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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], A daring Feat. (search)
hich had participated in the hottest of the fight, took it into their heads to have a little private reconnaissance into the Yankee lines, on their own account. Their names are Hospital Stewart Palton, of Co. D; Color-bearer Powell, of Co. G; Lieut. Edgar, of Co. E; and Sergeant Davis, of Co. F. The enemy had been driven three miles and the 27th regiment was resting for the night on the remote line of the battle-field next to their rear column. After traveling cautiously for several hundred yur guns, and be prepared to fire at the word — steady, boys, steady! " "Hold on!" fairly shrieked the "Union pickets," "we are coming — don't fire, for God's sake?" "Come on then, at once, for we have no time to waste here in idle talk," broke in Edgar and Davis, simultaneously. Immediately afterwards, one by one, they came forward, throwing their muskets, side arms, &c., at the feet of Powell, who received them with dignity, but convulsive laughter concealed. One who seemed to be an offi