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August 18th (search for this): chapter 1
there belong upon it of right and with honor— First Manassas,Jericho Ford, (North Anna), Mechanicsville,Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill,First Reams' Station, Frazier's Farm, (Glendale),The Crater, Malvern Hill,Actions on the Weldon Railroad, (August 18th, 19th, and 21st), Cedar Mountain, Warrenton Springs,Second Reams' Station, Second Manassas, (both days),Battle of September 30th, 1864, right of Petersburg, Ox Hill, (Chantilly), Harper's Ferry,Battle of Squirrel Level Road, Sharpsburg, ontinuous, it would be impossible to speak in detail. Time would fail me to tell of the part played by the Battalion at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Jericho Ford (passage of the North Anna), Cold Harbor, Reams' Station, the Crater, the actions of August 18th, 19th, and 21st for the possession of the Weldon railroad (where the brunt of the fighting fell on the Battalion and Heth's division), second battle of Reams' Station (of which Heth generously said that he did not believe that the works would
October 1st (search for this): chapter 1
attle of Reams' Station (of which Heth generously said that he did not believe that the works would have been practicable for any troops, had not Pegram first shaken the position by the terrific fire of his guns), actions of September 30th and October 1st and 2d on the right of Petersburg, the actions on Hatcher's Run, and the general action of March 25th along the whole line of the army. One more incident I will recall though many of you saw it. In the action of September 30th, when Heth's , Colonel! I'll carry them wherever you say! Oh, I'm sure of that, answered Pegram cheerily, handing over the flag. It was necessary to let the whole line see the colors, that's the only reason I took them. In the action of the next day, October 1st, he received a slight wound, being struck in the leg by a minie-ball while riding along the skirmish line. He would not, however, leave the field during the fight, despite the remonstrances of General Heth and his own officers, nor would he a
September 30th (search for this): chapter 1
ivision), second battle of Reams' Station (of which Heth generously said that he did not believe that the works would have been practicable for any troops, had not Pegram first shaken the position by the terrific fire of his guns), actions of September 30th and October 1st and 2d on the right of Petersburg, the actions on Hatcher's Run, and the general action of March 25th along the whole line of the army. One more incident I will recall though many of you saw it. In the action of September 3September 30th, when Heth's and Wilcox's divisions were sent with two of our batteries to recover the extension of the line of rifle-pits on the right his conduct excited especial remark. Soon after the troops had become hotly engaged, Pegram opened Brander's and Ellett's guns and then rode forward with the infantry in the charge with an eye to pushing forward his artillery should occasion offer. The brunt of the fighting fell on McGowan's veteran South Carolina brigade, the enemy making a most determine
Salamis (search for this): chapter 1
n forever, an inheritance undefiled from generation to generation. A people forgetful of what is noble in their past would proclaim their own degradation in the present and their doom for the future. There are degenerate dwellers in some lands—famous throughout the world by achievement of old—that heave not a sigh for the glory that was their light, but has departed. The Corsair of the Grecian isles, himself, perhaps, the descendant of mighty men, may feel no throb of pride at sea-born Salamis, and the Spartan, more debased than his ancient Helot, blush not at the name of Thermopylae. Not so with his heritage of glory, the Southron of this day. Unlike effete peoples who, amid all the surroundings of physical beauty and all the incitements to heroic resolve, yet weep not, wake not, fire not now, but, rather like the pious Israelite of old, with his people in captivity, his temple in ruins—the instruments of his former joy the mute emblems of his woe—he will feel, as he peoples t
March 25th (search for this): chapter 1
rg, (Antietam),Battle of the Dabney House, Shepherdstown,Burgess' Mill, October 27th, 1864, Fredericksburg,Hatcher's Run, February 6th and 7th, 1865, Chancellorsville,(all three days), Gettysburg,(all three days),Action on Petersburg Front, March 25th, 1865, Bristoe Station, Mine Run,Five Forks, Wilderness,Appomattox Station, (evening before surrender, April 8th). Spotsylvania C. H., (May 10th, 12th, and 18th, 1864), In other words, the Purcell, having been engaged in 1861 in all theve been practicable for any troops, had not Pegram first shaken the position by the terrific fire of his guns), actions of September 30th and October 1st and 2d on the right of Petersburg, the actions on Hatcher's Run, and the general action of March 25th along the whole line of the army. One more incident I will recall though many of you saw it. In the action of September 30th, when Heth's and Wilcox's divisions were sent with two of our batteries to recover the extension of the line of rifl
Louis Napoleon (search for this): chapter 1
perch to which she so obstinately clung—the tattered battle-flags of Rebellion. Far on the right, as the steady marching columns passed the River Road, the youthful Paladin, Pelham, his cap bright with ribbons, was seen manoeuvering his single Napoleon within close range of the looming masses of the enemy, doing his devoir with a valor so gay and debonnaire as drew to him the heart of an army. Pegram, always generous and quick to recognize extraordinary daring, broke out into eager expression England's name, and taught the world how religious zeal could triumph over chivalric honor and ancestral pride. Superb indeed was the courage, endurance and dash of that almost matchless infantry that crossed the bridge at Lodi under the First Napoleon, and stamped its victorious heel on two imperial thrones when the sun went down at Austerlitz; and a noble guard was that of which the dauntless Cambronne said on that fateful day at Waterloo, that it had learned to die, but never to surrender!
