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As a soldier, he did not take or shift responsibilities; nor would he apolo- gize for the delinquency of any man. He discharged every known duty to the strictest letter, and required the same thing at the hands of all with whom he had to deal. But we must bid a long, long farewell to our es- teemed friend and brother soldier, Captain Jonathan D. Cowart, and resmne the subject 1st Corporal John I. Harris; Privates George W. Hamp- ton, James M. Jolms, 'James M. Shines, and Samnel A. Fields were killed. 3rd Lieutenant Amos W. Murray, Ist Lieutenant Jonathan F. Coussins, Privates William 1. Shines, and Ebeneezer W. Turner were wounded. On the 23rd, Sherman reached Goldsboro', where he was largely re-enforced by Generals Scho- field and Terry. Johnston withdrew to Raliegh. So matters stood for some time. The end was now rapidly approaching. The tragie finale was at hand. We now look for a moment to the Army of Northern Virginia.
On the Ist of April, Lee's right was turned, and the battle of Five Oaks was fought. On the 2nd, Grant sne- * ceeded in making an irreparable breach in Lee's general line of defence. Lee was now compelled to retire and give up Richmond at last. On the 9th of April, at Appomattox C. Il., the sword of Lee was surrendered un- der very liberal terms of capitulation.
President Davis and his Cabinet es- caped from Richmond on the night of the 2nd. In consultation with Gen- erals Johnston and Beauregard at Greensboro, North Carolina, they authorized General Johnson to make such terms with General Sherman, as he might be able to do, for a termina- tion of the war, and general pacifica- tion. The result of this was what was known as the "Sherman-John- son Convention," which was formally agreed to, and signed by them, on the 18th of April .*
*Memorandin, or Basis of Agree- ment, made this 18th day of April, A. D. 1865, near Durham's Station, and in the State of North Carolina, by and between General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate army, and Major-General W. T. Sherman, commanding the army of the United States. Both present.
1. The contending armies now in the field to maintain their status quo until notice is given by the Command- ing General of either one to its oppo- nent, and reasonable time, say forty- eight hours, allowed.
HI. The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and con- ducted to the several State Capitals. there to deposit their arms and public property in the State Arsenal, and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and abide the action of both State and Federal anthorities. The number of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the Chief of Ordi- namee at Washington City, subject to the future action of the Congress of the United States, and, in the mean- time, to be used solely to maintain peace within the borders of the State; respectively.
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III. The recognition, by the Ex- eeutive of the United States, of the several State Governments on their officers and Legislatures taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States; and where conflict- ing State Governments have resulted from the' war, the legitimacy of all shall be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Here let it be said to the credit of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, that in this Convention, he displayed quite as much diplomacy and statesmanship as he had hitherto displayed general- ship in all of the well directed cam- paigns in which he had been chief in IV. The re-establishment of all Federal Courts in the several States, with powers as defined by the Consti- tution and laws of Congress. command. While negotiations were going on between these two distin- guished Generals, and four days be- fore the Convention was signed, on V .. 'The people and inhabitants of all the States to be guaranteed, so far as the Executive can, their political rights and franchises, as well as their rights of person and property, as de- fined by the Constitution of the Uni- ted States and the States respectively. the night of the 14th of April, Presi- dent Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre, in Washington City. by Wilkes Booth. By the death of President Lincoln, the Presidency de- volved upon Mr. Andrew Johnson, the Vice-President. From the great VI. The Executive authority of the Government of the United States excitement caused by this horrible act, or from some other unexplained canse, not to disturb any of the people by, President Johnson disapproved the reason of the late war, so long as they live in peace and quiet, abstain from acts of armed hostility, and obey laws in existence at the place of their . resi- dence. 1
VII. . In general terms, it is an- nonneed that the war is to cease; at general amnesty, so far as the Exeeu- tive power of the United States can command, on condition of the 'dis- bandment of the Confederate armies, the distribution of arms, and resmmp- tion of peaceful pursuits by officers and men hitherto composing the said armies. Not being fully empowered by our respective principals to fulfill these terms, we individually and of- ficially pledge ourselves . to promptly obtain necessary L'authority, and to carry out the above programme.
