hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
ed in upon them volley after volley, until night closed the scene. Where all behaved so well, the mention of individual acts might seem to be invidious. But justice demands that I should call your attention to the acts of Captain J. T. Kilby, company I, who, amidst the fire of the enemy, seized a flag of some regiment that had been broken, and tried to rally its scattered remnants, and bring them against the foe; and, while thus acting, the flagstaff was shot from his hand. Of Captain James I. Phillips, who, after our color-bearer was shot down and its guard scattered, preserved the colors of his regiment, and saved it from the dishonor of leaving its colors on the field, and restored them, still to wave in their proper place. Of Lieutenant James F. Crocker, Adjutant of the Ninth regiment, who received several severe, if not mortal wounds, in bravely leading the regiment in front of its colors, and encouraging the men by his bold and gallant bearing. And I might, indeed, mentio