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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Death of Col. Dreux. One of the most lamentable casualties of the many skirmishes with the enemy since the war, was the death of Col. Charles D. Dreux, of the Louisiana Cadets, in an encounter wCol. Charles D. Dreux, of the Louisiana Cadets, in an encounter with a body of Federalists near Newport News, an account of which will be found in our paper this morning. The event was a sad one for his comrades, and the whole army of the peninsula sympathized with them. Col. Dreux was not thirty years old; but had become distinguished at home for his genius and attainments, and was warmly esteemed for the admirable qualities of his heart. By profession a lmonths.--After being joined by several other companies, the Cadets were ordered to Virginia. Capt. Dreux being the senior Captain, was made Lieutenant Colonel. After sojourning awhile in Richmond, d to Yorktown, where they had been only a few weeks previous to the death of the Colonel. Col. Dreux was a member of one of the oldest Creole families in New Orleans. As a lawyer he had acquired
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
he enemy were killed, but the number of course is unknown to our men. We regret to hear that on our side there were two killed, and one of these was Col. De Russy, of the Louisiana Regiment. Col. De R. was widely known in Virginia, and his death will be universally lamented. We find the above in the Petersburg Express, but there is certainly a mistake in the report of Col. De Russy. That officer, we understand, was in Richmond on Wednesday and left for Yorktown on Thursday. That there was such a skirmish, we believe, as the same account has reached us, with the exception that another gallant Louisiana Colonel was killed. That officer was the chivalrous Col. Charles D. Dreux, of the Louisiana Battalion. His body was brought to this city on Saturday and forwarded under an escort to New Orleans. The want of a telegraph line hence to Yorktown is much to be regretted, as the suspense in cases of this kind is extremely painful to the friends of those rumored to have been killed.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A hero in trouble. (search)
The skirmish near Newport News. Various reports have reached us in regard to the skirmish near Newport News, on Thursday night, in which the gallant Col. Dreux, of the Louisiana Battalion, lost his life. The most reliable is that Col. D., with a small party, was fired upon from an ambuscade, this officer falling at the first fire. Our informant states that some of the enemy were slain, but the number is not known. Our loss is put down at two, Col. Dreux and a gentleman named Hackett, frer falling at the first fire. Our informant states that some of the enemy were slain, but the number is not known. Our loss is put down at two, Col. Dreux and a gentleman named Hackett, from Shreveport, La. The letter of our correspondent, appended, states that the Nottoway Cavalry were engaged, while another account says that it was the Halifax Cavalry; and the sudden dash of their horses startled the horses of the Howitzers — the gun of the latter being thus detached from its caisson.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal shooting affair. (search)
ccinctly as I can, and almost verbatim, the truth of the story, as received from his lips, which is as follows: Colonel Dreux, of Louisiana, left his entrenchments at Young's Mill on yesterday afternoon with a company of Cadets, one hundred st when a fire from an ambuscade of the enemy was opened on his front and rear, at the first of which the gallant and noble Dreux fell, pierced by the balls of the mercenary foe. His men, not aware of the disaster, awaited his orders for a charge, wheack, the ground being uneven and exceedingly disadvantageous to the movements of the horses. As soon as the death of Colonel Dreux was ascertained, Captain Collins immediately assumed the command, and recovered the body. The only serious results of the affair were the death of Colonel Dreux and the wounding of one of our men accidentally by one of his fellow-soldiers. Captain Collins, with the men under his command, fell back in good order. It was impossible, from the thickly wooded region