The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-03
continued al his post until the
close Of the war.
KILLED IN ACTION.

KILLED IN ACTION.
As before stated, our losses
were immense. But the greatest
individual loss to the brigade was
that OF Capt. William T. Haskell,
of the First Regiment, command
ing the Battalion ofSharpsbooters.
He was killed in front of Cemetery
Ridge on the second day, and the
gravity Of his loss can scarcely be
estimated. 1t was only known to
those who knew him best. Gen.
Pender also fell mortally wounded
on the second day while recon-
noiteriog, and our army lost in
him another Of our great gen.
erals.
And then the long list of line
officers who fell, leaving whole
companies without commissioned
officer. Among them the First
Regiment, besides Capt. Haskell,
killed, Lieut.. A. W. Pogue, wound
ed, Capt. J. S. Mcmahon, Lieuts.
J. Cox, James Armstrong, NJ. NJ.
Murray, J. F. J. Caldwell.
Twelfth Regiment-Kil1ed, Capt.
j. Hunicuttt. Wounded, Capt. j.
NJ. Moody, Lieut.. J. A. Watson, NJ.
T. Sharpe, A. W. Black, W. J. Sto-
yer, j. NJ. jenkins, Summons.
Thirteenth Regiment--Killed, Capt.
Cromer, Lieuts. McNinch and Leitsey.
Wounded, Capt. Dewberry, Lieuts.
Leitsey, Hill, A. NJ. Bowers, John
Dabney J. F. Banks.
Fourteenth RegimeDt-Killed, ,Lieuts.
Sidney Carter and n. Austin. Wound
ed, Adjutant ". J. Ready; Capts. e.
P. Griffith, ". N. Jordan and G..
". Culbertson Lieuts. Robert B.
Watson, John NJ. Bell, Il. J. Roach,
William Fl. Brunson, J. F. Jordan,
A. F. Jordan, ". R. White, J. H.
Williams, S. Cogburn; James P,
Sloan and Jesse Gwin.
And the hundreds of brave men,
most Of them young, and on the
threshold of life, whose names were
not recorded in the official reports a
the battle. But they still live in the
memories of the loved ones at home.
and years afterwards their bodies
were removed to Southern cemeteries
by patriotic and loving hands. Here
let them rest until the morning of the
general resurrection.
In the afternoon of the Sd the
great world-renowned assaults were
made on the iron-crested and rock
bound heights in front, resulting il
disaster, and then the star of the
Southern Confederacy began first tt
wsne.
Of the regimental commanders il
this campaign, Col. J. L. Miller, O.
the Twelfth, was killed at the Wilder
ness, May 5, 1864; Col. B. T
BrockmaD, at spottsyl7ania, May II
1864; Major ". NJ. Haddon, o
Orr's Rifles, at Deep Bottom, Jul,
%, 1864, and Col. c. W. McCreary
of the First, at Gravelly Run, Marcl
81, 1865. 1t was distressingly sac
that Col. McCreary, after so long ane
brilliant service, should fall in almos
the last battle, even as the fabric O
the Confederate power was totterlus
and being broken to pieces and tn
last blow being struck. The smil
that always lit up his pleasant fac
paled in death near the enemy. y
these aud the long list who stoot
shoulder to shoulder with US at Get
tysburg, and who fell on these ant
other battlefelds, and those who hav
survived the sad and closing scene a
Appomattox-a brigade which tn
writer as senior colonel at times had th
honor to command-he would say
With feelings akin to Scotland
bard
"The bridegroom may forget the bride
Was made his welded wife yestreen;
The monarch may forget the crown
That on bis head an hour has been;
The mother may forget the child
That smiles sac sweety on her knee,
But III remember thee, Glencairn."
REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS.
The promotion Of Gen. Perrin an
bis death has already been stated
He was a martinez in discipline an
every inch soldier. His accom-
plished wife, a daughter Of Col. P. N
Butler Of the Palmetto Regiment
preceded him q short time to tn
grave, and two children survive
them. He was the last colonel bu
one of the Fourteenth Regiment. Il
was captain of Company d. frol
Edgefeld, at the organization IN 1861
The former colonies were field officer