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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual reunion of Pegram Battalion Association in the Hall of House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., May 21st, 1886. (search)
l, of Richmond, equipped at his own expense with uniforms, blankets, &c., the historic battery that bore his name. This battery was the first company that left Richmond for the front. Greenlee Davidson, commander of the Letcher battery, a man of imperturbable courage, fell at Chancellorsville. George Cayce, captain of the Purcell, one of the most able and resolute officers in the whole artillery corps, died after the war had ended of the desperate wound received at Spotsylvania. Ned Marye, captain of the Fredericksburg battery, whose merry quips cheered march and bivouac, died in ‘64 of disease contracted in the trenches of Petersburg. Of the lieutenants, all faithful soldiers and good officers— William Allen, of the Purcell, fell at Mechanicsville. Ellis Munford of the Letcher battery, their young Sir Galahad, whose strength was as the strength of ten, because his heart was pure, was slain at Malvern Hill. Mercer Featherstone, a daring young officer of great promi