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> City Directory. 5
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Mayor, M. L. Arnold,
Recorder, K. W. Madness,
Treasurer, O. F. Craig,
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Aldermen:- F. C. Hoyt, R. B. Ad
ams, G. O. Magness, C. M. Edwards
and W. C. Mims.
Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
in and 7:.'H)p. m. the second and fourth
Sundays in each month. Rev. C. II.
Newman, pastor.
Baptist church, services at ‘f p. m.
Saturday before first Sunday, and 11
a. m. first Sunday in each month.
Rev. W. P. Jackson, pastor.
Christian church, services first and
third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
in. and TdfO p. m. Rev. J. H. McI)on
iel, Pastor.
FRATERNITIES
Pannelly Chapter H. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls,
E. H. P.; T. li. Bearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 2 8
meets second Saturday night,. R. K.
McHenry, W. M.; J. T. Tharp, Sec.
Newark Encampment I. O. (). F. 2
meets second and fourth Wednesday
nights. (). (). Moss, C. 1’.; G. L. 1- ink,
Scribe.
Newark Camp W.O.W. No. 2*8 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights in
month. C. J. Magness, C. C.; J. T.
Tharp. Clerk.
Newark Grove W. No. 87 meets
first and third Tuesday nights. Mrs.
C. M. Edwards, Guardian; N. A.
Speed, Clerk.
Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 263
meets the first and third Wednesday
nights. .J. tV. Stone, N. G ; T. M.
Harrelson, Secretary.
Banner Rebekah Lodge No. 15
meets every Saturday afternoon at 5
o’clock. Mrs. T. .J. Raney, N. G.; Miss
Lucy Lawton, secretary.
Independence Lodge No. 2379 K. &
L. of II. meets first and tnird Monday
nights in each month. E. M. Edgar,
Protector; /.ed Griffith, Secretary.
A. A. HENDERSON
Notary Public
Makes a specialty of
Writing and Correcting Deeds.
Office with H. E. Hawthorne
V. L Pttscoe L. G Poe
Phone No. 10 Phone No. 24
PASCOE & POE
Physicians and Surgeons
Office with Newark Drug Company,
Front Street. Phone No 17.
Office hours8 to 12 a. m., and 1 to5 p. m.
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Not only that, but it
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THE NEWARK
Telephone Exchange,
W. C. Mims. Pres. & Gen. Mgr.
Postmaster Robbed.
G. W. Fonts, postmaster at
"Riverton, Ft., nearly lost his life
and was robbed of all comfort,ac
cording to his letter, which says,
“For 20 years 1 had chronic liver
complaint,which led to such a se
vere case of jaundice that even my
linger nails turned yellow, when
my doctor prescribed Electric
Ritters, which cured me and have
kept me well for 11 years.” Sure
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weakness and all stomach, liver,
kidney and bladder derangements.
A wonderful tonic. At Sturdi
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SOLDIER REMINISCENCES.
Incidents Which Illustrate the Lights
and the Shadows of Sol
diering.
I have lately been permitted to look
over and make extracts from a number
of letters written to his home from
Louisiana. 41 years ago, by a comrade,
the captain of one of the companies of
the regiment with which 1 served. The
pictures that he draws of the life led
by many of our soldiers in rich and fer
tile western Louisiana, as well as of
the pleasant situation of many who were
on duty or convalescent at New Orleans,
contrast sharply with the overpowering
fatigues and prodigal bloodshed of the
summer campaign of 1863 on the Missis
sippi that followed. Sad indeed was the
contra* in the case of the writer. Be
fore speaking of his fate I will make
some interesting extracts from his let
ters. Remembering the situations he
destribes for the information of his rela
tives in far off Illinois. I can say that he
does not color the facts in the least.
Writing from the St. Charles hotel.
New Orleans, under date of January 26.
