The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-03

nolSe and s. n. Repass led this company
up the heights of Gettysburg and many
| of the men were left dead or struck
down a. the point recorded in history
as marking the high tide OF tho Con-
| federacy.
| Andrew Jackson Dcyerlo. Hrst
| cousin CT the officers OF that name
heretofore mentlopcd. was captain of
another OF the Roanoke companies. and
when he became colonel, j. Il. IIoutz of
Salem, WAS made captain. 1: became
part OF the Forty-second Virginia,
Of tho Stonewnll Division. and partici-
1 pntcd In lJacksons celebrated valley
camraign.i in the Seven Days Fight
! around Richmond and at Cedar Noun
| tain. In this last battle the company
carried in thirty eight men of whom
nineteen were killed and eleven wound
ed. Colonel a. J. Deyerlc. command
ing the Fcrty-second, was wounded
AMI crippled for life In this action.
The fourth company. organized at
| Salem in 1861, was the Hupp-Cirifiln
| Batiory or Salem Flying Artillery. 1.
participated in many battles and sur
rendered ut Appomattox. It's claim
mat 1t furnished the man who fired
| the last cannon at Appomattox has
| bccn about conceded. Abram =. Hump
WAS the first captain, who was sue
ceeded by DR.. Charles Griffin, both of
: salem. The late Henry Il. Blair, of
/ salem, who adorned the circuit bench
| 10: thirty years and George w. Zirlllc.
| formerly sheriff of Roanoke County.
were officers in this battery Captain
| Charles Grinins brothers were Hon.
| VINO served with distinction upon tho
STAFF of General 7. 7. Munford: tho
| Rev. Jack Griffin. chaplain of Nine
! tcenth Virginia Regiment, who was
hEown as Fighting Jack Griffin. and
cX-Judgc Wingfcld Griffin, n Confcd
I n mi
War. 'o'''
The other company OF Roanol,c
county Volunteers, organized at Bote-
iourt Springs. was commanded by FLOYD
-. ROCK. became Company Il, of the
f"enty-cighth Virginia Infantry, and
participated in all the battles in which
met noble regiment was engaged 1t
hid lis part in adding to the lustre Of
! that famous command
Ahother company from Roanoke
county was f, Second Virginia Regi-
posed mainly OF boys and served in
me trenches around Petersburg, and
was engaged In guarding prisoners.
other soldiers from Roanoke Coun-
~ were In companies A and f, Thirty
sixth virginia Regiment, AicCausland's
| brigade. In tho Fifth Virginia Cavalry.
ana some were scattered in other com
mands. I'm
10 my left Is a group OF Conred
crate soldiers or lSG1-65. The two Wells
brothers. the one with the bowie knife,
| inc other with the old musi<et. yoIun
teercd before they reached the age
| OF seventeen. One was killed I'm bottIo
and the other died from exposure on
! the field. Here too Is tho face of John
| Persingcr who crossed the wall at
gettysburg, and was there dangerously
| wounded. Here is Richard III. Lyon
| who fired the last cannon at Appomat.
| tox. These and others in this erour
have passed over the river. Just he
| yond is the group Of the HUMP eyerlc
Camp. tho war-worn veterans. who fol-
lowed the flag Of their State in 1851
and, after Appomattox, returned 70
their homes to build up the waste
tElaccs of Virginia
Michael Angelo saw q trio OF angels
IN me huge. rough boulder, and in
theSe TWO groups nm artist with logo
perception can discover representatives
OF az true and noble order of man.
hood rs the world has ever produced.
Ihese transformations heroes from
noa,ioke sought no glory and no
/ weai'n. they did not fight to. take
from anybody or TO invade the rights
Oh any one, but because they loved
and revcred Virginia.
seeing therefore, that we arc SIR.
rounded by such cloud OF witnesses
,inu reinforced, encouraged and Insured
pE then. let us press forward viii,
n'itiest purpose that the Virginia nj
.o-uay ana Of tomorrow NAV bp
worthy Oh the Virginia of yesterday.