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This is quite an honor and Mr. Ar- Ha thur’s friends in Union congratulate him.Letter From an Old Soldier.An.Jonesville, S. C., June 15, 1912.Mr. Editor of Union Times:I have been thinking of late a good deal. The pension board of Union An county adjourned the first Monday in March, last, all members of the board Ta being present—Dr. M. W, Culp, R. W. Tinsley, H. S. Porter, B. G. Wilburn, and N. B. Eison, composing the board.All expressed the thought that they. had treated all old soldiers and widows of soldiers justly. Since then Pr. M.W. Culp has gone. He was a first-class man and did not hesitate to do his whole duty in every case towards our old wounded and disabled soldiers and wives of soldiers (widows!. Next H. S. Porter, an old soldier of Co.C, 7th S. C, Cavalry, was called to the beyond. He did hia duty as a soldier and as a citiden and on the Pension board, for several years and always tried to do what was right: and lat, our old true and tried friend,R. W. Tinsley. He was a high private in Co. C, 13th S. C. V. He waa wounded in the first battle of Cold Harbor, Va., on June 27th, 1862, shot through the right lung and left on the battle-field as dead, later carried to the hospital, and after a long time was furloughed and brought home and placed on light duty. After the war, summer of 1865, I met him at my old Uncle Andrew Floyd’s, at Burned Factory, on Tyger river. He asked me about opening a jewelry shop some where. I was living in Union at that time and told him there was an opening for a good man in that line, old man Powell wa3 not doing much, and Christian Keisler gone back to Germany and A. Von Beiman too old to do much, so he came in 1866 and he rented tools from Mr. J. Ed Meng, and later on he bought the tools. He Jnar-ried Miss Saliie Rogers and continued in the jewelry business and raiseda large family. He lost his wife some ^1 years ago. R, W. Tinsley waa a chafTter member of Camp 708 (T. R. Giles) United Confederate Veterans, at Union. was color bearer of this camp, and later on was promoted to division color bearer wiih rank a3 captain on commander's staff, and held this position up to the time of his death. He was on pension board and did his duty towards all concerned. He was a good citizen and friend to all and will be missed by the people of Union and by me more than all the rest. Peace to the ashes of all these members of the board. We will have to have a new board next year, as the other member, Mr. B. G. Wilburn, is a candidate for the legislature and will be elected.On the 12th of this month, 1861, I was color bearer of Co. E, 121 S. C. V. I. We had a fight at Vienna, Va, with the Yankees. We did not lose a man; the enemy lost 300 or more, killed and wounded and captured. Our company being in front and nearest the Yankees, who were on board a train coming from Alexander to Danville, Va., on the Potomac river. We charged and killed the first man, a Yankee. I saw his head shot off even with his lower jaw. They were on a flat car and were playing cards. All four were killed. This Yankee with no head, held his hand of cards, (hearts were trumps), and he held the ace, jack and duce, and his partner held the king and ten. W. H. Carlisle, then a private in our company, was on my right, and said to me, He holds the best hand for a dead man. W. H. Carlisle is living in Texas now, and is a doctor. He was my mess and tent-mate.I have a deck of cards that I car-ried to the army January 12th, 1861. They are all right except two cards with corners torn off by James Norris and J V. Nethers in a difference about a game. They are both dead. James Norris was killed at Hilton, and J. V. Nethers died in Florida service during the war.All of my mess-mates in Co. E, 1st S. C. V. Infantry are dead but W. H. Carlisle and myself. All in Co. B, 18th S. C. V. Infantry are dead but me, and all in Co. F., 6th S. C Cavalry are gone but me again. Messmates of Co. K., 5th S. C. Cavalry all are gone. My detail for private guard at Gen. M. C. Butler’s headquarters are dead, namely, D. A T. Farr, Clough Bishop, Joseph Hancack, and Luke Swygert.I have been requested by many people, old and young, to write up some incidents of the great war between the States. I will write again but hope it will not be so sad.N. B. Eison.Wi
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