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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, JUNE 14, 1D03. Address during services commem orative . of Mn. Cornelia Phillips Bpencer, by Dr. Kemp P. Battle, In Gerrard Hall. Chapel jilll May 17th: - Perhaps n on in this audience as acduainted -with the lady la ' trhos honor we are assembled longer than LI doubt If any one "was fa vored with a more Intimate friend ship." Yet I cannot claim to have t known her all my life. Eighty-two years ago she was brought an infant - it Chapel Hill- 8 ha was a blooming maiden of 17 when tn 1141 my father i removed his residence t this place and I saw her for the first time. -As a boy I looked up to. her, ad mired her. wondered at her vivacity, . her wide acquaintance v with, books - and nature, caught vp- and repeated with glee her witty and occaaionally aarcastlo sayings. ho wa a leader. In social .. festivities, the conversation parties,, picnics, tableaux and " the like; not In dancing; which was then proscribed by her Church at least tn Chapel' Hill. . '.-'j . " iHer energies were not exhausted ' by such drafts , en time and brain. She was an earnest and stimulating -' teacher at Sunday school, a punctual attendant on religious . services, a sympathising visitor to the afflicted, and at home a source of perennial delight to the household. - She read good books, committed to memory : rare tnougnts or poets, ana cema always give an apposite quotation on any subject of Interest. She was nn commonly skilful In sketching, dis secting and painting our wild flow era. v She was equally artlstio in the handiwork usual among- our ladles. - - I cannot say that, she . was. In tha ordinary use of the term. belie. The more youthful beaux were afraid of her reputation for learning, and ,of her ridicule, albeit good-natured JJUl ner loiiowins; tuiuui , u and mere mature, seniors and law students. -was large. v She was, how. ever, in no haste to leave her home, notwithstanding- their honeyed Invlta- tlons. , ' ;- In 14' there entered the Univer sity from Alabama a young man of striking appearance, tall, sedate, im posing, with tha seal of uprightness and intellectual ability on his brow. He took his degree in 15$. He was not. only a first-honor man, but he . was the most Influential In hia class the leader of the Dialectic Society. When once the student body wa led - off by prejudice and passion, he showed more pluck than la required to storm a battery.' Ha stood like a rock against tha ill-considered move ment and, with 4 few others, secured . reconsideration - and reversal. - His name was James Monroe Spencer, but he . was usually called Magnus Spencer, and we, his admirers, thought that U -wa-s m prophetically ...most appropriate.; Great was the ex citement and deep the regret when .the secret leaked out that our bril liant Cornelia, Phillips was to. be transplanted to Alabama aa the bride of our favorite graduate, she to shine . in a new circle, and he, we predict ed, to gain the richest rewards in the grand profession of the law. Man proposes, God disposes, says the old proverb. A little girl blessed their union and their nopes of happi ness seemed realised. But 'fell dis ease seised the aspiring lawyer, a dis ease lingering, remorseless, irresisti ble and dragged him to hia grave. Tits loving wife waa tactful and re seurceful, aa a nurse, , as she had been in other relations, but her ef forts were vain, . ' Che had known little but misery In her adopted home. She had known little but happiness under the parental roof.,- Naturally with her lovely little girl, she returned to the home of her girlhood. It was in issi. - -y v Hut happiness for a season had. de parted from Chapel Hill.- The great civil war was coming. The incidents - now : were to 34 not jovial parties and picnics, but excited and angry speeches, curt orders of drilling mas ters, the' hurrying of professors and students to the front, the exchange of books and pens for swords and mus kets. She had to hear tiding of wounds and deaths, of victories, which proved to be fruitless, of de- . feats which proved to be fatal bet ' cause of our lack of men and money. She had to witness the irresistible tightening of the colls of the monster serpent - around our Southland. ' Al though herself suffering privations, tinr et napais.irlAfl.' Hut nnlv r9 litvn v v - v a v--. vr a a ww, vu vsae seam va ries, her tender heartstrings were wrung by the sight of gaunt famine , forcing her way Into homes once prosperous and happy. V . Among these she was as a minis-' ' tering angel, . Only heaven above ,i knowa the deepness of her sympa thies and the largeness of her bene ' factions, benefactions In . tangible comforts and In loving personal ser . vice. .r ". 