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WAR RECOLLECTIONS EXPERIENCES OF A PARTY OF VETERANS ON TIIEIR WAY HONE IN »65. MONTFORO m’GHEE’S HOSPITALITY How lie and His Amiable Wife En tertained a Number ol Weary and War-Worn Confederates at .1Ii!ton on Their Way Home, After Having Heen Paroled From Gen. Lee’s Army at Appom ittox-- It Was on Easter Snnuay J ust Thirty Years Ago. Newbebn, N. C., April 8. To the Editor of the News and Observer. War reminiscences seem to be in the air and one that I have long cherished is brought vividly to mind by a sad event lately occurring in Raleigh. As soon as we could obtain our pa roles at Appomattox, which was Tues day afternoon following the surrender on Sunday, April the bth, 1865, a num ber of us belonging to Wilcox's Division set out for our several hemes. The party consisted of some dozen or more, with a wagon and mules, kindly furnished us by order of the Federal com mander to eonvey our “side arms” and private property which were generously granted to us by the tet ms of surrender. I now remember in this party Maj. J. A. Englehard, Maj. J. M. Tate, Maj. N. E. Scales and Capt. R. M. Oats, as well as myself. Scales and Oats were mak ing for Salisbury and Charlotte; Engle hard and Tate for Chapel Hill and I for Graham where my family had refugeed several years. And in parenthesis I wish to say they received much kindness at the hands of the good people of Ala mance. We had been advised by Federal offi cers before leaving Appomattox to travel in parlies of some size as we might encounter “pummers” who would not likely regard our paroles as the con cession of our private property, though granted by General Grant himself. We did not get far the first afternoon, and pitched camp at night fall. A guard was detailed from our own ranks to do duty after bed time, for the security of our horses in particular and our other belongings in general The guard was mounted and faithfully kept and everything was in our “quiet possession,” in the morniDg except Capt. Oates negro Bob, who was our hitherto faithful cook and one of the very best of “foragers” for our mess, and upon whom we relied for many favors in our mournful journey. But Bob was from Richmond where Capt. Oates had purchased him a year or two before, and during the night he quietly slipped “out of camp,” and we have not seen him since. The second night we “made a home” and rested under the hospitable roof of two bachelor brothers, where I remem her to have paid the house girl a five dol lar Confederate note to wash and iron my shirt while I slept, this being the first change of linen I had enjoyed since the morning of the 2d of April at Peters burg. Two more less eventful nights weie passed before we reached the borders of Nortk Carolina. Somewhere near Dan ville a secession in “our Union" took place much more durable than the one we were now seeing the end of. The officers and men bound to Salis bury and Charlotte could no longer con tinue with those tending further to the east, and diverging roads had to be taken. Oats and Scales took the wagon and contents with them, as they held a majority of the stock, promising, how ever, to send my chest of clothes down to Graham whenever they heard of my arrival there, which was punctually done by the aid of one of our negro boys, who acted as special messenger and safely delivered the pro perty to me in person for no considera tion, whatever, except his railroad fare, which they paid, and his hotel fare for a couple of Vkeeks, which I furnished him from my kitchen in Graham. This separation left Englehard, Tate and my self only in our party. On reaching Lewis’ Ferry, on the Dan River, near Milton, N. C., Maj Engle hard heard of Mrs. Englehard, who left the army in an ambulance two days be fore the surrender. She had crossed before us and was stopping at Mr. Lewis, with whom I think she and the Major were acquainted. Os course he set out to find his wife, and Tate and myself to find town of Milton where neither of us had ever visited before, nor have I since. Major Hunt, of General Wilcox’s staff, resided there, and we had met Mrs. Hunt in Viiginia. and before reaching the town we considered the matter of making for his house. But between Pe tersburg and Appomattox, Maj Hunt had been captured or killed, and we did not know which; so we determined not to let Mrs. Hunt know of our presence in the town; because any information that we could give her of the Major would only add to her anxiety and mental distress. That he was missing, and we were uncertain whether he w as dead or alive. We were amply provided with money such as it was—and concluded to be a little “tony” and stop at a first class hotel. It was Saturday night, the eve of Easter-day. The sun had sunk beyond the western hills and a gloom