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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Eneas Africanus + +Author: Harry Stillwell Edwards + +Release Date: August 31, 2010 [EBook #33594] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENEAS AFRICANUS *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + +<h1><i>Eneas Africanus</i></h1> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> +<img src="images/title.jpg" width="800" height="1151" alt="" title="" id="coverpage" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 60%;" /> + +<p class="smallbold"><span class="smcap">Copyright</span>, 1920<br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">The J. W. Burke Company</span><br /></p> +<p> +<!-- Page 1 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2><i>Author's Preface</i></h2> + + +<p> +Dear to the hearts of the Southerners, +young and old, is the vanishing +type conspicuous in Eneas of this +record; and as in a sidelight herein +are seen the Southerners themselves, +kind of heart, tolerant and appreciative +of the humor and pathos of the +negro's life. Eneas would have been +arrested in any country other than the +South. In the South he could have +traveled his life out as the guest of +his "white folks." Is the story +true? Everybody says it is. +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/image005.jpg" width="100" height="42" alt="Decorative Illustration" title="" /> +</div> +<p><!-- Page 2 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p> +<!-- Page 3 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/image007.jpg" width="600" height="83" alt="Decorative Illustration" title="" /> +</div> + + +<h2 class="twoem"><i>Eneas Africanus</i></h2> + +<hr style="width: 90%;" /> + +<p class="bold">Extract from the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i> of October 12, 1872</p> + +<hr style="width: 90%;" /> + +<p class="twoem">WHO HAS THIS CUP?</p> + +<p class="center"><big>MAJOR GEORGE E. TOMMEY ADVERTISES FOR +HIS SILVER CUP.</big></p> + + +<p> +Editor <i>Constitution</i>, Atlanta, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +Dear Sir: I am writing to invoke your kind +assistance in tracing an old family negro of +mine who disappeared in 1864, between my +stock farm in Floyd County and my home +place, locally known as Tommeysville, in Jefferson +County. The negro's name was Eneas, +a small, grey-haired old fellow and very talkative. +The unexpected movement of our army +after the battle of Resaca, placed my stock +farm in line of the Federal advance and ex<!-- Page 4 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>posed +my family to capture. My command, +Tommey's Legion, passing within five miles +of the place, I was enabled to give them warning, +and they hurriedly boarded the last south-bound +train. They reached Jefferson County +safely but without any baggage, as they did +not have time to move a trunk. An effort was +made to save the family silver, much of it very +old and highly prized, especially a silver cup +known in the family as the "Bride's Cup" for +some six or eight generations and bearing the +inscription: +</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<span class="iO">"Ye bryde whose lippes kysse myne<br /></span> +<span class="iO">And taste ye water an no wyne<br /></span> +<span class="iO">Shall happy live an hersel see<br /></span> +<span class="iO">A happy grandchile on each knee."<br /></span> +</div> + +<p> +These lines were surrounded with a wreath +and surmounted by a knight's head, visor +down, and the motto: "<span class="smcap">Semper Fidelis</span>."<!-- Page 5 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +</p> + +<p> +This cup was hurriedly packed with other +silver in a hair trunk and intrusted to Eneas +with verbal instructions as to travel. He +drove an old-fashioned, flea-bitten blooded +mare to a one-horse wagon full of forage and +carried all the Confederate money the family +left, to pay his expenses. He was last seen, as +I ascertained soon after the war from a +wounded member of my command, about +eight miles southeast of Atlanta, asleep in the +wagon, the mare turning to the right instead +of keeping the straight road to Macon. Eneas +was a faithful negro, born and raised in the +Tommey family and our belief is he was murdered +by army stragglers and robbed of the +trunk. He had never been over the road he +was traveling, as we always traveled to North +Georgia by rail, shipping the horses likewise. +His geographical knowledge consisted of a +few names—places to which I had at different<!-- Page 6 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +times taken him, and in the neighborhood of +my home, such as Macon, Sparta, Louisville, +and the counties of Washington and Jefferson. +If given a chance to talk he would probably +confine himself to "Lady Chain," the +mare he was driving; "Lightning," the noted +four-mile stallion temporarily in my possession; +the Tommey family and our settlement, +"Tommeysville." On these topics he could +talk eighteen hours a day. +</p> + +<p> +I have no hope of ever seeing Eneas again, +for if living he would have gotten back if he +had to travel all over the South to do it, but +there is a bare chance that the cup may be +found, and I am writing to gratify my daughter, +whose wedding day is approaching. All +brides in the family, since 1670, have used this +cup on their wedding days. If the cup was +stolen, doubtless the thieves sold it, and if so, +the holder may read these lines if they are<!-- Page 7 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +given publicity. I am willing to waive any +question of ownership and purchase the cup +at the holder's valuation, if within my power; +or, if unwilling to sell, he may loan the cup for +a few days. +</p> + +<p> +I shall be greatly obliged if you will publish +this letter with a request that all Southern +papers, daily and weekly, copy the same. +Thanking you in advance and with all good +wishes for your happiness and prosperity, I +am, most respectfully, +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Your obed't servant,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">George E. Tommey</span>,<br /> +Late Major, Tommey's Legion, C. S. A.<br /> +<span style="margin-right: 3em;">P. O., Louisville, Ga.</span> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Althea Lodge, Fayette Co., Ga.<br /> +<span style="margin-right: 3em;">October 15, 1872.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p> +Maj. Geo. E. Tommey,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Louisville, Ga.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p> +Dear Major Tommey: I read with deep<!-- Page 8 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +interest and sympathy your letter in the <i>Atlanta +Constitution</i> inquiring of a negro named +Eneas. This man, I am sure, came to my +house about twenty miles south of Atlanta in +1864. I remember the occasion perfectly, because +he mentioned your name and one of my +boys was serving in your command. I gave +him shelter for the night and food for himself +and horse. He insisted on sleeping in his +wagon. He told me that the mare was famous +on the race track and very valuable and he +was afraid to leave her. This struck me as +singular, at the time, because she seemed old +and broken down. I did not see any trunk, +but his wagon was full of hay and fodder and +he may have had one hidden under it. Eneas +asked me to put him on the road to Thomasville—or +so I understood him—and I gave +him explicit directions as far as Newnan, advising +him to get more at that point. He was<!-- Page 9 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +gone when I arose next morning. I do hope +you will find the old man, as well as the cup. +I took quite a fancy to him. He gave me a +very vivid description of yourself—whom I +had long wished to meet—and of your home, +the twelve-room house, lawn with its three +fountains, beautiful lake and your hundred +negroes in their painted cottages, etc. +</p> + +<p> +Excuse this rambling letter. Your name +has stirred an old woman's memories. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Sincerely your friend,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Martha Horton</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<p> +P. S.—My son William, who served in +your command, married a Connecticut girl. +Think of it, Major! But she proved to be a +noble-hearted woman and has influenced him +to give up tobacco and stimulants in every +form. He travels this territory for a New +York house. His wife is well connected, and +one of her ancestors came over in the May<!