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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
Death of Major Weightman. We are deeply pained to see among the list of the fallen in the late battle in Missouri, the name of Major. Richard Hanson Weight-man of the Missouri volunteers. Major Weightman had distinguished himself greatly in the Mexican war, as com- of the flying artillery in General Hoffman's expedition and, at the battle of , unlimbered fifty yards nearer the enemy than any battery at Palo Alto or Re Probably the most extraordinary march ever made is on this continent, unless the pretext war has furnished a parallel, was made brilliant, energetic and heroic . The reign of a distinguished Maryland family, where blood has flowed like water in every war of America from the Revolutionary war. Major Weightman has nobly its reputation by a life of the most toned chivalry and by a soldier's death. We never knew a man who bore in his per- more unmistakable insignia of Nature's noblemen. His was a face that might have suggested those beautiful a Virginia