The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-01-27
HLAND COUNTY, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1886

Juey ulu Jnelf duty well.
Another heroic color bearer wa.
George Poundstone, who carried tn,
stars and stripes in front Of the Fifty
third Infantry, which regiment went in
to the fight at Jackson, Mississippi, OF
July -, 1868, with 3GG men and cam,
out reduced tosixty. poundstone mad,
desperate attempts to keep the enemy
from capturing the flag, and after re
ceiving mortal wounds tore the flag from
the staff and thrust it in his bosom. Hi
hearts blood has written upon the nal
he loved so well a record of his devotion
and bravery that speaks more plainly
than could an epitaph on marble. This
regiment was also engaged at Shiloh anC
Corinth.
Martin Noble, of Co. +, Twentieth
Infantry, was killed in an assault upon
some rebel earth-works near Atlanta on
July 81, 1864. He carried the colors ant
was in the van of an assault that was
driven back after the Union troops had
gained a trench. When they were re-
pulsed he was overpowered and killed
in a hand to hand conflict, while strug
Cling to save the colors. His photograph
and also that of the brave Poundstone
are among the collection in the room,
and they show them to be country yeo.
men Of a type that was not unusual in
the ranks Of the volunteers.
About a month before his death Noble
was presented by his comrades with a
gold badge for distinguished bravery,
and knowing it might be lost in the field
he had sent it to his wife. After the
war a member Of the same regiment de.
termined to find the badge, but his wife
was missing from the old home and no
one knew aught of the medal. 1t was
found that Mrs. Noble had gone to
Memphis about the end of the war, and
inquiries there developed the fact that
she had been forced by poverty to dis
pose Of it, but the party who purchased
it could lot be found, and all traces
seemed to be lost. But the comrade
NOW a wealthy citizen of Clinton, Hi.
nois) was determined to find it, and it
was only recently that he found a clue
that took him to atown in Florida where
he found the precious souvenir and re.
turned with it in triumph.
Search history as we may we can not
find a grander story of heroism and per.
sonal bravery in all her annals than that
of Color Sergeant Hess, of the One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry
Hess carried his flag in the charge upon
the rebel works at Resaca, and, with his
precious burden, was one of the first
upon the enemy's breastworks, where he
stood erect amid the rain of lead and
waved the flag to cheer his comrades on
While holding it in his right hand a ball
shattered that arm, but he Immediately
raised the falling coIors with his left
which soon shared the fate of his right
Still holding the flag in his broken and
bleeding arms he ran some rods to the
first gun OF the enemy, and leaping upon
the smoking piece, was still displaying
the flag when a bullet in the forehead
ended his suferings, and, like Marco
Bozzaris, he died at the moment of vic.
tory, The gun upon which he was kill
ed belonged to the First Georgia Artil
lery, a member of which fired the fatal
shot.
In its place is seen the flag OF the
Forty-ffth Infantry, called the "Lead
Mine" regiment, from the fact that il
was composed principally Of delivers in
mines Of the lead regions in the north.
western part of the State. On account
of gallant services previously rendered
this regiment was
BY GRANTS SPECIAL ORDER
given the place of honor in the from
and right of the column that frs
marched into Vicksburg after the sur
render of Gen. Pemberton and conse
quently this flag was the first of the
victorious banners to plant itself before
the eyes Of the captured foe. On the
tablet of this flag is the following list o.
engagements in which the regiment par
ticipated
Ft Henry, Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, Siegl
OF COrmth, Medan Station, Port Gibson
Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill
Siege of Vicksburg, Atlanta campaign
Savannah, Bentonville, the March to the
Sea, etc.
Side by side are the dropping colors o
the Thirty-frst and Thirty-second In
iantry regiments, the first of which wai
COMMANDED By GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN
then colonel, and the second of which
was commanded by his cousin, plain
John Logan.
The colors of the Thirty-third, sur
named the Normal Regiment" Aoatet
over regiment composed almost entire
ly Of students and teachers from schools
at Bloomington and Normal.
A flag particularly interesting is that
OF the Twenty-drst Infantry, which was
GRANTS REGIMENT.
This was the same that Grant marched
on foot to Cairo, as an initiation. "Wher
you are ready to move notify us and we
viii furnish transportation" said the
Department. 81 will furnish my own
transportation, was the reply, and hC