Confederate Widow Recalls War Days Robbed of Horse and Cart and Even Her Shoes by the Yankees Cruel ^ar Caused Many Hardships in County For Years Mr*. \ irginiu Perry Vividly Recall* Stirring Fvenls Of Long Ago "The Civil Was a cruel period for the South during four long years," Mrs. Virginia Perry, aged widow of the Confederacy, said a few days ago as she sat help less in a big rocking chair on her back porch here on Beech Street trying to escape the heat. She never complained during three hours as she sat and recalled the hectic days as she experienced them in the early sixties when the South was overrun and vir tually laid waste Eight years old when the War Between the States broke out, Mrs. Perry, the daughter of the late John Lanier Ward and Louisa Hodges Ward, of Beaufort Coun ty, was living at what is known as the James Henry Ward place on the Washington Road in Bear Grass Township The home was off the- traveled path of the in vaders. but Mrs. Perry vividly recalls the time when she fan in to a big Yankee outfit. "My mother and I had started to visit old Aunt Bettie Biggs. TOBACCO SEED The common mistake on the part of many tobacco growers is the sowing of the seed beds too thickly. An ounce of tobacco seed contains 350.000 seeds, which should furnish plants for from 35 to 50 acres of tobacco if all were well developed. a few miles from Smith wick Creek Church and ran into the Yankee army I remember very well how my mother tried to es cape by driving into Millie Rog ers' yard, but the Yankees found us there They took our horse and cart and then they took the shoes right off my feet and part of the clothes off my back. I was just out of bed after a long seige of typhoid fever, and I remember my mother pleading with the Yankee soldiers. I did not have a strand of hair on my head. My mother called that to the atten tion of the soldiers in. an effort] I to gain their sympathy. But they I ] only laughed and stated how sor-! ! ry they were, but that they must take everything they possibly] could. "Possibly it was some poor sol dier who had a daughter back home in need of shoes," Mrs Per ry commented Forced to their feet, Mrs. Ward and her little egiht-year^old girl walked down the road and stop l ped at John Alfred Griffin, who, according to Mrs. Perry's best recollection, lived a short dis tance from the "cross roads," or the spot where John A. Griffin now operates a filling station. "The Yankees were just finish ing a good job <>f ransacking the plantation," Mrs Perry contin ued. "There were hundreds of soldiers scattered over the place, and one had nailed a sign on a porch post informing others that the place had been pillaged and that further search was not nec essary. My mother leaned against the post, and Miss Lucinda