586 NortH Caroxina Troops, 1861-65.

“move up rapidly; that the enemy was pressing back Rosser.”
We went forward at a gallop. The Nineteenth North Carolina
and a portion of the Sixty-third were dismounted. A charge
was immediately ordered “which was done in handsome style
by the dismounted men, driving the enemy from the railroad
cut, across the plank road, out of their camps and scattering
them through the woods, capturing a number of prisoners,
some horses, overcoats, blankets, guns and their camp equip-
age.” We were then soon relieved and ordered to camp.
“In the meantime the Sixty-third had been ordered back with
the prisoners and most of the artillery.” Vol. 48, pp. 827,
898 and 902--903.

Meade retired across the Rapidan by the same fords he
crossed and we went into winter quarters near Milford Sta-
tion, on the Fredericksburg Railroad, and picketed the Rap-
idan at Jacob’s and other fords near it, thirty miles from Mil-
ford. Long, weary, winter work well done.

In the latter part of December General Stuart, in person,
inspected our camp and condition. He wrote to General
Hampton: “I desire to express my high gratification at the
good order and military discipline in Gordon’s and Young’s
Brigades during my recent visit to them.” In February,
1864, the Sixty-third was sent to their homes in North Caro-
lina for fresh horses for the coming campaign. Vol. 60, pp.
1100 and 1143.

Many North Carolina homes had been saddened never to be
brightened, but the children of the men of the Sixty-third
Regiment were given a high heritage by its great campaigns
of 1863.

PERSONAL INCIDENTS.

At Middleburg Lieutenant Ward, of Company H, was
wounded and disabled for the war, and Corporal Flemming
was wounded in the foot and Sam Howard in the face, but
they continued on duty three days.

That night, 17 June, at Middleburg, W. H. Hobson, of
Company H, a nephew of Governor Morehead and cousin of
our Santiago Hobson, while acting as vidette, was cut off.
All thought him captured. But about 10 o’clock he came in

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with two prisoners. He found them up in a tree, trying to
make observations of our camps by our fires, got between
them and their guns leaning against a rock wall, made them
come down to him in sullen surrender and brought them out
and delivered them to our provost guard.

Under that terrible artillery fire at Upperville many men
and horses were killed and wounded. Among them Captain
Booe, of Company H, was disabled by wounds for the war.
The same shell that hurt Captain Booe also wounded Henry
Miller, of that splendid company, and killed his horse.

In that fateful charge at Upperville, Company H was in
front, at Colonel Evans’ side when he was mortally wounded
and his horse killed, and it suffered fearfully, as this list
shows: Lieutenant Pearson’s horse was severely wounded ;
W. H. Hobson wounded three times, captured and horse
killed ;J. B. Foard, horse wounded ;G. W. Fry, wounded and
captured and horse killed; Thos. Bracken, wounded and cap-
tured and horse killed; Cope Wynn, wounded and captured
and horse killed; John Kerr, Henry Jones, Henry Wood,
Henry Minor and David Todd, all killed and horses killed or
captured; Ellis Lakey and F. A. Beaty, wounded and cap-
tured and horses killed; F. A. Arnold, Joseph Brandon and
J. D. Hodges had horses wounded. This is taken from a
written record made at the time and if any one thinks it is
merely fun to ride at the head of a charging cavalry column
let him read this list and think over it.

Company H was a famous company, and all its survivors
now lovingly testify that to Lieutenant, afterwards Captain,
©. W. Pearson, the company owed more for its fame than to
any one else. He was as brave as the bravest. Always faithful
and true and ready for any duty he was foremost in as many
splendid scenes of the Sixty-third as any man in the regiment.
But when written to by his old company comrades recently,
for a sketch of the company and some special acts of his own
for this history, with his own hand he wrote out and sent to
his men thirty-two pages of accurate, instructive and interest-
ing history and incidents of the company, but never mentions
his own name once. And in his letter to them, accompanying
the paper, he writes: ‘For your sake as well as that of the