'i v .-',5''.' t Wnen soldiers , from Chapel 1 Hill, who had given up their Uvea for the ' Lost .Cause, were brought to repose among their kindred (there were 55 of them). . her taste, and care were .conspicuous In arranging the' cere monies. The lines she penned at the burial of two . University young men, sons or Judge Battle, laid In one; ... grave are to me very touching:,.. ' "Come Southern flowers and twine above . i their r.rave. - . Let all Our ruth spring blossoms boar a ' nart. . . - . : -:t Let lilies of the vale and snowdrop wave. Ana roma mou, mh, in cmoiero, oieraine; heart. j v: .,,. ? ; ."Bring alt our evergreens, the laurel and - the buy, - -. - ' - From the deep .forests, which around us They know them well, for In a happier - cay, ( ' i They roamed these hills and valleys, band in hand. . - j : Te winds ol neaven over them gently . -sigh, . ' - - ' - , , And April showers tan In kindliest ram; And let the golden sunbeams softly lie, Uton the sod for which they . died , In -, . -, vain " - . -...: : ' y. -.- ' - .-' . There Is not a heart so strong that will not be ""touched by these last ( lines. . .- ; -' n waa ai ina iimo tni "c im - her book,. "The Last "Ninety Days of the war." Ex-Qovernors Swain ana Graham furnished the facts. - The narration is very interesting and the work is mucn sought arter. it maaes us regret that she did not become an author in the larger sense. - 6oori after the close of the war the University went Into the hands of those whoso efforts to keep It alive ended in failure. Buildings decayed, apparatus and books were scattered. Kirk's rufflan soldiers camped around our well. On re horses were , seen looking out of West 'Building win dows. Many citizens of the village were driven away to find a support elsewhere. , cottage once inhabited by students were, gulled down r sold 'for houses for farm hands. It was during this period notwith standing she was bowed down by her father's death, .that the industry, th hopefulne, the brilliant talent of our friend shone conjplcnowi. By her potent pen, in prob and poetry, , she kept the memory of the Univer sity green.. And When the people of North Carolina by constitutional amendment placed its management , Into tha bands of its alumni, it waa found that Mrs. Spenser had notably aided in kindling enthusiasm for its revival.. She had kept up tender af fection towards ' the ola professors, she had recalled their excellencies and' ldlosyncracles, and stirred up among the alumni the determination that .their alma mater should not die. Utr experience and talents ; were not confined to work or the Univer sity. A. remarkable series of letters to the Presbyterian newspaper. . be sides other valuable mailer, gave the girls of the" State lessons of wisdom, of duty, of courtesy, if evidences of mannlshness and unbecoming : slang. Her counsels tended to turn them from being mere butterflies of fash-. Ion Into strong, lovable, dutiful Chris tian women.,' r-r-r: Chapel Hlli had become ao impov erished that no hotel or' boarding house aave nromlse of entertainment to ma or bast. . When, a committee- of officials came on ouslnees connect ed with the re-openlng. she and three other householders were standing at their gates to welcome us. I waa her guest and I remember well her ra diant welcome, a tribute, not alone tA ml neraonallv. but through me to the coming University, n ( ,As the institution she had In her heart grew In numbers and m popu lar favor,, her pen never ceaaed ;lts activity In promoting Its . Interests, apparatus for instruction was secured by hor-efforts. Sketches of Its his tory were sent 'to the press. Odes breathing the spirit of : true poetry were written for our commence ments. University days and glee clubs, and ur chanel adorned with flow- era and draped with the white and blue.. And she found -time to bless our children with her "First Steps in North Carolina History." - . - Perhaps tha greatest, most7 lasting service ahe rendered - was in behalf of our summer, normal schools From 1(77' to 1885. Inclusive, eight years. we had ' every year a normal school In our buildings, the first ever