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Reminiscences ~ (Charlie Harvey)
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house now owned arid lived in by ~.H. Gist. The Cross Roads were made by the Fish Darn Perry Road arid the old Ninety.-.Six Road. They tell me that the old Ninety..~5ix Road v~as started as an Indian trail by the Oherokeelndians, way yonder before the Revolution. I have been told that a girl named ~mily Gei~e~‘ rode that ninety~six miles Z i~ri one day to carry a message to an ~&mericangeneral. The message kept the general and h1~‘ army from bein~g captured by the red~coats.

	“Near the Kay Jeter place jt~st belov the Ninety—six road there v~îas a small drill ground. The place is now known as the Pitt~ man placeand is owned by thewife ofDr. J.T. Jeter of Santuc, I believe. Mr. ‘Kay‘ would send a slave ona ~horse or a mule to noti~ ±~y the men to come arid drill there. Prom here they went on to Mulligan‘s Pield some five or six miles away for the big drills. is I have told you, Mulligan‘s Field was the bi~~fieid for all that countryside. They tell me that the same driliin~ tactics used then aridthere, are the same used right down yonder at Camp Jackson. ~

	“~Por about four of live years after the Confederate War, we had very little to eat. Vie had given everything we could to thé soldiers. Afterthe ?May Surrender‘ there came a bi~floodand ~ wa$hed—everythin~ away, and th~e crops were sopromising that August. ~8-7~ou know, that wa8 in ‘65.~Th&rairxs and the high water destroy~ ed everythiri~.~J do not believe that Broad RIver and the Porest and Tyger have ever been as ~ be~fore or since.

	-	“On Henderson‘s Island they saved nolivéstock at all. The~ just did~mana~e to 8ave themselveé. ~‘hey had a hard. time getting the slavés to the mainland. Mrs. Saille Henderson, her step.~8on, ~ ~çk and her son, Jim, and daughter . Lyde were in the Henderson house ehen the freshet ‘darne down upon them. They had to ~o up on the second floor of their house but the water carne up there.