. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. Fitz John Portersdivision. Here the regiment was renumberedas the 62d Pennsylvania Volunteers and re-ceived the new Zouave uniforms, the mostcomplete, in all details, of any outfit furnishedthe volunteers. I visited Sergeant Thompsonin October, 1861 : his regiment was at FairfaxCourt House, the camp was called BettyBlack. I had a nice visit with him and all theJefferson county boys. Sergeant Thompson was never absent fromhis company, taking part in all the marches andskirmishes of his regiment until the terriblebattle of Ga
. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. Fitz John Portersdivision. Here the regiment was renumberedas the 62d Pennsylvania Volunteers and re-ceived the new Zouave uniforms, the mostcomplete, in all details, of any outfit furnishedthe volunteers. I visited Sergeant Thompsonin October, 1861 : his regiment was at FairfaxCourt House, the camp was called BettyBlack. I had a nice visit with him and all theJefferson county boys. Sergeant Thompson was never absent fromhis company, taking part in all the marches andskirmishes of his regiment until the terriblebattle of Gaines Mill, Va., June 2~, 1862, andin that brilliant charge of the 62d. and underan enfilading fire, in which gallant ColonelBlack fell and Lieutenant Colonel Swearingenwas taken prisoner, this brave young soldierwas killed. His superior officers being allhors de combat, Sergeant Thompson was incommand of his company at the time, and waslast seen in a hand-to-hand encounter with theRebel foe. Thus died a valiant boy in blue,for no purer patriot ever wore the blue, no. THE NEW Y( NOX JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 497 nobler specimen of young manhood than Clar-ence Russell Thompson ever offered his lifeupon the altar of his country. He died for me,he died for you. lie was buried on the fieldby the Rebels. After the war the unknownfrom Gaines Mil] were removed to Virginiaand reburied in the Fair Oaks National ceme-tery, where Sergeant Thompson now lies un-known. His uncertain fate was a great griefto his family and friends. In [866 Airs. Captain Steck related to methis story : While sitting in my tent one day atCamp Betty Black, in Virginia, in 1861, Clar-ence Thompson, a Brookville boy, and a mem-ber of Company I. 62d Pennsylvania Volun-teers, came in with the outside leaves of a headof cabbage, saying to me, Are these fit to eat?I said, They dont look as if they were ; whereis the rest of the cabbage? He said: Oh!I have eaten it all. and feel that I must eatthese also, for I nev
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