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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
our banner. No nobler spirit stood and bravely met the terrific scene enacted on the crimsoned plain of Manassas, on the memorable 21st, than the heroic Macon. Orderly Sergeant Massenburg was wounded in the neck and carried from the field. Private Dixon was also mortally wounded while bravely discharging his duty. Private McCurdy was a good deal injured by the explosion of one of the caissons. The remains of Lieut. Edgar Macon, who fought and fell at Manassas, were conveyed to Orange Court-House, where they were received by his friends, and deposited in the family burying-ground at Montpelier, where his family for five generations repose, and among them his uncle, Ex-President Madison--a fit grave for the soldier who fell in such a cause, to be laid by such a statesman. But, singular coincidence, in the same ground lies also the son of Gen. Winfield Scott. This needs no comment. Every Southern man's heart will make it when he thinks how and where our gallant friend fell.