The Hustler:
I am a Confederate Veteran of Millards Battalion and Captain Courds company of junior reserve. We were ordered from camp at Wilmington to Masonboro Sound about the 18th of December 1864. I was feeling very unwell, though I made the trip with aches and pains, the next morning I was broke out with the measles. Up in the morning the rain began to come in showers and having no shelter, I got wet as water would wet me, then chills and very sick. I could not be up and laid on the ground in the rain till about sun down, when the regiment doctor came. He had me put in the ambulance and carried to Wilmington and put in the hospital where I remained until Christmas. On Saturday evening the Federal army began bombarding Fort Fisher and continued through the night and Sunday till late in the afternoon when the Federal army gained possession of the fort. There was no loved one, in my weak condition, to speak a word of comfort nor to give as much as a cup of cold water. Thus was my Christmas in 1864.
Presley Shepherd
Ferguson, Dec. 26, 1925
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1926
This article spelled a first name "Pressly" in the headline and "Presley" at the signature. I've typed it up that way because I don't know which is correct. It's also a reminder to people studying family history that you might not find information on a relative because typing errors occurred.
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92072938/1926-01-06/ed-1/seq-1/
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