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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Heroic deed. (search)
has been promoted to a Brigadier-Generalship in the Confederate Provisional Army. Gabriel C. Jervey, the oldest member of the Washington Light Infantry, (Hampton Legion,) died at Culpeper C. H. on the 20th ult., from a wound received in the great battle. Henry A. Middleton, Jr., of the Hampton Legion, who was wounded in the Manassas battle, has since died. The Charleston papers speak of him as a pure and exalted patriot. Capt. Charles H. Axson, who was killed recently by Arthur E. Davis, was a son of Judge Axson, of Charleston, S. C. His friends deeply mourn his untimely end. One of the captured federal Lieutenants says that nearly all the West Point graduates of last June were in the Manassas fight, and nearly all killed. The New York Herald says Napoleon had his Grouchy, and by him lost Waterloo; and Scott had his Patterson, to whom he owes the defeat at Bull Run. General Whiting, it is said, assumes the command of the lamented General Bee's brigade.
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
st of the killed and wounded, and other items of interest. Desiring still further to oblige our North Carolina friends, we append an extract from a letter published in the Raleigh State Journal, dated near Manassas Junction, July 23. We of the Sixth N. C. State troops, Colonel Fisher, were ordered to Gen. Jeanston's command at Winchester, where we arrived in time to join in the celebrated "forced march" acrose the mountains to Gen. Beauregard's aid, and which has been spoken of by President Davis as the great military achievement of the age. Yes, sir, we traveled on foot, day and night, without even stopping to eat! We arrived Sunday morning of the memorable 21st at the Junction, about eight o'clock, and while Col. Fisher was calling at headquarters for orders we heard the opening fire. Soon after, Col. F. returned and ordered us to "forward," and at a rapid pace we set out for the hastle-field, without rest, water or food for thirty-six hours. As we approached, the musketry o