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of shrapnel. Lieutenant George B. Bullock, Company I, said
that it was the only battle—and he was in all in which his
command was engaged from Williamsburg to Appomattox—
where the blood ran like a branch. And that too, on the hot,
parched ground.

-The handful left of our regiment were not taken into ac-
tion on‘the second or third day at Gettysburg. While being
conveyed, wounded, on the retreat through South Mountain
Sunday night, Colonel Christie, Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston
and Major Blacknall were captured by Kilpatrick’s cavalry
near Monterey Springs. Christie and Johnston were rescued
by the Confederate cavalry and sarried to Williamsport.
Blacknall escaped on Kilpatrick’s own horse, but being too
badly wounded for rapid flight, was recaptured.

Colonel Christie died at Winchester, Va., and in his native
county, soon after the army reached that place. His wife,
whom he so longed to see, and who had hastened to him, ar-
rived a few hours after he was buried.

COLONEL D. H. CHRISTIE.

Daniel Harvey Christie was born in Frederick County,
Virginia, 28 March, 1833, and was educated at. a military
school.. He became a citizen of Henderson, N. C., in 1857.
The breaking out of the war found him in charge of the Hen-
derson Military Institute which he had established. His gallant
conduct and wounds at Seven Pines and Cold Harbor have al-
ready been mentioned.

Although the latter wound was very severe, within sixty
days he returned to his command and devoted himself dili-
gently to the work of recruiting and disciplining his regi-
ment. At South Mountain his management of his regiment
was such as to elicit from General Garland words of the
highest praise for himself and his regiment, a few minutes
before Garland fell. After Sharpsburg he commanded An-
derson’s brigade till Colonel Bryan Grimes reported for duty.
At Gettysburg, his last battle, Christie’s conduct was espe
cially gallant. Here he held his men in position under a
most terrific fire for an hour till the whole regiment was

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killed, wounded or captured, except a Lieutenant and sixteen
men. He was in the act of leading a charge against the
stone fence when he fell, with his men and officers thick
around him. Colonel Christie was buried at Winchester,
another Colonel of the Twenty-third being laid by his side a
year later.

CAPTAIN BASKERVILLE.

George Thomas Baskerville was born in Mecklenburg
County, Virginia, 16 October, 1827. He graduated with high
honors at the University of North Carolina at the age of 17,
being the valedictorian of his class—delivering his address in
Latin. About 1849, he became a citizen of Granville
County.

Captain Baskerville was without military ambition. But,
impelled by a strong sense of duty, he joined the army and
was elected Captain of Company I, Twenty-third North Car-
olina, in 1862. Refusing promotion he remained with his
company, serving with courage and ability. Falling, wounded
to death, at Gettysburg, he died the next day. His devoted
wife crushed at the tidings of his death, took to her bed and
never rose again. Captain Baskerville was of the highest
type of Southern gentlemen. He was a devout Christian, a
good neighbor and a devoted husband. His domestic life
was a most beautiful one. Plighting their troth when chil-
dren, marrying very early in life, their devotion to each other
was complete. And when the sturdy oak was stricken down,
the clinging vine fell with it.

The virtual destruction of Iverson’s brigade at Gettysburg
was largely, if not wholly, owing to the fact that it had no bri-
gade commander on the field to govern its movements, as a
whole, in accordance with the exigencies of the battle and to
halt it before it entered, unsuspecting, the deathtrap laid for
it. Iverson’s part in the heroic struggle of his brigade seems

to have begun and ended with the order to move forward and

“Give them hell.” The brigade refusing to serve under. him

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onel R. D. Johnston was commissioned brigadier and assumed
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command on 8 September, 1863. General Iyerson’s conduct