The Fight at the Fence in Habberton’s War Tale
Sergeant Mick leads a clutch of Summerton troopers to hold a fence line against a gray mass of Johnnies. With carbine fire and improvised fence-rail weapons, Mick is wounded but refuses to yield, while Brainard and Frost manage skirmishers and a retreating foe as the regiment arrives late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mick
Pat Callahan
Brainard
Summerton
Lsten
Ilse
Big Pat Callahan
Mick McTwyny
Ameriky
Nes
Norah
Belfry Tales and a Rope Full of Oil
A Cassell's Journal vignette describes Jim the bell ringer who jokes that the creak in the tower is not the rope but the men needing oil. He quips that no one has had a drink since allowance time and the rope is not the culprit, the men are.
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Jim
the Vis
Cassell
James Nster
Drmmer
South Carolina
J. G. Welling
Fairfield
J. C. Wilborn
Caughman
Railroad Commission
John G. Mobley
Yorkville
King's Mountain
Old Town
General Assembly
State Board of Penitentiary Directors
State Mechanical and Agricultural Association
H. J. Kinard
Newberry
Wilborn
W. Boyd Evans
Richland
Richland County
Wofford College
Law Department
South Carolina College
Ellerbe
Senate
Mr. Evans
Mr. Wilborn
Evans
Columbia
Rock Hill
Cansler
China
Democratic Party
Greenville
Ansel
Heyward
Eighth Circuit
Robert E. Lee
State gubernatorial campaign rally in Yorkville highlights candidates
A long campaign meeting features gubernatorial hopefuls Heyward Ansel Timmerman and others. Speakers defend rail commissions, roads, education and veteran aid while audience members from York and surrounding counties crowd in. Ansel uses a Brother Crafford story to connect, Timmerman jokes about appearances, and Timmerman praises South Carolina’s farmers and veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enquirer
Messrs. Caughman
Wilborn
Messrs. Wilborn
W. Boyd Evans
Heyward
Dr. Timmerman
Ansel
Crafford
Colonel Tillman
Colonel Talbert
Tillman
Edgefield
Brice
United States
Timmerman
Jonathan
York County
Mr. Ansel
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John Babberton
George Washington
John Habberton
Old York
D. C. Heyward
Colleton County
Jim Tillman
New England
M. F. Ansel
Beaufort
Bro. Crafford
Crawford
Brother Crafford
Craford
Sigirt
Crifford
W. H. Timmerman
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