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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
lead the Palmettos to the combat. Early in the engagement his horse was shot under him. Soon after he received a painful wound in the knee, and yielded the command to Lieutenant-Colonel Dickinson.--Taking the Palmetto flag from the hands of Sergeant Beggs, Dickinson placed himself in front, and Beggs was immediately shot down. Col. Butler new came up to resume the command, and was killed by the side of Dickinson while standing under the flag. Dickinson himself soon fail mortally wounded, (heBeggs was immediately shot down. Col. Butler new came up to resume the command, and was killed by the side of Dickinson while standing under the flag. Dickinson himself soon fail mortally wounded, (he died some weeks afterward,) and Major Gladden received it from his hands and committed it to Lieut. Baker, who being unable, from debility and exhaustion, to carry it, Major Gladden placed it in the hands of Patrick Leonard, and led his regiment to the charge. His men fell rapidly, but not one wavered, from first to last, under the concentrated fire of the enemy. In the whole history of war there has never been a more striking example of indifference to death, the result of stern resolve. E
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1860., [Electronic resource], South Carolinas in the Field. (search)
lead the Palmettos to the combat. Early in the engagement his horse was shot under him. Soon after he received a painful wound in the knee, and yielded the command to Lieutenant-Colonel Dickinson.--Taking the Palmetto flag from the hands of Sergeant Beggs, Dickinson placed himself in front, and Beggs was immediately shot down. Col. Butler new came up to resume the command, and was killed by the side of Dickinson while standing under the flag. Dickinson himself soon fail mortally wounded, (heBeggs was immediately shot down. Col. Butler new came up to resume the command, and was killed by the side of Dickinson while standing under the flag. Dickinson himself soon fail mortally wounded, (he died some weeks afterward,) and Major Gladden received it from his hands and committed it to Lieut. Baker, who being unable, from debility and exhaustion, to carry it, Major Gladden placed it in the hands of Patrick Leonard, and led his regiment to the charge. His men fell rapidly, but not one wavered, from first to last, under the concentrated fire of the enemy. In the whole history of war there has never been a more striking example of indifference to death, the result of stern resolve. E