Part 12 (1/2)
The Wayside Hospital2 is duly established at the 1 Henry M Rice, United States Senator frorated to that State from Vermont in 1835
2 Of ameliorations inthe South Carolina Medical association, Charleston, in 1873: ”On the route froeneral hospital, wounds are dressed and soldiers refreshed at wayside homes; and here be it said with justice and pride that the credit of originating this system is due to the women of South Carolina In a small room in the capital of this State, the first Wayside Ho the war, so their wounds dressed, their ailh the patriotic services and good offices of a few untiring ladies in Colurand syste our own and the late European wars”
206 Columbia Station, where all the railroads meet All honor to Mrs Fisher and the other woirls of Columbia started this hospital In the first winter of the war, reatly when they had to lie over here because of faulty connections between trains Rev Mr Martin, whose habit it was to ested to the Young Ladies' Hospital association their opportunity; straightway the blessed ht have their wounds bound up and be refreshed And now, the ”Soldiers' Rest” has grown into the Wayside Hospital, and older heads and hands relieve younger ones of the griraver responsibilities I am ready to help in every way, by subscription and otherwise, but too feeble in health to go there aree House, ”We are breaking our heads against a stone wall We are bound to be conquered We can not keep it up ainst so powerful a nation as the United States Crowds of Irish, Dutch, and Scotch are pouring in to swell their armies They are proet them Even if we are successful we can not live without Yankees” ”Now,” says Mrs Browne, ”I call that man a Yankee spy” To which I reply, ”If he were a spy, he would not dare show his hand so plainly”
”To think,” says Mrs Browne, ”that he is not taken up Seward's little bell would tinkle, a guard would come, and the Grand Inquisition of A of an eye, if he had ventured to speak against Yankees in Yankee land”
General Preston said he had ”the right to take up any
207 one as not in his right place and send hied” ”Then do take up ht place in this little Governor's Council” The general stared at ic tones, ”If I could put hiht to be!” This I ih compliment and was duly ready with my thanks Upon reflection, it is borne in upon ht have been ination
Then Mrs Browne described the Prince of Wales, whose ned us from morn to dewy eve, and upbraided us with our ill-bred manners and customs The Prince, when he was here, conformed at once to whatever he saas the way of those who entertained his He took off his gloves at once when he saw that the President wore none He began by bowing to the people ere presented to hi hands, he shook hands, too When s affably with Browne on the White House piazza, he expressed his content with the fine cigars Browne had given hi soot ahead of one to bed, the Prince ran into his room in a jolly, boyish way, and said: ”Mr Buchanan, I have coars you have fora beautiful shaded back street, a carriage passed with Governor Means in it As soon as he saw ain and again It was a whole-souled greeting, as the saying is, and I returned it with my whole heart, too ”Good-by,” he cried, and I responded ”Good-by” I ain I am not sure that I did not shed a few tears
General Preston and Mr Chesnut were seated on the
208 piazza of the Hampton house as I walked in I opened my batteries upon them in this scornful style: ”You cold, forhed down by your own dignity You will never know the rapture of such a sad farewell as John Means and I have just interchanged He was in a hack,” I proceeded to relate, ”and I was on the sidewalk He was on his way to the war, poor fellow The hack in the ray hairs I do not knohat he ht of us John Means did not suppress his feelings at an unexpected ood It is a life of terror and foreboding we lead My heart is in my mouth half the time But you two, under no possible circuet your manners”
Read Russell's India all day Saintly folks those English when their blood is up Sepoys and blacks we do not expect anything better from, but what an exaels” from the West set them
The beautiful Jewess, Rachel Lyons, was here to-day She flattered Paul Hayne audaciously, and he threw back the ball
To-day I saw the Rowena to this Rebecca, when Mrs Edward Barnwell called She is the purest type of Anglo-Saxon - exquisitely beautiful, cold, quiet, calest eyelashes, and her eyes so light in color sone and water” At any rate, she has a patent right to them; there are no , but lovely beyond words
Blanton Duncan told us a story of Morgan in Kentucky Morgan walked into a court where they were trying soe was about to pronounce sentence, but Morgan rose, and begged that he e asked ere his
209 witnesses ”My naan, and my witnesses are 1,400 Confederate soldiers”
Mrs Izard witnessed two instances of patriotism in the caste called ”Sandhill lackeys” One forlorn, chill, and fever-freckled creature, yellow, dirty, and dry as a nut, was selling peaches at ten cents a dozen Soldiers collected around her cart She took the cover off and cried, ”Eat away Eat your fill I never charge our soldiers anything” They tried to make her take pay, but when she steadily refused it, they cheered her ht for you and keep off the Yankees” Another poor Sandhill ave them to the hospital
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XII FLAT ROCK, N C
August 1,1862 - August 8,1862 FLAT ROCK, N C, August 1,1862 - Being ill I left Mrs McMahan's for Flat Rock1 It was very hot and disagreeable for an invalid in a boarding-house in that cliirls came part of the ith me
The cars were crowded and a la on his crutches in the thoroughfare that runs between the seats One of us gave him our seat Youa seat for our party after that Dr La Borde quoted a classic anecdote In soave hih they had kept their seats The comment was, ”Lacedemonians practice virtue; Athenians kno to admire it”
Nathan Davis happened accidentally to be at the station at Greenville He took ie of Molly and myself, for my party had dwindled to us two He ith us to the hotel, sent for the landlord, told hiood rooms for us and saw that ere made 1 Flat Rock was the summer resort of many cultured families from the low countries of the South before the war Many attractive houses had been built there It lies in the region which has since becoion, and in which stands Biltmore
