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John Letcher (search for this): chapter 1
posted by his order. These guns consisted of the batteries of Pegram and the intrepid McIntosh, of South Carolina, with a section each from the batteries of Crenshaw, Johnson and Latham. On the left were posted twenty-one guns, among them the Letcher Artillery—the whole commanded by Captain Greenlee Davidson of that battery. As the sun came bursting through the mist on that glorious morning, the army from its position looked down upon a scene which stirred the heart of conscript and veteiment Virginia Infantry, as First Sergeant of the Battery on its organization; elected Junior Second Lieutenant March 21st, 1862; promoted Captain November, 1863; commission dated April 15th, 1863; commanded Battery at the time of surrender. Letcher—First Captain, Greenlee Davidson; Captain Greenlee Davidson organized Battery February 17th, 1862; commanded it until killed on field of battle at Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863.Second Captain, Thomas A. Brander; Lieutenant Thomas A. Brand
August 19th (search for this): chapter 1
ong upon it of right and with honor— First Manassas,Jericho Ford, (North Anna), Mechanicsville,Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill,First Reams' Station, Frazier's Farm, (Glendale),The Crater, Malvern Hill,Actions on the Weldon Railroad, (August 18th, 19th, and 21st), Cedar Mountain, Warrenton Springs,Second Reams' Station, Second Manassas, (both days),Battle of September 30th, 1864, right of Petersburg, Ox Hill, (Chantilly), Harper's Ferry,Battle of Squirrel Level Road, Sharpsburg, (Antietam), it would be impossible to speak in detail. Time would fail me to tell of the part played by the Battalion at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Jericho Ford (passage of the North Anna), Cold Harbor, Reams' Station, the Crater, the actions of August 18th, 19th, and 21st for the possession of the Weldon railroad (where the brunt of the fighting fell on the Battalion and Heth's division), second battle of Reams' Station (of which Heth generously said that he did not believe that the works would have been
May 3rd, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 1
d April 15th, 1863; commanded Battery at the time of surrender. Letcher—First Captain, Greenlee Davidson; Captain Greenlee Davidson organized Battery February 17th, 1862; commanded it until killed on field of battle at Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863.Second Captain, Thomas A. Brander; Lieutenant Thomas A. Brander assisted in organizing Battery as Junior First Lieutenant; promoted Captain May 3d, 1863; promoted Major of Artillery January, 1865, and attached to Poague's Battalion, with whMay 3d, 1863; promoted Major of Artillery January, 1865, and attached to Poague's Battalion, with which he surrendered. Lieutenant-Commanding, James E. Tyler. Second Sergeant James E. Tyler, transferred from F Company, Twenty-First Regiment Virginia Volunteers, March 21, 1862; promoted to First Sergeant; promoted to Second Lieutenant; was in command of Battery at the time of surrender. Fredericksburg-First Captain, Carter M. Braxton; Captain Carter M. Braxton-Battery organized April, 1861; made Captain May 8, 1861; promoted Major of Artillery March 7, 1863, and assigned to another B
April, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 1
vate George M. Cayce promoted to First Lieutenant; afterwards promoted Captain, and was in command of Battery at the capture of Petersburg; died near Richmond at the residence of his brother, Mr. Milton Cayce, February 25th, 1883. Crenshaw—First Captain, William G. Crenshaw; Captain William G. Crenshaw organized and equipped the Battery March 14th, 1862; commanded it until October, 1862, when detailed and sent to Europe as Commercial Agent of Confederate States Government; resigned April, 1863. LieutenantCommand-ing, James Ellett; Lieutenant James Ellett assisted in raising and organizing this Battery as Senior First Lieutenant; was in command of the Battery at the battle of Fredericksburg December 13th, 1862, when he was killed on the field of battle. Lieutenant-Commanding, A. B. Johnston; Lieutenant A. B. Johnston assisted in raising this Battery as Senior Second Lieutenant; was in command of the Battery at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863; afterwards promoted First Lieutenant,
Cromwell (search for this): chapter 1
the Spartan and Athenian phalanx, made immortal the names of Marathon, Thermopylae and Plataea. Steady and firm as the seven hills on which the Eternal City rested were the infantry legions who bore the eagles of Imperial Rome to Universal Empire. Men will never cease to wonder at the discipline and valor of that magnificent infantry which the Great Frederick led to victory at Rossbach, Leuthen and Zorndorf, nor will they forget the heroic devotion of the stern old Covenanters, who under Cromwell added such lustre to England's name, and taught the world how religious zeal could triumph over chivalric honor and ancestral pride. Superb indeed was the courage, endurance and dash of that almost matchless infantry that crossed the bridge at Lodi under the First Napoleon, and stamped its victorious heel on two imperial thrones when the sun went down at Austerlitz; and a noble guard was that of which the dauntless Cambronne said on that fateful day at Waterloo, that it had learned to die,
