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Parole list of Engineer troops,
Army of Northern Virginia
, surrendered at
Appomattox C. H.
,
April
9th
,
1865
.
Presentation of the portrait of
Lieut.-General
Wade
Hampton
,
C. S. Cavalry
, [from the times-dispatch,
September
16
,
1904
.]
The
Fredericksburg artillery
,
Captain
Edward
S.
Marye
, [from the times-dispatch,
January
8
,
1905
.]
[37] do or die. It was a sad sight. Most of them were bleeding; numbers of them were bathing their wounds in a little creek which ran along the valley, making its clear water run red, which others used to quench their burning thirst. Some 300 or 400 men were there. General George E. Pickett was mounted, and was talking to the men here and there. Only two of the regiments had retained their colors, one of which was the 24th Virginia, and the color bearer, a tall mountaineer, named Charles Belcher, was waving it, crying: ‘General, let us go at them again!’ Just about then General James L. Kemper was carried into the crowd, and the latter came to a halt. Then General Lee was seen to ride up, and we, as was usual, wanted to know what he had to say, crowded around him. General Pickett broke out into tears, while General Lee rode up to him, and they shook hands. General Lee spoke to General Pickett in a slow and distinct manner. Anyone could see that he, too, felt the repulse and slaughter of the division, whose remains he viewed.
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