The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-06

SOLONcL II. JANEWAN, APRIL
5, 1865.
ner rode forward the third time. With
cheer the skirmish line responded to the
call and dashed upon the startled. stray
Cling enemy.
The supports drawn to the scene now
formed n respectable column, and with one
accord the entire line, headed by DalZel,s
flag and the Jersey skirmishers, swept over
the ground, scattering Rosser's squadrons
riding down his platoons and swarming
over the barricades where the cannon and
dismounted carbineers had thrice put a
stop to the Jerseymen's wild career. 1t
cost the Jerseys 81 dead and % wounded in
the three squadrons engaged to rally on the
flag that day, but Stuart was driven off
and Hancock marched OH to the Wilderness
Dalziel won promotion by his gallantry.
The Wilderness cavalry fight known as
Todd's Tavern was the eleventh pitched
battle after Harrisonburg where the First
Jersey lost men shot dead out of the sad
die. Among these were Cedar Mountain.
where it charged under the knightly Bay
ard; Brandy Station, where it attacked one
of Stuart's brigades and captured his head
quarters, dispatches and all; Sulphur
Springs, where eight were killed outright,
and Mountain Run, where the dead num-
bercd L.
derness the regiment started with Sheri-
dams 10000 on the notable raid to Rich
mond The principal battle was ut Hawe's
shop. near Richmond on the 2Sth of MAY.
The regiment went in there in two battal-
LONESOME under Colonel Hester, the other
led by Major Hugh II. Janeway. Their an
tagonists were fresh brigade of South
Carolinians, under General Butler, and
were armed with Enfield rifles The fight
ing was terrific. Janeway's battalion bur
led 12S of the enemy on it's narrow front
and Kesters battalion CO. Besides. there
were many Confederate wounded taken
from the field. The Jerseys lost 60 killed
and wounded, IL of them officers The
killed numbered 21 the same as at the
Wilderness.
The regiment continued to march and
fight with Sheridan until it was trans
ferred to the Shenandoah valley In Sep
TENDER, 1854 the term Of service expired,
and many of the original members were
mustered out. Among these was Colonel
Hester, and Major Janeway, who entered
the service i'll. 1861 Mt the foot of the ladder.
stepped to the front as colonel. The d.
vision in which the Jerseys served re-
manned with the army at Petersburg and
Sbore the brunt of the cavalry fighting on
the lines until Sheridan returned there
H..
Janeway was if possible holder than his
predecessors. In the battle of Bellefeld.
Dec. 10, he led charge upon Confederate
rifle pits. and having captured them val
iantly offered to charge upon some Confed-
crate batteries lying beyond which swept
the works his men occupied with murder
Gus fire. The commanding general refused
to sanction the project. Colonel Janeway
was wounded in February in a fierce battle
at Hatcher's Run, but he recovered in time
to ride out at the head of his men in Sheri-
dams last campaign. In the first encounter
Major Hart, one Of the Wilderness heroes.
was shot dead from the saddle while lead
ing his battalion In n forlorn charge such
es turned the tide at the Wilderness. Five
days later Colonel Janeway led the whole
regiment IN mounted charge where two
Unson regiments had met with q bloody
repufea. De was shot through the head as
he rode forward-the last officer Filled in
the regiment and the only colonel to die at
the head of it.
-Four field officers. ~ line officers and li6
men were Killed in the ranks OF this regi-
ment. The grand total of killed and wound
ed was aa.. The colors were Haunted in the
teeth OF tine enemy for the last time mt An
pomHttoN Court House on April Q. The regi-
ment was in the front line OF cavalry that
headetofi Lees rttrcating columns. and the
men were reforming ranks after a successful
charge III Support Of the skirmshcrs, then
oriskly engaged with the enemy who want
ell TO cut thclr way through, when the Sig
nal was given that c;.dcd l.ostiities forever.
Inc real cavalry lighting Of the war j.
said to have begun ut Brandy Station June
y. 1868, wneic the First Jersey helped give
Jeb Stuart his first defeat 1t ended at
Appomattoy. The Jerseys missed no con.
met that came between worthy the name
OF bSttle, and wherever they rode the same