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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
or. Seventh battalion Reserves: Chrisman, George, major. Seventh Infantry regiment: Flowerree, Charles C., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Kemper, James L., colonel; Patton, Waller Tazewell, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Swindler, Aylett A., major; Williams, Lewis R., Jr., lieutenant-colonel. Eighth Cavalry battalion (transferred to Tenth Cavalry): Davis, J. Lucius, lieutenant-colonel; Duffield, C. B., major. Eighth Cavalry regiment: Bowen, Thomas P., major, lieutenant-coloeutenant-colonel. Fifty-second Militia regiment: Carter, Hill, colonel; Christian, Bat. D., major; Valden, Vulosko, major. Fifty-third Infantry regiment (formed from Tomlin's and Montague's battalions and Company A of Waddill's battalion): Aylett, William R., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Edmundson, Henry A., major; Grammer, John, Jr., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Leigh, William, major; Martin, Rawley White, major, lieutenant-colonel; Montague, Edgar B., lieutenant-colonel; S
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
second line of assault against Cemetery hill. Conspicuous to all, 50 yards in advance of his brigade, waving his hat in the air, General Armistead led his men upon the enemy with a steady bearing which inspired all with enthusiasm and courage. Far in advance of all, he led the attack till he scaled the works of the enemy and fell wounded in their hands, but not until he had driven them from their position and seen his colors planted over their fortifications. This was the testimony of Colonel Aylett, who succeeded to the immediate command of the remnant of the brigade that was led into action. General Lee wrote in his report, Brigadier-Generals Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett and Semmes died as they had lived, discharging the highest duties of patriots with devotion that never faltered and courage that shrank from no danger. Brigadier-General Turner Ashby Brigadier-General Turner Ashby, a hero of the South whose memory is cherished with peculiar tenderness by the people of the