The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-04

glnla. Engage and under fire at
Hampton. Young's Mills, Dam No. /.
Williamsburg and Second Manassas,
the battles around Richmond and Har-
pers Ferry, at Sharpsburg, while the
fate of Lee was trembling i'm the bal
ance, where the battle was thickest.
with others of the gallant boys Lieut..
Parkman fell. and when the old bat
terry, torn and shattered, moved tenn
porarlly from the field. Kershaw raised
MS nat as they passed by and cried
out; 1 salute the Pulaski Guards IT"
with Mihedge's battery Lieut. Falli-
giant participated in the fight at
Marye's Hill, above Fredericksburg,
and in the battles of Chancellorsville
and Gettysburg. 1t was after this bat
tie he was transferred to Fraser's bat
terry: OF its part in the battle of Cold
Harbor he has also told
During the last long deaths grip OF
the Army of the Potomac and the
Army of Northern Virginia, as they
Wrestled fiercely from the Wilderness
to Petersburg, a gun of Fraser's bat
terry, from the old Irish section, was
ordered at midnight to point Of great
peril upon the broken lines of Cold
Harbor. The officer in command, who
went to examine the proposed location,
was advised by his superiors not to tell
his men where they were going. Know
ing them better he told the truth and
called for volunteers. Every man
stepped forward with shout. and
Alex Campbell, who was sergeant gof
the other gun, begged TO
go along and act as gunner
of the Old Warhorse." as they
called the grim Napoleon Wafford.
the afternoon before, when Keitt was
killed, had been driven from the ad-
joining echelon. and it was necessary
to hold the fragment of the line until
the new line in the rear was COM
pleted. The gun was placed at the eX-
IRENE end of the fragment of the line,
supported by Bryan's brigade. AT the
break of day came the first onset met
with double shotted canister and the
roar of musketry. Campbell, with ringing
voice, would give the command,
Ready! Firen then, waving his hat
with a shout of defiance, give the conf
mands again. demonstrated with for
his utter recklessness, he only turned
and laughingly replied: Lieutenant, the
bullet amt moulded to kill me-
Between the charges, seeing
wounded Feleral soldier writing in
the scorching twilight, he rushed for
ward at the imminent risk of his own
life, took him in his arms and brought
him under shelter. The enemy
seemed to understand his purpose and
would not fire on him. Another
charge came, and still the same def
ance, a third, and with the war-cry ON
his lips, poor Campbell fell. 'Lieuten-
ant said he, come look at my wound
When told 1t was mortal, he only an
swered; I've done my duty, not wisely,
but too WE'LL Then, seeing that the
men hesitsted to fire the gun over his
PROSTATE form. he raised his shattered
body on one arm, and with the other
Selling his hat and waving a last de-
fiance shouted: Give EN- hell, boys;
don't mind mel? Then falling backward
passed from life forever
Modest of His Bravery.
Never ,does-Judge FalIigant say that
this 'officer in command was himself,
and if it had been his ito choose he
would have suffered his own exploits
to pass into oblivion. All he desired
was tdspteserve the fame of his gallant
comra des.' H@
The day following the scene above
described Fraser's battery took a posi-
tion on the reformed line, and there,
with the horses of his cannon shot dead
in their tracks, Lieut.. Falligant fought
his guns all the day and until night
had drawn it's mantle over the scene of
carnage the "Old Warhorse" had
wrought "In a very real sense" said
once Maj. Robert Stiles of Richmond,
who witnessed this heroic scene, Pal
ligant deserves to be regarded as the
hero of Cold Harbor."
The guns of Fraser's battery never
fell into the possession of the enemy.
when the final break came" the dead
hero has written, eve paused to shake
hands with the Guards at Amelia Court
House, told Rice and Turner and Tup-
per and Blois and Percy Elliott and all
the brave boys goodbye, the day of
Sailor s. Greek, then moved on
to our last battle with Gus
ter at Appomatox Station, the
night befofes the surrender. Next
morning at daylight under orders, we
destroyed the carriages, caissons ands
ammunition and buried the guns, where
we had buried so many of their brave
defenders, under the soil of grand old
Virginia"
And there they rest, inanimate he
roes of metal like those of flesh and
blood who fought them, shrouded in
glorious memories they help to honor
the soil they and their masters hal
lowed with their deathless deeds.
After the War.
The war ended, the hopes he had
formed and the dreams he had dream
ed utterly blasted, Robert Falligant
took UP the stern duties of life with
the same unflinching courage that was
displayed by his comrades all over the
Southland He entered upon the study
of law in the Office of that distinguish
cd jurist, Judge William Law. and in
course of time became his partner.
His native abilities and stirring elo-
uuence soon attracted the notice of
his fellow citizens. In 1882 he was
sent to the State Legislature as repre-
sentative from this county and two
years later to the State Senate, from
the First Senatorial District. He was
not disposed, however, to embrace pol
tiles as a career and his finer SENSIBLE.
tiles reVolted from participation in po-
liti,al chicanery. He declined further
Office and until 1889 successfully pur-
sued the practice of law.
In 1889 he was appointed judge of
the Superior Courts of the Eastern Ju
dicial Circuit of Georgia, to fill the seat
on the bench made vacant by the res
ignation of Judge a. Pratt Adams. lie
was elected by the Legislature forfeach
successive term until since the
last. when the choice of Su
berion Court judge was entrust-
ed to the people. BY the peo-
pie he was again elected for another
term. -..l
Judge Falligant resumed his active
interest in the military soon after his,
return from the war, and in 1872 was
made captain of the Oglethorpe Light
Infantry, an Office he filled for seven
teen years, resigning in 1889.
The Confederate Veterans Associa-
ton had absorbed since it's organiza-
ton much of his time and thought,
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