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The Union Republican Newspaper
April 13, 1911
Reminiscent
April 19, 46 years ago, a detachment of the union Army passed through Salem. Although a small boy at that time the Local Editor well remembers the
occasion and the excitement it caused. The approach of the soldiers had been heralded and live stock was taken into the country and hidden away.
Jewels and valuables were secreted, for the citizens knew not what the consequences might be. The late Joshua Boner was Mayor of Salem at that time
and Rev. Robert DeSchweinitz was Principal of Salem Academy. They rode out and met the officers and requested protection, which was courteously
granted. Winston at that time was but a village. The soldiers marched through town and camped upon the hill beyond the Salem Creek. Gen. Stoneman
was in command. We can still remember seeing their camp fires burning brightly, in the distance. We also recollect standing on the pavement at the
Widow’s House, Main St., and some soldier leading a broken down gray horse, tendering us the halter that led the animal. We accepted the gift, but it
proved an elephant on our hands and some one near soon relieved us of the responsibility. Those were days when we drank rye and wheat coffee, wore
wooden bottomed shoes and homespun clothes. A boy at the present time wastes more money in a month than we saw in a year, but with it all we were
happy and contented and that is the sum and substance of a full-rounded human existence. It is not our worldly possessions that make life complete, but
how we enjoy them and the real satisfaction which they afford which counts when we pause and cast up our balance sheet of earthly experiences.
Submitted and transcribed by Betsy L. Hendrix, 2008
April 13, 1911
Reminiscent
April 19, 46 years ago, a detachment of the union Army passed through Salem. Although a small boy at that time the Local Editor well remembers the
occasion and the excitement it caused. The approach of the soldiers had been heralded and live stock was taken into the country and hidden away.
Jewels and valuables were secreted, for the citizens knew not what the consequences might be. The late Joshua Boner was Mayor of Salem at that time
and Rev. Robert DeSchweinitz was Principal of Salem Academy. They rode out and met the officers and requested protection, which was courteously
granted. Winston at that time was but a village. The soldiers marched through town and camped upon the hill beyond the Salem Creek. Gen. Stoneman
was in command. We can still remember seeing their camp fires burning brightly, in the distance. We also recollect standing on the pavement at the
Widow’s House, Main St., and some soldier leading a broken down gray horse, tendering us the halter that led the animal. We accepted the gift, but it
proved an elephant on our hands and some one near soon relieved us of the responsibility. Those were days when we drank rye and wheat coffee, wore
wooden bottomed shoes and homespun clothes. A boy at the present time wastes more money in a month than we saw in a year, but with it all we were
happy and contented and that is the sum and substance of a full-rounded human existence. It is not our worldly possessions that make life complete, but
how we enjoy them and the real satisfaction which they afford which counts when we pause and cast up our balance sheet of earthly experiences.
Submitted and transcribed by Betsy L. Hendrix, 2008