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on5B,ioI Ju»tlc« to th« MiMiMippitfM.®ut A correspondent of the Appeal-l08 Avalanche hM this to say about a Mississippi brigado that bore itself *r* manfully on the field of Gettysburg: ,n°1 There were in the assault made on “Cemetery Heights” other oom-| manda of the “Army of Northernnv Virginia,” that nlt;t only wont as far, / and sustainod as heavy losses as Pick-ett’s division of Virginia—notably, “ “Davis' Mississippi brigade,” whoso *' position in that charge was to the immediate left of the Virginians, and ; ’ whose colors were waving in cloJI proximity to the Federal earthworks on the heights while Pickett’s men 6 •1 were already in retreat. The Virginians had correspondents at band to | herald their great prowess and chronicle their wonderful losses, white the Mississippians. with equally as heavy slaughter, (if they did not suffer greater loss), were the last to beat a retreat; and, yet to the ont-side world and Virginia correspondents, were “not in it/1 Davis’ Mississippi brigado came out of the charge with every regimental officer killed or wounded, leaving regiments commanded by lino officers, captains and lieutenants.Among the wounded were our I present able and faithful governor, John M. Stone, of the second; Col. ■‘• Reuben 0. Reynolds, of the elev-«lt;entb; Col. Andrew M. Nelson, of the forty-second; Col. J. K. Connolly and Lient. pol. A. Belo, of the fifty-fifth North Carolina, attached to the brigade of Mississippians, and as gallant a body of men as ever bonor-■Med any state. •nl. Belo is now the ■ distinguished editor and proprietor ol of the Galveston News, ami last—not 8r • least—that trup soldior and Christianverereb.nsd--ICleer10II* [gentleman of your city, Capt. John l* W. Dillard, of the secoud Missis-dsippi
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The Port Gibson Reveille
Port Gibson, Mississippi, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1893
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