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MACLEOD'S STORY OF THE WAR CONTRACTING and REPAIRING Painting, Paper Hanging, Plumbing, Steam Fitting, Carpentering, Electrical Work, Brick Laying, Plastering and Planting Call or 'Phone the PINEHURST GENERAL OFFICE THE HOLLYWOOD, - SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. Open Nov. to May. Capacity 100. All modern conveniences. White help exclu sively. Eooms single and ensuite, with bath. American Plan: from $3.00 per day. Five minutes from the COUNTRY CLUB and GOLF LINKS J. Ii. POTILE V MOV. Proprietor Write for Illustrated Booklet THE QUALITY STORE IT SERVES YOU RIGHT FINE GROCERIES GOOD SERVICE PROMPT DELIVERIES J. L. SMITH & SON, Phone: 22 Southern Pines, N. G. The Largest Line of FURNITURE and HOUSE FURNISHINGS in the Sandhill Section SOUTHERN PINES FURNITURE COMPANY New Store Opposite the Station Phone: 41-7 THE Pinehurst Jewelry Shop Jewelry Notions and Silverware Repairing and Engraving THE MONSON FIREPROOF Wat r Front, St. Augustine, Florida ICO Rooms. 65 Private Baths Opened 1915 Addition 1916 New lS-hole Golf Course open December, 1916 MANHATTAN HOTEL St. Petersburg, fla. Modern, central. Tropical grounds, boating, golf, tennis. Cuisine and service excellent. Sunny verandas, homelike and especially attrac tive. Capacity 100. Write for booklet and rates. A. B. Vance, Manager. Also operating Hotel Astok, Orlando, Fla. Batchelder&Snyder Company Packers, Poultry Dressers, Butter Makers 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63 Blackstone St. 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76 North St BOSTON. MASS. Li Ernest W. Bush OSTEOPATH Southern Pines, North Carolina JUDSON KILPATRICK, IN COMMAND OF SHERMAN'S CAVALRY, MADE HIS HEADQUARTERS AT THE OLD HOMESTEAD The Running Fight from Markham's Bridge to Greenspring Monroe's, and the Old Tale of the Coming of the Yankees I IT WAS a peaceful Summer's day fifty two years after wards. Following the ancient highway and the traditions of the country we lad traced the path of the left wing of Sherman's Army from Cheraw through Rockingham into the Pinehurst country. An old veteran of eighty Winters had stood as one recalling another world, and pointed out where the hungry column had forded Drown ing Creek that 8th of March, eigh teen hundred and sixty-four. It was the ancient gate for the inva sion of the Scotch country, just above the forks of Naked Creek and the Lumbee River where an older generation witnessed the coming of the continental raiders under Col. Wade, and the end of Patterson, the last of the pipers. And the trail had led to an old plantation a fine weatherscarred hamlet built of primaeval heart of pine, and pegged together to last for all time. The hospitable house stood in the shade of two twin sycamores, and giant ancestral oaks. THE SPIRIT OF THE OLD PLANTATION It overlooked the slumbering valley of the river, and vistas of cotton rows and banks of pine, a mellow relic of times gone by. We were greeted at the gate by a soldierly and courteous old gentleman, Evander McLeod, and welcomed by Miss Flora with an old world courtliness. The plantation is off the new roads, and neither the hand of so-called progress nor change nor decay has had the slightest effect upon it. The long leaf pine is there to stay, and the sturdy civil ization of the old river bottom, and the inheritance of the follow ers of Ole Marse Robert are still young under the roof tree of Evander McLeod. We saw before us the same scene that greeted the eyes of the advancing Federal column a long time ago. And before we record the passing of the thunder bolt it is right to say that what ever time may bring to the old settlement, it will leave behind it a spirit of peace and good will, a memory of wide hospitable doors and kindly gentle people, of long evenings by great oaken fires, and laughter and story and song and devotion, the loss of which no prosperity in the world will ever recompense. We were shown into the room on the west wing and the veteran began his story: "I was twenty-two years old at the time, and my brother and I had been furloughed home from Fort Fisher, and were still in the grey uniform of the Confederate Army. We knew the - Yankees were coming, so we were busy hiding everything we owned. The horses wehadcorralled in a far off bottom near the creek the corn was binned in an unlikely place in the woods, our pork was kegged up and buried beneath a pile of sand out of a newly dug well. "WADE HAMPTON'S WARNING "About noon o f the 8th of March a small squadron of Wade Hampton's men galloped into the yard and mother and my sister Flora here got them up a good dinner. They were splendid dash ing young fellows, from Mississ ippi, who said our patrols were in touch with the Yankee cavalry all through the Pee Dee country, and that they would be along directly. They said to mother, 'stand up to them, old lady. They will try to scare you, but they won't kill you.' "Along after noon we began
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