held In . America in connection with a university or .college, ...another .In stance where North Carolina led the continent. Experts from all parts of the Union wore ' provided. There were gathered hundreds of . pupil teachers. The expenses Of the poorer were paid out of the Peabody fund. They spent weeks in learning sub jects ' and - methods.' This school aroused the spirit of education In our State. It was the parent of the grad ed schools and otjter Improved pub Ho achoole. Mrs. Spencer saw the po tency of the movement. She at tended the exercises und without re numeration reported to the press art lectures of public Interest, thus mak ing, herself a co-worker in the cause Of education. She did not allow this labor, al though, engrossing, to draw her away from religious and charitable work. No one was more punctual than ahe In attending the services of her Church. . And there was not an im poverished or Invalid family in the neighborhood which she did not visit with eh eaves in her hand. And above all she devoted all her powers to the happiness and education of her, who under her watchful care developed Into a gifted and attractive woman.- ,,.' , . I spoke of the odea ahe wrote for University occasions. 1 have selected a few verses as specimens of her style, l omit the excellent hymns which you sins; to-day because they are well known to you all. I give extracts which may have escaped you. I think you will -agree that In lauding her historical 1 writings, her charming letters, her exquisite water colors, we do not sufficiently ' value ner poetry, - : , -The - first Is In the measure of the ?Wateh on the Rhine." Note h. graphic description of North Card Una s physical features: y "O Carolina! well we love ' ' ' i1 The m"r,nur hy "srk Pme grove; The yellow sands beside the sea. The lake beneath the cypress tree. ' "We'love thy stately groves of oak. ' Thy vlnea that hang o'er broad Roanoke; Thy mountains from whose rurgd steep, Catawba's rushing fountains leap. "Where, on the hill the wild bird sings," Or Jasmine's golden censer swings. Where maidens, loitering thro' the glen. ', Hear love's sweet story told again. "Where, o'er the far ' blue ; mountains height. . u The red deer waits for morning light: Or where through tangled laurel brake, The night birds cry, the echoes wake. "Tie here,' the Muse In loved retreat ' " Hath chose her home, and fixed her seat. And here for aye we swear to crown With laurels fresh thy old renown. ' "'- "'-y - CHORU8. " y Ter Old North State, we greet thee ' here, . - , - Our-loving watch shall know no fear. On thousand hills our guard shall firmly ; stand,- - -j.'1 . And keep their watch, their watch for thee(. dear land.", . ' - v .. ,. i '. Here are three verses of a rollick ing song for. University Day, October 12th J vy: .Tv . yv.- i.;--';1 "A song.1 my boys, for Chapel Hill, '- And for the N. O. V. . With three times three the -echoes thrill, -. And set tham ringing, too. Away with study, toll and caret Our hearts, with pride elate. Shall crown with Joy .without alloy, The day. we celebrate, f: ;-', i , x' "The summer's rose all are gone, -; The summer's story told. -;..; But now October's marchlng-on In crimson and In gold. v : , ' ; Ths monarch of the dying year, ' ; , This lay to him we owe. .-. - That brought good will to Chapel Hill One hundred years ago. . "And all along the coming years, -i Thst time for us may flit. - Our hearts will hnrn. whene'er we turn. T" thoughts of Chapel Hill. r - s Still higher may her glory rise. - ' And prouder may we see. " Thy fame exalted to the skies, y y. ; Dear University!" - y - ' '''. ) I give two versls of a song for -the closing of one of the normal school seflslorw. Sno rejoice over the ad- mleslpn of females Into the , Unlver- siiy: . v y'.:yi.-yy:;y.tj 'Vf-y; "Prslse the Lord In jyfu) messnres.'4; IW-Hls love our song" Inspire: King-Hk-If bestows his treasures, ; a More than all our hearts desire. For our sons we asked that waters . , i From the desert's rock might burst; ., Lot His love hath bid our daughters Grace the least. and Quench their thirst, "Hand'lB hand, they Join Ihe chftrus. Hand in hand.' Hi courts they throng,.! D"V at Isst is breaking- o'er us, Psv of light and bloom and song.. Nevermore her sun descending, l, : Camiini shall rteDlore: " ' LDoubt and gloom forever ending ' ' " .