-- Page 10 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>flower. +She is with me now and sends you her +regards. Billy has convinced her that next to +General Joseph Johnston, you were the bravest +man in the Georgia armies. +</p> + +<div class="salut">M. H.</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Talbotton, Ga., Oct. 18, 1872.<br /> +</div> + +<p> +Major George Tommey, Louisville, Ga.<br /> +</p> + +<p> +Sir: Read your letter in the <i>Columbus +Enquirer</i>. I kept a livery stable here in '64 +and saw the man you are huntin about that +time. He drove a broken down old speckled +grey mare he called Lady Chain, now that you +mention it, and claimed she was in foal to +"Lightning," the great four-mile horse. I +took this for a joke along with some of the +fairy stories he gave me about the Tommeys, +but he was so polite and humble that I let him +stay over night in the stable. Offered to pay +me next morning, an seemed like he had about +a bushel of Confedrit money; but I was long<!-- Page 11 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +on Confed myself and didn't let him put any +more on me. Don't remember seein any trunk. +He was on his way to Thomasville, so he said, +and I giv him as much directions as he could +carry. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Very truly,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">William Peters</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Thomas County, Oct. 19, 1872. +</div> + +<p> +Major George Tommey, Louisville, Ga.<br /> +</p> + +<p> +Dear Sir: My wife remembered your old +nigger as soon as she read your letter in the +paper, and so did I when she called it to my +mind. He was a big talker all right, and sat +on our back steps half the night talking about +the Tommeys, their race horse, twenty-room +house, yard with six fountains, and a whole +tribe of niggers. We fed him and he slept in +his wagon. Next day he wanted to pay me in +Confederate money; was using a corn sack for +a pocketbook, and it was most full. He moved<!-- Page 12 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +on to Thomasville, about six miles from here, +but I don't think it was the place he was looking +for. I reckon it must have been "Tommeysville" +he was looking for. Major, I took +a good look at Lady Chain and you ain't lost +much if you never get her back, but if you +don't find the nigger, you've lost the champion +liar of Georgia. I hope you get him back, but +it's hardly possible a man talking like he +did could last seven years on the public road. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Respectfully,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Abner Cummings</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 19, 1872. +</div> + +<p> +Hon. Sir and Major: +</p> + +<p> +Your man Eneas came to my home in +Thomasville in the winter of '65 or the fall +of '64, in great distress. He said he had traveled +a thousand miles to get to Thomasville, +but it wasn't the right Thomasville. He had<!-- Page 13 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +no idea of States, geography or direction. +Claimed he lived in Jefferson County, next to +Washington County, and as this describes two +counties across the line in Florida, several +people at different times had sent him over +there. I gave him a letter to a friend over in +Jefferson County near Tallahassee. He had +an old grey mare he said was a famous race +horse, but she didn't look it. Claimed she +was in foal to the celebrated "Lightning," +whose four-mile race in the mud at New Orleans +I witnessed. I thought the old nigger +was loose in the upper story. He had no trunk +when here. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Very truly,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Andrew Loomis</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 20, 1872. +</div> + +<p> +Major Geo. E. Tommey, Tommeysville, via Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +My Dear Sir: Eneas, your old negro, +whose name I had forgotten until I read your<!-- Page 14 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +letter in a local paper, was on my plantation +near here in '65. He came here very blue and +utterly discouraged from Thomasville, Ga. +Said he was looking for a little Thomasville +owned by Major George E. Tommey. He +brought a letter from a friend of mine. There +are no Tommeys in this county, and no Thomasville, +and not knowing what to do with him, +I passed him along to Colonel Chairs, a friend +in Washington County, which is on the gulf +coast. Chairs wrote me that he had had a +great deal of fun out of Eneas. The gulf astonished +him. He declared solemnly that he +knew he was in the wrong Washington, because +there were no oranges, or scrub palmettoes, +or big green spiders (crabs) in his, and +the water had no salt in it. Eneas talked a +good deal of Macon and Louisville, and there +being a county and town so named, besides another +Thomasville, to the north in Alabama,<!-- Page 15 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +Chairs started him up that way. I am truly +sorry the old man came to grief. He was a +harmless old fellow, though a picturesque +liar, as are many old negroes when they talk +of their white folks. +</p> + +<p> +It is possible that Eneas had a trunk, but I +have no recollection of seeing one in his possession. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Yours very truly,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Randolph Thomas</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Louisville, Ala., Oct. 28, 1872.<br /> +</div> + +<p> +Major Tommey, Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +Sir: A ole nigger name of enus come by +hyar in the firs yer atter the war with er old +mare an er colt he claim was by the lightnin. +He was lokin for a tomusville, an I tried to +show him the way back to tomusville, in +Georgia, but he got mad and wanted to fight +me, an ef he hadnt ben er ole man I would +have busted him open. Mr. tommy, you wont<!-- Page 16 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +never see yo nigger no more less he mends +his way of acktin when you are tryin to help +him. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Respectfull, sir, yours,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Pompey Wiley</span> (Colored). +</div> + +<p> +He lef hyar for Macon County. +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Barton, Washington County, Ala. +</div> + +<p> +Major G. E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +Dear Sir: Your negro, Eneas, came to my +place in this county in 1865, I think, from a +little village named Thomasville to the northeast. +He was very poor and his pathetic story +appealed to my sympathies. I let him have +some rations and a piece of land and he +planted a cotton crop. He married a young +mulatto woman on my place that year, and +when he left here about Christmas, 1866, carried +with him a young baby besides the old +mare and her colt. The colt, by the way, was +a beauty.<!-- Page 17 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +</p> + +<p> +Eneas was a puzzle to me, though I have +lived among negroes all my life. His stories +of you and your place were marvels. But for +the fact that he held the mare and colt in your +name, refusing dozens of offers for the latter +when in dire need, I should have put him down +a reckless romancer. He began preaching +here among the negroes and proved to be a +most eloquent spiritual advocate. He claimed +to be the pastor of a big congregation at +home. I heard him on one occasion when he +baptized forty converts and was thrilled by +his imagery and power. +</p> + +<p> +Eneas knew nothing of geography beyond +the names of a few towns and counties. Hearing +of a Macon and Louisville over in Mississippi, +he gathered his household goods into +his wagon in December, '66. I do hope you +will yet find him. Suppose you make inquiries<!-- Page 18 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +through the African Methodist Church? He +ought to be a bishop by this time. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Very respectfully,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">James Tally</span>,<br /> +Attorney at Law. +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Sunshine Parsonage,</span><br /> +Washington County, Mississippi.<br /> +</div> + +<p> +Major Geo. E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +My Dear Sir: I was greatly interested in +your letter copied into our county paper from +the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i>, concerning Eneas +Tommey. He was here in 1868 or 1869 with +a wife and several children. They came in a +one-horse wagon drawn by an old grey mare +he called Lady Chain, and followed by a +splendid young colt he declared was from +celebrated racing stock. An almost worn out +pass from his mistress, Mrs. Tommey, though +it bore no date or address, saved the old man<!