W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General.
Commanding the Army of the United States in North Carolina. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. tieneral.
Commanding Confederate States Army in North Carolina.
Sherman-Johnston Convention, and ordered Sherman to resume the aggres- sive. Upon Gen. Sherman notifying Gen. Johnston of this, he withdrew his army to Greensboro. On the 26th of April, he entered into a capitula- tion with Sherman, by which he sur- rendered all the Confederate forces under his command, upon terms simi- lar to the terms agreed upon between Lee and Grant. All the soldiers then present, gave and subscribed to the following parole of honor:
GREENSBORO', NORTH CAROLINA. In accordance with the terms of Military Convention, entered into on the 26th day of April, 1865, between General Joseph E. Johnston, Com- manding the Confederate Army, and Major-General W. T. Sherman, Com- manding the United States Army in North Carolina, Wendell D. Croom, Private in Compmy "C," 6th Georgia 'Troops, has given his solemn obliga- tion not to take up arms against the Government of the United States, un-
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til properly released from this obliga-, NOTE .- The war having closed out. early in the year, no changes occurred in the membership of the Company, tion; and is permitted to return to his home, not to be disturbed by the Uni- ted States Authorities, so long as he nor were there any deaths from dis- observe this obligation, and obey the laws in force where he may reside.
L. M. LETCHER, Major, U. S. A. Special Commissioner.
J. M. CULPEPPER, Major, C. S. A. Commanding.
Gen. Johnston now issued a patriotic Farewell Address to his troops, in which he deeply sympathized with them in the misfortunes of the war ; but highly complimented them for the valor and patriotism they had display- ed for a little upward of four years in defence of the now, forever "lost cause." We would gladly re-produce this Address; but we have it not in our possession. Upon it becoming known to our Company that Johnston had surrendered to Sherman, several of the members left for their homes. Those who remained to be paroled and disbanded in conformity with the terms of surrender, and sheathe their swords and pile their guns upon the last stack made east of the Mississippi River, were, Maj. Jas. M. Culpepper in command of the Regiment, 2nd. Lieutenant Seaborne M. Hunt ; 4th Cop'l. William 'T. Collins; Privates Wendell D. Croom, William E. Giles, Jas. M. Graves, William M. Haslam, John J. McDonald and Leonidas P. Sledge. The terms of surrender hav- ing been fully complied with, and General Sherman having issued us ten day's rations, we left for our homes, on the 8th of May, marching to Wash- ington, Wilkes county Ga,, thence by rail to our homes, arriving about the 19th. We leave the reader to imagme the feelings of these war-worn soldiers upon once more reaching their homes and embracing the loved ones from which they had so long been absent.
ease contracted in the service. We will state, however, that hud the war gone on, Maj. J. M. Culpepper would have been promoted Lientenant-Colo- nel, to fill the vacancy made by the promotion of Lieutenant-Col. Samuel A. Harris to the Colonelcy, after the death of Col. John T. Lofton, killed in January. Ist Lieut. Jefferson M. Gray would have been promoted Cap- tain to fill the vacancy of Captain Jon- nathan D. Cowart, killed at Benton- ville on the 19th of March. 2nd Lient. Seaborn M. Hunt would have been promoted 1st. Lieutenant, to fill the vacancy made by Gray's promotion. 3rd Lient. Amos W. Murray would have been promoted 2nd. Lieut. to fill the vacancy made by Hunt's promo- tion. . Leaving the 3rd Lieutenancy vacant, to be filled by election. 5th Sergt. Henry B. Vinson would have been promoted 2nd Sergeant. 2nd Sergt. Bryant Vinson having been kill- ed in battle at Fort Harrison on the 30th of Sept. 1864, and 3rd. Sergeant Richard H. Powell having been retir- ed on account of permanent disabil- ity from a wound received on the 7th of September 1864, and 4th Sergt. Talbot G. Hammock having been killed in battle at Drewry's Bluff on the 16th of May, 1864. Leaving vacancies for 3rd, 4th and 5th Ser- geants to be filled by election. 2nd. Corp'l. Jas. F. McDonald would have been promoted 1st. Corporal, to fill the vacancy made by death of 1st. Corp'l. John I. Harris, killed in bat- tle at Bentonville on the 19th of March. 4th Corp'l. William T. Col- lins would have been promoted 2nd. Corp'l., to fill the vacancy made by McDonald's promotion. Leaving vacancies for 4th and 5th Corporals to be filled by election.
