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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fifteenth Virginia Infantry. (search)
A word about our artillery and the boy battery of Parker. Therefore, I crave pardon for another digression not entirely irrelevent. It may be proper to credit the old Fifteenth with several contributions made to the gallant Parker Battery, which distinguished itself in the great Sharpsburg fight. The intrepid first commander of the heroic battery, Major W. W. Parker, before Captain J. Thompson Brown became the captain, had been an officer in the Fifteenth Virginia; also, Privates Thomas L. Alfriend, Robert Bidgood, and perhaps others I cannot recall just now. The Boy Battery first won fame under the knightly and valiant Parker. It sustained its reputation under Captain Brown, and became one of the famous batteries of the Confederate army. The many fields it fought on were enriched with the brave young blood of its heroes. The Boy Battery at Sharpsburg and the Lexington cadets at New Market should stand as prominent in the annals of our Civil War as did the twin heroes, Ca