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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The honor roll of the University of Virginia, from the times-dispatch, December 3, 1905. (search)
93. Some errors in the list have been corrected in the reprint in this volume, and queries appended to some names. (?)—Ed.] By the courtesy of Professor J. W. Mallet, of the University of Virginia, who, himself an Englishman, is English like and Honors the brave. I am able to send to you the Honor Roll of the students of the University of Virginia who were killed, died or lost in actual military service of the Confederacy. They number four hundred and forty-five (445). Near Westminster Abbey is the beautiful monument of the young soldiers of the institution, which is in the vicinage who fell in the Crimea, after illustrating Lord Bacon's sentiment that it is well for a nation to raise a breed of military men. If the names of the students of the University, who served in the war, were added they would constitute at least a brigade in number. In this Roll of Honor are the names of all ranks, from the general to the private soldier, for the U. Va. men showed that the rank
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
t some years ago Captain James Bumgardner, of Staunton, who was an officer in the Fifty-second Virginia Regiment, next on the left of the Forty-ninth, told me that his regiment also had only three officers and eighteen men left. Thus and there at Bethesda Church well nigh perished one of the grandest corps of men the world has ever known—made up of the best young blood of Virginia, fighting for their Lares and Penates;—their exploits would brighten the fairest names upon the roll of Battle Abbey, and vie with the knightliest of any age. A brigade that had been led to victory by General Early on a hundred battle-fields; that had swept everything before it like a tornado; a brigade under whose flag you had fought and bled; a brigade that had furnished to the Confederacy four or five generals: Early, William Smith, A. P. Hill, J. A. Walker and J. B. Terrill (whose commission was on his way to him when he fell), thus to be slaughtered. The absent wounded returned; the ranks were recrui