Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-23

to our side, and then continued to
Faixfax.
Gas this regiment had only en-.
listed for six months it was, dis
bahded in July, the men joining
other organized commands or max,
| ing up new ones. A month after
Brunson was End Lieutenant of Co.
H., 14th S. G. Volunteers, was in
service on the South Carolina coast
until 22nd of April, 1862, when the
regiment was ordered to Virginia to
the command of Brigadier Gen.
Maxcy Gregg, Anderson's division
at Fredericksburg.
when the Confederates retreat
ed from Fredericksburg, Brunson in
command of his company, covered
the rear of Anderson's division. AT
the battle of Gains Mills he was
slightly wounded early in the day
but while in a charge about sun
down he was shot in the mouth, the
ball passing out the back of his
neck. Before this wound had healed
he had one hand shattered while his
regiment, 14th S. c., was charging
redoubt in the battle of Chancel-
lorsville. In the first days fight at
Gettysburg he was shot through
both legs. He fell on a Federal cap
tain, who was shot through one leg.
After getting himself off the FEEDER
al officer he said, Captain, you are
bleeding profusely, I have some
whiskey in my canteen that l
thought I might need if badly
wounded. Drink it," handing him
the canteen; the officer taking the
canteen and seeing it was light said,
"there is no more than a drink here.
Have you had any?" When Brun-
son said he had not he for time
refused to take it, until he was con-
vinced that he would soon faint if
he did not. Two heroes had met.
They both recovered. After Brun-
son was again well enough for 'uty,
he was assigned to the command of
the End Company of the S. G. Bat
talon of Sharpshooters commanded
by Maj. w. S. Dunlop, McGowan's
Brigade. Beginning with the battle
of. the Wilderness, on the 4th day
of May, 1861, he was constantly
under fire until 22nd of June. While
lin command of his, battalion Of
tffhrea companies, aud opposing the
advance of the whole of Hancock's
corps on Petersburg, he was shot
through the foot.
'sHe received no more wounds of
Importance after this, but was con-
stantly fighting after his foot heal
ed. At the, battle near Petersburg,
known as Jones Farm, 3oth of Sep
tember and 1st October, 1864, with
his little command, charged the
Jones House, capturing a detach-
ment of the 1st New York Mounted
Infantry. With the same little COM
mand of sharp shooters on the lst
of October he drove in ard captured
900 men of a Pennsylvania regi-
ment behind works. Brunson, with
his sharp shooters, was constantly
fighting after this.
On the 31st of March, 1865, they
were on the right of Lees fortifca-
Etion, and when the lines were bro
ken brought up the rear to South
land Station, fighting at every step.
This constant fighting continued to
Appomattox, where the army sur
rendered on the 9th of April, 1865.
The last Is days these men, never
knew what it was to sleep.
''No man ever had a truer friend,
no community courtlier gentleman,
no country a better soldier"
The following notice concerning
one of the wounds that Capt. Brun-
son received in the war is taken
from The Advertiser of July 99th,
1868:
Lieutenant w. II. Brunson of
Co. l4th regiment, who was so pain
full5 wounded before Richmond a
year ago, celebrates the anniversary
of that event by returning home
with a bullet hole through each
thigh-which pleasant punctures he
received from the hands of the Yam
KEGS at Gettysburg. The friends of
this intrepid soldier will be glad to
hear that his wounds are doing
we'll, and that he is already getting
about little on his crutches."