The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-17
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Conclusion Of a Story Of Hope
Valor and Suffering i'll
War Times.
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Dixie as It Was Written
and Sting III
'6I-65.
AT ii o'clock that night, juno 90, the
fight ha ended. We were OH the field
and iii line of battle, and ready for the
morning the usual guards were posted
( and the rest of us laid down to sleep. I
never slept better in my life than did
that night In a corn row. but arose boz
fore daylight. and finding some OF tho
men missing from the company went int
4 yard ana unfinished house, where I
found the whole place filled with dead
S%and wounded Confederatcs l shook sew
eral men ling In the yard, supposing that
they belofged 10 the battalion. but&they
were ali dead, and as the wounded beg
4 gcd me so pitifullys for help, which. I
could not give, j moved off as a tilck a
possible. Daylight gave MS avlew OF the
s5sgenen1y's cavalry drawn up In line. but
f8a3glittle way off, and we then knew me me
I'M eiieilly's Infantry had left the Held
~. This great battle was followed BY de-
lays Gen Lee had not been5in command
long cnough#to know his officers and he
had not received from them proper heip.
n This great repulse was followed by de-
lay. Gen. Lee had not been In command
OF his army long enough 10 handle It With
that perfection for which he was after
wards so distinguished. The Federals
found safety under the guns Of their boats,
and in a. short time weBsreturned 10 the
neighborhood of5Richmond and had a good
y&s rest.
Major General Pope had raised his stan
IA dard i'll Piedmont Virginia. and from his
boastful orders one might have supposed
that he knew how TO get 70 Richmond.
Is To meet him Gen. Jackson was sent TO
sStie neighborhood of Gordonsvilie: the bat
talon was with him. The advance OF
s Popes army had reached CulpepeI Court
"A house when. on tho 9th OF August, 1852,
@ Gen Jackson advanced TO crush it; The
HE enemy met him at Cedar Run. a few
miles somewha I south Of the courthouse,
and was badly defeated. Tho First Viz
4 gnia Battalion had right much history IN
5 this battle. II was really on the left of
a tile front line of battle: a regiment of
was to the left of IL, but SO far off
as not to be seen, or to be OF use or pro-
lection in any way, and properly disap-
pearcd from the field when the enemy
& advanced All
G n The enemy advanced with three lines
of battle some one hundred yards apart.
] was on the left, where. on elevated
ground,I had a: good view of The enemy.
Their line extended as far as my eyes
could reach 10 The vest, overlapping as,
and the lch Sf our battalion was the
& nearest hostile object that those overlap
ping us had To shoot at, so we caught II
I1.ft ff.ay.
Il. and n number of enlisted men were shot
down, and the battalion and regiment
after regiment We're crumbled by the
thanking force of he enemy. and 1t was
u only whom our vide line of supports came
q ups that The enemy was driven back. They
3 brought cavalry. into the field and under
took to charge upon q part Of orr infan-
try, but they met with the ,islial luck at
y tending such nonsense. Cavalry. as cav
airy. have never been able TO fight irifan-
try with success in America. During our
whole war we never had use for the lioi-
low square. which we read of so much IN
European wars.
When our brigade was broken hy The
flank attack of tile enemy, and they were
fast rolling up our front line iny friend
Northumberland White, of the Forty
eighth Virginia Regiment. finding me
badly wounded. told me 10 give
him my hand, and he pulled me
upon his horse. This was accom-
# plished bY my placing my foot In bis
stiriup. This could not have done one
hour afterwards His horse Was shot
through the head, but did not fan
iil lie carried us off or that part of
the battle ground. The litter hearers placed
me In an ambulance. and al tiie same
time others. and among them "a hand,
some hoy OF some eighteen years. who
Told me that he had been shot by a FED.
eral captain while scufflng over rag
VIC were carried IN a So-callcd ip0Frlital.
which was the yard Of a country gentle
man, The wounded boy WAS placed IN
& my left Presently another boy about the
I, same age, and as handsome, WAS placed
on the ground 10 my right, JIe told no
he ives suffering from 4 baypflna woiif,d
which extended 10 his hollow
This young man told me that While ha
had his boyonet through n Federal ~
felt a bayonet enter his hack. and he part,
Is turned and saw that II was hin Oen
81 orderly sergeant who nlugt haze beer
blind with fright; he told lin 10 puii' i,
out; the sergeant, recognizing the voice
" did 50 at once intended 10 have rnaHe
a note of the facts, but soon fell asleep
and whenI awoke both OF The boys wefc
dead.
There Was one man that died al ms zee;
during the battle, and ] supposed that h.
was shot. hui some OF his friends wht
buried him the next day. said that thsj
could not find a wound upon him.
Major Jack Seldom was riding flat das
an entire horse az great value and iat
81 thoughtlessly lied him 20 ~ bush on III,
left OF the battalion, and a little IL tai
ID front. He fell at the first yollcy. ana .
a soldier examined him the next dag am
counted one hundred and sixty.flye bale
holes in 'iiis hide. lie MAS OF gray colo
and partly concealed in the bushes hi
presence no doubt saved many Confcdei
ate soldiers.
Having been disabled by the wonn
which 7 received al Cedar Run, ! came
which followed, but have II from thoa