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CHAPTER X.
THE news of the surrender of the of which may be found near the con- sword of General Robert E. Lee at clusion of the preceding chapter. But unfortunately for the Southern people, the Sherman-Johnston Con- vention was disapproved by Andrew Johnson, the newly installed Presi- dent, and Sherman ordered to resume the aggressive.
This completely disrobed General Johnston, and left him without an al- ternative. Knowing, as he did, that further resistance would be worse than madness, and a wicked etfusion of blood, he entered into a capitulation with General Sherman, by which he surrendered all the troops under his command, upon terms similar to those agreed upon between Lee and Grant. The course of JJohnston was followed in quick succession by all the Confed- erate commanders everywhere. The last surrender was that of General E. Kirby Smith, in the trans-Mississippi Department, on the 26th of May, 1865 -- just one month subsequent to the `date of the surrender of Johnston.
Three days after this, on the 29th, President Johnson announced the facts by proclamation, with offer of amnesty, upon certain conditions, to all who had participated in the con- fliet on the Confederate side, except fourteen designated classes.
Thus ended the lamentable and ev- after the irreparable breech had been . er-to-be-regretted conflict of a little made in Lee's line of defence, as be- , upwards of four years duration be- fore stated, opened a truce with Gener- 'tween the States of the Federal Un- al Sherman. This resulted in what is known at the time as the "Sherman- Johnston Convention." For the very able manner in which this distinguish- ed soldier and diplomatist discharged the duties of his high and responsible trust, the reader is referred to the Memorandum of Agreement arranged and signed in that Convention by these two distinguished men, a copy
ion. It was the most lamentable, as well as the greatest of modern wars, if not the greatest in some respects "known in the history of the human race." It lasted a little upward of four years, as we have seen, with nu- merous sanguinary exploits on both sides; a few, only, of which, are bare- ly glanced at in this brief Compendi- um; but many of which will live in
Appomattox C. Il., on the 9th of April, 1865, sounded like a tire-bell at night. It flashed over the country with elcetrie speed, spreading gloom and despondeney in every pathway be- hind it; atleast, so far as the result of the war is concerned, which was no longer a matter of conjecture, but a fixed matter-of-fact, brought fully within the comprehension of all. The buoyant hope that had so long nerved the Southern people, and incited them to action, and once so valiantly dis- played their valor and patriotism with a zeal unparallelled m the history of the human race, now broken, gave place to despair and despondency. The cause which they had so long de- fended with a zeal and determination unknown to any people of modern times, had now, withont the interven- tion of a negotiating umpire, to be abandoned and forever lost; as the sword, the great arbiter in the contest had decided against , them. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, upon whom de- volved the responsible duty of arrang- ing terms for the termination of the war, and, general pacification, after ' the exit ' of the Confederate Chief Magistrate from his high post of duty on the night of the 2nd of April, 1865
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memory, and be perpetuated as story and legends for ages to come. It was waged by the Federals with the sole objeet, as they declared of *maintain- ing and perpetuating the Federal Un- jon under the Constitution;" while by the Confederates, it was waged as they declared "with the great object of maintaining the inestimable Sover- cign right of local-self-government on the part of the people of the several States."
Very early in the war, however, the institution of Domestic African Sla- very, as it then existed in the South- orn, or ceceded States, became involy- ed as a vital question in the conflict; and was, as was alleged by the eman- cipationists, abolished in all the States, as a necessity consequent upon the progress of the war.
This scheme of emancipation was commenced by Federal Executive Proclamation, on the 22nd of Septem- ber, 1862, and afterward ratified and confirmed by the action of the sword under military domination, and event- . nated in one of the accepted results of the war on both sides.
In conclusion, we will only add the following, which we adduce from an- thority every way reliable.
