The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-21

Ionfederates, who were the at
hacking army. The loss of the
F5nfederates is not. known but the
most reliable estimates place the
Confederate loss at a thousand more
han the Federal loss. The sun 1t.
3elf, as if wearied of the scene OF
blood and death, retired beyond the
vestern slope, leaving a mantle OF
darkness. On the blood-stained
Fround, beside the mangled bodies
f comrades whose hearts had been
titled. tired and weary soldiers slept
n the storm-swept ground beneath
he silent mortars and the SUM
kering cannon. On such imposed de-
{truction, such inflicted death, sucn
kloom, such utter darkness, the cold
Ftars, and the Eye that never sleeps
Tor slumbers, kept silent vigil. That
Vas a night that the survivors OF
either army can ever forget.
Was there in all this glorious
bouthland a more dreadful scene OF
lood than that which was presented
h Gaines Mill? Than those who
eu on that fateful day did a greater
umber of truer or Drawer men from
Inv community ever fall in battle?
Wasthe heroic death. of Leonidas
md his three hundred Spartans in
heir attempt to stem the Persian In
(3asion. more to be admired than the
rayerv of our men at Gaines Mill?
The noble men who fell at Gaines
Hill, were in no sense more brave or
lore patriotic than were their com
aides who survived the storm OF shot
nd shell.
The reader should run his eyes
own the column of names Of pa
tiots, all of whose names should
e kept warm in the hearts of
Forthy Southerners. They deserve
be perpetuated in history. Due
Vest should remember Gaines
till even as the Greeks and the
forld Ave perpetuated the name OF
h%ermopylae.
UE WEST MEN WHO FELL AT
GAINES MILL.
The list, because of the number of
hin, i: appalling. The fearful
lrnage on that day not only bears
e highest testimony to the bravery
Id the courage of the dead, but 1t
yes proof of the distinguished val
of those who survived.
Although the bodies of dead COM
dies lay thick on the ground and
though the storm of shot and shell
Id ragged in all the mad fury of
bll, not a man of their number fall
red. Every man stood to the enc
v with barred breast, and those noble
ldiers who lost all, fell like men
Id died like princes.
If it be true that because of his
klor the name ofa French soldier
bs called with the roll of the living
a hundred years after his death,
Id if it be true that Bob Toombs,
Georgia, boastedHthat he would,
the close of the war, call the roll
his slaves at Bunker Hill, and if
be true that every orator who has
oxen to an Abbeville County
ldiences since the war has called
e roll of fewer than half dozen OF
If distinguished dead-who never
lard the roar of battle nor wit
ssed the sublime con6ictOf warning
(sts-may we not with the utmost
eopriety, once in fifty years, call
3 roll of our valorous neighbors
! kinsmen who gave up their
Fes in battle, or in the camp suf-
ed untold hardships?
GAINES MILL.
AS far as learned, these are the
mes of the Due West men who
ere killed at Gaines Mill on the at
noon of June q, 1852:
Bartholomew Boyd,
William Boyd.
John A. Burton,
L. Augustus Callahan,
w. T. Calvert,
Frank Clinkscales,
Robert F. Cunningham,
J. Allen Davis,
Samuel Ellison,
Samuel Fields,
Middleton Freeman,
Benjamin F. Gassoway,
John w. Gilmer,
John B. Gordon,
Robert A. Gordon,
T. Livy Grier,
Elias C. HUMPHREYS,
B. NJ. Latimer,
Poinsett Lindsay,
Abner H. McGhee,
A. Hill McGhee, Jr.,
M. H. McGhee,
James G.. Martin,
J. M. Madison,
Freeman Middleton,
John Morrison,