The Greensborough Patriot
July 17, 1862
Page 2
Col. Z. B. Vance.
THE
BATTLE OF TUESDAY.—The battle of Tuesday, the 1st of July, says the
Richmond Examiner, “has been made memorable by its melancholy monument of
carnage, which occurred in a portion of Gen. Magruder’s
corps, which had been ordered in very inadequate force to charge one of the
strongest of the enemy’s batteries.”—We learn that the position of McClellan in
this battle was remarkably well chosen, and that the attempt to dislodge him by
a direct charge was regarded as exceedingly ill judged. But Gen. Magruder,
it is reported, was in no fit condition to command, and ordered the charge
without regard to results. The gallant
Lee, Meares, Stokes, Pettaway,
Taylor, Foote, Alston, and hundreds upon hundreds of our brave boys fell
heroically in that bloody and almost unavailing charge. Col. Vance was in it, with his regiment, and
left four of his dead nearest the enemy’s guns; but he, with his gallant
Lieutenant Colonel, Harry Burgwyn, though they charged
for more than a mile full upon the batteries, escaped the deadly fire.—Standard.