The aggregate Federal population at the commencement of the war, was above twenty-two millions ; that of the Confederates was less than ten, near four millions of these being negro slaves, and constituting no part of their arms-bearing population. The Federals, first and last during the war, inconvenient size.
brought two millon six hundred thor - and men into the service ; while the Confederates, all told, in like manner, had but a little over six hundred thousand men in the service. The proseention of the war created an enor- mons debt on both sides, the aggregate of money thus expended, including the loss and destruction of property on both sides, amounted upon a rea- sonable estimatie to eight thousand millions of dollars-a sum fully equal to three-fourths of the assessed valne of the taxable property of all the States together when it commenced. The entire loss on both sides, inchid- ing those who were permanently dis- abled, as well as those killed in battle, and who died from wounds received and diseases contracted in the service, amounted upon a reasonable estimate "to the stupendous aggregate of one million of men," a sum equal to one thirty-eighth part of the entire white population of the United States at the commencement of the war.
In the economy of arrangement in the progress of this brief compendium, only the most important data connec- ted with the history of the Company, could be taken into the account. Many personal incidents and much general matter, that would have been both pleasing and interesting, have been necessarily excluded. To have incor- porated which, would have been to run the hazard of swelling the volume of the work to an extravagant and
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WE have shown from the preceding pages, that our Company, numbered, first and last, during the war, 164 men, rank and file. Having thus been recruited by 80 reernits, which is proof prima facie of the high re- pute in which the Company was held. And that the Company was in twenty- nine regular battles, besides several skirmishes, and a great deal of heavy and dangerous garrison and seige du- ty. Several of these battles were the most heroic and terrific of any in the history of the war; if not the most so of any recorded in the whole range of modern history. Among these we may mention the battles of Seven Pines, 31st of May, 1862, Cold Har- bor, 27th of June, 1862; Sharpsburg, 17th of September 1862; and Chancel- lorsville, 2nd of May, 1863. In these battles the relative proportions of the numbers engaged on the respective sides, were, at Seven Pines, 120,000 on the Federal side. against 45,000 on the Confederate side, or as two and two-thirds to one. At Cold Harbor, 120,000 on the Federal side, against 60,000 on the Confederate side, or as two to one. At Sharpsburg, 120,000 on the Federal side against 60,000 on the Confederate side, or as two to one. At Chancellorsville, 132,000 on the Federal side, against 50,000 on the Confederate side, or as two and sixteen twenty-fifths to one. "The relative proportions of the other bat- tles were similar. We were never on- gaged in a battle in which the num- bers engaged on the respective sides were proportionately equal.
We have also further shown that twenty of our number were discharged upon the grounds of physical disabili- ty. Eighteen of these re-entered the service with other commands. Three were discharged upon a writ of Habe- as Corpus. These all upon arriving at full age, re-entered the service with other commands. Six of the commis-
sioned staff resigned from various can- ses. Five of these re-entered the ser- vice with other commands. Four were transferred to other commands. Two were placed upon detached serv- ice. Three only, were taken prisoners during the war, and but one ever deserted during the war. Forty-seven were wounded. Of these, nine were wonneded twice; fonr were wounded three times; and four were wounded four times. And that four were, to some extent, permanently disabled for life. Forty-five were killed in battle, and twenty-five died of disease con- tracted in the service; leaving alive at the close of the war, ninety -four. Of these, eight have died and been killed, viz:
Private William Crouch, killed in a personal renconter at Oglethorpe, Ga., in 1876. bient. Jonathan F. Cons- sins' was accidentally killed in Kentue- ky-date not recollected. He was at the time, in the employ of a railroad Company, as fireman. The engine ran off the track, killing him and the engineer instantly. Orderly Sergeant, William W: Carnes, died at his home in Milledgeville, Ga., in 1867. Pri- vates James H. Corbitt, Henry C. Sawyer, John W. Gatling, James M. Bynum, Charles D. Anderson, Jr., and Leavin Vinson, all died at their homes in Houston county, Georgia, leaving at the date of this writing, 86 survivors, located and engaged as fol- lows:
Gen. Charles D. Anderson, resides at Fort Valley, Houston county, Ga. ; engaged in a Ware-House and Com- mission business in the city of Macon. Capt. Chas. HI. Richardson resides at Byron, Houston county, Ga., cu- gaged in the practice of physic, and in agricultural pursuits. Lieutenant Bartlett M. Bateman resides in Hous- ton county, (a., engaged in agrient- tural pursuits. Lieut. Seaborne S. Mimms resides in Thomas county,
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Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ga., (occupation unknown). Private Lient. William I. Greene resides at Fort Valley, Honston county, Ga., engaged in the practice of physic, and in the ministry. Maj. J. M. Culpep- per resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Sergeant Geo. W. Bateman resides in Washington county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Lieut. Amos W. Murray resides at Fort Valley, Houston county, Ga., engaged in mercantile pursuits. Serg't. Isaac N. Vinson resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Sergt. Joel L. Diseker resides in South Carolina, engaged in agricultu- ral pursuits. Corporal Reuben A. Kil- by resides in Florida, engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. Private Green Ave- ra resides at Smithville, Lee county, Ga., engaged in mercantile pursuits. Private Louis F. Anderson resides in
Atlanta, Ga , employed in the editorial department of a newspaper. Lieut.
