Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-26


seven southern tsrs who volun-
teered TO go down In the SUBJ
marine torpedo boat az Charleston
after five crews had been smota-
cred to death in her, and although meet
ing the same fate yet justifying their
valor by carrying the Union ironclad
Housatonic to the bottom with them; 10
Major keenan,, lighting 10 gain time 81
Charlottesville and driving the leading
SQUADRON OF his column OF troopers into
the enemy's solid squares to be cut
down 10 the last man, leader and all, by
pistol shot and sAber blow; TO Stuart
encircing the Union armies With his
raiders, and to Kilpatrick's band out
matching that by riding 100 miles
through Lees armed camps aud eharg-
inc he Richmond Notifications on
horseback; TO Lees brave boy Colonel,
Willie Pegram, handling his cannon on
the front lire with the sauclness OF an
urchin sporting a popgun; to Corse, In
Allatoons Pass, signaling now TO his
superior: II sm short cheek bone
and an ear, but able TO whip ell hell
yeti" and to his chivalrous antagonist:
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needless effusIon OF blood indefnitely:
to Colonel MulIigsn, with his 5000
furnishing men, nourlshed on rain
water wrung from their soaking blank
cts, peut up in Lexington by $4,000 as
sailants and hurting the same dehsnt
sentiments at the foe; 10 the two gentle
men spies, Colonel Williams and Cap
tain Peters, who strolled calmly about
the Union forts in Tennessee In the
guise Of engineer inspectors and as
calmly paid the penalty OF their rash
daring on the day OF their detection.
Likewise fresh Qlories have our gal
liant tars added 10 the daring deeds OF
the sea. Not to dwell upon the oft-told
tales, as OF Fsrragut dashed Ia the rig
ging that he might see over the clouds
of battle smoke; Of Worden, blinded in
action, yet fighting on his pigny Moni-
tor until the monster ram fed from the
Roads, and OF Morris 10 the sinking
Cum berand when hailed to strike the
flag shouting: Never! I'll sink along
sider there was a Confederate Captain
Brown plunging the ram Arkansas down
the Yazoo aud Mississippi rivers through
three hostile fleets, and stern old Wins
low bounding the dreaded Alabama
from refuge TO refuge and leaving not 8
shred OF her canvas, not an arm OF her
rigging, not plank from hull or deck
OF that renowned commerce destroyer as
q memeuto of her marvellous career.
And for purely personal valor who
can rival Cushing on the PROV OF his
irail picket boat within thirty feet OF
the muzzles Of rifles and cannon blazing
OIL the deck OF the Albemarle, and there
with wounded hands adjusting by in
tricate mechanism his torpedo lance
and exploding the terrible missile d.
rectly under the hull OF the ram?
The regiment leading all the North
ern army In battle losses at Gettysburg,
the Twenty-fourth Michigan. named
above, fought there, and throughout
it's service 10 the company OF
four crack regiments, the ave
constituting the Iron Brigade" The
bravest of the FIVE, the Second Wis
consln, weathered fifteen desperate bat
ties, and so proportion to the number
carrying muskets Ia its ranks lost more
men killed by the epemy's fire than any
other regsment which wore the blue.
The confederacy also had its iron
brigades, but not under that name.
Gregg aud McGowan's South Carolina
brigade and the Orphan Brigrds," Of
Kentucky, fought ruder tho savage
motto OF the Old Guard of France.
which "dies. but never surrenders."
Orr's South Carolina Rides led all the
clans of the South In piling up battle
losses, aud contributed to the roll OF
honor twenty-nlne officers and 305
soldiers killed, besides over 700
wounded. One OF its champion
re giments, the First Palmetto,
left PSI dead on the fields OF Virginia
and Maryland, and the brigade vies
with the Kentucky "0rphans" for the
proud distinction OF having given the
heaviest dole in blood TO the lost cause.
The "Orphans" were exiled sons OF that
land Of splendid fighters, and out OF
5000 who crossed the border In 1881
Union bullets spared less than 200 to re-
port for surrender in 1865. The South
Carolinians in thesfye regiments under
the leadership OF Gregg and McGowan
piled up the enormous roll OF 1900 kill
ed in action. That means 5000 killed
and wounded, equal the fighting strength
Of two brigades.
The Iron brigade" the First YER
mont brigade also stands in unique
rivalry with respect TO losses. The
Green Mountain Boys scored the highest
death list by actual count and the west
ern men the highest In proportion TO
original strength. The Vermonters had
their elite regiment. the Fifth, COM
posed OF men who did not know how to
retreat, and this again its elite company.
Ia one Of the peninsula battles this
company (E) faced the storm OF CAMS
ter In front OF hemper's Virginia bat
terry until only seven men remained out
OF Sc combatants. The dead TO the
number OF twenty-five, lay on the
ground in regular battle order. as II
sleeping on their arms, and six members
OF one family touched elbows In those
PROSTATE files, while a seventh was
borne away wounded. And that gallant
race which fights so we'll for all causes
but It's own WOO fresh honor by uphold
ing 10 America the glorious traditions
Of Foutenoy, for the green banners OF
our Irish brigade were consecratsd by
the blood OF q thousand sons OF old Erin
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