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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
t and Keenan's death is known to every reader of the Chancellorsville campaign, and as generally related is intensely dramatic. The version with which I was most familiar told how Major Keenan, who as commanding the regiment, was directed to charge the advancing column of Jackson's men as they came down the road. With a smile upon his face, he replied: It is death, but I will do it, and then, at the head of his column, he plunged into the seething mass of Confederates, like a second Arnold Winkelried, and was slaughtered with his entire command. The short time which the charge occupied, however, was sufficient for the Union forces to get a battery into position and thus protect to some extent the rear of Howard's retreating column. But Major Morris says that this story, although so thrilling, is not true. Keenan was over there, he said, pointing a short distance away, and was ordered to go out and stop stragglers of Howard's corps who were coming down the road. The route of t