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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5 : (search)
From Fredericksburg.[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp Near Port Royal, December 20, 1862.
The late storm of battle having subsided, we again find ourselves in camp enjoying ourselves as well as soldiers might be expected during the winter season.
We have either to submit to having our eyes nearly smoked out or go in our tents and freeze.
There is nothing of importance transpiring in our portion of the army that I can hear of, and while a calm reigns I will take the opportunity of informing you of a few incidents connected with the late battles which may be of some interest to your readers.
The morning of the day that Lieut. James Ellett, of the Crenshaw battery, was killed, he was ordered off with the first section to take position, leaving the second section to follow a few hours later.
Before leaving he shook hands with and bade those he left behind good bye, as if he felt that he would never see them again, though he expressed no such fears.
He was a
Seventy-five Dollars reward
--I will give for the apprehension and commitment to jail, so that I get them, of negroes Pompey, Jim, and William Henry, or $25 for each, who ran off — Pompey and William Henry on the 27th, and Jim on the 20th of December 1862.
These negroes I removed from Williamsburg (my former residence) in May last, and doubtless, they are aiming through Petersburg and Richmond, to reach the Yankee lines in that vicinity, or to pass over James river below Petersburg.
Jim is a tawney color, about 20 years old, and Pompey a shade darker, 18 years old, likely, talk, and well grown; each wore a cavalry uniform cap, and each had on woodend bottom shoes and plated Jim had on a pair of blue homespun pants, and Pompey a blue Yankee coat, and he has lately had one of his fingers (probably of the right hand) britised or mashed.
William Henry, a likely lad, about 14 years old, and of tawney color, is doubtless with Pompey. Robert H. Armistead, Forkland, Nottoway