-- Page 19 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +from arrest. His story, that he was lost and +on his way home, though remarkable, was +possible, and he was not molested. The narrative +of his wanderings interested me greatly. +He came up the river—the Mississippi—from +Jefferson County, trying to find a ford. +He had heard of a Washington parish and a +Thomasville in Louisiana, and was trying to +reach them. He rented a piece of land near +here and raised a crop, leaving in 1869 for +Jefferson County, Alabama. I gave him a +letter to a minister in that county. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Very truly,</span><br /> +(Rev.) <span class="smcap">John Simms.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p> +P. S.—I regret to say that after leaving +here, Eneas, though an active minister of the +Gospel, suffered the young horse to be entered +in a county race. I understand that he won +about $75. Allowance, however, must be +made for the old man's necessities and distress. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +J. S. +</div> + +<p> +<!-- Page 20 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Idlewilde, Jefferson County, Ala.<br /> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">October 26, 1872.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p> +Major Geo. E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +My Dear Sir: A Birmingham paper to-day +gave me the explanation of a mystery that has +puzzled my family for several years, when it +reproduced your letter to the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i>. +Eneas—or the Rev. Eneas Tommey, +as he called himself—came here in 1869 with +a grey mare, and a splendid young horse, +which he claimed was of marvelous speed, +and a letter from a friend of mine in Mississippi. +He also brought a wife and two children. +To the latter he added a third before +leaving. My daughter was greatly interested +in the old man's remarkable story, and made +an effort to help him. She took down a letter +to you, which he dictated, made seven copies +of it and sent one to every Thomasville in the +South. They all came back to her. By good<!-- Page 21 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +luck she retained one for her scrapbook, and +I enclose it that you may see how the faithful +old fellow was trying to reach you. He stayed +around here farming and preaching until +1870 when, hearing from a horse trader of a +Macon and a Sparta in Tennessee, he moved +on. He had no trunk with him, and I am +afraid your cup is gone. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Very truly,</span><br /> +(Rev.) <span class="smcap">Amos Wells.</span> +</div> + +<p> +P. S.—I am informed that Eneas participated +in a horse race in Birmingham after +leaving here, and won a great deal of money. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +A. W. +</div> + +<p> +Letter of Eneas inclosed in that of Rev. +Mr. Wells: +</p> + +<p> +Marse George: I am loss in er distric +called Yellerhama, by a town name o'Burningham. +Ef you knows whar Burningham is,<!-- Page 22 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +fer God's sake come ter me fer I can't git ter +you! Me an' Lady Chain is plum wore out. +</p> + +<p> +Marse George, I been ter firs one an' den +ernuther Thomasville, year in an' year out, +tell thar ain't no sense in hit. An' I ain't hit +de right one yit. Evy yuther place is name +Thomasville er Macon er Washington er +Jefferson. Evybody knows whar I wanter go +but me, an' shows me de road; but all I kin +do is ter keep er movin'. De firs Thomasville +I got ter I got back fo' times. Hit was harder +ter lose it than hit was ter find it! +</p> + +<p> +Marse George, I come ter one pond I +couldn't see ercross an' de water warn't no +count. The last Thomasville was out most ter +sundown an' I was headin' fer ernuther when +I struck er creek er mile wide an' Lady Chain +couldn't wade hit, so we turn back. +</p> + +<p> +Marse George, Lady Chain's colt come, +back in the secon' Jefferson, an' he sholy is ole<!-- Page 23 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +Lightnin's colt; long-legged, big-footed an' +iron grey. I been tryin' him out hyar an' thar +an' thar ain't nothin' kin tech him. +</p> + +<p> +Marse George, I got ernuther wife down +in de third Washington an' am bringin' her +erlong. She weighs one hundred and sixty, +an' picks fo' hundred pounds er cotton er day. +She b'longs ter you, same as me an' Lady +Chain an' de colt. +</p> + +<p> +Marse George, er horse trader goin' by +told me erbout some more Macons an' Spartas +an' Jeffersons an' Washingtons up de country +fum hyar an' ef I don't git word fum you by +nex' month, I'm gointer move erlong. +</p> + +<p> +Marse George, ef you knows whar I is fum +dis hyar letter an' can't come yo'self, sen' fer +me. I'm sick o' de road an' wanter git home. +Do somp'n an' do it quick! +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Yo' ole nigger,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Eneas.</span> +</div> + +<p> +<!-- Page 24 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Macon, Tenn., Oct. 30, 1872. +</div> + +<p> +Maj. George E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +My Dear Sir: Eneas was here in 1869 or +1870 and remained about a year preaching at +Mt. Zion and other places in the county. I +do not know when I ever met a more original +and entertaining talker. His description of +your colonial house with its forty rooms, +white columns and splendid parks has aroused +in me a strong desire to visit the place if I +am ever able to come to Georgia. I know it +must have suffered from the ravages of the +war, but doubtless enough remains to show its +former magnificence. I am especially anxious +to see the great lake with its flock of swans, +and the twelve fountains on your lawn. My +mother is a Georgian and have often heard +her describe the natural beauties of the State. +There is a feeling with us all that at last it is +"home" and that some day we shall all assem<!-- Page 25 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>ble +in dear old Monroe county where grandpa +was born. +</p> + +<p> +Eneas brought with him to this place a grey +mare that was, he said, a famous race horse, +and that the father of her colt was the greatest +horse in the world. I had forgotten their +names until I read your letter. Eneas insisted +that you lived at Thomasville next to Washington +and Jefferson Counties, and near a +town named Louisville. There are towns and +counties of the same names in this State and +he left to visit them. He seemed to have +plenty of money. I hope you will hear from +him yet, but I am afraid the trunk is gone. +He had none when here. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Sincerely yours,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Mary Adkins.</span><br /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Louisville, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1872.<br /> +</div> + +<p> +Sir: Don't you worry about old Eneas. He +came here in or about '70 with a grey mare,<!-- Page 26 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +a long-legged race horse, a young wife and +three children, and give out that he was a minister +of the Gospel. They stayed on my place +and there were four children when they left. +He was a preacher all right, cause I heard +him time and again, but all the same he was +the biggest liar in Tennessee at that time, and +that's a great record for any man. Major, if +half he said about you and your place is true, +you ought to be President. You must have +owned all the niggers in Georgia, and your +home must be spread over all three of them +counties he has been looking for ever since +freedom. About that Lightning colt—he certainly +looks it. Eneas slipped him into a free-for-all +up here and him and a strange white +man about busted the county. I offered him +$500 for the colt, but he said your price was +$20,000. Considering you had never seen +him, I thought that a little high and him and<!-- Page 27 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +me didn't trade. Next day he was gone. Oh, +you Eneas! Say, Major, if he ever gets back, +and he will, for you can't lose that kind of man +for good, better nail down everything movable—including +them twelve fountains. +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Yours,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Tom Johnson.</span> +</div> + +<p> +P. S.—I say; twelve fountains! +</p> + +<p> +P. S. S.