-: I i. 1 1 W ' ka. i,tn.UH AtSSt " rwc . . Note that the normal school lot 1877-1IS5 marked the first appear ance of females in the University lecture room - ' ' Her communion with the outside world' through the7 nerve of hear Ing had been long destroyed. Lt winter her body became weaker, her arose - less acute, -and many warn ings were given, of vhlch she. Was clearly- aware, that. ahe . would look on th- bright world' only a few days longer. Yet her : Ihlad continued strong - tolth Jast, ber recollection clear, her Judgment sound, her af fectum warm. Lltn to a few wopis taken ifrgm -a letter I received from her during her, laat tlcknesa. Tha handwriting is llttte changed . from th ' legiBle and oid-fashloueu , lady iika caiigraphy of aer younger cays: "I read an illuminating aadress by Prest. Je.llot, in which he answers some objections (querulous inquiries) in regard to the growing number of 'Instructors' la the racks of the Fac ulty. A change in the methods of in struction is given as the , reason- more individual teaching, etc., etc. 1 supposes you see The fcoston 'lfan acript which Is 'authority', here ' and would approve its , editorials. That change is a subtle one, and indicates more to follow." - -' A That when - in - sight of the gtave she should bo Interested In President Eliot's controversy about University government la very -wonderul. yBut wo can see further that the -dying daughter of our University waa pon dering on the effect the new changes will have on her alma mater. She gives no opinion but conjecture that the change will lead to unforeaeen consequences.', v .. - ' ," " : And then her eager curiosity about the great changes of rue world, nat ural to one who witnessed -the birth of railroads, the telegraph, the tele phone, the great ocean liners, . .wire leas telegraphy and other- modern Inventions,, leads her to add, "I wish sometimes I was young enough to be able to look en ahead with hope of seeing results. How did such a new measure work T What became of the move? The worst of old age la that you have no future (as to this life, X mean). T Close eye and tar and de part" . -.,'. : .-.-...-i 'v . Depart! Wheret V -' ' . We Christiana are privileged to be lieve that such sparkling genius, ar dent affections, devotion to duty, deep aenae of religion, exqulaito taste. In fine, rare intellectual and moral powers, do not perish as tha blind instincts of the lower animals.. They are translated to a higher ' and 1 a heavenly land and find fitting service In their new surroundings. Lt us go further and hope :hat theae Ood Uke attrlbutea will In the new world expand, and in the aeons of tne fu-' ture approach nearer and - nearer to the grandeur of the .Almighty Giver of such priceless gifts to men, OLD-FASHIONED REVIVALS, TO , BB eURE." .. T met with some of the village min isters, and found "them to be men of Intelligence. The preaching la or an emotional character. An Official of one of tha factories said to me: "These people do not think 'seriously until you stir their blood, nten you can make an Impression upon them, and bring them to do things." The aongs are of the 'Moody and Ban key variety, the worship I simple am fervid, and. aa a rule, far removed from the liturgical., The people honor their churches by wearing their best. In general, the afternoons are spent quietly, without Sunday amusements. Y. M. C. A. AND Y. W. C, A. WORK In one mill village the president of one of the progressive new mills, an outsider toM me. contributed the money for the men's association build ing, $11,000. This fact will aerve as an indication of the Importance which he attaches to this kind of under taking. In conversation, with me, af ter mentioning the church and the schools of his village, be said: "Tho operatives were encouraged and aa elated In establishing a Young Men's Christian Association, and a salaried secretary and an assistant, and a Young Women's Christian Association and a salaried secretary and assistant. The company and some of the stock. holders pay $1,600 per annum for 'the support of each of these associations." Regarding the Young Women's Christian Association, be aald: "This work la equally satisfactory. In con nection with it la maintained a school of domestic science, where girls are taught to cook and sew.'