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William Bumpass. Drewry's Bluff, 1864. Marcellus Mallory, Drewry's Bluff, 1864. B. F. Nuckols. Drewry's Bluff, 1864. Edward Talley.

J. C. Butler, Sharpsburg, 1862. W. D. Winston, Sharpsburg, 1862. Walter Hall, Seven Pines, 1862. John Eddleton, Suffolk, 1863. Martin Lambert, Suffolk, 1863.

Charles Terrell, Company E, Fifteenth Virginia; Drewry's Bluft, 1864.

George L. Terrell, Company E, Fifteenth Virginia; Gordonsville. Captain J. P. Harrison. Lucien Smith, Seven Pines. William Snead. Leander Blackburn, Fifty-third Virginia Regiment.

[From the Galveston, Texas, Weir*, November, 1899.]

THE PURCELL BATTERY FROM RICHMOND, VA.

Its Gallant Conduct at the Battle of Cedar Run.

After helping McClcllan to change his base from the Pamunkey to James river (in which operation our battery lost in killed and wounded sixty-five men out of less than one hundred), we were ordered from Malvern Hill to Richmond to refit and recruit. After several weeks' rest, we were attached to Jackson's flying column, and sent to meet the army of the Potomac, commanded by General John Pope, who, the Northern press declared, would prove "more than a match for Stonewall Jackson," and had been sent to Virginia to teach him (Jackson) the art of war.

Arriving at Orange Courthouse about August 8th, we took a short rest, and on the afternoon of the gth crossed the Rapidan at Morton's Ford. A. P. Hill's division, to which we were attached, was march- ing in columns through a wooded country, over a very rough road. Our battery was about the centre of the column. As soon as the head of our troops emerged from the woods into the open fields of