—Forty-four rooms! Gosh! is the +Legion still with you? +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="salut"> +Washington County, N. C., Oct. 20, 1872. +</div> + +<p> +Maj. George E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. +</p> + +<p> +My Dear Major: Your old negro has been +on my plantation for about a year farming +and preaching and romancing. He came +straight through Tennessee and North Carolina, +touching Sparta, Louisville, Washington +and Jefferson Counties in the former, and the +towns of Jefferson, Sparta and Macon in this<!-- Page 28 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +State before he found me. I am affectionately +known all over this section of the State as +"Major Tommy," and as the old negro was +looking for "Major Tommey," somebody +put him on my trail. He soon had me treed, +but was greatly disappointed when he saw me. +However, that did not keep him from paying +me a year's visit. Eneas is a queer character—wisdom +of the serpent and simplicity of a +child. His story, probably growing with age +like the stories of some of our veterans, has +beguiled many a lonely hour for me, but not +until I read your letter in the <i>Richmond Dispatch</i> +did I give him credit for many facts +in it. The young race horse is certainly a fine +animal and should you decide to sell him I +trust you will give me the refusal. Eneas won +several purses up here in local races. It seems +he has a new name for his horse everywhere +he goes. He says it keeps him from getting<!-- Page 29 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +"too common." When Eneas was not plowing +or racing, his favorite occupation was +preaching, his subject usually being the wandering +of the Hebrews in the desert. He left +here for Jefferson, S. C. I am sorry to say, +I heard no mention of your lost cup, and if +he had any trunk I was not informed of it. +</p> + +<p> +With regards for yourself and all good +wishes for the young bride, I am, +</p> + +<div class="salut"> +<span style="margin-right: 5em;">Very sincerely yours,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Thomas Bailey</span>,<br /> +</div> + +<p> +(Late) Major 13th N. C. Volunteers, C.S.A.<br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +Extract from <i>Columbia</i> (S. C.) <i>Register</i>, +October 27, 1872: +</p> + +<p> +One of the surprises of yesterday's races +came in the free-for-all two-mile dash, which +was won by "Chainlightning," entered by an +old negro man calling himself Eneas Tommey, +who claims the horse was sired by the<!-- Page 30 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +celebrated stallion Lightning, and that the +dam, which he drives to a one-horse wagon +on his way to Georgia, is "Lady Chain." She +was certainly a tired looking old lady. Eneas +arrived late and at once attracted attention by +his unique appearance and his limitless faith +in Chainlightning. His story and the splendid +horse interested some stablemen and after +a private demonstration they succeeded in +getting him entered and a rider engaged. In +the get-off Chainlightning took the lead and +gave a marvelous exhibition of speed. He led +the bunch by a hundred yards at the end of the +first mile and by nearly three hundred at the +end of the second. He was then going strong +and the efforts of the rider to stop him resulted +in a runaway. When he came around +the third time the crowd blocked the track and +brought him to a standstill, but his rider was +thrown. Eneas won $200. It is not known<!-- Page 31 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +how his backers fared, but it is supposed that +they cleaned up a good pile on the side. Eneas +left on yesterday, going toward Augusta, Ga. +It was suggested afterwards that this may +have been the man advertised for in the <i>Atlanta +Constitution</i> by a Major Tommey, of +Louisville, Ga., a few weeks ago. The matter +will be brought to his attention. One reason +for the sudden departure of the old negro, +who had become quite a hero among members +of his race, is said to be a movement to elect +him to the State Senate. +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +Louisville, Ga.—(Correspondence <i>Macon +Telegraph and Messenger</i>, Oct. 31, '72.)—Your +correspondent on Thursday last was the +favored guest of Major George E. Tommey, +the famous commander of the Tommey +Legion, which rendered conspicuous service +to the Confederacy as part of Johnston's<!-- Page 32 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>—afterwards +Hood's—army, in the Tennessee +and North Georgia campaigns. The Major +lives about twelve miles from this place at +Tommeysville, as his plantation is called. +His delightful residence is one of the old-fashioned +two-story houses with broad hall +and verandahs and two large wings, and is +situated in a beautiful grove of oak and +hickory. The broad lawn in front abounds +with roses and among them is a tiny fountain +with a spray. Beyond the house lie the barns +and the negro quarters and a small artificial +lake where ducks abound. Sherman's army +missed the charming spot and the only suggestion +of the late unpleasantness is the Major's +sword crossed with the colors of the Legion +over the broad fireplace at the end of the hall. +</p> + +<p> +The occasion of your correspondent's visit +was the marriage of the Major's only daughter, +Beauregarde Forrest, to Mirabeau Lamar<!-- Page 33 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> +Temple, of Dallas, Texas. The bride, a petite +brunette of great beauty, entered life eighteen +years ago, inheriting her mother's name, but +by the act of the Georgia Legislature this was +changed in honor of the two heroes of the +Confederacy dear to the heart of her illustrious +father. The groom bears the name of two +Georgia families long ago transplated to the +Lone Star State and is an attorney of great +promise. +</p> + +<p> +The wedding supper was charming in its +simplicity and homeliness, using the word in +its original sense. The broad back porch between +the two wings was closed in with smilax +and the feast was spread on a great home-made +table twenty feet in diameter. Seats +were placed for forty. Such a display of delicacies +and substantials has not been seen in +this section since the good old days before the +war. The low growing ferns and cut-flowers<!-- Page 34 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +of the decorations—there by the hundreds—did +not hide the guests' smiling faces. Wine, +the famous scuppernong of the Major's own +vintage, was the only stimulant visible, for the +Major and his good lady are almost total abstainers. +When the guests were seated a +grace was pronounced by the Rev. Mr. Thigpen, +and fun and merriment broke loose. +Toast after toast was given and sentiment and +the poets were interspersed with songs from +the family negroes assembled in the backyard +by a gigantic bonfire. Some of the songs were +of exquisite harmony and pathos. Freedom, +so far, had brought but little of brightness +into the lives of these humble people. +</p> + +<p> +A dramatic situation that will one day enter +into a story, came during the supper festivities. +A sudden excitement among the negroes +was followed by cries, some of merriment and +some of fear, and by a stampede of the<!-- Page 35 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +juniors. In the red light of the bonfire an old +negro suddenly appeared, reining up a splendid +grey horse. The old man was seated in a +red-wheeled road cart, enveloped in a flopping +linen duster, and wore a silk hat. His +"Whoa, Chainlightning!" resounded all over +the place. Then he stood up and began to +shout about Moses and the Hebrew children +being led out of Egypt into the promised +land. Major Tommey listened for a brief instant +and rushed out. The newcomer met him +with an equal rush and their loud greetings +floated back to us clear as the notes of a plantation +bell: "Eneas, you black rascal, where +have you been?" +</p> + +<p> +"O! Lord, Marse George! Glory be ter +God! Out o' de wilderness! De projeckin' +son am back ergin!" +</p> + +<p> +"It's Eneas!" screamed the little bride, +gathering up her skirts and rushing out. In<!-- Page 36 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +the strong light, as the wedding party hurriedly +followed, we could see the old negro +hanging to his master as he filled the night +with his weird cries. Catching the excitement, +the negroes around began to moan and chant, +taking their text from the old man's words. +</p> + +<p> +"Where have you been, sir?" The Major +was trying to free himself and choking with +tears and laughter. +</p> + +<p> +"All over de blessed worl', Marse George! +But I'm home ergin!—You hyar me, niggers?—home +ergin!" +</p> + +<p> +"Stop, sir!"