. The two ladies who are In charge of this in stitution live in a model cottage, which Is open at certain hours for the visits of the women of the village." A graduate trained nurse, who lives in the village, has recently been en gaged. Several .physicians have agreed to furnish their services with out charge for the free dispensary. The company also supplies a hall for secret orders, a good library, cow pas tures, -ball grounds, etc. It hopes later to light the village by electricity, and to inaugurate a swimming pool, which is much needed In this Warm climate, I visited each of the institutions and enterprises which are mentioned here. and found them thoroughly equipped ana in charge of competent secreta ries and their assistants. . THE MORALS OF THE PEOPLE, "As to the moral tone and condition of the factory communities, I had to depend mainly upon hearsay. The general impression of the managers and of disinterested persons outside the villages with whom I talked, la that the morals of the people of the villages are as good as those of other groupa of cltisen of equal numbers Ordinarily there are no policemen In the mill villages, yet order is excel lent. The people are usually sober ana aecent. l saw none of tho deadly weapons about which one hears so much, nor any shooting or cutting arrraya. Most or the operatives marry earl)-,, and the marriage relation" la generally respected, though 1 heard of occasional desertions, which are of easy occurrence, owing to the tack of proper certification and registration of marriages. The clamor for a mar riage license and r registration pro vision was heard on all sides. There are no divorcee, as they cannot be obtained In tho State, South Carolina having what is, I think, a unique his tory n this respect. . I Shall eloso this review of the cot ton mill South with a tribute to the people of the factories pronounced by tne principal of one of the Southern Industrial schools: ' 'I am satisfied that they are the finest body of people on earth doing similar work. De- aoended from the " early "English, Scotch and Germans, they have been sreeping, as it were, while the proces elon of progress has been passing by. Serious, independent as all hill, and mountain people are: sensitive, be cause of that Independent spirit: for the moet part sober, they are a peonio of untold possibilities, now that they are beginning to arouse themselves from the drowsiness of . generations and to grapple' earnestly with the duties of this active, work-a-day world." - ; . XO HEW MODES FOR COREAXS. v y ' -. . - - t , r They Are Likely to Rebel If the Jap anese Call For Different Clot lies. t New York Sun. ' y . ' It' I reported that the Japanese propose to force their own style of dress upon ths already rebellious Co reans. Such an attempt would prob ably be followed 4y a repetition of the serious and In some - eas san guinary results that arose a few years ago out of the Japanese attempt, to force the shaving of tha Corean t6p khot. , . .- -,- . . - -- It seems to bo. one of the peculiar fk-ita nf th Jsonnese national char. 1 acter that Ihe firr yoke they would Impose on a subject people should be in the nature of sumptaury la wa.' Al though free themselves , to - borrow from outside civilisation and adapt to their, own purposes all that they feci necessary even down to the plug hat of convention, the Japanese insist whenever they have the chancer and history has given -them - several chances at.Coreans that those whom they rule shall follow their domestic customs willy billy. : -c ;-y ; Now the Corean hates change for change's sake first and more bitterly will he oppose change when initiated by his Implacable enemy 'from across Tsushima straws. In the matter of his dress the Corean believes that what has been good enough for his an cestors for unnumbered hundreds of years is good enough for him. even though doctors may explain to him that half the deaths in winter come from the ridiculously inadequate linen dress that he wears. His garb bears the seal of antiquity and that's all the Corean ants.-- ' .;..'