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Title: The story of a Confederate boy in the Civil War
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917 Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917. Four years a soldier
Subjects: Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917 Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 7th. Company D
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Glass & Prudhomme Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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wthe division, brigade or regimental losses. Inthe ist Virginia six men were wounded, and Iremember that Sergeant William Parrott ofCompany I and J. B. Young of Company D wereseverely and Private William Davis of CompanyC mortally wounded. During the remainder of June and for severalmonths following we remained on this BermudaHundred line, occasionally shifting position fromHowlett House on the James to Swift Creek nearthe Appomattox, until about the middle of July,then settling down on a high piece of ground be-hind a skirt of timber midway between HowlettHouse and Swift Creek. Here we worked hardto strengthen our lines. Company D now had but a single commissionedofficer, Captain Bane. Lieutenant Stone was stilla prisoner, Lieutenant Walker had been disabledat Gettysburg and retired, and Lieutenant Mul-lins had died of the wound received at HowlettHouse in June. It was on this line that SergeantT. S. Taylor was elected a lieutenant and E. Z.Yager made orderly sergeant of the company.
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Rev. J. Tyler Frazier A CONFEDERATE BOY 273 These selections were well made, and the con-fidence reposed not misplaced. At or near this time there appeared on ourlines a man representing himself to be a citizenof Alabama, who proposed then to do what couldnot be done, but in some degree has since beenaccomplished—to build a machine to navigatethe air, carry shells and drop them on the North-ern armies, and in their cities. He requesteddonations from each of the soldiers of one dollar,and of the officers five dollars each to enable himto build his machine. We concluded he was acrank, refused to contribute and the man de-parted. This fellow was only a little ahead ofhis time. At an early hour of July 30th occurred thefamous explosion of the mine at Petersburg.Though several miles away, it so shook the earththat the pickets and other men awake at the timefelt the shock. The fearful artillery fire whichfollowed convinced us that an important eventhad occurred. Later in the day we learne

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