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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis. (search)
tention of the historian to him, than whom there was not a man of all that little hand who bore a nobler or a more gallant heart, who fell shot through the head as he was leading his troops to glory, yet whose name has been consecrated by no muse, whose memory has been preserved by no monument, whose death was only chronicled in the dispatch of the day. The officer to whom we allude was Major John Fluming, of the 4th Virginia Regiment of the line, commanded by Colonel, afterwards General, Chas. Scott, one of the bravest officers of the revolutionary army. He belonged to the old Virginia family of Flemings, who have been in the country, we believe, ever since the 17th century, and was a native of Chesterfield county. One of his brothers, Col. Chas. Fleming, served gallantly throughout the war, and survived it many years. Another was the venerable Judge Wm. Fleming, for many years President of the Court of Appeals. These Flemings, we believe, were descendants of Pocahontas, and there