. A history of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . rematurely by rashness and folly. In themeantime, the meagre paces were measured off, and the marksmen werestationed. There were fifty of them, and in their guns are but fiveblank cartridges, and none of them knows in which pieces they are,for their sergeants loaded their guns for them, that they might neverknow that they had shot a man. The officers step forward to blindfoldthose seated. One of them rises, and walking past the one at his left,approaches the third, kisses
. A history of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . rematurely by rashness and folly. In themeantime, the meagre paces were measured off, and the marksmen werestationed. There were fifty of them, and in their guns are but fiveblank cartridges, and none of them knows in which pieces they are,for their sergeants loaded their guns for them, that they might neverknow that they had shot a man. The officers step forward to blindfoldthose seated. One of them rises, and walking past the one at his left,approaches the third, kisses him fondly as a brother, and returns to hisseat. The last words are spoken and the clergymen retire; the whitecloths are bound before the eyes and about the heads of the prisoners;the guard at the grave is ordered away; the officer commands ready,take aim, fire, and when the smoke of the volley, as one gun, haspassed away, four lifeless forms appear resting on the coffins as theyfell backwards in death, the other, in a brief contraction of the muscles,had fallen to the ground; but his deeds were done and his life had. y% JAMES CLAY RICE. Colonel 44th X. Y. Vol. Infantry; Brigadier-* ieneral U. S. Volkilled at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Va„ May 11, 1864. 44th NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 337 departed. I believe, they shed no tears, they heaved no sighs, theyuttered no groans, but perished thus, without a struggle—a fearfulwarning to all cowards or merely mercenary men in the service. Thusended the lives of five men who might have lived to do worthy work,to perform valiant deeds, and to win honor to themselves and theirnames. [The foregoing was published in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,Sept. 4, 1863.—Ed.] 338 44th NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY WELDON RAILROAD.(From Albany Morning Express, Monday, August 29, 1864.)The 44th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, composed chiefly of Al-banians, is attached to the Fifth Army Corps, to which is entrusted theimportant duty o
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