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He was a stranger to physical fear, yet he was always kind and gentle. Something of his character as a soldier may be learned from the following: When his regiment, surrounded in a railroad cut at Gettysburg, surrendered, a Federal soldier rushed to the brink of the cut and seized the Confederate colors. S. D. Smith, who had vowed he would never surrender with a loaded gun in his hands, shoved his musket against the f lag-grab-ber and shot him dead. This incident is related in the U S. archives of the Civil War; but it is incorrectly stated therein that! the Confederate was in turn kill ) ed by a Federal. Of his Compa-j ny, Co. E, there are but a few of the old bo’s that survive him, whose names are as follows: R. E. Lesley, Vardanian, Miss., W. H. Keys, Saltillo, Miss., S B. Scott, Baldwyn, Miss., W. K. Weems, Baldwyn, Miss., Sam Hankins, Meridian, Miss., Pate Bailey, Ingram, Texas, J, F. Weems, Guntown, Miss.
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Tupelo Journal
Tupelo, Mississippi, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1913
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