Matchless for hard fighting and bravery.
Recollections of Major James Breathed. By H. H. Matthews, Pikesville, Md., a Member of Breathed's Breathed's Battery.
So little is generally known of the early life and ancestry of Major James Breathed, the fearless, dashing artillery officer who cMajor James Breathed, the fearless, dashing artillery officer who commanded the celebrated battery which has always been known as Breathed's Battery, since the death of the immortal Pelham, on March 17th, 1863Breathed's Battery, since the death of the immortal Pelham, on March 17th, 1863, at Kelly's Ford, Va., I thought the public would perhaps be gratified by a recital of his early life up to and after the Civil war.
Pleas I find it impossible to do him justice in a shorter one.
Major James Breathed, of the Stuart Horse Artillery, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northd purchased Durrganess, originally the old Randolph estate.
Major James Breathed was born February 13th, 1838, in Virginia, at Fruit Hall, Moiew—to join the Southern Army of Virginia.
Stuart was struck with Breathed's manly and bold bearing, and when Pelham organized the celebrated
, Hon. C. L., 355.
Barton, Captain R., 117.
Beall, J. Gates, execution of, 262.
Blackford, Captain C. M., 279.
Black Horse Troop, Reminiscences of, 142.
Blaine, J. G. 78.
Bombshell, Captured the, 211.
Boonsboro Md., 145.
Breathed, Major, James, Sketch of, 346.
Brown. John Young, 188; Colonel Ridgeley, killed, 215.
Buck. Captain S. D., 104, 371.
Buckingham Yancey Guard, 154.
Buckner, General S. B., 117.
Butler, General B. F., 95; at New Orleans, La., 188; infamous o of the Philo, 261.
Passy, Frederick 227.
Patteson, Captain, Camm, 154.
Payne, General, Wm. H.. 144.
Pegram, General, John, 105.
Pelham. Charles Thomas, 345 Major John, Lines to by J. R. Randall, Sketch of his career, 338.
Pelham and Breathed's Battery, Roll of, 348.
Pender, General W. D. 112.
Pendleton, Major A. S., killed, 372.
Perryville, Battle of, 238
Peters, Colonel W. E., 218, his noble conduct at Chambersburg, Pa., 266; Winfield, 116.
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