Bartow (search for this): chapter 1
symbol of a cause believed to be just and true, and around it will cluster a thousand recollections of camp, and march and field, associations of the past, tender and holy, Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others. It speaks of noble deeds most nobly done; of friends we loved and lost, brave men and true who lived to bless, and died without regret to shield it from dishonor! Ashby and Stuart, Pelham and Pegram, Bartow and Bee, and he, in character and military genius, if second to any, only to Lee, our own great infantry captain, our Stonewall Jackson, with many, ah, so many thousand kindred spirits, all fell beneath its folds, and for their sakes we love that old flag and will love it until we too cross over the river to sleep with them in the silent bivouac of the Dead. Doubtless it is best it should be so; for in the full development of the great social convulsions, and in the final settlement of th
Worcester (search for this): chapter 1
ll twenty guns, with cannoneers mounted, while the men of Harry Heth's division, on whose front we came into battery, roared out their rough soldier's greeting with make way, men, make way right and left, here comes the fighting Battalion! But time would fail did I attempt further to recall all the glorious scenes with which Memory, plying her busy loom, proudly fills up every rent in these tattered colors. Often in our mother-land beyond the seas—in the great cathedrals of Chester and Worcester and Canterbury and Winchester—have I passed all unheeding by the tombs of her princes and her kings, and paused with beating heart and head uncovered before the battle-grimed standards of her famous regiments blazoned with battles won in every clime by English constancy and valor—but neither there, nor in the Invalides at Paris, nor yet in the Garnisonkirche, at Potsdam, where the Great Frederick sleeps, do I remember ever to have seen the colors of any single regiment or battery which be<
March 14th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1
of Artillery, and afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel, and was in command of Battalion at the time of surrender. Fourth Captain, George M. Cayce. Private George M. Cayce promoted to First Lieutenant; afterwards promoted Captain, and was in command of Battery at the capture of Petersburg; died near Richmond at the residence of his brother, Mr. Milton Cayce, February 25th, 1883. Crenshaw—First Captain, William G. Crenshaw; Captain William G. Crenshaw organized and equipped the Battery March 14th, 1862; commanded it until October, 1862, when detailed and sent to Europe as Commercial Agent of Confederate States Government; resigned April, 1863. LieutenantCommand-ing, James Ellett; Lieutenant James Ellett assisted in raising and organizing this Battery as Senior First Lieutenant; was in command of the Battery at the battle of Fredericksburg December 13th, 1862, when he was killed on the field of battle. Lieutenant-Commanding, A. B. Johnston; Lieutenant A. B. Johnston assisted in r
Lincoln (search for this): chapter 1
iversity of Virginia. He was then nineteen years old, reserved almost to shyness, grave, yet gracious in his manner, in which there were little of primness and much of the charm of an old-fashioned politeness. Well do I remember the eager discussions we boys then held touching the great events which Fate seemed hurrying on. Pegram, naturally shy and silent, said but little, but when the storm burst, like Macduff, his voice was in his sword. He was one of the first to leave college on Lincoln's proclamation calling for 75,000 troops, and reported at once for duty with his old company (the famous Company F), which had been ordered to Acquia Creek. With this company he remained but a short time. Sent as drill-master to exercise the artillerymen of Lindsay Walker in the infantry tactics, he was elected lieutenant of the Purcell battery. It was as commander of this battery that he was destined in great measure to achieve his hard-won fame—a battery which was with him from the f
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