Emanuel Aultman resides at Fort Valley, Ga., engaged in mercantile, "Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits,
and agricultural pursuits. Private Solomon Aultman resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in agricultural
pursuits. Private Matthew G. Avera resides in Calhou county, Ga., en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. Pri- vate Henry T. Brookins resides in Baldwin county, Ga., engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. Private Thos. Butler resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged as a ditcher. Private Leoni- das W. Choidoine resides in Florida,
engaged in merchantile pursuits. Corp'l. William T. Collins resides in Texas, planter. Corp'l. George W. Cheeves resides at Albany, Ga., en- gaged m teaching school. Private Jas. Clark resides in Taylor county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Wendell D. Croom resides in
Houston county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Ed- ward Dinkins resides in Bibb county,
John R. Dukes resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private William B. Dukes resides in Houston county, Ga., eu- gaged in agricultural pursuits. Pri- vate Allen Evans resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in agrienltur- al pursuits. Private Chas. R. Fogg's whereabouts unknown, is a native of Boston, Mass., and is a jeweler by profession. Private Samuel Gassett resides in Crawford county, Ga., en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. Private William E. Giles resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Jas. M. Graves resides in Crawford county, Ga., en- gaged in agricultural pursnits. Pri- vate Chas. G. Gray resides at Fort Valley, Houston county, Ga., engaged in mercantile pursuits. Lieut. Jeffer- sou M. Gray resides at Fort Valley, Houston county, Ga., engaged in mercantile pursuits. Capt. Ulysses M. Gunn resides in Houston county,
and in the practice of the law. Pri-
vate J. N. Hightower resides in Upson county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private David Il. Hiley resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private William M. Haslam resides in Pulaski county, Ga., engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, and in the practice of physic. Privates William C. Har- rison and Sullivan R. Harrison reside in Crawford county, Ga., severally engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private John C. Davidson resides in Houston county, Ga, engaged in ag ricultural pursuits. Lieut. Seaborne M. Hunt resides at Warwick, Worth county, Ga., engaged in agricultural, and in mercantile pursuits. Serg't. Henry B. Vinson, and Privates Thos. A. Lowe, and Daniel B. Hutto reside in Texas, severally engaged in agrienl- tural pursuits. Private Drewry M.
