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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Stocks in New York. (search)
tary parade was there. The only martial music was the quiet beat of the drum keeping time to the funeral hymn that the fife was slowly playing. Two and two marched the comrades who so lately loved him far away from home and kindred, and watched his couch of death — a hero, not of the battle-field, but of fortitude, of patience, and self- sacrifice to his country. Already had the deceiving malady painted the hectic flush upon his cheek, but it did not quench his valor, and from the far off South he had rushed to Virginia's safety. Already did the harrowing cough tear his poor lungs, when he heard that an opportunity had arrived for him to lend his frail life to his country, and the rain and the night march stopped him not as he went forth to meet the enemy. He fought bravely and successfully, yet though he escaped the shot of the enemy he was struck by the shaft of death, and carried back to his bed in camp a victim to patriotism. No mother's voice or sister's gentle care to soot
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The order of battle. (search)
cely headed in the on-sweeping ranks of his victorious comrades. But when the conflict ceases and the smoke of the cannon rolls away, and the returning column sorrowly seeks its slain upon the blood-stained ground many a heart swells with anguish, many an eye fills with tears to see the prostrate form and meet the dying glance of well-loved friends and brother, the foremost in the desperate fight. One of the immortal Seven, who sealed in death their devotion to liberty and their native South in the brilliant victory at Bull Run, on Thursday, July 18th, was Carter H. Harrison, Major in the 17th Virginia Regiment, one of the heroic leaders whose men so gallantly fought and won the battle of that day. "None knew him but to love him" --of a nature at once gentle and brave, a tender, high-souled, chivalrous man; young in years, old in heroism, foremost in duty, highest in honor — among the first to fall. The friends who loved and mourn him, those who saw him-- "Walking his ro