Page:Southern Historical Society Papers volume 34.djvu/185

 First Battle of Manassas. 177

paign, 1862. Captain Win. H. Murray of our "H" Company the crack company of the regiment was a young officer of ex- ceptional merit and promise and greatly beloved.

Leading his Company "A," Second Maryland Infantry, Captain Murray fell in the desperate charge at Gettysburg, the morning of July 3d, 1863. Gettysburg had no sublimer hero than Murray, the typical captain of the Maryland infantry. Major Golds- borough intrepid and skillful commanding the battalion, before advancing to the charge, said to him: "Captain Murray, I have the most implicit confidence in your ability to lead our men. Take charge of the right wing: I will look after the left, as I know them better." Thus, on that bloody, fated field, these two best line officers parted forever. Murray, in the fore front, killed ; Goldsborough, thought mortally wounded, but, recovered; like- wise Lt. Col., Herbert, in the successful charge the night before; two-thirds of the battalion dead or wounded. Though repulsed, by heavy odds, behind rifle trenches, the shattered regiment re- tired in good order and were not pursued.

Of the two soldiers first before mentioned ; Geo. Lemmon be- came an ordnance officer and served with credit on the staffs of distinguished Generals. He died August 29, 1905, having on August 25th passed his 7Oth year. Mr. N. J. Watkins, who after- ward served in the Signal Corps, is the well known, able journalist. Of the third, who was promoted to a lieutenancy ; the late General Bradley T. Johnson, not long before he died, wrote: "Peters is the best all around assistant adjutant general I ever met. I have known him since 1861. Can do any thing he undertakes and do it better than any one else." In addition to these, the Baltimoreans, still living, who were under Captain Mur- ray at First Manassas, are: Captains Clapham Murray, his brother, and McHenry Howard, General John Gill, Col. Frank Markoe Major Jas. Wm. Lyon, Judge Daniel G. Wright, Lieuten- ants Charles B. Wise, Charles E. Grogan, David S. Briscoe, Thomas B. Mackall and Winfield Peters; Privates, J. McKenny White, Sommervel Sellers and J. Southgate Lemmon. Rev. Ran- dolph H. McKim, D. D., is in Washington, D. C. ; Lieut. Richard T. Gilmor and Private Henry F. Schliephake are at the Confed- erate Soldiers' Home, Pikesville, Md. ; Captain Frank X Ward and Private Fred'k L. Pitts, are in Philadelphia, Pa., and Private