The Progress., 1892-12-17

There was little opportunity in ths
course of brief eulogy for Capt. Nc
Cabe to recall the full story of the boy
coleneIs Ifs. In a word. hs swept down
the record from Cedar Mountain TO Seoond
Bull Run. where PeZram aeain fought un
der Stonewall Then on to HArpss's Ferry
Sept. II, whore Psgsen's enns marched
with the assaulttng cefuun against the
Union works. Affair a few shots ths dA2
Of truce appeared on the wAds, and among
the captures Pesrsm fou.A . c0nAplsts
new equipment for his company. Three
days later at Antietam the young captain
received his first wound-a sAell wound iD
the head-but he refused a leave of alb
sence and remained in camp.
At Fredericksburg, in December, 1862,
Pegram was again with Jackson, and
"Stonewall" said of him in his battle re-
pore that he had managed, "as usual, to find
the hottest place" for his guns. The six
rifled cannon of his company were in a
picked battery covering Hamilton's Cross
ing, where Gen. Meade's Union division
charged and was repulsed with great
slaughter. Pegram lost many men and
was reduced to one section before the fight
ended
After Fredericksburg the boy artillerist
was promoted to major in the battalion
where his company served His old bat
terry remained under his command until
the end. Its losses during the war were
200 killed and wounded-an enormous roll
for artillery In Jackson's s flank march at
Charlottesville the young major led his
battalion, and at one time the disabling OF
his superiors gave him command of sixty
guns. At a campfire talk one evening long
after ''Stonewall's" exploit became his
tory the officers were discussing their glo
ries when one of them said to Pegram,
"Well, colonel, what day do you reckon
your happiest?" 'Oh, the day / had sixty
guns under me galloping down the turn
pike after Hooker and his people"
On Sunday, May 3, it was his own bat
TALON of twenty-five guns that shelled the
grounds around Charlottesville House
with terrible results at the time Gen.
Hooker was injured.
When Lees army marched north &c
Pennsylvania Maj. Pegram was left be
hind sick with fever. He made forced
ride of ninety miles and Joined his battalion
to lead it in the first days fight at Gettys-
burg. 1t was in the front line and shelled
Juc CdNdlTy NiutlUtS dO Juc Opcuiuk VI OcH
Reynolds fight with Gen. Heth's troops
along Willoughby Run. 1t was believed
for long time in the Confederate army
that one of Pegram's shells killed Rey
nolds The battalion fought every day at
Gettysburg and left so horses dead on the
field Its loss of AZ killed and wounded
was the second highest in Lees army.
Gettysburg placed another star on the
young majors collar. His battalion served
under Gems. A. P. Hill and Jubal Early ir
the Wilderness campaign. At Spottsyl
vania his guns crowned the heights around
the court house, where Gen. Burnside's
Ninth Union corps made two or three
fruitless assaults on May 12 to relieve
Gen. Hancock's troops in the "Bloody
Angle" In the crisis all hung upon Pc
grams forty guns, and around them stood
Gems. Gordon, Hill, Early and Lee. Burn.
sides fine divisions, under Gems. r. B. Pot
ter and o. B. Wilcox, rushed bravely on,
and the Confederate works were almost