... ' l:r Tho present Corean starched skirt and horsehair hat shaped - In the semblance of a fly screen to set on a butter dish, are just what the Chin ese of ths Ming dynasty used to wear about four hundred years ago. The skirt and bagged trousers of the Co rean man and woman alike, are white wjnter and summer .White is - the. mourning color all . over Mongolian territories and a strange story is told by the Coreans themselves to account ror this mourning garb. It seems rfhat hundreds of years ago there war an epidemic of pois onings among the royal family. Crown princes, royal concubines and heirs of the blood were dying with unpleasant regularity. Every time there was a death in ths royal family all the subjects of the King wero forced on pain of death to wear the mourning color for the space of one year. The ancient Coreans grew so weary of paying forced respect .to royal ghosts that they became living ghosts themselves by donning white for good and alt. That is the way lhia dead land of the. Orient became peopled with tha white spectres that now flit listlessly out of-the-path -of. the -conquering Japanese, . wondering in their dull way when fertune. will turn and they will bo rid of tha little brown peat. The Coreans will . probably continue to pay exorbitant taxes to their con querors, to stand passive while their agrarian and mineral rlghta are tak en from them, and to take with hu mility .what the- Japanese deign to allow them: hut , If the men from Japan attempt to trifle with what thla spiritless erradow wears on his back or on his head he will suddenly materialise Into quivering, militant flesh. ' - ' ' -v'-Wii.-'. ' -- , COTTOW DEMAND AND SUPPLY. Tli Question of an Adequate Supply One Which Spinners Will Soon lie Facing:. - - ; Wall Street Journal. The current year of . ' semi-suspen sion In the operating capacity of the world's cotton mills is one of those periodic influences which' serves more or less regularly to cfteck1 the tend ency of the consumption of cottojt to outrun .the supply. ' . The average weekly consumption in- 190S-O7-' waa 374,874 bales. This was 19,000 bales a week more than lnl0, and 111, 579 balea a week more than the con sumption of 1900.' The high-water mark of consumption was probably reached In 1906-07, when the figure of 19,492,000 bales was given as the world's spindle and mill consumption It was estimated then that, the world's requirements for the year ending Au gust 3 1st, 1908,' WOuId be JO, 000,000 'So long as cotton mills In the Unit ed States are running on SO percent. of the usual capacity, there need oe no anxiety felt about the future of an adequate supply. The American cot ton acreage la fully up to that of the two preceding years, when the aver age crop was lz, $60,000 bales for the United Statea alone. . . Inasmuch, however, as this country furnishes approximately t two-thirds of the 20,000,000 bales required la highly prosperous year a. It Is evident that the average crop of the past two years Is nearly 100.000 bales less than tne American quota of a prosperous year's requirement. . The fact is that In point of productiveness as well as of acreage the American cotton bflt Is keeping so little ahead - of the rapidly growing - demand for con sumption that a ami year like tne present simply suspends but does not eliminate the element of concern for the increase In the output of this fibre. - . -Turning from actualities to - nossl bnitles, there Is no branch of manu facturing which expands so readily in ine w ear or wnicn is organised so quickly In the East as the manufac ture of cotton textiles by machinery. This depends more on ths ability , to And markets than on the question of where the raw cotton Is . to come from. The possibilities of consuming cotton fabrics are constantly Increas ing. The Increase In output required to supply the world's . growing de mand for fabrics of this kind win probably he accompanied ander keen er competition than : formerly. . No great fabric 'country has any neutral field to itself, and lower prices, rath er than higher, must bs accepted -as highly probable.,' . . ; On the contrary, It Is doubtful whether even at existing prices for raw cotton there wilt be any substan tial Increase In acreage. No Induatry changes it scope? and character of operation more slowly than agricul ture. And among various American crops cotton growing methods In gen eral vogue are probably the slowest of ths slow. This Is especially true when viewed from year to year. Yet decades make It clear that great differences do result from causes that work so quietly as to bs evident only at a long view. From the beginning of the eighties, for Instance, to the end of the nineties the American crop changed from a five-mllllon to a ten minion basis. .5 M --'.: But twenty years is a long tlmo to wait. Meanwhile, if th world wants much more cotton It may 4iave to find a larger proportion of It elsewhere. . V '. IF I CAV MVP. . ' If I ran live, - . , , .,. To make some pale face brighter, and to ' give - - . A sect nd luster to some tear-dimmed eye, - v. Or e'en Impart . ' One throb of comfort to sa aching heart. Or cheer some wayworn soul In passing , : by; - r ,y ,- ., ; - -s y. rM.v v-r:;';-'.v;-;-,i ':-It I can lend .' ; it A strong hand to the fallen, or defand The rlfcht against a single envious strath, .. My life, thnugr. bare,' ; Perhaps, of much that seemeth desr and fair . . - - - . To us of earth, wM not have been te vain. v --.