The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13


could see the game. The soldiers in
the audience arose in their seats and
cheered the sally. and the people be-
ing Just then in a mood of idol wOr-
ship adopted the young artillerist for
a hero.
At the close of the campaign Peg
ram marched north with the still
greater southern idol, "StonewalF
jackson, and on the slopes of Cedar
Mountain, in August, his newly
equipped battery was numbered for
a duel with fourteen opposing guns at
eighty yards. The Union infantry
charged 80 close that he only saved
his pieces by liberal Use of canister,
and he encouraged the new recruits,
when men and horses were dropping
around his guns with appalling fire.
quency, pitch in, men; General
Jack~on'> looking at YOU"
There was title opportunity IN the
course of brief eulogy for Capt. Nc
Cabe to recall the full story of the
boy coloneIs life. In word, he swept
down the record from Cedar Noun
tain to second Bull Run, where Peg
ram again fought under Stonewall.
Then on to Harper'- Ferry, Sept. IA,
where Pegram'> guns marched with
the assaulting column against the
Union works After few shots the
flag Of truce appeared on the walls,
and among the captures Pegram
found complete new equipment for
his company. Three days later at
Antietam the young captain received
his first wound-a shell wound in the
head-but he refused leave of alb
sence and remained in camp.
/ At Fredericksburg, in December,
1862, Pegram was again with Jack
son, and ''Stonewall' said of him IN
his battle report that he had managed,
..as usual. To find the hottest place
for his guns. The six rified cannon
of his company were in picked hat
terry covering Hamilton's Cruising,
where Gen. Meals Union division
charged and was repulsed with great
slaughter. Pegram lost many men
and was reduce! to one section before
the fight ended.
After Fredericksburg the boy AZ
iillerist was promoted to major in the
battalion where his company served.
His old battery remained under his
command until the end It's losses
during the war were 300 killed and
! woundcd-an enormous roll for ar,ii-
lerv. In Jackson's flank march at
Chanceliorsviiie the Young major led
his battalion, and at one time the dis
abling of his superiors gave him com
mand of sixty guns. At campfire
talk one evening long after Stone
walls exploit became history the OF
iicers were discussing their glorie>
when one OF them said To Pegram,
We'll, Colonel, what day do You
reckon your happiest.' "Oh, the day
! had sixty guns under me galloping
down the turnpike after Hooker and
his people
On Sunday, May ;. ii was his own
battalion % twenty-five guns that
-heiled the grounds around Chancel-
louisville House with terrible results at
the time Gen. Hooker was injured.
When Lees army marched north To
Pennsylvania Maj. Pegram was left
behind sick with fever. He made a
forced ride of ninety miles and joined
his battalion to lead it in the first
days fight at Gettysburg 1t was in
the front line and shelled the cavalry
videttes at the opening of Gen. Rey-
nold's fight with Gen. Heth's troops
along Willoughby Run. 1t was be-
lieved for long time in the Confed-
crate army that one of Pegram's shells
killed Reynolds The battalion fought
every day at Gettysburg and left so
horses dead on the field. Its los. of
A. killed and wounded was the second
highest ia Lees army.
Gettysburg placed another star on
the young majors collar. His battalion
served un.lcr Gems. A. p. Hill and
Jubal Early in the Wilderness cam
paign. vt Spottsylvan;a his guns
crowned the heights around the court
house, where Gen. Burnside's Ninth
Union corps madetwoor three fruitless
assaults on May II to relieve Gen.
Hancock's troops on the Bloody
Angle
In the crisis all hung upon Pegram's
forty guns, and around them stood
Gems. Gordon, Hill, Early and Lee.
Burnside's fine divisions. under Gems.
H. b. Potter and OBJ. Wilcox rushed
bravely on, and the Confederate
works were almost empty of troops.
The boy colonel had run up extra
rounds of canister, and with his guns