Americans (search for this): chapter 1
in their ranks who nobly sustained the ancient renown of the races whence they sprung; but this great fact stands unchallenged, that the Confederate infantry was distinctively an American infantry and its victories distinctively the triumph of Americans over armies composed, perhaps in greater part, of recruits drawn from half the civilized nations of the world. This fundamental truth will some day be sure to find complete recognition, and Americans everywhere point with pride to the grand acAmericans everywhere point with pride to the grand achievements of this same Rebel infantry and claim a share in its renown, and in the splendid fame and deathless names of its incomparable leaders, the highest embodiment and the purest types of American manhood—its Jackson and its Lee. But, my comrades, Hushed is the roll of the Rebel drum, The sabres are sheathed and the cannon are dumb, And Fate with pitiless hand has furled The flag that once challenged the gaze of the world. Nevertheless, to you who heard that drum beat to arms on man
April 8th (search for this): chapter 1
,Battle of September 30th, 1864, right of Petersburg, Ox Hill, (Chantilly), Harper's Ferry,Battle of Squirrel Level Road, Sharpsburg, (Antietam),Battle of the Dabney House, Shepherdstown,Burgess' Mill, October 27th, 1864, Fredericksburg,Hatcher's Run, February 6th and 7th, 1865, Chancellorsville,(all three days), Gettysburg,(all three days),Action on Petersburg Front, March 25th, 1865, Bristoe Station, Mine Run,Five Forks, Wilderness,Appomattox Station, (evening before surrender, April 8th). Spotsylvania C. H., (May 10th, 12th, and 18th, 1864), In other words, the Purcell, having been engaged in 1861 in all the combats on the Potomac and at First Manassas, the batteries of the Battalion, from the time Lee assumed command at Seven Pines, took part (and most honorable and effective part, according to the official reports of Lee, Jackson, and A. P. Hill) in every general action delivered by the Army of Northern Virginia from that time up to the surrender at Appomatttox C.
Morton (search for this): chapter 1
cause—of noble blood nobly shed for hearth, home, and country—and our blood taking fire at sight of it, even as David's blood took fire when he saw in the hands of Ahimelech the sword which recalled the unequal contest and glorious victory in the valley of Elah, we re-echo the cry of the warrior-king of Israel three thousand years ago: There is none like this! As I unfurl the tattered remnant, it seems but yesterday that we saw our boy-colonel riding along some crimson field (followed by Morton bearing this flag), the sweet austerity of his grave face lit up with the joy of battle, as he was greeted by the hoarse cheering of his batteries and the iron-throated plaudits of his guns—it seems but yesterday, men of the Purcell, that in the dusk of that glorious August evening on Cedar Mountain, when you unlimbered within eighty yards of the masses of Pope swarming through the cornfields straight for the guns, old Jackson, sat on his sorrel hard by this flag, sucking the inevitable lemo<
June 4th (search for this): chapter 1
A. Marye; Lieutenant Edward A. Marye elected Lieutenant May 13th, 1861; promoted Captain March 2d, 1863; died of fever October 5th, 1864. Third Captain, John G. Pollock. Third Sergeant John G. Pollock, April 23d, 1861; afterwards promoted Lieutenant; promoted Captain October 5th, 1864; in command of battery at the time of surrender. Pee Dee, S. C-First Captain, D. G. McIntosh; Captain D. G. McIntosh—Battery organized August 1st, 1861; promoted Major March 2d, 1863, and assigned to another Battalion. Second Captain, E. B. Brunson; First Lieutenant E. B. Brunson promoted Captain March 2d, 1863. Third Captain, William E. Zimmerman. First Lieutenant William E. Zimmerman, promoted Captain June 30th, 1864. This Battery was transferred South June 4th, 1864. Gregg's, S. C—Captain Gregg. Captain Gregg, with his Battery, was assigned to Pegram's Battalion June 4th, 1864; participating in all engagements with the Battalion, and was with it at the time of the surrend
Lane (search for this): chapter 1
n November, Jackson moved slowly in the direction of Millwood, and early in December was ordered to rejoin Lee in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg. Here, in the action of the 13th, Pegram bore his usual part. Jackson, riding along the front of Lane and Archer, said curtly: They will attack here. On the right of that front, crowning the hills nearest Hamilton's Crossing, fourteen picked guns were posted by his order. These guns consisted of the batteries of Pegram and the intrepid McIntosh, were within eight hundred yards did these batteries open fire. Before the storm of shot and shell the enemy broke and fled. Again the Grand Divisions (as they were then called) of Hooker and Franklin came surging up, and pierced the gap between Lane and Archer. Jackson's second line was now advanced, and the enemy speedily driven back. In both attacks the picked guns performed superb service, but their loss was severe. Not only were they subjected to a galling infantry fire, but the artill
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