The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19
1.-THE famous BATTLE
OF new MARKET, VA.
Comments on the Account Re
Gently Given by Captain
Bruce, OF Tennessee.
COUNTER IA 7 EN- EN- T
There Were No Hats and WAY.
erings by Boy Soldiers, as
Stated by Tennesseean.

editor of The Times-D Dispatch:
Sir-The Confederate Column in your
issue of sunday. December 90, 1907,
produces an article entitled ''rhe Bat
Bruce, of Joppa. Tenn. extracted from
THE Confederate Veteran In which
he says:
from seventy-fi five to one hundred yards
off, without protection to either side.
Our regiment CHS. Brnce's) was In or
near the centre. Next 70 us on our our
Virginia Military Academy; on their
right was lmboden's Brigade, and on
4 our left l recall Edgsr's. Clarls's and
Bat Rs fees th G OUR 4ss
firsD regiment lay down. and the
Yankees stood up. we were facing
down the valley. and stayed in that pc.
could load for one hour and fifteen
minutes, according to a man ian ~. who wa, was
in the battle ct. put noted he r rine
from us. was a battery of artillery,
which played on us with, Shell, grape rap
fought for considerable time. saw
1mboden's men giving away and also :, :,
saw the cadet boys cadets means
that { time. e. You graciousiy add, car
right out Of school and we were e, old
Veterans. was curious to see now now
they would stand fire. and | saw them
stand and fight like regulars. ] never
saw soldiers fight better han they, DID
They stood up and took 1t IN niil.arS
style, while we, who had been there
three years, in many battles and knew
the danger of Yankee lead, lay. as flat
on the ground as we could get.
Cadets Did Not Give Way.
When the cadets gave way (Would
tenant Colonel Wolfe, commanding our
regiment. standing behind me. said;
Captain. what had we better DO "a
my superior tit is remarkable that Cap
tain Bruce acknowledges a superior,
as he so infinitely describes every &c,
3 by By L NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wolfe com;
1nanding his regiment, what 70 90
in the disposition of same. Captain
Bruce further adds what Is quoted as
follows, saving: There were four com :
panies of our regiment on the right.
My company was A. and belonged ut
tile head of our regiment. but when on
the march, we walked so fast Sfi ,..s,,
firsD that the command could not keep
up, and General Wharton put US pack
in the right centre. Those companies
on our right gave way, one at time
slowly falling back.
z CAPTAIN Bruce further states that II
81 undertake to run my company
through that muddy field (Which !, ne
calls loblolly). we would all get XII
ed. so concluded to fall back In the
lire and get behind the fence and the
= right would rally on us. ! dropped
my company back and tried 1t, but the
other men failed TO rallN.
saw some two or three hundred Yards
off Derrick's Battalion going toward
the enemy. ! gave the command, At
tention!s which brought. my, company
to their feet presumably they mad had
them to form. double quick, charge!
My whole company and the whole
left raised that old rebel yell. and /, at
Command CONN to fire left oblique into tia,
artillery. All the drivers on the ar
tillery horses who were not hit jump.
ed off and struck the ground on a run
company went straight forward to tht
right of the artillery. BY the time we
tplural now used instead OF the slngu'
lar got half way to the Yankee line
they We're running, going their best
but shooting back and killing a gooC
many of our men,.
The Gallant 800.
sour regiment went into battle witt
s about 500 men. per cent. Of whom
We're killed and wounded ! have seel
It stated In papers that the Cadet
Corps captured that artillery. If they
captured any artillery 1t was not th'
SIX pieces that my company fired lef
into" (No, II was the battery TIL
cadets fired directly into ana no
obliauely in their charge direct. Xix
the Light Brigade'---the noble 81
Hundred).
CAPTAIN Bruce then further adds: .
|havc seen 1t stated in the papers Ina
Edgar's Battalion ran over our regi
# ment and captured that artillery, an
we had run the Yankees off. they cam
across the artillery and took posses
sion of It. and. like boys, thought the
had captured IT.
Query: Would IL be possible for an
~ soldier or body of soldiers that HAY
ever deserved to have borne that nan
to be in any shadow of doubt whethe
they captured thing or stumble
II upon it?)
Captain Bruce's very minutely a,
IS tailed account of this famous battle
Its every detail is one Of the most. II
& narkable on record; his direction
pnei Wolfe. evidently to his (captai
a Bruce's) mind was the turning poil
In that brilliant victory OF Gener;
John G. Breckinridge and his brlEat
Cadet Battalion OF the Y. Nj. !. cngagc
5 5lheS enemy. Captain Bruce, with 9th,
i veterans, watched with eager eyes 4
ssa vain Bruce says he had done for tire
Y i8S pears previously. and he for n nome,
lorgets his egotism and appauds veal
~ what has been pl;,ndited and hoi
pred from General Robert Leo down
pvery soldier of the Confederacy; +,
twas the only battle on record whel
u boys fought with and against veteran
sgs say nothing of their powers, for
had the great honor to be one OF IL
sgss least amongst them--a simple priya
In Company v, Virginia Military Inst
lutte Battalion Of Cadets Infantry.
had not the honor OF being one Of %
Nttle battery but as long as the nam
of those dead hero boys live--al
II lheirs is inmortality--tlat OF cabe
sAtweil, Mcdowell. steward. Jefferse
Jones. Crockett and Wheelwright W
De remembered for AL time as marty
sssaSs Who gave Their best boyhood's hlo
for the defense OF their country.
glory 10 Az soldiers who gave til,