THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
May 29, l906
WAR TIMES DISCUSSED
On Saturday afternoon J.T. Harris who resides two miles west of
Sidney called at the Herald office and in the course of
conversation the topic of the civil war was brought up
incidentally and discussed at some length.
He was then a young man living in Virginia and as the slavery
question became the storm center of thought he naturally became
interested and in January 1862 he enlisted in the 63rd Virginia
Infantry and took part in some of the notable battles and during
a skirmish of the picket lines near Tunnel Hill, Georgia, he was
wounded. He was captured at Kennesaw Mountain
and taken as a prisoner to Camp Douglas, Chicago, and there kept
until the close of the war.
He saw Gens. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Longstreet and Pemberton,
and was in Gen. Hood's corps. He is now glad that the termination
of the war favored the north, but then he looked at the question
in a different light as no doubt the rank and file of the
southern soldiers did. He has but one grand sentiment to express
and that is that the country may never be divided so that war may
ensue and that the Star Spangled Banner may float unmolested