The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-08
MONUMENT TO THE
 YARBROUGH BROTHERS
Brave Alabama Boys Who Died on Virginia Soil Defending
 Their County.

From The Richmond Times Dispatch.
 MT. Henry P. Yarbrough of Mont gomery. Alabama, and an old Confed- crate veteran of the 17th Alabama Regiment is in Richmond supervising the erection of a handsome monument in memory of his brothers, John Cargle and James Charles Yarbrough. This shaft is of beautiful granite and white
 marble. located in Oakwood Cemetery. It was designed by Capt. A. J. Wray, our fellow townsman, who was a mem
 Der of Pickett's Division. The monu
 ment bears the following inscription: In loving memory of our brothers, John Cargle and James Charles Tar
 brough. John, with his regiment, Dst Alabama Cavalry). was in the Battle
 of Corinth, Miss, He died May 17th. Miss. His grave is unknown. Age 24. James is buried here. After pass
 ing through the seven days battle
 regiment, 9th Georgia Volunteers). he died July 2eth, 1862. Age 22 years. %. bury me not in the dark old woods, Where the sunbeams never shine; Where ningle the mists Of the noun tain flood;
 With the dew of the dismal pine" "The above is part of several stan gas he wrote and published in Febru- ary. 1s61."
 
 the beautiful lives of his brothers be- fore entering the army. as follows: James was a great Sunday school worker in his adopted home town, Old Oglethorpe, Ga, where he had acquired a flattering law practice, but left 1t all and hurried to Richmond with Company 'I," Macon Co.,. Volunteers, all of whom had enlisted for twelve months, and feared that the war would close before they could get to the front. In one of his letters later. James wrote these words: Many poor fellow will bite the dust before this war is over. If I should never return. give my gold watch and my cane to Bro. John. I left them with Cousin Mithe Martinlayer."
 He also wrote home of the destruc- tion of the Cumberland and the Con- gress by the Merrimac at Hampton Roads, and said he saw many of the blue coats sink and rise no more as | they left their ship and plunged into the mighty deep.
 During his experience in the battles of Seven Days. he wrote that all Of his mess-mates fell around him killed and wounded. He often got water to drink by making a hole in the ground with his bayonet, and in the last let- fer he wrote contained these words:
 'T fear I will never get well Of my over-heat of cold water" We thought from that, he was so near famished for water than on getting it he drank | too much.
 The next letter was from Lieutenant sneed. telling us of his death from | typhoid fever at Drewry's Bluff, Va. | and his burial by a Mir. Jones at that | place.
 Twenty-seven years after that my younger brother made two trips to | Virginia before locating our brothers grave--the ground had been cultivated l over fl and the farm was owned by
 Pennsylvanian named Swynford. who was very kind and courteous to my | brother.
 MT. Jones had buried our deceased | brother near an enclosed vault marked | by a head stone, and had noted the | direction and position, so as to De anIe
 to locate it if called on to do so. The | remains were removed to Kchmonu ID | 1888 or 'S9 by my brother.
 My Brother Uohn was a farmer. He owneA a beautiful horse. on which, | when he rode off from the old nome. we vazed sorrowful1y after him, and | neither ever returned. His Colonel | afterwards became the famous General | James H. CIanton of Montgomery Ala- 5ama, who knew no more rear una, tnan l did Gen. John H. Morgan Of kentucky' Of the three brothers, James John ana myself. I was the only one who re-
 turned to our home. was more dead | than alive, and had l not returned
 when I did to get the attention or
 good mother, l. too, would have been | dead soldier. =, a.A4,n0 was in all of the hard-nghtins l,s
 around Atlanta, was one or Hood
 sbarn-shoo ooters. As such. had many
 close calls and narrow escapes. was
 at the battle of Franklin, and here hurled one of my best friends, Lieut.; Croxton. who fell pierced
 through the heart by minnie ball.
 In 1868 married Leutenant Croxo OK toms youngest sister. and she Is the
 .n.SaI of a large family of thirteen
 children. Of this number. we have
 reared eleven. six girls and sl,,,. i've boys; oyd
 I am now going to see Norfolk ana Portsmouth, where my brother James was stationed at Camp Jackson Tor
 many months in the year 1881. l was never there, but I imagine the place has no more resemblance of those days