—But suddenly the old man +grew rigid in the grasp of a momentous +thought. His voice sank to a whisper audible +to only a few of us: +</p> + +<p> +"Marse George, wha's Nancy?" +</p> + +<p> +"Nancy is dead, Eneas," said the Major, +sadly. +</p> + +<p> +"Thank God!" said the old man fervently.<!-- Page 37 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +</p> + +<p> +"Where is my trunk, Eneas?" The old +negro was making a horn of his hands and +giving the plantation halloo. With his eyes +set on the banking shadows beyond the fire, +he waited, an inscrutable smile on his wrinkled +face. Presently, into the circle of light came +an old grey mare, drawing a wagon in which +sat a yellow woman, hovering a small colony +of children. +</p> + +<p> +"I done brought you a whole bunch o' +new Yellerhama, Burningham niggers, Marse +George! Some folks tell me dey is free, but +I know dey b'long ter Marse George Tommey +des like Lady Chain and her colt! Marse +George, you oughter see dat horse—" +</p> + +<p> +"Where is the trunk?" repeated the Major, +laughing and wiping his eyes. "Where did +you leave it, Eneas?" +</p> + +<p> +"I ain't left hit," said Eneas, indignantly. +"Git out o' dat wagon, niggers, fo' I bus<!-- Page 38 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +somer you wide open!" The little colony fell +over the wheels like cooters from a log, and +drawing aside the hay that had held them, +Eneas brought forth a time and weather defying +hair trunk. He heaved a mighty sigh of +relief as he dropped it on the ground: +</p> + +<p> +"Dar 'tis, Marse George, an' I sho is glad +to git shut o' dat ol' bunch o' hide an' hair!" +The bride danced and clapped her tiny hands: +"My cup! My cup! Get it! Quick! O, please +somebody open the trunk!" +</p> + +<p> +Major Tommey picked up an axe and with +one blow sliced off the ancient lock. From its +snug nest in cotton batting, the bride lifted a +shining cup, the cup, Mr. Editor, advertised +in your columns a few weeks ago. A bucket +rattled down in the nearby well and the bride-groom +came with a great gourd to fill it. Then +he read aloud the quaint inscription:<!-- Page 39 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> +</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<span class="iO">"Ye bryde whose lippes kysse myne</span><br /> +<span class="iO">An taste ye water an no wyne</span><br /> +<span class="iO">Shall happy live and hersel see</span><br /> +<span class="iO">A happy grandchile on each knee."</span><br /> +</div> + +<p> +The little woman accepted the challenge +with the cup, and smiling up to the face of her +husband sipped of the crystal draught and +handed him the cup. He, too, drank, but the +slight flush on the bride's face was as nothing +to the fiery scarlet of his own when a storm of +applause greeted the act. +</p> + +<p> +Eneas had drawn the Major aside and produced +an old strap pocketbook stuffed with +bills. +</p> + +<p> +"Marse George," he began, "de bag o' +yaller war money what dey gimme warn't no +good over yonner whar I been. Countin' de +c'llections I tuck up in the church an' what<!-- Page 40 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> +I winned on de track wid Chainlightnin' an' +ain't spent—" +</p> + +<p> +"Keep it, Eneas," said the Major, almost +exploding with laughter, and patting the old +man on the shoulder, "that bunch of Burningham +Yellerhama niggers more than +squares us!" +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p> +Transcriber's Note: On page 21 there is a possible missing space after +"o'" in "o'Burningham". 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Eneas Africanus + +Author: Harry Stillwell Edwards + +Release Date: August 31, 2010 [EBook #33594] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENEAS AFRICANUS *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + _Eneas Africanus_ + + + + + _ENEAS_ + AFRICANUS + + _By Harry Stillwell Edwards_ + + [Illustration] + + PUBLISHED AT MACON, GEORGIA + BY THE J. W. BURKE COMPANY + NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY + + + Copyright, 1920 + The J. W. Burke Company + + + + + _Author's Preface_ + + +Dear to the hearts of the Southerners, young and old, is the vanishing +type conspicuous in Eneas of this record; and as in a sidelight herein +are seen the Southerners themselves, kind of heart, tolerant and +appreciative of the humor and pathos of the negro's life. Eneas would +have been arrested in any country other than the South. In the South he +could have traveled his life out as the guest of his "white folks." Is +the story true? Everybody says it is. + + [Illustration] + + + + + [Illustration] + + _Eneas Africanus_ + + Extract from the _Atlanta Constitution_ of October 12, 1872 + + WHO HAS THIS CUP? + + MAJOR GEORGE E. TOMMEY ADVERTISES FOR HIS SILVER CUP. + + +Editor _Constitution_, Atlanta, Ga. + +Dear Sir: I am writing to invoke your kind assistance in tracing an old +family negro of mine who disappeared in 1864, between my stock farm in +Floyd County and my home place, locally known as Tommeysville, in +Jefferson County. The negro's name was Eneas, a small, grey-haired old +fellow and very talkative. The unexpected movement of our army after the +battle of Resaca, placed my stock farm in line of the Federal advance +and exposed my family to capture. My command, Tommey's Legion, passing +within five miles of the place, I was enabled to give them warning, and +they hurriedly boarded the last south-bound train. They reached +Jefferson County safely but without any baggage, as they did not have +time to move a trunk. An effort was made to save the family silver, much +of it very old and highly prized, especially a silver cup known in the +family as the "Bride's Cup" for some six or eight generations and +bearing the inscription: + + "Ye bryde whose lippes kysse myne + And taste ye water an no wyne + Shall happy live an hersel see + A happy grandchile on each knee." + +These lines were surrounded with a wreath and surmounted by a knight's +head, visor down, and the motto: "Semper Fidelis." + +This cup was hurriedly packed with other silver in a hair trunk and +intrusted to Eneas with verbal instructions as to travel. He drove an +old-fashioned, flea-bitten blooded mare to a one-horse wagon full of +forage and carried all the Confederate money the family left, to pay his +expenses. He was last seen, as I ascertained soon after the war from a +wounded member of my command, about eight miles southeast of Atlanta, +asleep in the wagon, the mare turning to the right instead of keeping +the straight road to Macon. Eneas was a faithful negro, born and raised +in the Tommey family and our belief is he was murdered by army +stragglers and robbed of the trunk. He had never been over the road he +was traveling, as we always traveled to North Georgia by rail, shipping +the horses likewise. His geographical knowledge consisted of a few +names--places to which I had at different times taken him, and in the +neighborhood of my home, such as Macon, Sparta, Louisville, and the +counties of Washington and Jefferson. If given a chance to talk he would +probably confine himself to "Lady Chain," the mare he was driving; +"Lightning," the noted four-mile stallion temporarily in my possession; +the Tommey family and our settlement, "Tommeysville." On these topics he +could talk eighteen hours a day. + +I have no hope of ever seeing Eneas again, for if living he would have +gotten back if he had to travel all over the South to do it, but there +is a bare chance that the cup may be found, and I am writing to gratify +my daughter, whose wedding day is approaching. All brides in the family, +since 1670, have used this cup on their wedding days. If the cup was +stolen, doubtless the thieves sold it, and if so, the holder may read +these lines if they are given publicity. I am willing to waive any +question of ownership and purchase the cup at the holder's valuation, if +within my power; or, if unwilling to sell, he may loan the cup for a few +days. + +I shall be greatly obliged if you will publish this letter with a +request that all Southern papers, daily and weekly, copy the same. +Thanking you in advance and with all good wishes for your happiness and +prosperity, I am, most respectfully, + + Your obed't servant, + George E. Tommey, + +Late Major, Tommey's Legion, C. S. A. P. O., Louisville, Ga. + + * * * * * + + Althea Lodge, Fayette Co., Ga. + October 15, 1872. + +Maj. Geo. E. Tommey, + Louisville, Ga. + +Dear Major Tommey: I read with deep interest and sympathy your letter +in the _Atlanta Constitution_ inquiring of a negro named Eneas. This +man, I am sure, came to my house about twenty miles south of Atlanta in +1864. I remember the occasion perfectly, because he mentioned your name +and one of my boys was serving in your command. I gave him shelter for +the night and food for himself and horse. He insisted on sleeping in his +wagon. He told me that the mare was famous on the race track and very +valuable and he was afraid to leave her. This struck me as singular, at +the time, because she seemed old and broken down. I did not see any +trunk, but his wagon was full of hay and fodder and he may have had one +hidden under it. Eneas asked me to put him on the road to +Thomasville--or so I understood him--and I gave him explicit directions +as far as Newnan, advising him to get more at that point. He was gone +when I arose next morning. I do hope you will find the old man, as well +as the cup. I took quite a fancy to him. He gave me a very vivid +description of yourself--whom I had long wished to meet--and of your +home, the twelve-room house, lawn with its three fountains, beautiful +lake and your hundred negroes in their painted cottages, etc. + +Excuse this rambling letter. Your name has stirred an old woman's +memories. + + Sincerely your friend, + Martha Horton. + +P. S.