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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting incidents. (search)
rst Virginia Regiment--a mere handful of veterans, who have been in every fight since the war commenced, and most of them the best young men of Richmond — came directly upon a battery of four pieces, which was obstinately holding its ground and pouring its deadly volleys into our ranks. Shot and shell hulled furiously into the little band, but it was no time to stop then, and dashing on with a wild cheer, reached the summit of the hill where the pieces were planted. Their commander. Col. F. G. Sumner, a brave, impetuous old gentleman, was some twenty spaces in advance, and, seeing the Federal standing boldly to their guns, rose in his stirrups, turned to his regiments, and, shouting. "Forward, the old first--follow me," spurred his horse up to the very muzzles of the battery. One of the cannoneers was in the act of pulling the lanyard of a gun. Him he cut down with his sabre. Another, attempting to take the place of his comrade, was likewise dispatched, by the now bloody steel o