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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
wn, near Richmond. He was a kind, innocent creature, particularly attached to me. Just before he was killed, he remarked, slapping the roll of blankets he carried, Don't you think this is a good breastwork? Alas, the ball found its way to poor Govan's heart despite his breastwork, and in our hearts We sadly missed him. The bodies of Figner, Wynne, Walthall and Via were sent to Richmond, while Govan, Stoaber, Crigger, Toomy and Gillispie found a resting-place that evening in the corner of Govan, Stoaber, Crigger, Toomy and Gillispie found a resting-place that evening in the corner of the field just to the right of where the Twenty-fourth charged. No sooner had this fatal volley been fired when we returned the compliment, and charging among them, we captured those who did not get away. Then, over the enemy's works came the decimated regiments, the Eleventh and Twenty-fourth, which had made the fight in front of the works, losing nearly one-third of their men in that fearful struggle to take the works in front. The loss as stated by the Richmond papers, giving names, w