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.
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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 <CJrif-1
fin) yelled, 'For heavens' sake,
Louisa, don't tear that sign down,
for the scoundrels have already
taken everything we have and if
the .sign is torn down the next
gang will take us.' I can remem
ber Miss Lueinda laying it on the
Yankees just as if it had happen
ed yesterday
"They (the soldiers) did us no
bodily harm, and strange as it
may seem I was not afraid of
them.''-Mrs. Perry declared as stre
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The inventor, W. C Purdy, ex
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more than three-quarters of a cen
tury ago.
I .eft stranded at the Griffin
home. Mrs. Ward and her young
daughter stayed there a few days
until the army had fought its way
through the Confederate lines at
I it tie Creek and Haw Is Mill. Then
they went to live with Mrs. Per
ry's grandfather. John Hodges,
over in Beaufort County for a
while.
I "The hardships were many, hut
we seemed to get along some
how." Mrs. Perry said
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