Recalling the past with Mrs. Charlie Wiley Reed
Major Jacob Haysmith Hydrick
Notes by
Norman E. Reed (dates unknown)
As told to
Norman E. Reed by his mother Mrs. C. W. Reed (Mrs. Charlie Wiley Reed)
Major Jacob Haysmith Hydrick
He was a Major in the army, when Sherman came through they
burned the city of Columbia. His wife was worried because he had been gone so
long and she hadn’t heard from him.
He rode a colt away from home when he joined the army and
she heard he was going to be in Columbia, S. C. She had her servants hitch up
two mules to a wagon because Sherman had taken all the buggies from them, and
she drove to Columbia which was a distance from of about forty miles. She was
on the west side of the Congree River when she saw Major Hydrick. He saw her
and rode his colt down and made him swim the river to talk with her. He had to
go back to be with his troops that were camped on the other side.
She had a brother who was living in Coliumbia at the time
and she was worried about him. He told her he was safe and they were shelling
just the big buildings, especially the State House.
The city of Columbia was being burned and it was dangerous
for her to be in the city. She went back home and didn’t see her husband for
another year, when he returned from service.
Major Hydrick is buried at Trinity Methodist Church, out in
the country from the town of North, S.C.
Sent by N.E. Reed’s son, Don Reed to Tom Reed 12-2021.
Retyped into Word.
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