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for lie was blanieless. and afterwards ia
Joined many Of our Confederate generals
who took service under tho Khedive OF

who took service under tho ixhedive OF
Egypt. " h 81 55 s. !9ii q 3l 81.
CONFUSION ,wo RsD COMO DED'
& After we had fred the fatal vollcy anu
cut down the .ll.starred Twei,ty-frst y. wo
Epassed over them and reached the euBe
OF the blum about shutdown. We began a.,
firing into the seethlng mass below On
the Shelf at the river's edge, calling at
3ey,ery vollcy for them to Surrender.
There was 80 much con fusion In their .lf'
ranks that we couid get no response TO
our repeated demands. Az last Colonei
F'eatherston, Of the Seventeenth, With his
stcntorinn voice. heard above the din and
roar Of battle. called out: 1'1vhyk don't 5you
surrender down there :? You al NJ ne
Killed. Where Is your com M ding !. o.
flcer D cad " came back O. voice Pc.
low. Where ID the next IN command ?'
5"Dead-all dead, answered the voice VOC g
;t..Thenk send up nsprlvate With his hand 4
akerchlef tied toSd ramrod Y and IN single
man In blue scrambled up the bank ~
the DARK, olinginr \ to the Ivy that grew
on the bank for support Then Col t1lnYs
$Feathcrston commanded hlmFto call out
silence below; and the man called o q
sat the top OF his voice: nee y ing
vale ,,''iasaAnd the panden,ontum Of VOICES
ceased land at our earnest ertree entire! y. th ~
began to scramble sup the steep blur ana
surrender to us. The first man tina ttcalno
IN opposite to- me was named wv" y va Us Is
az LEARNED, and u member say ling, 70
Min, ..Waj TX this way, M r. Wa TX, which
was nto q circle of $Confed rates$ " nado
to receive the prisoners. Il, iiSS5iS$
RI HI was d little man, far below medium
ir1 every way, and belong ed to the cali
Fforilin regiment from Philadelphia, SO
named in honor Of their c cncrnl y kcr,
from Oregon. The next man who cams
~ frnn1! the NMaSSN.
crusetts regiment, mentioned In your oon ,l-3
Gmllnlcation, B and when he go up nc
stoopod down, Us u though to get Q
weapon, at whichSI objected, but found
y It was only to recover his fallen over
coat, IIe was wounded In the hand and
was a $tall !, handsome, ark-whiske
man, Of very splendid presence: fie mas y l
figured In Massachusetts, poll tics a slnce
the war for a whole generation. mere.
he Is now I do not know. Colonel Lee se'
of the Twentieth Massn chusetts - re-
member, as my company guarded the
prisoners down to Manassas, marching
ali that light. Lee was an elderly N
and III note, has long sin ce crossed the
great divide. There was q nercnhnt
iron, philadelphia who ma rched with &, VS.
B{the prisoners numbered e729). and utterad
prophesy I had occasion to recall olteE
during the after events of the wa to the
effect that we had no idea wi at q \ fever
for war there was in the North and tins
Eprepnrnti ons being made for it.H This VIC,
tory being 50 decided and following 'o'll W 50
close after Mana ssns, I'll we were hug gin g
the phnnt tom OF hope that we would az
soon go@back and SEQ the 81 rls we lett.
behind lis, but &mnny va b, 50 many !T-of q
sus never 4 saw home any more. .6
si53S5 n AZ g. C.. CUMMINGS
historian Texas Division, United q Cons.
Ifederate veterans formerly seergeninl Is 8
Major, Seventeenth Mlssisslpp l d 3 eg y
lnent. III -js IN I. 81 Il Il
Fort Worth, Texas, June, 1906