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of whom he said: ‘Among the officers whose gallantry I especially noticed in this action was Lieut.-Col. N. J. George, First Tennessee; also F. M. Barnes, private of Company A, Fourteenth Tennessee, who seized the colors from the hands of the wounded color-bearer and bore them bravely through the fight.’
Capt. Young T. Stubblefield and Lieut. W. E. Forbes, First Tennessee, were among the killed.
Major Morris, Fourteenth Tennessee, was mortally wounded.
General Lee reported, in the series of engagements on the plains of Manassas, 7,000 Federal prisoners taken in addition to 2,000 wounded and abandoned by Pope's army, and the capture of 30 pieces of artillery and upward of 20,000 stand of small-arms.
At Cedar Run and the combats and battles here recited, Archer lost in killed and wounded 369, out of a brigade of 1,200 strong, or nearly one-third of his effective total.
At the battle of Second Manassas, Jackson reported that at one time pending the engagement ‘the opposing forces delivered their volleys into each other at the distance of ten paces.’
The Federal army fell back on Washington City and General Pope was at once relieved of his command.
In the brief campaign against Pope, the Fourteenth Tennessee lost three field officers, Forbes, Harrell and Morris; Maj. William McComb succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Harrell, and on the fall of Colonel Forbes, succeeded to the command of the regiment.
Capt. J. W. Lockert was made lieutenant-colonel, and Capt. J. H. Johnson became major.
When General Lee started on his Maryland campaign, he dispatched Gen. Stonewall Jackson with about one-third of his army in the direction of Harper's Ferry, which was invested on the evening of September 14, 1862.
Tennesseeans participating in the series of battles from Warrenton ford to Shepherdstown, inclusive, were the First Tennessee, Col. Peter Turney; Seventh Tennessee, Maj. S. G. Shepard; Fourteenth Tennessee, Lieut.-Col. Lockert
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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