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.
