Named Entity Results, Captain Ricketts

Noble conduct of Mrs. Captain Ricketts.--The heroic conduct of Mrs. Ricketts, the wife of Captain James B. Ricketts, who was severely wounded at Bull Run, is the theme of much praise. Mrs. Ricketts pushed through the enemy's lines alone when she heard her husband was captured, and took her place with him in the hospital, from which she never emerged until this week. When she arrived in Richmond, General Stuart asked her to sign a parole of honor. She refused. He persisted in writing it,Mrs. Ricketts, the wife of Captain James B. Ricketts, who was severely wounded at Bull Run, is the theme of much praise. Mrs. Ricketts pushed through the enemy's lines alone when she heard her husband was captured, and took her place with him in the hospital, from which she never emerged until this week. When she arrived in Richmond, General Stuart asked her to sign a parole of honor. She refused. He persisted in writing it, and handed her the document. She tore it up instantly, and carried the fragments to her husband. When Captain Ricketts was carried to Richmond, crowds flocked to see the commander of Sherman's battery, as they insisted on calling it.

s King, of New York, and his daughter, Mrs. Captain Ricketts, and her sister, who is married to a snd went up with him and joined the party. Mrs. Ricketts, you know, was a Miss Lawrence. I had knons, an Engineer, who has gone to Brazil. General Ricketts has joined, having been assigned to one oigned to the new division of which Hartranft, Ricketts and Bayard are the brigadiers. The cars arced me in command of the army corps, over General Ricketts's head, who ranked me. This selection is ived the day after the last battle and joined Ricketts' staff. Young Kingsbury, whom you may rememb corps on the field, I immediately sought out Ricketts, told him I presumed there was a mistake, Hooker not knowing that he (Ricketts) outranked me, and I turned over the command to him, and only resuptory order from McClellan, which I sent you. Ricketts appreciated my course, and said there was no s John Williams, who has been taken away from Ricketts and ordered to report to this army for duty,

erate army. Hays and Avery, exposed to a heavy fire from the batteries on Cemetery Hill, advanced in splendid order, passed over the ridge in their immediate front, across a hollow between that and Cemetery Hill, and finally up the slope of Cemetery Hill, easily brushing aside the troops of Ames's division of the Eleventh Corps, and after surmounting all difficulties, reached the crest of the hill, and in an instant were in among the guns of Wiederich's battery, spiking the left section of Ricketts's battery, on Wiederich's right. A fierce hand-to-hand fight here took place, the officers and men of the batteries, using handspikes, rammers, pistols, and even stones, succeeding at last in checking the enemy sufficiently long to enable reinforcements to come to the rescue. Colonel Avery, commanding one of the Confederate brigades, was mortally wounded in this assault. The reinforcements which so opportunely arrived were Carroll's brigade of the Second Corps, which had been sent by H

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