Browsing named entities in Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore). You can also browse the collection for Sharp or search for Sharp in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

nce died,20th December. Inventory of ordnance and ordnance stores, taken possession of by Lieutenant-Colonel R. Kirkup, Fifth Ohio volunteers, at arsenal on President street: Thirty-one boxes artillery harness, in bad order; nine thousand rounds cartridges, (Enfield,) calibre 58; large amount of linseed oil, spirits turpentine, and other paint stuffs; eleven thousand rounds single musket-balls, calibre 69; five thousand rounds buck and ball cartridge, calibre 75; four thousand rounds Sharp's rifle cartridge, calibre 55; three hundred and eighty-one buff gun-slings; six bars copper; ten boxes plate tin; three boxes muskets, (old;) thirty thousand and twenty brass fuze plugs; fifteen hundred and forty-one ten-inch fuze plugs; twelve hundred and forty-six ten-inch fuze plugs; nineteen hundred ten-inch fuze plugs; twenty-six hundred and forty-eight inch fuze plugs; eleven hundred forty-two pounder fuze plugs; five hundred fuze plugs, strange pattern; nineteen hundred and sixty twe
g of young Major Haskill, of South Carolina, belonging, as I am told, to the staff of General D. R. Jones. His personal bearing in a most deadly fire, his example and directions, contributed not a little to the enthusiasm of the charge. I regret to say that this brave young officer received a terrible wound from a shell, but walked from the field as heroically as he had gone into the fire. I take great pleasure in mentioning the distinguished bravery of privates Fairley, Westmoreland, and Sharp, troopers of the legion who acted as officers, and displayed great coolness and courage. Conspicuous were Brigadier-General Hood and Colonel Law, commanding brigades. Of the regimental commanders too much cannot be said. Colonel Rainey, First Texas, though seriously ill, joined his command, and fell severely wounded; Colonel Marshall, Fourth Texas, was shot dead, and Lieutenant-Colonel Warwick was mortally wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Ruff, of the Eighteenth Georgia, led his regiment, and