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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 93 (search)
36. where is that flag, Oh! where? by W. H. Hayward. At the battle of Carnifax Ferry, Va., the color-bearer of the Tenth Ohio regiment, Fitzgibbons, who was terribly wounded, as he lay dying, looked frantically to a companion, and not seeing the colors which he himself carried and grasped with a dying tenacity after he fell, exclaimed, in paroxysms of despair, his life-blood flowing: Where is that flag, O heavens! where is it? keep it and preserve it. These were his last dying word And as he gasping now beheld His flag beside.him there, He died, a soldier's glorious death; “Preserve that flag!” his prayer. With the above came the following: To the Colonel of the Tenth Ohio regiment, or any officer who was a friend of Fitzgibbons, brave, noble, true-hearted color-bearer of the Tenth Ohio regiment, who fell at the battle of Carnifax Ferry, this little song is respectfully forwarded with the compliments of the author. Wm. H. Hayward, J. P., Baltimore City, Maryla
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Mayor's Court, yesterday. --Oliver, slave of Mary Hill, charged with receiving a vest stolen from Jno. Romar, was acquitted, and a search ordered to be instituted for the party implicated in stealing it. --Albert, slave of the Messrs. Hardgrove, found with Clara Coleman's pass, was punished for purloining a cloak from her. --Two young white men were arraigned for getting on a bender and knocking Wm. H. Hayward's glass door into a cocked hat; one was discharged, and the other gave bail. --Silas, slave of B. S. Dickinson, was punished for getting drunk and be having disorderly on Grace street, Sunday.-- Jos. Smith, small darkey, found asleep under a pile of lumber, corner of 6th street, was detained, in order that he might be bound out to learn a trade by the Hustings Court.--Jim Burns, a Norfolk immigrant, was let off on promise of striking a bee-line for salt water. He was arrested for intoxication.--Eliza R. Ellis, negro, no papers and drunk, punished.-- Wm. King, negro, havin
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
ell a disturbance existing in one of the rooms in the 2d story of the building, which rooms were hired out as lodging rooms by the lessee of the premises, Mr. William H. Hayward. On getting into the premises, the officer found several men in bed and sundry more in room No. 2, two of whom, John H. Gatewood and Edwin Hamilton, werefusely from wounds apparently inflicted by bottles or stone pitchers. Neither of the parties named belonging to the premises or having paid for lodgings there, Mr. Hayward requested the officer to removed them. Gatewood, who presented the most signs of physical exhaustion, after having his wounds dressed, was carried off by his fe and out Gatewood on the back of the hand. Several persons were in the room at the time. The second bottle that was thrown cut Gittings on the forehead. Mr. Hayward deposed, that one of the regulations was that no one could occupy a bed until his name was booked and the bed paid for. Neither requisition had been complied wi
The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Refugees in Canada. (search)
, yesterday. --Writs, of habeas corpus were awarded by Judge Halyburton, yesterday, D. T. Madigan and Joseph Cance, directed to Major Thomas G. Peyton, and made returnable to-day. Madigan claims that, some time since, he joined Captain William H. Hayward's cavalry; that since then he has procured a contract for carrying the mails, and therefore, according to a recent judicial decision, he is exempt from service; but that Captain Hayward refuses to recognize his exemption, and still claicted to Major Thomas G. Peyton, and made returnable to-day. Madigan claims that, some time since, he joined Captain William H. Hayward's cavalry; that since then he has procured a contract for carrying the mails, and therefore, according to a recent judicial decision, he is exempt from service; but that Captain Hayward refuses to recognize his exemption, and still claims the petitioner as a member of his company. Cance's plea is based upon the fact of his being an undomiciled foreigner.
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
m the front windows, and all placed together in an ambulance in waiting outside. They were then taken to the Broad Street Methodist Church, where an inquest was held by Coroner Little, before whom the following testimony was elicited: William H. Hayward testified — A few minutes after 1 o'clock I arrived at the scene of conflagration. I did not see any of Mr. Stebbins's family, but distinctly heard, before I got to the house, Mr. Stebbins crying for help; also, a female voice crying for ho late." Just about this time the Hook and Ladder Company arrived on the spot. I assisted in putting up the ladders; found them too short to reach up high enough, and looked on the end to see if they could not be put together. After seeing Captain Hayward descending, asked him if he could do anything? He said no. At this time the firemen increased in number, and cleared the sidewalks. Know nothing of the origin of the fire; but think that, if the ladders had been long enough, some assistanc