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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
l Walker, however, mistakes about this advance being checked by Mansfield's men at this fence, so often mentioned in reports of this battle; for, as Lieut. W. F. Beasley has shown, the Forty-eighth (and perhaps the others) not only reached this fence, but drove the enemy from it, passed over and far beyond it (some 75 yards) before Lieut.-Col. S. H. Walkup ordered the regiment to fall back. Our Living and Dead, I, 330. In the retirement of this regiment, Colonel Manning, a native of Pitt county, was severely wounded, and Col. E. D. Hall succeeded to the command of the brigade. To the left, General Ransom's brigade of Carolinians drove the enemy from the woods in its front, and then, with grim determination, held, for the rest of the day, that important position, called by General Walker the key of the battlefield, in defiance of several sharp, later infantry attacks. Ransom's men endured a prolonged fire from the enemy's batteries on the extreme edge of the field. General Wal
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
held the enemy in check until reinforcements could come up. The capital was saved, but the gallant Gordon was borne from the field mortally wounded. On May 18th he died in hospital at Richmond, deeply lamented by the army. Major-General Bryan Grimes Major-General Bryan Grimes was born at Grimesland, Pitt county, N. C., November 2, 1828, the youngest son of Bryan and Nancy Grimes. He was graduated at the university of North Carolina in 1848, then made his home upon a plantation in Pitt county, and in April, 1851, was married to Elizabeth Hilliard, daughter of Dr. Thomas Davis, of Franklin county. This lady died a few years later, and in 1860 he traveled in Europe, but returned home soon after the national election. He hastened to the scene of conflict at Fort Sumter as soon as he heard of the bombardment, and then visited Pensacola and New Orleans, returning to take a seat in the convention of his State which adopted the ordinance of secession. In the latter part of May he