--My son William, who served in your command, married a +Connecticut girl. Think of it, Major! But she proved to be a +noble-hearted woman and has influenced him to give up tobacco and +stimulants in every form. He travels this territory for a New York +house. His wife is well connected, and one of her ancestors came over in +the Mayflower. She is with me now and sends you her regards. Billy has +convinced her that next to General Joseph Johnston, you were the bravest +man in the Georgia armies. + + M. H. + + * * * * * + + Talbotton, Ga., Oct. 18, 1872. + +Major George Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +Sir: Read your letter in the _Columbus Enquirer_. I kept a livery +stable here in '64 and saw the man you are huntin about that time. He +drove a broken down old speckled grey mare he called Lady Chain, now +that you mention it, and claimed she was in foal to "Lightning," the +great four-mile horse. I took this for a joke along with some of the +fairy stories he gave me about the Tommeys, but he was so polite and +humble that I let him stay over night in the stable. Offered to pay me +next morning, an seemed like he had about a bushel of Confedrit money; +but I was long on Confed myself and didn't let him put any more on me. +Don't remember seein any trunk. He was on his way to Thomasville, so he +said, and I giv him as much directions as he could carry. + Very truly, + William Peters. + + * * * * * + + Thomas County, Oct. 19, 1872. + +Major George Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +Dear Sir: My wife remembered your old nigger as soon as she read your +letter in the paper, and so did I when she called it to my mind. He was +a big talker all right, and sat on our back steps half the night talking +about the Tommeys, their race horse, twenty-room house, yard with six +fountains, and a whole tribe of niggers. We fed him and he slept in his +wagon. Next day he wanted to pay me in Confederate money; was using a +corn sack for a pocketbook, and it was most full. He moved on to +Thomasville, about six miles from here, but I don't think it was the +place he was looking for. I reckon it must have been "Tommeysville" he +was looking for. Major, I took a good look at Lady Chain and you ain't +lost much if you never get her back, but if you don't find the nigger, +you've lost the champion liar of Georgia. I hope you get him back, but +it's hardly possible a man talking like he did could last seven years on +the public road. + + Respectfully, + Abner Cummings. + + * * * * * + + Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 19, 1872. + +Hon. Sir and Major: + +Your man Eneas came to my home in Thomasville in the winter of '65 or +the fall of '64, in great distress. He said he had traveled a thousand +miles to get to Thomasville, but it wasn't the right Thomasville. He had +no idea of States, geography or direction. Claimed he lived in Jefferson +County, next to Washington County, and as this describes two counties +across the line in Florida, several people at different times had sent +him over there. I gave him a letter to a friend over in Jefferson County +near Tallahassee. He had an old grey mare he said was a famous race +horse, but she didn't look it. Claimed she was in foal to the celebrated +"Lightning," whose four-mile race in the mud at New Orleans I witnessed. +I thought the old nigger was loose in the upper story. He had no trunk +when here. + + Very truly, + Andrew Loomis. + + * * * * * + + Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 20, 1872. + +Major Geo. E. Tommey, Tommeysville, via Louisville, Ga. + +My Dear Sir: Eneas, your old negro, whose name I had forgotten until I +read your letter in a local paper, was on my plantation near here in +'65. He came here very blue and utterly discouraged from Thomasville, +Ga. Said he was looking for a little Thomasville owned by Major George +E. Tommey. He brought a letter from a friend of mine. There are no +Tommeys in this county, and no Thomasville, and not knowing what to do +with him, I passed him along to Colonel Chairs, a friend in Washington +County, which is on the gulf coast. Chairs wrote me that he had had a +great deal of fun out of Eneas. The gulf astonished him. He declared +solemnly that he knew he was in the wrong Washington, because there were +no oranges, or scrub palmettoes, or big green spiders (crabs) in his, +and the water had no salt in it. Eneas talked a good deal of Macon and +Louisville, and there being a county and town so named, besides another +Thomasville, to the north in Alabama, Chairs started him up that way. I +am truly sorry the old man came to grief. He was a harmless old fellow, +though a picturesque liar, as are many old negroes when they talk of +their white folks. + +It is possible that Eneas had a trunk, but I have no recollection of +seeing one in his possession. + + Yours very truly, + Randolph Thomas. + + * * * * * + + Louisville, Ala., Oct. 28, 1872. + +Major Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +Sir: A ole nigger name of enus come by hyar in the firs yer atter the +war with er old mare an er colt he claim was by the lightnin. He was +lokin for a tomusville, an I tried to show him the way back to +tomusville, in Georgia, but he got mad and wanted to fight me, an ef he +hadnt ben er ole man I would have busted him open. Mr. tommy, you wont +never see yo nigger no more less he mends his way of acktin when you are +tryin to help him. + + Respectfull, sir, yours, + Pompey Wiley (Colored). + +He lef hyar for Macon County. + + * * * * * + + Barton, Washington County, Ala. + +Major G. E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +Dear Sir: Your negro, Eneas, came to my place in this county in 1865, I +think, from a little village named Thomasville to the northeast. He was +very poor and his pathetic story appealed to my sympathies. I let him +have some rations and a piece of land and he planted a cotton crop. He +married a young mulatto woman on my place that year, and when he left +here about Christmas, 1866, carried with him a young baby besides the +old mare and her colt. The colt, by the way, was a beauty. + +Eneas was a puzzle to me, though I have lived among negroes all my life. +His stories of you and your place were marvels. But for the fact that he +held the mare and colt in your name, refusing dozens of offers for the +latter when in dire need, I should have put him down a reckless +romancer. He began preaching here among the negroes and proved to be a +most eloquent spiritual advocate. He claimed to be the pastor of a big +congregation at home. I heard him on one occasion when he baptized forty +converts and was thrilled by his imagery and power. + +Eneas knew nothing of geography beyond the names of a few towns and +counties. Hearing of a Macon and Louisville over in Mississippi, he +gathered his household goods into his wagon in December, '66. I do hope +you will yet find him. Suppose you make inquiries through the African +Methodist Church? He ought to be a bishop by this time. + + Very respectfully, + James Tally, + Attorney at Law. + + * * * * * + + Sunshine Parsonage, + Washington County, Mississippi. + +Major Geo. E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +My Dear Sir: I was greatly interested in your letter copied into our +county paper from the _Atlanta Constitution_, concerning Eneas Tommey. +He was here in 1868 or 1869 with a wife and several children. They came +in a one-horse wagon drawn by an old grey mare he called Lady Chain, and +followed by a splendid young colt he declared was from celebrated racing +stock. An almost worn out pass from his mistress, Mrs. Tommey, though it +bore no date or address, saved the old man from arrest. His story, that +he was lost and on his way home, though remarkable, was possible, and he +was not molested. The narrative of his wanderings interested me greatly. +He came up the river--the Mississippi--from Jefferson County, trying to +find a ford. He had heard of a Washington parish and a Thomasville in +Louisiana, and was trying to reach them. He rented a piece of land near +here and raised a crop, leaving in 1869 for Jefferson County, Alabama. I +gave him a letter to a minister in that county. + + Very truly, + (Rev.) John Simms. + +P. S.