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cox's and Wright's brigades, of Anderson's division, on the 2d, and of Perry's and Wilcox's on the 3d, were in every sense as brilliant and heroic as that of Pickett's division, which has been immortain this charge, he experienced the happiest moments of his life. After making the charge on the 3d, being compelled by overwhelming numbers and want of support to retreat and give up the position ge fighting for the day, the enemy seemingly, in no humor for following up his advantage. On the 3d, General Longstreet bringing sixty pieces of artillery up, and General Hill having fifty more in p brigades went in, the historian might have been called on to record a different result. On the 3d, Wright was not engaged, but Wilcox and Lang were ordered to co-operate with Pickett and Pettigrewre, who was wounded and left on the field, as was Captain Ballantine, second in command. On the third day Captain Fleming assumed command, Lieutenant Todd being second in rank. The Fifth Florida w
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tant-general for me. There are now but twenty-two line officers, and two hundred and thirty-three enlisted men, for duty in the brigade. Our loss has been four hundred and fifty-five, aggregate, killed, wounded and missing. I think a large number of the missing are men who have been captured unhurt, as there were a large number of men exhausted by the rapidity with which the first charge was made, who were unable to keep up on the retreat. We held our position until the night of the 4th, when we withdrew and marched all night in the rain, and over the worst roads I have yet seen. On the 5th, we crossed South Mountain and continued our march toward Hagerstown, where we arrived on the morning of the 7th. Here we remained until the 10th, when we again moved on, and on the 11th formed line of battle on Salisbury Ridge, along Antietam creek, between Frankstown and Williamsport. Here we awaited the enemy's assault until the morning of the 14th, when we withdrew, and recrossed
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igned as a representative regiment of his State, for service in Virginia. It was organized at Pulatka, early in May, with John W. Starke as captain, C. Seton Fleming, first lieutenant, Alexander Mosely (son of ex-Governor Mosely), senior second lieutenant and John E. Caine, a native of South Carolina, as junior second lieutenant. The Second Florida infantry entered the field by going into encampment at Yorktown, Va., on the 17th September, 1861. In the sight of Yorktown, in the spring of 1862, the Second Florida, received its baptism of fire in a sortie in conjunction with the Second Mississippi battalion, made to dislodge a detachment of the enemy's sharpshooters near Fort Magruder; and in which they were successful. As acting-adjutant of the Second Florida, in the engagement at Williamsburg, May, 1862, Lieutenant Fleming was severely wounded through the hip and was left in Williamsburg. Upon the entrance of the enemy he fell into their hands, and in the latter part of Jul
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The following is the report of the part taken by the Florida brigade in the battle of Gettysburg in a letter from Colonel Lang, of the 8th Florida (who was temporarily in command), to General Perry, who, at the time of the battle, was ill with typhoid fever: Bunker Hill, Va., July 19, 1863. General Perry. Dear Sir,—I avail myself of this favorable opportunity of giving you an account of the part taken by the brigade in the Gettysburg fight of 2d and 3d of July. On the morning of the 1st, while marching from Fayetteville to Gettysburg (our brigade being the rear guard of Anderson's division), heavy firing was heard in front, and I received orders to pass beyond the wagons and close up on the troops in front. After this, the division was posted in the following order, two miles in rear of Gettysburg, viz: Wilcox on the right; then Perry, Wright, Posey and Mahone. We remained in this position until Longstreet's cops arrived on the following morning. Pender and Heth had the d
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f July, sustained fearful losses in killed and wounded, being proportionately greater than that of any other brigade engaged. And it is not too much to say that the charges of Perry's, Wilcox's and Wright's brigades, of Anderson's division, on the 2d, and of Perry's and Wilcox's on the 3d, were in every sense as brilliant and heroic as that of Pickett's division, which has been immortalized by Virginia historians. The loss of officers on July 2d placed Captain Fleming in command of his regimad been thrown forward as skirmishers and lost heavily, supposing that the brigade proper would follow on in support; but for some reason it did not, nor did Mahone's on the left. While marching through a piece of woods to his proper place, on the 2d, Wilcox became engaged with the enemy, and soon repulsed him. About 6 P. M. (too late to co-operate with McLaws and Hood, though no blame can attach to the brigadiers), the several brigades in the division were ordered to advance to the attack, in
