Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-14

gade. This was done by Nicade's Pennsyl-
vanians 1T Hamilton Heights. The Geor-
CLANS rallied and rcco vered the line. This
battle closed active campaigning of seven
months. During that tilno the regiment
had lost 337 men killed and wounded.
Three commanders had been shot down,
Colonel Lane and Major Rivers, as already
mentioned, and Colonel $. NJ. Manning,
who was killed at Cedar Mountain.
Y The second year Of tho regiment COM
prised tho great battles Of Charlottesville
and Gettysburg. In both Of these the
Georgians took part in the most desperate
charges made by tho corps Of A. P. Hill
Its losses were 12O killed and wounded.
Captain J. NJ. Jones was killed ut Gcttys.
burg while commanding the regiment. .
Z Undcr the lead of Colonel j. 4. Jordan
the Forty ninth began the third years
campaign by bloody struggle in tho
Wilderness, which thinned it's already sad
~ diminished ranks by toll OF 81 killed
and wounded. At one timo, on the 5th OF
May, Thomas whole brigade was cut off
by a flank movement of the enemy. Gen
eral Thomas coolly faced his command to
tho rear and led it forward on charge
which cleared tho field. At Spottsylvanja
tho 18th of May the Forty ninth, with tho
rest Of tho Georgia brigade, fought in tho
"Bloody Angle" side by side with mellow.
ans South Carolinians. That desperate
struggle over tho brcastworks, lasting &c
hours, ia we'll known.
Next to the battle of the Wilderness the
Forty ninth suffered the heaviest in an
affair at Petersburg which is scarcely
taken into account in war histories. III
the action of March 25. 1865, ut Fort Stcd-
man and other parts Of the line Thomas
brigade was desperately engaged and tho
Forty ninth lost 81 men. A week later.
on April 2, began the finish fight over
Lees breastworks. Early in the day tho
division commander, General A. =. Hill,
was killed and soon afterward a Federal
column broke over the works between
Thomas Georgians and Scales North
Carolina brigade. Colonel Jordan rallied
his men and with detachments from other
regiments vainly attempted to regain the
works. These troops, vary much scattered
in commands, finally made stand at
Forts Gregg and Alexander. The Forty
ninth, reduced to q fragment, held on at
Fort Alexander until driven out by show
ers of shot and shell. Colonel Jordan wac
the last man to leave the fort and was
severely wounded, the fifth commander Of
the regiment disabled in battle. About
30 Georginns, among them Adjutant New
man of tho Forty ninth, joined the de-
tenders of Fort Gregg, making a garrison
of 2l4 men. This party held out against
q Federal division of Gibbons corps until
overrun by numbers. There were 81 dead
Confe(lcrates in the work and only 80 un-
wounded among the prisoners. Adiutant
Newman of the Forty ninth was taken
prisoner and carried to Fort Warren. In
side the lining of his coat was concealed -
document which when brought to light
revealed strange chapter in tho history
Of this gallant regiment, During its four
years of service the Forty ninth had lost
4S5 men by death. 2O5 were permanently
disabled and many of its five hundred and
odd wounded survivors were unfit for tho
ranks. Every ablebodicd Georgian was al
ready under arms, and in order to recruit:
its numbers tho Forty-ninth petitioned
the commanding general for leave to sum
mon the slaves to it's aid. The document
preserved by Adjutant Newman, its last
official custodian, was as follows:
CAMP FoRrY-NINTH GEoRG1A RE0IMENT.
4 March Is, 1886.
Colonel ". II. Taylor, A. A. G.:
EIR-The undersigned commissioned ofliceTe
Of this regiment, having maturely considered
the following plan for recruiting the regiment
and having freely consulted with the enlisted