Anson County NcArchives History .....Remembers Deeds Of Raiders 
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Arkansas Gazette, October 6, 1907 

Remembers Deeds of Raiders

(written by Margaret E. Rush)

My home is now in Union county, Ark. I was a small child in Anson county, 
N.C., during the war, where my mother, whose name was Elizabeth Myers, was 
born and raised. My father having died before the war, I had four sisters and 
one brother, who was forced to go to the war at the age of 17. He died six 
weeks later. If mother was living, she could tell better than I can of the 
hardships and troubles of that cruel war - how hard it was to give up her only 
son and have to provide for a family of girls alone, and of the raid of 
Sherman's army, who destroyed the stock of provisions, house and furniture, 
and left the people to suffer the consequences with the free negroes. I was 
small, but well to I remember seeing the Yankees riding the roads, with their 
horses loaded with meat, chickens, blankets and everything they could carry. 
They burned the mills and gins. I saw Mr. Lockhart's gin burn. It was full of 
wheat and cotton. I can't tell half what we suffered from the effects of the 
war. I was raised without a man on the place, and had to do all kinds of work. 
I married a man here by the name of Rush. His father died in the war; his 
mother was left with her first born to raise alone. 


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