The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-07

! CoiQuitt, commanding a Georgia hr-..
the same officer who is said to
come out second best in a s~et-to--r.
! Aunt Abby House. Though belicva .t
that was about the measure OF gg.-.
OF all from President Davis down
encountered the eccentric North Car
inian at ones the Meg Merriles ana -
Florence Nightingale Of the Com
eracy.
General Colquitt. with four regime.
had the right-of-way over Rams
brigade OF four regiments, PaNton's
gade OF five regiments and four rs-
ments OF Stuart's horse. Jackson
ders were OF the most urgent ana a
! pe rativc native. There was 10 b. no al.
lay. no pause in the attack which Wa
be hot and impetuous. AppreciatinE g..
the full the value OF minutes at a gvsa.
crisis like that his constantly repeat.
word TO all was Forward, pre-.
Them Push Right Ahead.
Rhodes distinctly says that ne ord,.e
Colquitt that under no circumstance Vs..
there 10 be any pause in the advance .iha-
General Ramseur would follow him an
look out for the safety OF the right haaa
But as Colquitt swept forward H. e-
countered n stubborn Federal picket lin
Just at that moment he deserted a hand
full Of blue h~orsemen-said 10 have bee
Confederate scouts in Federal uniform
TO his right. Possessed with the belle
that his right fiank was imperiled. disry-
garding the plain order OF his superioc
Rhodes, TO let Ramseur take care OF h4s
flank, falling TO rise to the occasion ten
dered by fate but once and then but FOR
a brief moment he halted. changed from
o,a 49, ,chad DtF IN aYact NJ Tho mytbftnI
Federal cavalry. He also sent word 10
Ramseur that the Federals were pressing
his right flank. causing that officer also
to change front. This halted both Pax
ton and the cavalry.
From forty to sixty minutes were lost.
Towards Teutons used their legs to such
good purpose that they reached shelter.
some sort of order was established before
the seventeen regiments so unfortunately
withheld. came UP. The result was thu
stout resistance hat night causing Jack
sons death. the desperate lighting or the
next morning in which fell nearly 10000
men. the very flower Of the Southern
army. and the retreat Of Hooker defeat
ed, but not routed.
While Lee made in his report no men
tion of the delinquency his subsequent &C
ton in regard TO Colquitt seems to have
been a condemnation OF it. Within three
weeks Colquitt was detached from TN"
army and ordered with his brigade to
Go1dsboro, \. G.. There. according TO a
letter OF General Lee to Secretary OF Wa
Seldom, of June 3rd, 1863. Colquitt seem
to ave been employed in the inglorious
task Of hunting deserters.
Still as l would be unfair TO no OIL
and last of all to a Confederate office
l will add that Colquitt's brigade 49,.
detached and sent to North Caroliga ID
the request of D.. II. Hill, then in uou-
mand at Goldsboro, though by General
Lees letter above mentioned. Genera
Hill was shown as DESTROYS Of at ono.
exchanging it for Ramseur's much wcasen
brigade. This exchange General Lee DE-.
clined to make.
General Colquitt made q grand record
in the Florida campaign Of 1864 and .ls,-
where. But one of the facts of the N.U
that even Southern Writers if they w.-
to produce history cannot afford TO jguoG.
or gloZe, is the far-reaching error d..
judgment Of this officer at Chancellor
Vile, the really decisive battle Of th
49,
@. W. BLACKNALL-
Kittrel1 n C.