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The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspaper SKCOND CUM P09TMK MID » DMVMD. N. C. ZIP CODE 28712 Vol. 82 — No. 39 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1969 * SECTION TWO * History Of Transylvania County By Ora L Jones (Editor’s note: This installment is the first half of Chapter X. It continues the ac tivities of Transylvania men in the Civil War.) ft) CHAPTER X Of the eight Captains sent to the Confed erate armies f rom Transylvania county, four were in command of cavalry troops. Near the end of the war three of these were serving with the Seventy - Ninth regiment (Eighth cavalry.) One was with the Sixty-Fifth regiment (Sixth cavalry). The services of most of these cavalry men were with battalions or independent com panies. All did good work. Their activities were very largely confined to the suppression of the lawless elements that made life a hideous night mare for the women and children living in the border counties. According to “Moore’s Roster” a Tran sylvania company under command of Captain Carter W. Gillespie was a unit of the Sixty Fifth regiment (Sixty cavalry). As a matter of fact this company, as a unit, did not belong to that regiment. The men of the company were scattered all through several different companies of the Sixty - Fifth when the regi ment was organized. The services of the men as a company were rendered as a part of the Fifth battalion before the organization of the regiment. When organized, Captain Qllleipie was elected Captain. Enoch Cunningham was named First Lieutenant, William D. Kil patrick, Second Lieutenant and John D. Davis, Second Lieutenant. There were nine non commissioned officers and eighty - four pri vates from Transylvania who were enrolled in the fall of 1862. CAPTAIN AND 14 MEN CAPTURED In May, 1863, while Captain Gillespie and land river near MnTsprmKnehtucky, as-a parF of the Fifth battalion the- Captain and fourteen of his men were captured by the enemy. This ended their fighting days as a unit. The Cap tain never reached home until long after the war was ended. He met with great difficulty and interminable delay in securing his release from prison. The Fifth battalion, with which the com pany was associated for several months, was organized at Jonesboro, Tennessee, in the win ter of 1862. A. H. Baird was elected Major. There were originally five companies in this battalion, all of which had previously engaged in outpost duty along the state line and through the Cumberland mountains. This territory was frequently changing hands in those days. A fight could fee started at a few minutes no tice at any time. There were many “Bush whackers” in the mountains near the head quarters of the Fifth battalion. They kept the men constantly on the alert. Every bush, rock and every turn in the road was likely to prove to be an ambuscade. In Eastern Tennessee the robbers and “Bushwhackers” were more numerous than in any other section of the mountains. Large num bers of them were captured, court martialed, and convicted and executed by officers of the Fifth battalion. In later months some of the of ficers connected with these executions were in dicted by relatives of the executed robbers and tried in the courts for murder or damage suits. No one was ever convicted of such a charge. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA The winter of 1863-64 was spent by the Fifth battalion at Big Creek Gap, Kentucky. The Fifth and Seventh battalions, numbering about 1,500 men, under the command of Cap tain Virgil S. Lusk of Company Q of the Fifth, were overtaken by a force of 12,000 Federal cavalry, when they were expecting to meet with friends. In the running fight which en sued Captain Lusk was captured and the two battalions were almost completely wiped out or captured. Not more than fifty men escap ed to their lines, fifty miles away. This small remnant, after securing a num ber of Recruits, was made a part of the Sixty Fifth regiment when it was organized on Aug ed Capture in Kentucky went into various com panies of the regiment. Soon after its organ ization, this regiment captured the entire First Kentucky infantry at Brayville, Georgia. On September 19, 1863, the Sixty - Fifth went into the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, under General Nathaniel Bedford Forrest. It was assigned to guard Alexander’s Bridge where some heavy assaults wree made. The —Turn To Page Hires 7 DAYS CO-ED Wednesday, Sept. 24 Through Tuesday, Sept. 30 A General Audience Picture Shows Start Nitely, Except Sunday, at 7:00 it 9:14 Sunday Nite at 8:00 Saturday & Sunday Afternoons at 2:00 Adults $1.00 & Children, Under 12, 50c VYNE • GLEN CAMPBELL • KlK 7 DAYS DARrt y Starting Wednesday, Oct 1 at the Co-Ed DISNEY'S “DARBY O’GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE IN COLOR M ——II r ] wF r rr rar: ISI.2SL4* MTIIWffWrj Each Other’s > i Girls! DON EPPERSON* ROBERT DIX <hm« CASEY MSEM* OOVIE BEAMS TDfflYSBFFORO - JOHENNE LEMONY mmuBUDD DELLnuM'KEKT osbobnc atRMFH LUCE*Mitr KENT OSBORNE ^^EWfARE nun p«ooucTio.*c.ma Savings Bonds Sales Are Up Combined sales of Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares during August were $5,639,168, a 13.2 percent increase over the comparable month a year ago. January - August sales were $42,320,325, a 2.3 percent de crease over the same 8-month period a year ago. This repre sents 71 percent of the state’s annual quota of $59,600,000. Savings Bond and Freedom Shares in Transylvania county were $24,747.00 for August. For the year, cumulative sales amounted to $176,094.00, which is 68.2 percent of the county’s 1969 dollar quota, according to Jerry Jerome, volunteer chair man of the Savings Bonds pro gram in Transylvania county. Brevard Jaycees To Award Large, Color TV Set Donations are being received by the Brevard Jaycees for their community development proj ects. A 23” RCA console color TV set, having a retail value of $679.95, will be awarded on Sep tember 26th, at Brevard Senior high