. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . eritable truth, that therelief was coming up the beach, and they stopped and ranback, and the little drummer boy escaped. In 1881, the centennial of the surrender of Cornwal-Hs at Yorktown, was celebrated by the thirteen originalstates, each state sending its quota of troops. I was incommand of the New Hampshire National Guard, repie-senting our state at this celebration. We found ourselves in camp between the -gmiatroops commanded by General Fitzhugh Lee, and the 151 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION South Carolina regiment. One
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . eritable truth, that therelief was coming up the beach, and they stopped and ranback, and the little drummer boy escaped. In 1881, the centennial of the surrender of Cornwal-Hs at Yorktown, was celebrated by the thirteen originalstates, each state sending its quota of troops. I was incommand of the New Hampshire National Guard, repie-senting our state at this celebration. We found ourselves in camp between the -gmiatroops commanded by General Fitzhugh Lee, and the 151 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION South Carolina regiment. One clay, sittnig ni my tent,the orderly announced Major Wright, who informed methat he was surgeon of the South Carolina troops Hesaid he was looking for some one who may have belongedto the Third N. H. \^olunteers in the War of the Rebel-lion I told him that I was a member of that regnnentWhen he asked me if I knew about the capture of Com-pany H. of the 3rd regiment, at Pinckney Island, I toldhim I had a very vivid recollection of that event. He said. CAMP AT HILTON HEAD, S. C. he was one of the party who made the cai^ure. belongingto the Beaufort Artillery, South Carolina \ o unteeis. andgave me the history of the occurrence from his ^ule ask-fno- me if the lieutenant (Wiggin) in command of thecompany captured, was living. He knew, he said that hewas wounded and left with the others when they took theprisoners away. I told him with some i^^;^-^^ ^;,^was not only wounded, but he was murdered. The doc-tor had no apologies, he could have had none .it was oneof the dark deeds of the infamous work of the wai, aswaged by the rebels in arms. One of the blackest pages in the history of the worldis the massacre of a regiment of negro troops at hortPillow, by the Rebel General Forest. In General forests 1^2 OUR RETREAT FROM SECESSIONVILLE. own official report of his capture of Fort Pillow, he saysthat 20 of his own men and more than 600 of the negrotroops were .killed, that the river wa
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