A Confederate Soldier Writes. Washington, Beaufort Co., X. C., Sept. -<>, 1 i>U 1 Mr. K. J. Holt. Sinithfield. X. C. My Hkaii Comkadk and ltno.? Your intensely interesting and thrice welcomed letter of the 2.'Id inst. to hand. Since reading and re reading the same i have been surprised that you and I have been silent so long. I am more than delight ed that you have broken the silence ana that we may hear more of each other hereafter. As to the history of the North Carolina Kegimeuts that Judge Clark is editing, 1 am looking forward with much interest for the forthcoming of every volume, and if obtainable shall give them a conspicuous place in my library. You wrote me in reference to data you had given Judge Clark for our battalion. Some time last year Fletcher l'arker, of En held, wrote me for some facts as I could remember them. 1 also sent him my photograph with money sufficient to haveit copied aud put in the volumecontaiuing the history of our battalion and requested him to forward the same to Kaleigh. 1 have never heard whether he sent it or not; I presume he did. The long intervening years of a1 busy life have swept away thej memory of many incidents in which you and I were actors. I find it most difficult to recall but few, and even then cannot mar shal them in order. Our company, "G," enlisted September .'I, 18(12, with Jesse A. Clement as captain. Your hum ble servant was orderly sergeant i when we first went out, and we J were a part of the Seventh Con-1 federate Cavalry wiih Claiborn Col., Taliafero Lieut. Col., Clai born Maj., Had en Adjt., Moore Bergt. Maj. I saw tladen shot in our tight at Blacksand Whites station, the ball entering his breast and passim;clear through him. 1 never saw him again. Wheu we entered i he army we did not remain long in North Carolina but went to Virginia and did picket duty on Hlackwater river, and at Franklin in an en gagement 1 saw my first dead Confederate soldier. We were under General Koger A. Prior. An artillery duel occurred here and we wereshelled most terribly. Early in 18tel we were at Kinston under General Martin, (one arm) a rigid disciplinarian, although he tailed to discover on one occa son that 1, an orderly sergeant, did not have on a cartridge box. Later we were with General Rob ertson -near Washington when General 11 <11 laid seige to Wash ington. L iter we were with Gen eral Clingman wiieu lie made a movement against Suffolk. This was the first time we came in contact with negro troops. They got seven of our men of whom we have never heard. My impression is that one of them was Turner, a brother or kinsman of Lieut. Governor Turner, a noble, brave fellow. We wt re at Blount'sCreek Mills, ten miles below Washington, N. C., when General Pettigew re pulsed General Spinola on his way to Washington, N. C. In July, wheu General Potter made his raid on Rocky Mount and Tarboro, part of our regi meat pursued liiin and by a mis-' taken movement at Scuftieton Potter got away. ('apt. barret's company was there, 1 think, at the bridge. At this time we were under General Martin, a brother in-law to General Potter. In May 1MG-I, I think we were ordered back to Virginia, and reaching Petersburg met the ad vance of Puller's army, here we repeatedly came in contact with Spear's cavalry. I think it was in May also that our battalion was at Port Walthall Junction where we were engaged on the turnpike road. 1 think we were with Whitney's division at this time; 1 remember we were ordered one night toreeonnoitreandrode to thereurof the Yankee camp. 1 never expected to gt^f hack. Well we were armed withuouble-barrel shot guns and threw 1<> buck shot at a load. In an engage ment on the turnpike on horse back my horse was shot twice and Maj. Claiborn who wasstand ing by me ordered me to take my horse to the rear; I got half mile to the rear and an elegant Vir ginia lady allowed me to turn my wounded horse in a clover field, gave me a basin and rags to bathe his wounds. While I was doing this a boy came from the house and brought a goblet with julep in it. I hod never drank a drop oi spirits in my life, but I was hungry, tired, mad and pow der burnt, 1 drank it, and in two aecouds I wanted to go back to the front and kill the fellow that | shot my horse. Well, that was J my first and last julep. We fought S|H'ur'? cavalry hen* and (len. Hearing huh slightly wounded. In June 18(14 our battalion, under tieneral W. H. F. Fee fol-1 lowed Wilson and Kant z. In June 1ni;4 when (irant changed his J base to the southside of James river, tieneral Smith, with about ! 10,000 men, moved forward. Graham's battery and our c ival ry with Hearing held him in check J as long as we could and we had I to withdraw after severe fighting j within the main works. in August we were at Ream's Station; we were in the battle of White Oak road also Gravely run, heie 1 thought I would freeze to death in the sleet, here we had : no rations and 1 picked up corn where horses had formerly been fed and parched it. October 27th we foughtat Bur gess Mills, 18(J."> Chamberlain's J run, Five Forks. On February 21st, 18G5, Gene-! ral Roberts was promoted and took charge of us. I was appointed Ordinance, Sergeant at i.ellfield by General Hearing. Well, do you remember that at the surrender ut Appomattox when we left the bullpen you and j I were riding together and pass- j ing by the apple tree (from which General Lee went to the Mcl^ean house to surrender) on the side of the road you reached up and broke off a limb from the tree, and breaking the limb you gave me part of it. I have part of that limb now, only a small piece, which 1 prize very highly. 1 also have my parole signed by you. I carried it in my purse for thirty [ years. I now have it nicely framed and my wife keeps it in her Con federate corner in the parlor. l| guess Judge Clark will have a conv of someo.'irolesin his books, i Gold would not buy mine. Well, when the war closed 1 went hack to Chattel Kill to finish my education, then entered the ministry, traveled lo years, mar ried in Washington; have settled here aud getting along comfort ably; have no children living; my wife is a great Confederate, goes to the conventions, is now getting ready to go to Charlotte also to Wilmington. She is a delegate to both. Let me hear from you again soon. God bless you. Your Old Comrade and Bro., W. H. Call. a Physician Testifies, "1 have taken Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and have never used any- f thing in my life that did me the good that did," says County Physician Geo. W. Scroggs, of j Hall County, Ga. "Being a phy sician I have prescribed it and found it to give the best results." If the food you eat remains un digested in your stomach it de cays there and poisons the sys tem You can prevent this by dieting but that means starva tion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure di- I gests what you eat. You need suffei from neither dyspepsia nor starvation. The worst cases quickly cured. Never fails. Hood Bros., Hare Son, ,J. It. Led bet ter, Benson Drug Co. ' Providence and 'Possum. "Hit do look lak Providence is on de side er we race," said the old colored citizen. "Br'cr Wil liams dumb a tree ter frit three 'possums, w'en a storm come up. . en lightning strick de tree, en w'en Br'er Williams landed de 'possums wuz baked brown, en all he had ter do wuz ter blow de ho'n t'er de preacher to come say grace!"?Atlanta Constitution. 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