McNairy County Independent, 11 Feb 1921 Veteran Visits Selmer. Jim Haynes of the 14th district, and member of Phillip's Legion of Georgia Cavalry, and one of the leading citizens of the county, spent Monday night in Selmer, as a guest of the editor of the Independent. He gave us many chapters of unwritten history. No soldier who followed the flag of the Lost Cause can unfold a more interesting narrative. He was in the awful slaughter of the 2nd Manassas, and saw the forces of McClellan stop the mighty rush of the northern march of Lee at Antietam. He fought in the Wilderness, and helped to make the conditions that brought forth from the immortal Grant the undying declaration, "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer!" He felt the earth shake when the mines under Petersburg exploded, and rushed with his comrades into the "Battle of the Crater." He was with the command that got within three miles of Washington. He was with Stewart's Division when the Confederate entire forces around Richmond and Petersburg numbered only 36,000 men, surrounded by an invincible Federal army numbering 280,000 men and reaching in its circuit down into North Carolina. He was a Gettysburg, the real decisive battle of the Civil War, and hea! rd the shouts of the Confederate soldiers under the dashing Pickett in the charge which made him immortal. Several days after the battle of Gettysburg, Gen. Dan Sickles, who had lost a leg, was carried into the presence of the great Lincoln at the White House, when the General gave in detail the history of the fight. The President replied that he had assurance of that victory in prayer before the fight began. Mr. Haynes can give more authentic history of the Civil War in three hours than can be obtained from some of the histories in three weeks. He is 81 years old, hale and hearty, and we wish him many years more of happiness and usefulness.