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The company seleotel is Com j pany E., 11th Miss hVgiment of Volunteers,known as the Prairie Guards, mustered in at Crawford, Miss., early iu lSt . Phis com-!pany weul into the oat tie of Get-'tysburg. Penn.(3d d .y’s battle' with 39 men rank a. i til*-. and on that ojoody held 1 ,• 13 men j killed and 21 men wounded, a! total killed and wu'uled of 3b men out of 30: 2 men :n the divi- ' siou having taken i.b • auteensof! the company to g after water: and were not in th charge made on Cemetery Ridg . ; ■ i as they left the field there ■ as hut one man for duty, Corporal -J. T. Morgan. The 11th Miss Kegi men t. to which Ihi*. fm.r tny belonged, carried if) oattle as shown by record - 2.' rneu and lost 202 meu, about »-2 per cent of all the meu engaged. It is1 also a fact that tie brigade (Davis’ Mississippi's) lost about an equal per cent in killed,1 wounded and prisoners. In the ] British Army tin* Light Brigade I at Balaclava iu the Crimean War lost 35 per cent of those carried into battle, and their charge has, been immortalized in song and poetry. The Prairie Guards andthe Miss. Brigade were iu whatis known as Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; Heath s Division, iu which this Miss. Brigade wasiu. was The charge at Gettysburg. and Heath's Division on the left lt;f Pickett's sustained much greater loss* s than Pickett's Division, an i should go down iu history with equal if not greater honor than Piekett’s Division.
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The Columbus Weekly Dispatch
Columbus, Mississippi, US
Thu, Aug 24, 1905
Page 6
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