Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-04
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Marassas. wnlisn,stars seven s p.nrsai
Fair Oaks. Severn p.ys bas s,r.sr see Gns
ShIpsburg, FREDERICKSBURG. Bi2untsvll.s,
(Tenn.l. Lean station glsnpG;); p TnsTrs
ANN ys AowIet, House Cold Iiarbor, Clay
House. Hatchers Run, Dinwinale CouI.-
house. Five Forks. Sailors Creek. Apo
They marched through long and stormy
They bore the brunt of score OF fights;
Munger and cold and the summer neat
On tbs advance and in the retreat,
And many a noble form they gave
N, an, alas. come nameless grave.
Their dead lay thick on fields they won
As where they lost. were peat, unaone'
Yet, still, they left q deathless name,
A glorious record OF their fame;
And memory OF such deeds shall lie.
MID treasured thoughts that cannot die"
THIS MEMORIALS JToRY.
The above IS an epitome-how brief and
how eloquent appears upon its iace-oi
the history OF one OF the nobiest, bravest,
and best bands of soldiers that ever en-
listed In any cause and right well does
IL fulnI It's purpose. embodying as II does
the two ideas which are the aim and OBJ
iect OF such structures-the commemora-
ton of the past and admonition In the
future. Monuments are landmarks OK
civilization, and write the history or the
nations OF tho earth mark their epochS
and hand down to posterity their Illus
trious dead.
The Pickett monument tells OF the dark,
sad days OF 1871; how We struggled 20 pre-
| serve 'ovr union"-the union under the
Federal Constltution-as we read IL and
| "the rprefathers' who made IL taught US
| 10 construe it. It tens OF Longstreet,
| Clarke. Ewsll. Ambrose Powell HILL ana
William r. Tertyl How kempsr was
wounded and left upon the field 10 die;
how God spared his life. 10 be, when the
war was over. Governor Of this Common
wealth, and OF his regiments-the FIRST
| Third. Seventh, Eleventh, and twenty
| fourth Virginia volunteers; their rahNS
filed with the young manhood OF Rich
mond, Petersburg. Portsmouth, ana NOT
folk. and Washington city sending her
| contingent.
II tells OF Moore. Williams. Skinner
Patton, Garland. Pollock. Geiger II tells
Of Montgomery p. Corse. and Of the FIJI
| teenth, Seventeenth. Twenty-rinth. mir
tieth. and Thirty-second Virginia regi-
| meuts OF volunteers; Of Manassas. Bethel
and Drewry's Bluff: OF Fredericksburg.
| Sharpsburg. Five Forks. and Sailors
| Creek: OF captain John Quincy MARI. the
| first blood Of the war. how he met the
| Invaders" at Fairfax Courthouse and fell
in defence OF his native state; Of Thomas
p August, John Stuart Walker. and Ro-
! hort 6 Chew; Of Williams Dulaney and
his Fairfax men; OF Jack Humphrey and
| Winston Carter. and the men or the
! Seventeenth Virginia who fell at VIII
Iiamsburg; OF Morton Marye. Arthur Her
| bert Bryant, Charles L. WilliAma' ana
Uooe: of David Funston and George W.
Brent: of the patient service and STURDY
manhood OF Virgnia's eons-"her Jew
I v,,aha rod haftle-
field OF the war.
THE NOBLE ARMISTEAD.
II tells of General Lewis Addison
| Armistead Fauquier's noble ana saiIan'
| 4nt or the Nineteenth. Fourteenth
| Thirty-eighth, Fifty-third and fltty-
seventh Virginia regiments. of Hodges
| Owens Edmonds. Nagruder, Cabeil.
Phillips Martin. White and Aylett; Oh
Generals Barton and Steuart; tells now
Armistead led his brigade In the maj
charge Of Gettysburg, and fell mortaily
wounded among the Federal guns upon
the hilltop: Of his CHEEKY words to his
men-how he babe them. Remember!
You are fighting for your liberties; strike
for your homes, your wives, and your
sveetbearts; follow me"' How this bril-
| gade was always found where honof
called and duty led, was first In the ad-
vance and last TO retreat. IL tells OF
General Richard Brooke Garrett hat
noble heart and gallant soldier, whose
body fills some unknown and unmarked
grave upon the field at Gettysburg; OF the
brave men OF the Eighteenth, Nineteenth
Twenty-eighth, and Fifty-siXth Virginia
regiments. or the old Eighth Virginia and
the boys from Loudoun, Prince William
| Fairfax and Fauqu.er; their baptism OF
fire in First Manassas: how they fought
at Balls Bluff: how they stood at WI
Iiamsburg. Second Manassas. and Ante
tam; how they charged at Gainess MN
and how at Gettysburg all the felC
officers" were killed or wounded, and Of
the 2Oo men and 81 officers who went In
not a bakers dozen" came out; tells o
Grayson. the Berkeleys. and Hunton; oil
seven Pines. Gaines's Mil. Frazer's farm
and Cold HarbOr; of Colonel Robert IL
Withers. Robert T. Preston, and his
quaint commands Of Thrift. Darlington
Rust. Strange, Allen RoberU, and Watts
OF Linthlcum. or the only brigade thai
sent report TO headquarters after dread
Gettysburg, and OF the one-armed major
commanding the Nineteenth virginia
Regiment. Charles 8. Peyton. who made
this report. on every battlefield th
banners OF "the Gsme-Cock Brigade
were unfurled and the blood Of its heroes
flowed
II tells Of Major JANIS bearing and
bis battalion of artillery; how he was
made a brigadier-generai OF cavalry. aHc
killed April 7. 1866: how he died as ht
had lived. "every inch hero" OF Blount
Caskie Clopton, and strbling and theii
men: of private Kendall, an unericated
unknown boy from Fauquier. with 2
heart filed with noble promptings anc
heroic purpose. who, wounded az MaiFerf
nm ana taken to the rear. called to hi
40 hold the h9tteTN-nOTSa u
take his place at the guns. ana salu
'"Though cannot fight, my arm VII
make a good hitching-post for the horses!
How he held the hOrges. and wSen tn'
dght was over they found him starr
and cold in death.
THE DIVISIONS BRAVE COM
MANDER.
And last. yet before all, II tells OF kind
hearted. frank, generous. dashing, daring
md Almighty George T.. Pickett, De
Ioved nv his men, and their only com
nandsr who. from the spring OF 1867 u
,be surrender at Appomattox, bor'
With them their hardships and share'
rbair triumphs. Educated at West POINT
no entered the army or the united state
or the beginning OF the war with Mexico
"a FOUGHT from Vera Cruz 10 the CITY
az Mexico. Al Cerro Gordo, Moiino' he
pev Contreras, Cherubusco, Chepultepec
and the assault upon the CITY, hleutehln
pickett depOrted himself sallahlly' Wa
razetted and promoted, and. upon IN
ss,,aI cf san Juan-xnen Captain
l,,clet,-hrfied the British feet, and re
taIned rossesslon OF that Island: VINO
a. 1851 at the call or NJ
Mother State. resigned his commission
and cams 70 her was made colonel al.
ossigned To duty upon the Happanannocl