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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gettysburg. (search)
es J. T. Suggs, A. H. Bateman, J. S. Jones. Company D—Privates J. Talbott, R. Wolf, George Footman, D. Jordan. Company E—Lieutenants P. P. L. Todd, J. H; Johnson, Privates B. Tate, T. Albrittam, D. Bryant, A. J. Hogan. Company F—Privates W. J. Thompson, J. Neil, R. Cobb, D. Tillis. Company G—Sergeant W. E. Livingston, Privates John Revels, H. Harris, H. V. Long, H. McClellan, G. R. Brooman. Company H—Privates E. Hall, F. Medicis, M. Sanchez, J. J. Vinzant. Company I—Lieutenant J. W. Hall, Privates W. Belote, E. H. Tomblin, William Stringheard. Company K—Privates H. C. Grosventine, L. F. Walker, R. N. Batten, W. Hodge. Company L—Privates T. H. Sutton, E. Dampier. Company M—Lieutenant J. D. Perkins, Sergeant J. Betton, Privates Herndons B. M. Hora, S. Dimmock, R. W. Sirles, H. C. Billingsby, W. W. Shuman, N. A. Armstrong, P. Conniff. Fifth Florida. Company A—Lieutenant G. L. Odum, Privates R. H. McClelland, D. M. Claytor, M. D. Pratton, B. H
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
him if they had wished to do so; Merritt's whole division was behind and McMasters was in front of them. While Torbert's, Merritt's and Lowell's reports betray the consciousness of a crime committed by some one, they do not disclose who did it. Even admitting that McMasters offered to surrender when killed, there is a vast difference between refusing quarter in the excitement and brevis furor of a cavalry combat and killing in cold blood and under official sanction when the combat is over. Hall, from whom I have quoted, says: A belligerent, therefore, may only kill those enemies whom he is permitted to attack while a combat is actually in progress; he may not, as a general rule, refuse quarter. True, but McMasters was killed during the progress of the combat. He may have intended to surrender, but it does not necessarily follow that my men knew it. They had no time to take prisoners or parley. They were surrounded by thousands, and their only way of escape was to break through t