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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Unknown heroes. (search)
d correspondent of the Charleston Mercury writes as follows concerning the unknown heroes of the present war: Bistrop Eliott's proposed monument to the "Unknown and Unrecorded Dead" suggests the unknown heroes which seldom fails to come up in conversation about the war. I have lately heard of three such heroes. At Cedar Bun a Colonel was seen leading his regiment in action supported by the arms of two of his men. Wounded in the breast, and bleeding, he refused to go to the rear. General Jackson made many efforts to find out the name of this Colonel, but failed. He tried also, but in vain, to ascertain the name of a color-bearer, who, during this same battle, when his regiment was retreating, stood alone upon a little hill, flaunting his flag at the enemy until the men of his regiment, for very shame, rallied around him and hold the ground. A third, here is a cavalryman, said to be from Texas, who, unable to walk a step, carried a pair of crutches on horseback, and with them