seemed to hang over oar pathway as our tired horses plodded on to the suburbs into the town. Night was well set in when we reined up in front of the leading and only hotel of the place. We sura moued the landlord to us, made known our wishes to stop for the night with him. Imagine, if you can, our sur prise whem he fiankly said “my friends I should be glad to have you do so, but I am completely eat out of food for man and beast. Soldiers have been passing through here day after day, and I have fed as long as 1 had anything to feed with, both men and horses, but I am now clean out.” There we were ! Where now ? was the question for us. Shall we seek out Major Hurt’s residence ? No, that will never do. We cannot go there and in crease the distress of that good woman with the alarming statement that her husband is missing and we know nothing o< • >*) No, we will take the road for Chapel Hill and stop at some farm house or rule a 1 night. learning from the landlord the direc tion to take, we drew up our reins and gently spurred our wearied horses for a forward movement. We had not gone ten steps before a lad of ten or twelve years approached me and said, “Mister, 1 think I can carry jou to a house that you can stay to-night ” “Do you think they can feed our horses,” I enqu'red. “Yes, sir, he is a farmer and well off,” replied the lad “All right then ? Show us the way,” said I, and our clever little gu:de soon halted in front of an elegant mansion. A hitching rack be spoke the fact that horses were not in frequent visitors there, while the light shone through the transom over the front door with an inviting charm to us who had long been accustomed to the camp fire aud tallow dips for illumina tion. I was decided that I should make the advance and Tate held the reins of my horse, himself stiil in his saddle, while 1 ascended the steps and knocked at the door. Men generally went to the door in those dajs when at home because of the number and character of callers and I was not surprised when a stately gentleman opened the door to me. i briefly stated that we w-ere two paroled officers from Geu. Lee's army on our way home, had come into town expect ing to stop at the hotel, but found thai it was impossible to do so aud we had called to see if we could stop with him. 1 had been about where so many favors of that kind were asked of people and so many valid reasous for declining them existed, that I confess I was prepared to receive any answer but the one I did, and for that I was really unprepared. “Certainly sir. Come in,” said he and the door itself seemed to say the same as it swung back on the hinges. Calling to Tate he said, “Throw your reins over the rack sir, and come in, your horses will be taken by my man directly.” We went in, au el> gaut supper was set for us so un like the suppers we had been long ac customed to. Many questions about the surrender of the army were propounded by the host and answered to the best of our ability. Ou learning that I was from N’ewbt-in the kind hostess said her an cestors were from that place and made inquiries of many of the old families and persons. After family prayer by the h st we were shown to our room, but before retiring we told our kind host that we would start early in the morn ing and make all the time we could ou the road and take breakfast at some farm house by the wayside. “Oh, no,” chimed the lady and gentle man. “You will take breakfast here. We will have it for you at an early hour.” With this understanding, we bade good night and retired, thinking that would he the last we should see of either of them on that occasion. Morning found us anxious to get on, and we hurriedly made our toilets and quietly went down stairs, expecting to hud a servant to give us breakfast, and another to bring out the horses; but how we had reckoned without our host. There was the lady and the gentleman both before us, and au elegant breakfast already. We ate and went on our jour ney, which I will pursue no further now, but stop right here to say that a more generous hospitality we never met be fore nor have we since, not because we had not been hospitably entertained be fore and have been since then, but sim ply because this at Milton was in every particular in the superlative degree. Now, alas ! the tongue that so warmly greeted us at that door is still in death and the generous heart has ceased to beat. That kind lady is bowed in grief at their separation, but such a man can not die, he will live on in the love and esteem of his countrymen throughout the ages of this mortal life, and live on through the never ending cycle of the life eternal. Our host at Milton was the Hon. Mont ford MeGehee and the hostess his wife, a daughter of the Hon. Geo. E. Badger. 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