--I regret to say that after leaving here, Eneas, though an active +minister of the Gospel, suffered the young horse to be entered in a +county race. I understand that he won about $75. Allowance, however, +must be made for the old man's necessities and distress. + +J. S. + + * * * * * + + Idlewilde, Jefferson County, Ala. + October 26, 1872. + +Major Geo. E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +My Dear Sir: A Birmingham paper to-day gave me the explanation of a +mystery that has puzzled my family for several years, when it reproduced +your letter to the _Atlanta Constitution_. Eneas--or the Rev. Eneas +Tommey, as he called himself--came here in 1869 with a grey mare, and a +splendid young horse, which he claimed was of marvelous speed, and a +letter from a friend of mine in Mississippi. He also brought a wife and +two children. To the latter he added a third before leaving. My daughter +was greatly interested in the old man's remarkable story, and made an +effort to help him. She took down a letter to you, which he dictated, +made seven copies of it and sent one to every Thomasville in the South. +They all came back to her. By good luck she retained one for her +scrapbook, and I enclose it that you may see how the faithful old fellow +was trying to reach you. He stayed around here farming and preaching +until 1870 when, hearing from a horse trader of a Macon and a Sparta in +Tennessee, he moved on. He had no trunk with him, and I am afraid your +cup is gone. + + Very truly, + (Rev.) Amos Wells. + +P. S.--I am informed that Eneas participated in a horse race in +Birmingham after leaving here, and won a great deal of money. + + A. W. + + +Letter of Eneas inclosed in that of Rev. Mr. Wells: + +Marse George: I am loss in er distric called Yellerhama, by a town name +o'Burningham. Ef you knows whar Burningham is, fer God's sake come ter +me fer I can't git ter you! Me an' Lady Chain is plum wore out. + +Marse George, I been ter firs one an' den ernuther Thomasville, year in +an' year out, tell thar ain't no sense in hit. An' I ain't hit de right +one yit. Evy yuther place is name Thomasville er Macon er Washington er +Jefferson. Evybody knows whar I wanter go but me, an' shows me de road; +but all I kin do is ter keep er movin'. De firs Thomasville I got ter I +got back fo' times. Hit was harder ter lose it than hit was ter find it! + +Marse George, I come ter one pond I couldn't see ercross an' de water +warn't no count. The last Thomasville was out most ter sundown an' I was +headin' fer ernuther when I struck er creek er mile wide an' Lady Chain +couldn't wade hit, so we turn back. + +Marse George, Lady Chain's colt come, back in the secon' Jefferson, an' +he sholy is ole Lightnin's colt; long-legged, big-footed an' iron grey. +I been tryin' him out hyar an' thar an' thar ain't nothin' kin tech him. + +Marse George, I got ernuther wife down in de third Washington an' am +bringin' her erlong. She weighs one hundred and sixty, an' picks fo' +hundred pounds er cotton er day. She b'longs ter you, same as me an' +Lady Chain an' de colt. + +Marse George, er horse trader goin' by told me erbout some more Macons +an' Spartas an' Jeffersons an' Washingtons up de country fum hyar an' ef +I don't git word fum you by nex' month, I'm gointer move erlong. + +Marse George, ef you knows whar I is fum dis hyar letter an' can't come +yo'self, sen' fer me. I'm sick o' de road an' wanter git home. Do somp'n +an' do it quick! + + Yo' ole nigger, + Eneas. + + * * * * * + + Macon, Tenn., Oct. 30, 1872. + +Maj. George E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +My Dear Sir: Eneas was here in 1869 or 1870 and remained about a year +preaching at Mt. Zion and other places in the county. I do not know when +I ever met a more original and entertaining talker. His description of +your colonial house with its forty rooms, white columns and splendid +parks has aroused in me a strong desire to visit the place if I am ever +able to come to Georgia. I know it must have suffered from the ravages +of the war, but doubtless enough remains to show its former +magnificence. I am especially anxious to see the great lake with its +flock of swans, and the twelve fountains on your lawn. My mother is a +Georgian and have often heard her describe the natural beauties of the +State. There is a feeling with us all that at last it is "home" and that +some day we shall all assemble in dear old Monroe county where grandpa +was born. + +Eneas brought with him to this place a grey mare that was, he said, a +famous race horse, and that the father of her colt was the greatest +horse in the world. I had forgotten their names until I read your +letter. Eneas insisted that you lived at Thomasville next to Washington +and Jefferson Counties, and near a town named Louisville. There are +towns and counties of the same names in this State and he left to visit +them. He seemed to have plenty of money. I hope you will hear from him +yet, but I am afraid the trunk is gone. He had none when here. + + Sincerely yours, + Mary Adkins. + + * * * * * + + Louisville, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1872. + +Sir: Don't you worry about old Eneas. He came here in or about '70 +with a grey mare, a long-legged race horse, a young wife and three +children, and give out that he was a minister of the Gospel. They stayed +on my place and there were four children when they left. He was a +preacher all right, cause I heard him time and again, but all the same +he was the biggest liar in Tennessee at that time, and that's a great +record for any man. Major, if half he said about you and your place is +true, you ought to be President. You must have owned all the niggers in +Georgia, and your home must be spread over all three of them counties he +has been looking for ever since freedom. About that Lightning colt--he +certainly looks it. Eneas slipped him into a free-for-all up here and +him and a strange white man about busted the county. I offered him $500 +for the colt, but he said your price was $20,000. Considering you had +never seen him, I thought that a little high and him and me didn't +trade. Next day he was gone. Oh, you Eneas! Say, Major, if he ever gets +back, and he will, for you can't lose that kind of man for good, better +nail down everything movable--including them twelve fountains. + + Yours, + Tom Johnson. + +P. S.--I say; twelve fountains! + +P. S. S.--Forty-four rooms! Gosh! is the Legion still with you? + + * * * * * + + Washington County, N. C., Oct. 20, 1872. + +Maj. George E. Tommey, Louisville, Ga. + +My Dear Major: Your old negro has been on my plantation for about a +year farming and preaching and romancing. He came straight through +Tennessee and North Carolina, touching Sparta, Louisville, Washington +and Jefferson Counties in the former, and the towns of Jefferson, Sparta +and Macon in this State before he found me. I am affectionately known +all over this section of the State as "Major Tommy," and as the old +negro was looking for "Major Tommey," somebody put him on my trail. He +soon had me treed, but was greatly disappointed when he saw me. However, +that did not keep him from paying me a year's visit. Eneas is a queer +character--wisdom of the serpent and simplicity of a child. His story, +probably growing with age like the stories of some of our veterans, has +beguiled many a lonely hour for me, but not until I read your letter in +the _Richmond Dispatch_ did I give him credit for many facts in it. The +young race horse is certainly a fine animal and should you decide to +sell him I trust you will give me the refusal. Eneas won several purses +up here in local races. It seems he has a new name for his horse +everywhere he goes. He says it keeps him from getting "too common." When +Eneas was not plowing or racing, his favorite occupation was preaching, +his subject usually being the wandering of the Hebrews in the desert. He +left here for Jefferson, S. C. I am sorry to say, I heard no mention of +your lost cup, and if he had any trunk I was not informed of it. + +With regards for yourself and all good wishes for the young bride, I am, + + Very sincerely yours, + Thomas Bailey, + (Late) Major 13th N. C. Volunteers, C.S.A. + + * * * * * + +Extract from _Columbia_ (S. C.) _Register_, October 27, 1872: + +One of the surprises of yesterday's races