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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
one of the group, where a fine young officer said: Fellows, where will we be this time to-morrow? He was among the killed, and it was such a lesson on the uncertainty of human life. Among the killed there was Hoge and Gardner and Henry Cooke and Gill and Palmer Saunders and Goodwin, from our State, and Gift and Porcher and Scharf and Williamson and Kerr and Roby, all trained at Annapolis and true as steel—among these, three were from Norfolk and Portsmouth. In plain sight of us was a tall croof flame, and the very jaws of death. Our boat struck bow on, and our bow oarsman, James Wilson, of Norfolk (after the war with the Baker Wrecking Co.), caught her with his grapnel, and she swung side on with the tide. As we jumped aboard Engineer Gill, of Portsmouth, among the first, was shot through the head, and as he fell dead our men gave a yell, and rushed upon the deck, with the crews of the two other boats close behind. Now the fighting was furious, and at close quarters. Our men
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Hagerstown and Williamsport. (search)
, 53d Georgia regiment; wounded July 11th; died July 22d. Private D. J. Americk, 15th South Carolina regiment; wounded July 3; died July 22d. Private H. W. Goforth, 14th North Carolina regiment; wounded July 13th. Private J. J. McQuithy, 7th Louisiana regiment. Private Levi Wacaster, 34th North Carolina regiment. Private Thomas Connaway, 13th Alabama regiment; died August 5th. Private S. J. Gamble, 3d Alabama regiment. Private Schuyler Beverley, 31st Virginia regiment. Private W. H. Gill, 1st Maryland regiment; wounded July 11th. Sergeant W. A. Burney, 8th Georgia regiment; wounded July 2d. Private C. M. Frail, 1st Maryland regiment; wounded July 2d. Private J. C. Lake, 1st Maryland regiment; wounded July 2d. Sergeant P. B. Holmes, 8th Georgia regiment; wounded July 2d. Private A. B. Newcombe, 13th Virginia cavalry; wounded July 11th; died August 3d. Private J. W. Wilson, 5th North Carolina cavalry; wounded July 10th; died July 29th. Private J. J.