 lir zn 4 wwv4 iuii viK ve were very On the morning of the loth of April anxious to get out detail One ivjuicuig was turned to evening a detail was called for and Everything ss emed to be an 1 was one nf izi an uproar outside the prison About trate swung nnpn nnrf Ink to 4 S1111 71 CO OI iLaa 11 1 a xi 1 11 1 ii ri IATA zrt 1 1 i i rx I vxx a the camp and nostril knlkU Lra thn board It said President' Lin back sell in the camp' Oh We aro prouL coin was dead: died by the' bahtT tht asfs 1fnd shafly I sJepUt that night on the grass an assassin This raised a fear in trees looked! We had seen nothing jaround tbe Washington monument 'i A I JL lllk JSl Ki oi fcaied we might miss school inarms were tcacl the little a little mg if he could 2.