- Joined
- Jan 16, 2015
“Boys, I trust you will all behave like southern soldiers.” Captain Thomas Gordon Pollock, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General, Kemper’s brigade, July 3: [The University Memorial, Biographical Sketches, by Rev. Lipscomb Johnson, Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1871, pp. 437-444]
“Dearing, where is the colors?” Colonel Robert Clotworthy Allen, 28th Virginia, July 3. [Calvin P. Dearing, Company G, 28th Virginia, On the Bloodstained Field, by Greg A. Coco, p. 31]
“I am going home, good-by.” Unidentified Confederate, possibly of Kemper’s brigade, July 3. [Adjutant A. R. Small, 16th Maine, Confederate Veteran magazine, vol. 35 (1927), p. 477]
“Major, tell my father that I died with my face to the enemy.” Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery, written note, July 2. [Saga of a Burke County Family, by Edward M. Phifer, The North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 1962, published by the North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, p. 331]
“All is right.” Private John Preskitt, Company F, 12th Alabama. [Sketch of the Twelfth Alabama Infantry, by Robert Emory Park, Reprinted from Southern Historical Society Papers, vol. 33, Richmond, William Ellis Jones, Book & Job Printer, 1906]
No matter how many close escapes one has in a particular battle, the next will be just as dangerous, and it is impossible to pass unscathed through them all. (Paraphrasing) Captain William E. McCaslan, Acting Adjutant General of Lang’s Florida brigade, July 3. [Memoir of C. Seton Fleming, pp. 79-80]
“Tell my mother I died like her boy.” Sergeant Robert W. Hubbard, Company E, 7th Wisconsin, July 1. [Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, by William DeLoss Love, Chicago: Church and Goodman, Publishers, 1866, p. 419]
“Isn’t this glorious?” Second Lieutenant Sumner Paine, Company A, 20th Massachusetts, July 3. [July 13 letter of Capt. Abbott to Charles C. Paine, father of Sumner Paine.]
“Bury me as near where I fell as possible.” Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell A. Thoman, 59th New York, mortally wounded July 2. [KAOD, July 22, In the Field, Near Bloomfield, Virginia, Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury, ed. by William B. Styple, Kearny, NJ: Bells Grove Publishing Company, 2000, p. 205]
“I’m as dead a man as Julius Caesar.” Brigadier General Stephen Weed, July 2. [Oliver Willcox Norton, The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.]
Last edited by a moderator: