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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
the Virginia regiments constituted Terry's brigade, Gordon's division. Second Virginia, Colonel J. Q. A. Nadenbousch. Fourth Virginia, Colonel William Terry. Fifth Virginia, Colonel J. H. S. Funk. Twenty-seventh Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles [L.] Haynes. Thirty-third Virginia, Colonel F. W. M. Holliday. Steuart's brigade. the Virginia regiments constituted Terry's brigade, Gordon's division. Tenth Virginia, Colonel E. T. H. Warren. Twenty-third Virginia, Colonel A. G. Taliaferro. Thirty-seventh Virginia, Colonel T. V. Williams. First North Carolina, Colonel H. A. Brown. Third North Carolina, Colonel S. D. Thruston. Jones's brigade. the Virginia regiments constituted Terry's brigade, Gordon's division. Twenty-first Virginia, Colonel W. A. Witcher. Twenty-fifth Virginia, Colonel J. C. Higginbotham. Forty-second Virginia, Colonel R. W. Withers. Forty-fourth Virginia, Colonel Norvell Cobb. Forty-eighth Virginia, Colonel R. A Dungan. Fiftieth
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters from Fort Sumter in 1862 and 1863. (search)
kept possession of the portion they had taken for three-quarters of an hour, were there in force even after all the rest of their comrades had retreated, and but for a gallant charge of a handful of men from the Charleston Battalion, led by General Taliaferro in person, they would well nigh have taken our works. Our little band charged them at the point of the bayonet, and either killed, wounded, or took possession of the whole party. If the enemy had been supported, I believe the Battery woul The Colonel of one of the negro regiments has been recognized as a very wealthy gentleman from Boston. The enemy sent a flag of truce over yesterday morning, asking to be allowed to bury their dead, but General Hagood, who has relieved General Taliaferro for the present, replied that we would attend to that. There was a kind of mutual agreement, however, that all operations should be suspended for the day, and while I was on the field about fifty Yankees came over, and were circulating fre
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Our heroic dead. (search)
ost Which fill us with mournful pride— Taylor and Newton, we well may boast, McPhail, and Walke, and Selden, too, Brave as the bravest, as truest true! And Grandy struck down ere his May became June, A battle-flag folded away too soon, And Williams, than whom not a man stood higher 'Mid the host of heroes baptized in fire. And Mallory, whose sires aforetime died, When Freedom and Danger stood side by side. McIntosh, too, with his boarders slain, Saunders and Jackson, the unripe grain, And Taliaferro, stately as knight of old, A blade of steel with a sheath of gold. And Wright, who fell on the Crater's red sod, Gave his life to the Cause, his soul to God. These are random shots at the field of Fame, But each rings out on a noble name. Yes, names like bayonet points, when massed, Blaze out as we gaze on the splendid past. That past is now like an Arctic Sea Where the living currents have ceased to run, But over that past the fame of Lee Shines out as the ‘Midnight Sun;’ And that glor<