came in the free-for-all +two-mile dash, which was won by "Chainlightning," entered by an old +negro man calling himself Eneas Tommey, who claims the horse was sired +by the celebrated stallion Lightning, and that the dam, which he drives +to a one-horse wagon on his way to Georgia, is "Lady Chain." She was +certainly a tired looking old lady. Eneas arrived late and at once +attracted attention by his unique appearance and his limitless faith in +Chainlightning. His story and the splendid horse interested some +stablemen and after a private demonstration they succeeded in getting +him entered and a rider engaged. In the get-off Chainlightning took the +lead and gave a marvelous exhibition of speed. He led the bunch by a +hundred yards at the end of the first mile and by nearly three hundred +at the end of the second. He was then going strong and the efforts of +the rider to stop him resulted in a runaway. When he came around the +third time the crowd blocked the track and brought him to a standstill, +but his rider was thrown. Eneas won $200. It is not known how his +backers fared, but it is supposed that they cleaned up a good pile on +the side. Eneas left on yesterday, going toward Augusta, Ga. It was +suggested afterwards that this may have been the man advertised for in +the _Atlanta Constitution_ by a Major Tommey, of Louisville, Ga., a few +weeks ago. The matter will be brought to his attention. One reason for +the sudden departure of the old negro, who had become quite a hero among +members of his race, is said to be a movement to elect him to the State +Senate. + + * * * * * + +Louisville, Ga.--(Correspondence _Macon Telegraph and Messenger_, Oct. +31, '72.)--Your correspondent on Thursday last was the favored guest of +Major George E. Tommey, the famous commander of the Tommey Legion, which +rendered conspicuous service to the Confederacy as part of +Johnston's--afterwards Hood's--army, in the Tennessee and North Georgia +campaigns. The Major lives about twelve miles from this place at +Tommeysville, as his plantation is called. His delightful residence is +one of the old-fashioned two-story houses with broad hall and verandahs +and two large wings, and is situated in a beautiful grove of oak and +hickory. The broad lawn in front abounds with roses and among them is a +tiny fountain with a spray. Beyond the house lie the barns and the negro +quarters and a small artificial lake where ducks abound. Sherman's +army missed the charming spot and the only suggestion of the late +unpleasantness is the Major's sword crossed with the colors of the +Legion over the broad fireplace at the end of the hall. + +The occasion of your correspondent's visit was the marriage of the +Major's only daughter, Beauregarde Forrest, to Mirabeau Lamar Temple, of +Dallas, Texas. The bride, a petite brunette of great beauty, entered +life eighteen years ago, inheriting her mother's name, but by the act of +the Georgia Legislature this was changed in honor of the two heroes of +the Confederacy dear to the heart of her illustrious father. The groom +bears the name of two Georgia families long ago transplated to the Lone +Star State and is an attorney of great promise. + +The wedding supper was charming in its simplicity and homeliness, using +the word in its original sense. The broad back porch between the two +wings was closed in with smilax and the feast was spread on a great +home-made table twenty feet in diameter. Seats were placed for forty. +Such a display of delicacies and substantials has not been seen in this +section since the good old days before the war. The low growing ferns +and cut-flowers of the decorations--there by the hundreds--did not hide +the guests' smiling faces. Wine, the famous scuppernong of the Major's +own vintage, was the only stimulant visible, for the Major and his good +lady are almost total abstainers. When the guests were seated a grace +was pronounced by the Rev. Mr. Thigpen, and fun and merriment broke +loose. Toast after toast was given and sentiment and the poets were +interspersed with songs from the family negroes assembled in the +backyard by a gigantic bonfire. Some of the songs were of exquisite +harmony and pathos. Freedom, so far, had brought but little of +brightness into the lives of these humble people. + +A dramatic situation that will one day enter into a story, came during +the supper festivities. A sudden excitement among the negroes was +followed by cries, some of merriment and some of fear, and by a stampede +of the juniors. In the red light of the bonfire an old negro suddenly +appeared, reining up a splendid grey horse. The old man was seated in a +red-wheeled road cart, enveloped in a flopping linen duster, and wore a +silk hat. His "Whoa, Chainlightning!" resounded all over the place. Then +he stood up and began to shout about Moses and the Hebrew children being +led out of Egypt into the promised land. Major Tommey listened for a +brief instant and rushed out. The newcomer met him with an equal rush +and their loud greetings floated back to us clear as the notes of a +plantation bell: "Eneas, you black rascal, where have you been?" + +"O! Lord, Marse George! Glory be ter God! Out o' de wilderness! De +projeckin' son am back ergin!" + +"It's Eneas!" screamed the little bride, gathering up her skirts and +rushing out. In the strong light, as the wedding party hurriedly +followed, we could see the old negro hanging to his master as he filled +the night with his weird cries. Catching the excitement, the negroes +around began to moan and chant, taking their text from the old man's +words. + +"Where have you been, sir?" The Major was trying to free himself and +choking with tears and laughter. + +"All over de blessed worl', Marse George! But I'm home ergin!--You hyar +me, niggers?--home ergin!" + +"Stop, sir!"--But suddenly the old man grew rigid in the grasp of a +momentous thought. His voice sank to a whisper audible to only a few of +us: + +"Marse George, wha's Nancy?" + +"Nancy is dead, Eneas," said the Major, sadly. + +"Thank God!" said the old man fervently. + +"Where is my trunk, Eneas?" The old negro was making a horn of his hands +and giving the plantation halloo. With his eyes set on the banking +shadows beyond the fire, he waited, an inscrutable smile on his wrinkled +face. Presently, into the circle of light came an old grey mare, drawing +a wagon in which sat a yellow woman, hovering a small colony of +children. + +"I done brought you a whole bunch o' new Yellerhama, Burningham niggers, +Marse George! Some folks tell me dey is free, but I know dey b'long ter +Marse George Tommey des like Lady Chain and her colt! Marse George, you +oughter see dat horse--" + +"Where is the trunk?" repeated the Major, laughing and wiping his eyes. +"Where did you leave it, Eneas?" + +"I ain't left hit," said Eneas, indignantly. "Git out o' dat wagon, +niggers, fo' I bus somer you wide open!" The little colony fell over the +wheels like cooters from a log, and drawing aside the hay that had held +them, Eneas brought forth a time and weather defying hair trunk. He +heaved a mighty sigh of relief as he dropped it on the ground: + +"Dar 'tis, Marse George, an' I sho is glad to git shut o' dat ol' bunch +o' hide an' hair!" The bride danced and clapped her tiny hands: "My cup! +My cup! Get it! Quick! O, please somebody open the trunk!" + +Major Tommey picked up an axe and with one blow sliced off the ancient +lock. From its snug nest in cotton batting, the bride lifted a shining +cup, the cup, Mr. Editor, advertised in your columns a few weeks ago. A +bucket rattled down in the nearby well and the bride-groom came with a +great gourd to fill it. Then he read aloud the quaint inscription: + + "Ye bryde whose lippes kysse myne + An taste ye water an no wyne + Shall happy live and hersel see + A happy grandchile on each knee." + +The little woman accepted the challenge with the cup, and smiling up to +the face of her husband sipped of the crystal draught and handed him the +cup. He, too, drank, but the slight flush on the bride's face was as +nothing to the fiery scarlet of his own when a storm of applause greeted +the act. + +Eneas had drawn the Major aside and produced an old strap pocketbook +stuffed with bills. + +"Marse George," he began, "de bag o' yaller war money what dey gimme +warn't no good over yonner whar I been. Countin' de c'llections I tuck +up in the church an' what I winned on de track wid Chainlightnin' an' +ain't spent--" + +"Keep it, Eneas," said the Major, almost exploding with laughter, and +patting the old man on the shoulder, "that bunch of Burningham +Yellerhama niggers more than squares us!" + + + + +Transcriber's Note: On page 21 there is a possible missing space after +"o'" in "o'Burningham". 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