211 comfortable in every way At dinner I entered that i-room alone, but I saw friends and acquaintances on every side My first exploit was to repeat to Mrs Ives Mrs Pickens's blunder in taking a suspicious attitude toward ree with her Martha Levy explained the grave faces ofthat Colonel Ives was a New Yorker My distress was dire
Louisa Hae Cuthbert, with his ar to risk the shaking of a stagecoach; he was on his way to his cousin, Williae Cuthbert is a type of the finest kind of Southern soldier We can not make them any better than he is Before the war I knew him; he traveled in Europe with my sister, Kate, and Mary Withers At once I offered hied for me
Molly sat opposite to me, and often when I was tired held my feet in her lap Captain Cuthbert's man sat with the driver We had ample room We were a dilapidated company I was so ill I could barely sit up, and Captain Cuthbert could not use his right hand or arar, etc He was very quiet, grateful, gentle, and, I was going to say, docile He is a fiery soldier, one of those whose whole face becoured in battle, so one of hishis ith his company He does not blow his own trumpet, but I made him tell me the story of his duel with the Mercury's reporter He see tiht we stopped at a country house half-way toward our journey's end There we met Mr Charles Lowndes Rawlins Lowndes, his son, is with Wade Ha's yard, our
212 hack the place for the hotel Then wemen say)
Burnet Rhett, with his steed, was at the door; horse and old artillery uniform as they could bear He held his horse The stirrups were Mexican, I believe; they looked like little sidesaddles Seeing his friend and crony, George Cuthbert, alight and leave a veiled lady in the carriage, this handso artillerist walked round and round the carriage, talked with the driver, looked in at the doors, and at the front Suddenly I bethought me to raise my veil and satisfy his curiosity Our eyes met, and I smiled It was impossible to resist the coh to be George Cuthbert's astric fever, alreeted his vision He instantly allant steed and pranced away to his fiance He is to reatest heiress in the State, Miss Aiken Then Captain Cuthbert told e, and then for weeks life was a blank; I re on for so long a time took me by the throat At Greenville I hadof Barny Heyward, once the husband of the lovely Lucy Izard, noer and a bon parti He was there nursing Joe, his brother So was the beautiful Henrietta Magruder Heyward, no, for poor Joe died There is soe and lustrous black eyes No in heart has never beat one throb the faster for any mortal here below - until nohen it surrenders to Barny Well, as I said, Joseph Heyward died, and rapidly did the bereaved beauty shake the dust of this poor Confederacy froht across the water
213 [Let me insert here now, e Cuthbert While I was living in the winter of 1863 at the corner of Clay and Twelfth Streets in Richmond, he cairls were staying atsoldiers who ran down froallantly facing odds at Sharpsburg1 And he asked if he should chance to be wounded would I have hiht to Clay Street
He was shot at Chancellorsville,2 leading his eon did not think hi at once to our house” He kneould soon get well there Also that ”I need not be alarmed; those Yankees could not kill me” He asked one of his friends to write a letter to his mother Afterward he said he had another letter to write, but that he wished to sleep first, he felt so exhausted At his request they then turned his face away froain to look at hi time It was bitter cold; wounded men lost much blood and eakened in that way; they lacked warht have been saved by one good hot drink or a few enerals said to e like Captain Cuthbert's are contagious; such , or Antietaht in western Maryland, a few miles north of Harper's Ferry, on Septe under McClellan, and the Confederates under Lee
2 The battle of Chancellorsville, where the losses on each side were ht about fifty miles northwest of Richmond on May 2, 3, and 4, 1863 The Confederates were under Lee and the Federals under Hooker In this battle Stonewall Jackson was killed
214 army are invaluable; losses like this weakened us, indeed” But I er around the memory of the bravest of the brave - a true exeay, unfortunate - M B C]
August 8th - Mr Daniel Blake drove down to lish phaeton, with stout and strong horses to htful days at his hospitable mansion I met there, as a sort of chaplain, the Rev Mr -He dealt unfairly byprayers, he introduced an extemporaneous prayer and prayed for me e and fury David W said it was a clear case of hitting a fellohen he was down Afterward the fun of it all struck hter It was not an edifying religious exercise, to say the least, as far as I was concerned
Before Chancellorsville, was fatal Sharpsburg1 My friend, Colonel Means, killed on the battle-field; his only son, Stark, wounded and a prisoner His wife had not recovered from the death of her other child, Emma, who had died of consu on a bed when they told her of her husband's death, and then they tried to keep Stark's condition from her They think now that sheover her face She did not utter one word She reht shahich she had thrown over her head and found 1 During the summer of 1862, after the battle of Malvern Hill and before Sharpsburg, or Antieta i, July 3d and 4th; Harrison's Landing again, July 31st; Cedar Mountain, August 9th; Bull Run (second battle), August 29th and 30th, and South Mountain, September 14th
215 she was dead Miss Mary Stark, her sister, said afterward, ”No wonder! Hoas she to face life without her husband and children? That was all she had ever lived for” These are sad, unfortunate memories Let us run away fro this year, 1862, when all our South Carolina troops are in Virginia? Here ithout soldiers or arh the Trenholm firm He had arms to sell to the Confederacy He laid the foundation of a niter-bed; and the Confederacy sent to Coluin theirs He bought up all the old arms and had them altered and repaired He built shi+ps He is they had long stood sorely in need He i and weaving All the world was set to spinning cotton He tried to stop the sale of whisky, and alas, he called for reserves - that is, ivable offense of sending the sacred negro property to work on fortifications away from their owners' plantations
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