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Jackson resides in Pike county, Ala., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Robt. W. Jackson resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. Private James Lominac resides in Houston county, (a., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private William II. HI. Lowe resides in Macon county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Privates Chas. McDonald and William M MeDonald reside in Houston county, Ga., engag- el severally in agricultural pursuits. Corp'l. Jas. F. McDonald resides in Dooly county, Ga., engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. Private John JJ. McDonald resides in South Carolina, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private William F. Medichee resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged m agricultural pursuits. "The where- abouts and occupation of Serg't. Maj. John M. Miller, and Private Robt. A. Miller unknown to the writer. Pri- , unknown to the writer. Private Jos. vates Thomas Odom, and Willis T. S. Vinson resides in Houston county, Odom reside in Dooly conuty, Ga., Georgia, engaged in agricultural pur- suits. Private John Visage resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits. Private Pleasant A. White resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private John C. Wilson resides in Mitchell county Ga., engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. severally engaged in agricultural pur- snits. Private David J. Perminter resides in Houston co., Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Geo. W. Piles resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private George W. Plant resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits. John C. Hum- ber resides in Crawford county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ser- geant Richard HI. Powell resides at Blakely, Early county, Ga., engaged in the practice of law. Private John S. Price resides in Houston county, Georgia, engaged in agricultural pur- snits. Private John F. Renfroe res- ides in Houston county, Georgia, en- gaged in agricultural pursuits, Privates John J. Rumph, Louis D. Rumph, and Samuel J. Rumph reside in Hlou- ston county, Georgia, severally engag- ed in agricultural pursuits. Privates Columbus Self, Jefferson Self. and
Marion Self, reside in Houston county Georgia, severally engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. Private William I. Shines resides in Houston county Ga, employed as Section Boss on the South-Western Railroad. Private 'T. O. Skellie resides at Fort Valley, Georgia, employed as local agent at de- pot in Fort Valley, South-Western Railroad. Privates A. G. Slappey, Geo. W. Slappey, Jas. Slappey, Russell 'T Slappey and Uriah Slappey reside in Sumter county, Ga., severally engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Leonidas P. Sledge resides in Hous- ton county, Ga., engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. Private William Sor- rell resides in Houston county, Ga., engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Francis M. Stripling resides in Dooly county Georgia, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Private Daniel Vinson's whereabouts and occupation,
And now, in conclusion, while we would not, under any circumstances whatever, be guilty of an attempt to disparage, or sully the fair fame of any of the gallant companies, of which the late Confederate army was com- posed ; nor do we indulge in an unmer- ited or egotistical self-praise, when we say that the Company whose history we have traced, as regards intelligence, talent, education, gallantry, heroic fortitude, self-sacrificing endurance. and implicit obedience to duty, if it did not surpass, compared favorably with any other company that entered the Confederate army from Georgia, or
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any other State. Our Company . suf- fered as much, encountered as many difficulties, braved as much dan- ger, and participated in as many terrific battles, and perhaps lost as many men in killed and wounded, and in deaths from disease contracted in the service as any other company. And we can boast of having had as few men taken prisoners in battle, and of having had as few desertions as any other company. The men bore np under all of the hardships and diffi- culties through which they had to pass, with a fortitude, unsurpassed in any age or country. Not a single mutinous element was ever discovered in any member of the company. The men were too intelligent and too modest to suppose the contest in which they had engaged, would be settled in any way, except in the legitimate way for settling such dithienlties ; and too manly to undertake to settle the trouble by deserting the cause. Even Carolina, viz: Capt. Charles after the last glimmering ray of . the hope of success had disappeared, , and
thereby lessening the scale in which their own honor and the deserting of their posterity were to be weighed. Trusting entirely to the skill and judgment of their leaders, and relying implicitly upon the guiding arm of Omniscience, they discharged every known duty, leaving events to take their own canse. We hope, and be- lieve that this brief Compendium con- tains much historical matter which will be of enduring interest to every true Sonthron, and especially so to every friend and relative of the Com- pany.
We will add as a sequence to this Memoir, that all the members of our Company were native Georgians, ex- cept nine. Of these, three were na- tives of North Carolina, viz: Capt. Jonnathan D Cowart, and 'Privates Wendell D. Croom, and Robert W. Johnson. Two were natives of South
II. Richardson, and Sergeant Joel L. Dis- eker. Two were natives of Ireland, the cause lost to every rational minded . viz: Privates Thos. Butler and Jas. man, they held ont firmly, not turn- Corbitt. One was a native of Tennes- see, viz: Private Geo. W. Hampton; and one was a native of Massachusetts, ing the balance against themselves by contributing to increase the opposite scale by abandoning the cause, and viz: Charles R. Fogg.
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Weekly and Sunday to one address, one year, 82,20. Ten copies of Week- ly for $10,00. Send for specimen copy JOHN KING, PROP'R, | may 1d Columbus. Ca.
F 8619,35 2
59901
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