Twenty-E1igHTtH REGIMENT. 473

 

The most laughable fight was at Manassas Junction, 27
August, when Jackson got in Pope’s rear, and the brigade
chased Taylor’s New Jersey command into the swamps of
Bull Run. One of the Twenty-eighth was very much aston-
ished, after jumping over a bush from the railroad embank-
ment, to find that he had also jumped over a Yankee crouched
beneath. Another was still more astonished when he got on
all-fours to take a drink of water, to find that a fellow had
sought safety in the culvert. He was an Irishman, and after
he had crawled from his hiding place, he created an uproar
by slapping the Tar Heel-on the shoulder and remarking:
“You got us badly this time. Come, let’s take a drink.”
Both of them “smiled” out of the same canteen.

At Manassas Plains on 28 August, this regiment was under
a heavy artillery fire while supporting a battery.

On the 29th it fought with great coolness, steadiness and
desperation on the extreme left of Jackson’s line. It was
subjected to a heavy artillery fire the next day, the 30th, and
there was heavy skirmishing in its front until late in the af-
ternoon. Its loss was 5 killed and 45 wounded.

The battle of Ox Hill, near Fairfax Court House, was
fought 1 September, 1862, in a pouring rain. The Twenty-
eighth was on the left of the brigade and fought splendidly,
though many of its guns fired badly on account of the mois-
ture. It was here that General Branch, when he made
known the fact that he was nearly out of ammunition, was
ordered “to hold his position at the point of the bayonet.”
The Twenty-eighth, cold, wet and hungry, was ordered to do
picket duty on the battlefield that night, without fires.

This regiment was with the Army of Northern Virginia
in its march into Maryland; and the first day after crossing
the Potomac, 5 September, it feasted on nothing but green
corn, browned on the ear before fires made of the fences in
the neighborhood. This was not the first time the regiment
had indulged in such a repast.

TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. On 14 September it was with the brigade when it climbed

4 o . A. 4. Moses t~Eudy, Captain, Co.'D. | : .
2 Ez a Fahy, Captain, Co, B. 5. Thos. V. Apperson, Captain, Co. F. i the cliffs of the Shenandoah at midnight, and lay concealed
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‘ ; in, Co. C. 6. E. Graham Morrow, Captain, Co. G. ¢ ) ,
3 Jas. Linebarger, yor told @. Holland, Captain, Co. H. t next morning on the left and rear of the enemy in their

works on “Bolivar Heights” in front of Harper’s Ferry,