-,' ' '' ' : y " ' ' The purest Joy. - V- .- Most nenr to heaven, far from earth's 8j' ; . . " Is;bltluing'cloud'"g4s- way lo sutrahd - , "shine; ' . And 'twill be well .' ' If on tlist daf of dss the sngels tell Of me, sha t'ld ber kef for one of Thinej HELEN llf.VT JACKSON. TlhieM'AM BY ANDREW Ths man who drove the ambulance which carried '. Stonewall Jackson, mortally wounded, off . the Hell at ChancelioravIUe, has ' a unique dis tinction.. He was a character In tha drama Of the great battle who. has some of the atmosphere Of romance and ahivalry-that attachea to' the career ' and death of the - beloved Southern general, f He Is still living. and .would, ba a hero : whatever nis circumstances In. life might be. As it is, he U a plain, hodest North Car olina merchant and, farmer, named Thomas Jefferson Cap pa, who plies his calling and lives in the memory of the four; years of his harl, military service. This ,' was an exeedlngly hard servlca for an ill-proviled South ern soldier,, and yet, with Mr, Capps. it was an experience of the most in tensely Interesting and exciting events in which ho was in one way or an other connected. . , ' One cannot talk long with him without seeing where his great in tereat . In life lies that . I. In the memory Of the war; and about noth ing is his recollection clearer than every detail of the part his command took in the Intense struggle in tne Wilderness, near Chancelloravllle in May,- Hs waa a private soldier, a member of Company mira North Carolina Regiment. I had often heard that Mr. Capps drove the ambulance that bore the ile vote I chleftlan off the field. I chanced to meet him one lay in Wil mington, where he often comes from his home in Onslow county, and ask? ed him If ho would tell me aomo, thing of the ; incident. Ha readily made an appointment with me for that purpose, and, within an hour we were seated on two boxes in a small grocery afore on the edge of town, so that ha sould tell me his story. ' For the most part, tne story was nothing more than what has been written and told a thousand times of the battle of Chancellorsvitls; .of the vigorous movement of the Federal army unler H,ookerj of tna ngni nlng energy of "Jackson's Foot Calvary" In their effort to oppose him; of the meotlng with the enemyj of the turns and changes of the bat tle; of the terrible fire which crashed and roared through the denaa oak thicket; of the excitement of the men aa they rushed hcdlessly through the uundergrowth, cheering vigorously to Hhey could not tell what; of the lull before sunset, except for the In cessant, deadly, exasperating fire of some Federal batteries. . which swept through the Wilderness; and, finally, near nightfall, of the wounding of a?8cKson !'' Then he hesitated, and went off on an Incllental circumstance. "The histories aay." he explained, "that Oeneral Jackson wss wounded attef dark, but I know that. It la not ao. I was detailed at the time to ambulance dutv. and waa out In the clearing. The men ln-the woods thought that night had fallen, because the amok of the battle had settled among tha thick trees; -but It was really some little ' time before dark, or, rather; befora nighti for i . the' moon, was shining. ' r ' ' ''a y. "Nov." he continued, "about -the general.:! remember it Just as clearly as if it happened day before yester day. No one who was In the engage ment at cnanceiiorsvme couu nrBr much about lt. I was standing with my ambulance awaiting ordere from our regimental surgeon, Dr. ; James McRae, when sn officer galloped up to me and said, "Do you see that thicket down bythe side of the plank road?'- I said, 'Yea. Sir.' 'I wish you would drive over there aa fast as you can. There are some wounded of-1 fleers thst we wsnt to move. - r "I told him thst I was very sorry that I coull not do ao. for my orders from Dr. McRee were very strict that I shoull wait where I was until he directed me to " move. The officer reddened and looked at me Sternly; but I returned his gase calmly by which he knew that 1 was determined to stand by my ordera. He hesitated for a mement, glancing over the field, and then he turned to me and sail, as If he were talking In the greatest res ilience, "It's Oeneral Jackson. He IS seriously wounded, and is lying over there close to the plans, roan.