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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.49 (search)
killed and wounded. Among the number was the chivalric Captain Henry Hastings, of the Claihorne Guards, killed outright as he grasped the flagstaff of our regimental colors, after five color-bearers had been shot down beneath its folds Colonel Wm. H. Taylor, by his cool, calm and collected manner, won for himself the soubriquet of the old war horse on that sanguinary field. Lieutenant-Colonel Harris was severely wounded in the head, and Major W. H. Lilly rendered indispensable assistance to Colonel Taylor in directing the movements of the regiment and assigning the companies to the position they were respectfully called upon to occupy during the engagement. It was here that the soldier-poet of the Confederacy, beholding the daring courage of the Mississippians, exclaimed: Twelfth Mississippi! I saw your brave columns, Rush throa the ranks of the living and dead. Twelfth Alabama! why weep your old war-horse? He died as he wished, in the gear, at your head. Soon after the bat