school stadium. It is now on display at Bower’s store in Brevard. Donations of $1 or more can be made by contacting any members of the Brevard Jay cees. NORTH t The underacted, having qual ified as Executor of the Estate of Otis V. Medland, deceased, late of Manatee County, State of Florida, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of March, 1970, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate pay ment to the undersigned. This the 11th day of Septem ber, 1969. OTIS F. MEDLAND, JR. Executor of Otis V. Med land Estate c/o Ramsey, Hill & Smart The Legal Building North Gaston Street Brevard, North Carolina 9/18/69 NOTICE State of North Carolina County of Transylvania Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust execut ed by GERTIE M. HEMPHILL and MARGARET H. AVERY to WILLIAM R. WHITE. Trustee for PIEDMONT PACIFIC LUM BER CORPORATION, which Deed of Trust bears date of the 19th day of October, 1966. and is recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Tran sylvania County in Deed of Trust Book 77, Pages 465, de fault having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and said Deed •f Trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public auc tion to the highest bidder for cash at the Courthouse door in Brevard, North Carolina, at noon on the 17th day of Oc tober, 1969, the property con veyed in said Deed of Trust ly ing and being in the County of Transylvania and more particu larly described aa follows: BEGINNING on a stake in the East side of Capps Road, common corner of said Earl Orr and Spurgeon Hemphill, and runs South 1 deg. West 85 feet to a stake; thence South 65 deg. 30 min. East 26 feet to a stake on the West margin of Upper Glade Creek Road; thence with the same. North 49 deg. East 44 feet to a stake; thence still with the road. North 35 deg. 30 min. East to a stake in the Orr line; thence with the same West 99 feet to the BEGINNING. This the 15th day of Sep tember, 1969. WILLIAM R. WHITE 9/18/4tc Trustee From ALMAR FARM In Transylvania BY CAL CARPENTER She’s a little old lady, bright eyed and brusk spok en when she wants to be. She still has her own home, does largely for herself; is as ag gressively independent as might be expected of the Matriarch of a numerous, in dependent clan. But the years have taken a toll. She’s full of the aches and aliments of 84 years. Her hair, never cut in her long lifetime, is snow white and still worn in the old fashioned braids and bun that was the style when she was a girl in the Cartoo gechaye section of Macon coun ty nearly three - quarters of a century ago. She was one of 12 children, born and reared on a hard scrabble farm in the days now fondly called the “gay 90’s”; days which were, like all the days before them, gay only for those who were well endowed with the wealth and possessions of their times, not the people who had to la bor hard for a living as she and her family did. Her girlhood was a life of hard work, frugality, and the straight old - time religion. And as the twig was bent, so grew the tree; for now, though liv ing requires little hard work and the old time frugality has long since become unnecessary, she still works to the limit of her endurance. She still, wastes not that she may Want not; she still lives in the way of old-time religion. that In the infant years of this century, she met a gangling, sandy - haired young six-foot er who lived several miles away on his father’s prosper ous farm in the Nantahaia section of Macon county. He took an immediate shine to the pretty, vivacious little brunette and used to come calling riding a sturdy mule and leading a big, white geld ing for his sweetheart. And the young couple would go riding — she in riding skirt and mounted side • saddle, he astride his mule, on those bright, crisp autumn Sundays when the calendar of their world was as young and gay and full of promise as they were. They were married and, in the way of the time, immedi ately began rearing their fam ily. A son was born, then a daughter. They were living, by this time, at a rented farm on the Nantahaia mountain. He was working as a section hand on the old railroad that ran from Franklin by way of the rugged Nantahaia Gorge To Tallulah Falls, Georgia. Living many weary, foot-miles from his work, he was away from home from before dawn until after dark at his 10-hour a day job — oftimes was re quired to stay awajr .,ovorT. —To JF»ge Eight Masons To See Space Movie A stated communication of Dunn’s Rock Masonic lodge will be held in the Temple on East Main street, Thursday, Septem ber 25th, at 8.00 o’clock. This announcement comes from Charles B. Peevy, the Worshipful Master. Jerry Hart Jerome, juni<y deacon who is in charge of the program, announces the showing of the official National Aero nautics Space Administration movie on the flight of Apollo 11 on the moon. Mr. Peevy says this film has been shown to several of the clubs in the county and the re port is: “this film is well worth anyone’s time to see.” The master urges the mem bers to attend, and he extends a cordial invitation to all visit ing Masons in the county. NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of North Carolina County of Transylvania Having qualified as Adminis trator of the Estate of Robert Lee Wilbanks, deceased, late of Transylvania County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned, Howard Ed ward Wilbanks, c/o Robert R Willson, Attorney, 300 North western Bank Building, Ashei ville, North Carolina, on or be fore the 2nd day of April, 1970, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate pay ment. This the 11th day of Septem ber, 1969. Howard Edward Wilbanks Administrator 9-ll-4tc When yon think of prescrir Kom. think of VARNER'S, adv. &oCt oan ‘ You're on the right trail ‘ with Brevard Federal j Once again, Brevard Federal will be paying its thrifty savers a huge dividend on September 30. Come join us and you’ll go places too. We j pay our dividends not twice but four times a year! 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