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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Hagerstown and Williamsport. (search)
uval, 11th North Carolina regiment; wounded July 1st. Private Wright Smith, 10th Georgia regiment; wounded July 2d. Private P. Shields, 62d Virginia regiment; wounded July 5th. Private J. T. Bowman, 16th North Carolina regiment; wounded July 4th. Private J. R. Proctor, 11th North Carolina regiment, wounded July 1st. Private J. M. Barber, 3d Georgia regiment, wounded July 2d. Private J. M. Whittington, 50th Georgia regiment; wounded July 2d. Lieutenant J. Walker, 7th South Caatta, 53d Georgia regiment; wounded July 11th. Lieutenant A. A. King, 3d South Carolina regiment; wounded July 2d. Private J. C. Lupton, 57th Virginia regiment; wounded July 13th. Private W. R. Reeves, 15th Mississippi regiment; wounded July 4th, died July 19th. Private W. Martin, 53d Georgia regiment; wounded July 3d; died July 16th. Private Gay, 57th North Carolina, regiment; wounded July 3d; died July 17th. Private Reuben Gardner, 2d Virginia battalion, wound July 14th. P
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
d in this terrible tragedy. What had they been doing that made the extermination of their command justifiable in the eyes of their opponents? We find that they had first attracted the attention of the whole country by penetrating to the heart of the Federal army and capturing its General with his staff, and carrying them off as prisoners of war; they had fought beneath the very guns that protected the Federal Capitol; that they had crossed the Potomac into Maryland, and celebrated the 4th of July by the victory at Point of Rocks; that when Sheridan was driving Early up the Valley of Virginia, they had constantly raided his line of communications and captured his outposts. We find from the records of the war that it required as many men to protect, from Mosby's attacks, the lines of communication from Fredericksburg to Washington, from Washington to Harper's Ferry, from Harper's Ferry to Winchester and Strasburg, as General Sheridan had employed in fighting Early's army in his fro