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neral Edward A. Perry. The brigade did gallant service at the battles of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; Chancellorsville, May 3-4, 1863; at Gettysburg, as detailed; at Bristow's Station, October 14, 1863, and in other engagements—Captain Fleming constantly participating. He sealed his devotion to the cause he loved so well, being killed while leading the Second Florida, in the engagement near Gaines' Farm, Virginia, June 3, 1864. He was buried in the woods on McGehee's farm, but on June 3, 1893, his brother, ex-Governor Fleming, having found the grave, had the remains disinterred and placed in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, where they now rest.] At Gettysburg the Florida brigade, participating in the desperate charges of the Confederate centre, under A. P. Hill, on the 2d and 3d of July, sustained fearful losses in killed and wounded, being proportionately greater than that of any other brigade engaged. And it is not too much to say that the charges of Perry's, Wilcox's and W
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cepted the appointment of 1st lieutenant of Company D, of the 1st Florida cavalry, doing duty with the Army of the Tennessee, severed his connection with the Army of Northern Virginia, and parted, for the last time, from his brother—the subject of this memoir—the companion of his boyhood, youth and early manhood, and with whom, up to that time, he had served as a soldier since the commencement of the war. Appendix G—pp. 121-4. casualties of Perry's brigade at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863. Killed—Second Florida. Company A—Lieutenant H. F. Riley, Privates D. Knight, Thos. Flowers, W. Bond. Company B—Lieutenant R. S. Jenkins. Company C—Lieutenant P. Shealy. Company D—Sergeant C. W. Johnson. Company E—Captain W. E. McCaslan. Company F—Lieutenant George Pooser, Private S. D. Phretchard. Company I—Sergeant William W. McLeod. Company K—Corporal G. Reddick. Company M—Lieutenant E. L. Hampton, Sergeant A. Williams. Fifth Flo
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he appointment of 1st lieutenant of Company D, of the 1st Florida cavalry, doing duty with the Army of the Tennessee, severed his connection with the Army of Northern Virginia, and parted, for the last time, from his brother—the subject of this memoir—the companion of his boyhood, youth and early manhood, and with whom, up to that time, he had served as a soldier since the commencement of the war. Appendix G—pp. 121-4. casualties of Perry's brigade at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863. Killed—Second Florida. Company A—Lieutenant H. F. Riley, Privates D. Knight, Thos. Flowers, W. Bond. Company B—Lieutenant R. S. Jenkins. Company C—Lieutenant P. Shealy. Company D—Sergeant C. W. Johnson. Company E—Captain W. E. McCaslan. Company F—Lieutenant George Pooser, Private S. D. Phretchard. Company I—Sergeant William W. McLeod. Company K—Corporal G. Reddick. Company M—Lieutenant E. L. Hampton, Sergeant A. Williams. Fifth Florida.
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ntry, C. S. A., by Francis P. Fleming (ex-Governor of Florida), Jacksonville, 1881, in which it forms Chapter VI, pp. 79-88, and Appendix G, pp. 121-4. Charles Seton Fleming, the son of Colonel Lewis Fleming, a planter of Florida, of gentle Irish descent, was born near Jacksonville, February 9, 1839; educated in local private school, and in youth found employment in a mercantile house in Chicago, Ill. He evinced at an early age a preference for the profession of arms, and early in the year 1858, entered as a cadet King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville, South Carolina, the principal of which institution was Major Micah Jenkins, who afterward served with distinction as a General in the C. S. Army, and fell a martyr to the Lost cause on the bloody field of the Wilderness on the 5th of May, 1864. Young Fleming attended this school until June, 1859. After serving for a time as the purser on a river steamer, he entered, in July, 1860, upon the study of law, in the office of his
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yment in a mercantile house in Chicago, Ill. He evinced at an early age a preference for the profession of arms, and early in the year 1858, entered as a cadet King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville, South Carolina, the principal of which institution was Major Micah Jenkins, who afterward served with distinction as a General in the C. S. Army, and fell a martyr to the Lost cause on the bloody field of the Wilderness on the 5th of May, 1864. Young Fleming attended this school until June, 1859. After serving for a time as the purser on a river steamer, he entered, in July, 1860, upon the study of law, in the office of his brother, Louis J. Fleming, in Jacksonville, Florida. In consonance with his instincts he was also a member of a local military company—the Minute Men. In April, 1861, in the momentous call of the period, he assisted in raising a company to form a part of the Second Florida infantry, designed as a representative regiment of his State, for service in Virginia.
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