1863 (having come to the city on some
temporary duty), he thus describes the
situation of his company at one of the
stations "in the Louisiana lowlands."
on the railroad between Algiers ami
Brashear City:
"I have been, at my own request,
drawn back to Tigerville. thus concen
trating my company, and giving us bet
ter quarters. I now live in a house fur
nished with marble-top furniture, have a
bed. fire-place, extension dining-table,
two negro men and one negro woman
;_^ i
BEFORE SI'XKISE Hl'NDHEDS OF
MEN IN HUE WERE DEAD OR
WOUNDED.
for servants. We live on fresh beef, corn
cake and puddings, pancakes, sirup,
fresh fish. eggs, ducks and chickens. I
am not exaggerating; this is all so. I
burn kerosene in asplendid center-lamp,
have vases of flowers, and a splendid li
brary. You will wonder how all this can
be so. Well, nay house is on a sequestered
estate, and I am at liberty to use the
mansion, furniture, horses, mules, ne
groes, books, etc. This parish is one of
those excepted in the emancipation
proclamation, and I have my hands full
to answer the claims of masters and
negroes as to their status, and what I
can do for or against them. In addition
to my military duties as captain of a
line of pickets 1 am assistant provost
marshal for the district of Lafourche.
“The evening before I left Bayou
Boeuf I dined at the house of a planter
named Pointer. His wife played the
piano beautifully; she reminded me of
home by giving 'Monastery Bells.’ ‘The
Gondola.' ‘Three Bells Polka.’ etc. She
mixed in several southern airs, and
wound up w ith ‘Dixie.’ in revenge for
which 1 played 'Columbia.' ‘Star
Spangled Banner’ and ‘America.’ ’’
In the following April the writer of
the letter from which the above is an
extract was prostrated after several
w eeks’ service in the exhausting cam
paign that preceded the investment of
Port Hudson, and was sent to New Or
leans to recuperate. The following is
from a letter dated there May 28:
"Making up my mind that I might as
well stay in the city till 1 got well, we
took furnished rooms at No. Ifi3 St.
Charles street. We are on the first
floor, have a room 12 feet high, marble
fire-place, bed ten feet high, mirrors,
Turkey carpets, bureaus and gas chande
liers: in short, it is the front parlor oi
an elegant house. Here we vegetate:
rise at eight, go to the city library, get
our lwmks, read and write till four p m.
dine—and such dinners! They would
make an epicure sigh. After dinnef
(which is supper as well) we take a cat
and ride out on the ‘shell road’ to th<
lake, or down to the battle ground, conn
in. visit a restaurant for ice cream
• come home, dismiss the carriage and gc
to bed. It is a lazy but an elegant life
If vou could look in on me at this mo
merit you wduUl find me m my morning
gown. smoking in the highest style of
elegance, and making the most of my
sick leave generally. This afternoon
we took a barouche to the lake. From
the city out over the shell road there
was one string of flying carriages. Ar
riving at the lake, you may take refresh
ments. a shot in the pistol-gallery, a
walk in the garden, or ramble out on the
pier and watch the waves rising and j
falling, out to the purple edge of sunset.
Then as the shadows fall, shutting in th<*
white sails of the schooners and the
black smoke of the steamers, we return
to the carriage, to find that the driver
has lit the lamps, and back we roll totne
city. Sometimes you will find 300 teams
at the lake at sunset. So much for where
I am. and what 1 am doing. I shall re
join my regiment next week at Brashear
City. We expect to be ordered up to
Baton Rouge, but there is no certainty.
I am in hopes the war will terminate
soon, so that I can get home. I shall
come as soon as the river is open to !
travel, anyhow. I think I can get a \
lenve of absence. I trust I shall not 1
come home with only one change of
clothing, and myself in It. wearing a :
loose pine or walnut overcoat."
A postscript to the same letter g'ves
the stirring news which reached N< w
Orleans while the writer was depicting
the pleasures of life there, and show*
his sharp summons to the field.
“Col. Cowles, of the One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth New York, was killed
yesterday at Port Hudson; also Col.
Chapin, of the One Hundred and Six
teenth New York. Gen. WettzePs brig- j
ade has done noble service, and Capt.
S- and myself are all on fire to be
with them. We start to-morrow a. m.
Our regiment will be along some time in
the night, and I shall go up the river with
it. Lieut. N—— is by my side, writing ,
to his wife. My joke about my pine or
walnut overcoat may not be without its
realization. If I do realize it. may God !