- i an swered. That's enough. I'll go. sir. My orders to stay amounted to noth ing then. ' y. "I hurried over to the( plank road and galloped my horses toward the ,place indicated. I saw from where I hal been stanllng that thlnga wera pretty hot down there, but dll not know how It really was until I got a little way on the road. The air wa filled with shells'and smal shot that were searching everywhere for . the ConfcderatcB that were In the woods. My horse wern wild, but I wss only too glad they moved so fast Th of Acre stsrted back with me, but his horse reared and refused to go. I never expected to come back alive: I had my duty l lo, though, and didn't care. There was no on with me. . "In a little while I saw a group of men crouching beslle the road. They were evidently on the lookout for ait ambulance, and raised up and mo tioned to me when I drew near. I stopped, and could sea Oenersl Jsck" son and snother wounded officer, who I learned was Colonel Crutchfleld. of the general's stsff. lying side by side In tho ditch near the plank roalT" "Was It a ditch T" I ssked In some surprise, . 1 . "Well, no. he said. "Just a place where the ground had been dug out In building the roal. A surgeon waa with him, and a few other men. Shells and canlater shot were crash In through the woods and tearing" up the ground all around us. - . "I worked as quickly ss I could t i get the ambulance In position, and la I a minute or two tne omcera were placed In It, a, surgeon Jumping la after them. Hardly a word ' -was spoken, snd. even If there had been any conversation t could not have heard much of it on acount of the constant booming of the cannon anl the singing of the shells passing by us. It was about dark when we started back; and It was a Solemn thought to m that I had General Jackson wounded and lying In my ambulance. V .' .. "It waa a regular army ambulance, being a spring wagon, strongly built, and covered over with a rounded hood of -canvas. We ran like the wind along tha plank kroad, the can-4 Jster shot from the. enemy spattering and singing around us. The wonder wnn the ambulance was not struck time and again, but we escaped with on hole through the top of ths hood, mad by a spent ball. We were a solemn crowd.- If there wa any talk ing going on 1 did-not hear It. I know 1 was buy wondering whether Carried J. HOWELL, Jit we were going to get ouut or not . ' "It waa not Ion. befors we came to where, there had been 1 a bridge, which had been. burned; and I had to turn aside Into the bed of the stream to get to the other side It was rocky and rough down there, and I tried 'ray best to drive easily, for t was thinking of the wounded menT' It was then that Oeneral Jack son said to me, 'Driver., drive care fully, please. -1 anawered. General. I'll do my best, but if I hold In my horses they will be sure to balk. , 'l had two horses, a bay mre and a sorrel horse, -and, whenever I tried to hold th sorrel In from going fast he would Invariably balk." However, I. did the best I could until we got on the smooth road again. . "General Jackson seemed to be worried on account of Colonel Crutchflold. who was badly wounded In the leg. Both of them, wr lying on their sides in the ambulance.- "When w reached, the field hos pital, th sura-eon Jumped out and got some stimulants for th wounded men. At this time a uard was placed about the ambulance to keep the army from finding out who tne wounded officers were; and ws moved On to the corps hospital about two miles further in the rear. Here th general and Colonel Crutchfleld were removed to a big bell tent a hundred yarda or so from the building used ss the main hospital. - Io the light of the lantern the general' face was deadly pale from lose of blood- "It waa now well Into the night and my work wa done. , The Bur geon were busy looking after Gen eral Jackson and other wounded men all night, and at five In the morning l was dismissed. 'v "In the ambulance I afterwarda found a glove bearing General Jack son's name, and. If I hadn't been sq anxious to show it, I might have car ried it home with me; but somebody stole It. and I never heard anything about it afterwards." 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