The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-10

nal to the troops in the trenches to cease fir.
ing. AT any rate they lost their heads for the
nonce.
Not so, however, was II with General Ha-
good, who was distant about 70 yards, and
saw with amazemcnt the surrender of the
flag. He was OH foot, his horse having been
shot under him, and he came forward on u
run, to intercept the officer, who was riding
slowly along the front of the regiment,
obliquing somewhat towards his own lines.
General llagood, on coming up with him,
his cooked revolver at the captains breast,
said to him, "Give me that flag, sr.'' The
answer was, "Who are your The general
replied, 81 command this brigade. admire
your bravery. Give me the flag, and you
shall return unmolested to your own lines.'
The captain, who had furled the flag, and was
holding it upright, with the ferrle ofthe
staff resting on the pommel of his saddle, re-
sponded: General, you had better surren-
der to me yourself. Look behind YOU" The
general looked to the rear, and saw that Il
large force which had sailed from the in
trenchments on his left was moving to cut off
his retreat, all other commands having re-
tired from the fruitless assault. Turning to
the defiant captain he exclaimed: "Once
more, sir, will you give up that tiag:' The
answer was in a loud tone, "Never!" With
the answer General HagOod fired, and the Of
ficer fell, shot through the breast. lie still
grasped the flagstaff as he fell backward, and
It was wrested from his grasp. The general
then mounted the horse and ordered retreat
which was effected with loss of nearly one
half of the brigade.
The captured horse was killed oneat the retr
by shot from the Union lines. and as he fell
he kicked out his heels, and, as if to avenge
his fallen master, struck DR.. Taylor, the bri-
gade surgeon, in the head, inflictin9 Il wound
from the effects of which he never entirely re-
covered.
| Often within tho limos ot petorsburo .rouud
non,. o.,nn' frn Tomfaaanat H., q, n;n
li,''li. a tai''P-nie, Noh!eueia,e soluiers us
cussed tne strange incident OF the nag sur
rendered Mt Yellow Tavern. How it was that
such famous regiment should have allowed
its flag to be surrendered i'm battle TO force
consisting of but one man was most nuzzlin0
Tho nnonn nou,o,. - h' :" -; ~ III H. -
lurlilsneu u Soltitioh, put IL was tnen unIeard
or, ana Is still unknown to the art of war.
All agreed, however. that no drawer deed
was ever done than that of the Yankee cap-
tain who fell. still orosnino that f,a~
was then a canto;n of nnu;naero Il, +bo
ranfodornt e u"p'"iii ~ elsaneels ~ JIG
era Hagood was honored s SdS magistrate yt
of the state of South Carolina, a worthy sue
cesSor Oh many lilllstrious Carollnians VINO
mao held mat hlgh of1ce. was u circuit
Jnano.I o,t H., noiui,S ooult ~ oolu!lip., anu
oalieo vi .ne governor III the Caplioi 10 pay
my respects. | found him highly elated and
he said to me: "You recolect that Federal
officer that | was Obliged TO shoot i'm the bat
file of Yellow T,vern to recover tho fac,
Well thank beaven T diJ NOT Iii him liz
T.; I'm S LAIN lain nton' ul.' not hlil 4iLl ny
ID sun Niing. mere Is letter that nave Just
re.d 10 at tti,ri e', t r5au H. ;st
of which Tho foi,n,,,;n t i; .no
!" "'A '"' 'o''o" 'ns - Iopy
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.
,,,,,. "December A. 1880.
uENERAL oOHNSTON HAGOOD,
..Cene,ni" re f9u a,, oa ,.i ,,,s,
the Confederate ocer who sbnt a IN H. or r;abt
breast. i'm the hattie Of Yeljow Tavern me
wound was inflicted to recover from me a reg
mental flag which had been surrendered to me
by one of your colOr-bearers had apparently
recovered entirely from it, but it has troubled
~ o o iol so fa .ie, ana now ma myseif opged
"P5p w rot 'pit JHs'o .l IT,.
of nv comrades m6om n s anu o a % niggaS
to request that YOU viii aid me- to prove that
received the wound in the line of nv duty.
"fou would do me a great favor if you Will
make aflidavit stating the facts, and forward it
10 me. llease state also that you have no inter-
's' III M, y c am Genoro, ron.s no..,uu,.
' o'"' ''''s I NE R.If1.v
slate CoDtoip nm Io,co Ioinnfeer Infanrr1,
J,,o ural,o 20 s.,to +,o o,.;.o .o,,to,,ts 90
tho adau;t L,,t ,.nto ~. III; I"u,iu rW,s''
'.,,a..'. ~ u"' : no.o' 'n'' p"i "pn
Ia Ha?t d. baley received the wound described
soldier '''o i''''"'ui ''iso""iso VI MS '"'' Us
ellis act was the bravest that I have ever
known or read of i'm military annals. Nor was it
an act of mereinconsderate rashness, for in my
deliberate Judgment, had not interposed as
qua, my em.ire brigade OF veterans might nave
In his letter enclos;no tho ama,v;t Cow
~ M 'o,'ci onclosiS tne aHuaNn, Wv
m most cordiaI imitation TO visit Soutb Carolina
as his euest
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