Jdess you all."
i his was probably the last letter that
tiiis officer wrote home. Two weeks had
passed after we reached our lines around
Port Hudson, and then came the terri
ble and bloody assault of June 14. CapL
T- was unusually reserved and seri
ous in the interim; I have heard that he
informed some of his comrades that he
had a premonition of approaching death.
He seemed thoughtful on the night of
the 13th. when we separated. He tried
to speak lightly as we grasjied hands,
but it was plajn that he was laboring
under some constraint.
Before sunrise of the next morning
hundreds of men in blue were dead or
wounded before the confederate works.
} was taken off on a stretcher, and on
the way saw poor T-once more. He
lay on the ground breathing his last, but
able to recognize me. though he could
not speak. He was shot through the
breast, and lived but a few minutes. His
remains lie in the cemetery at Baton
Rouge.
There could have been no sharper,
more painful contrast than that be
tween the pleasant pictures present
ed by his letter and that offered by hi?
own death very soon among thousand?
of such of that time.
BATTLE OF EZRA CHURCH.
The Story of an Interesting Engage
ment Fought by the Army
of the Tennessee.
In the new alignment of the Army
of the Tennessee, Dodge, with the Six
teenth corps, was immediately west
of Proctor's creek. Beyond him on
the southwest, with his right at Ezra
chapel, was Blair’s corps—th« Seven
tenth. Ezra chapel was on the Lick
skillet road, leading into Atlanta. On
Blair's right, and still further to the
southwest, was Logan’s corps. The
three corps formed a crescent about
Ezra church. July 2H they began
throwing up breastworks and digging
trenches at once, it was a work both
armies were now well used to.
The Army of the Tennessee finished
their defensive works none too soon
says the American Tribune. During the
I forenoon already heavy firing w as heard
on t'neir front.
Hood was attempting another sortie
the second from his works at Atlanta
At noon a great force of confederates
was seen approaching rapidly iron: At
lanta along the Lickskillet road. This
was the attacking army. It was Hood's
own old corps, now under command ol
Gen. S. D. Lee, who had relieved
Cheatham.
The attack fell on Howard’s right
and on Logan’s corps. The battle ol
Ezra church was fought on the union
side by the Army of the Tennessee alone
and by Logan’s corps of that. army.
Hood's manner of fighting was ones
more illustrated at Ezra church. As
sault after assault was made against
Logan, fierce and fast, but. he was not
shaken. Ol' one of the confederate
charges the author of the “History oi
the Fifteenth Iowa Regiment ' writes:
“A gallant and handsome general, a
magnificent horseman, mounted on s
large, fiery, dappled gray horse, which
made him conspicuous, led them with
drawn saber, who we learned, was
Gen. E. C. Walthall, of Grenada. Miss.,
a very distinguished lawyer, later Unitec
States senator from that state. Thret
times he led that grand veteran col
umn, as it were, into the jaws of death
to charge upon our works, and three
times they were repulsed. It seemed as
if half the army were firing at the gen
eral. I took seven shots at him myself
as fast as a musket could be loaded foi
me. It is not strange that I did not hit
him, but 1 have often wondered how
he escaped, as 1 learn he and his horse
also did. unhurt, with all those sharp
shooter after his scalp.”
The battle lasted four hours; ther
it ended as that east of Atlanta, July
22, had done. The confederates re
tired, with great loss, to their intrench
ments at Atlanta. Hood made no more
sorties. At Ezra chapel he lost 4,641
men. The union loss was 700.
Union Offering to Confederate Fund.
A union soldier who lost a legatth*
battle of Spottsylvanla was one of tht 1
Christmas contributors to the Confed
erate Veterans association oi Washing
ton. Thai organization charges itsell j
with the duty of aiding needy confed
erate soldiers and receives many offer
ings at Christmas time. The union vet
eran accompanied his contribution with
this letter: "The inclosed Is in memory
of the late 'John Reb.’ who knocked me
out at Spottsvlvania courthouse, May
12. 1864 In the language of Tiny Tim
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