The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-08-07
LANCASTER H, SOUTH AUG 1861

wr.tches who had crawled into the store
house upon the field of battle. Sick, fam.
ished, irendiess and without a home or
country they could love or honor, il were
scurcel, better TO be alive than dead.
spoke Of the fact To General Evans, in
whose military department they are AT pres.
ent, and he promised TO keep them from
starving ut least but in the meantime tie
county people We're coming In wah offers
OF a-sistance, and one was taking one poor
fellow off To his house at Brentsvile.
Battles make singular de, el"pment MY
flend. DIR. Shephardsun, visiting the pri,-
"ners Yesterday. found college mate
among them. One of our soldiers found
among them his own brother. Gen. Evans
found among them Major Tiiingras,. long
knnwn III tharle-ton, VINO had been his
cinssu,aie--at the instant of recognition,
Major T. was NJ til. point of dea h, and
died soon after and, also, in horse that
was taken at Fairfax, the charger upon
which he rod,' in the service of the United
States. And Col Mullins, in II customer
that Was eknlking on the road Ia Centre
vile upon the evening Of the battle, and
whom he made his prisoner, the lion. Mr..
Eiy, of New York.
Tnerc is feeling of regret for all the gal
liant men who fell IN this engagement, but
for none more than for the gallant Barlow.
lie had gone into this war with such uncaI-
culating Zeal and fidelity To the great Gu use,
and bore himself 50 nobly in the tight
that it there wers the wish IL, it We're hard
10 withhold our admiration When hl,
horse VAS shot, he led the 9th Georgia
Regiment on foot. Ia storm battery,
'Enis Az i.nI Ia, and r..Ii,ip,r O.,
himself ut tie head ot the 7th, he ash. Of
Gen Beaurcgnrd wmat he would have him
do. The General ,aid "Thcre is the bat
terry" Tie started Tor it again. The color
bearer aas shot d"wn, when lac suEci the
col"r-. and bearing them On, he received u
shot in his left breast.
Nor less laIn.utcd is the death of lien
Bee. lie has been regarded ~ one among
The best military appointments, and has.
won uplniou in every net of his military
life. lie was first in the field L. sustain
our lendl"g column at ever, ~ .ccrdIuy cIi.
sis at the contest. lie "as present al the
passage "f the turnpike /: at the gallant
charge OF iiamp'on's Legion at the storm
ing "f the batteries /; nnd at last frii near
the fatal sp"' where also nad fallen the gal
iunt Barlow. OF hi, aids We're Gen (iist
o'' .'h'hS'tI anu "hJor N'c'enS. WHO was
slightly Wounded, shared "is pains, and re.
lna'nrd 10 share The further fortune Of III.
contest.
Nor Is less sympathy exp. rienred for the
'uh rings OF G.u. Smith lie came to
''em the current of our backward iurIunes
'nd, Iead'"g hi, brig .d- /" The yer, srad oi
lac Hacking c"."mn. fell Almost at the iirst
ire pierced hr"usr thr breast with II grape
dot. ii"pes, how ever. are -ul-rtuin"d for
us recover. On MS s;af wer" oar owns.
iirn, C"i BUST and Capt Topper, wno
We're ith him when ne fell.
Oi Col. Johnson, the career wns shor,
'nd b'nlit"l The Legion arrived in the
iigh', aud, IL u few hours after almost un.
u tor service, II aas thr"wn inlo III. very
.h'cEc>t uf the hgn,. aud Cob johnson tell,
"i'h C'i. Hampton, "n Tia. spot upon which
Lheir columns had be-n planted.