The Greensborough Patriot
Aug. 7, 1862
Page 1
Death of Col. C. C. Lee.
Lieut.
Col. Barber, now commanding the 37th N. C. Troops, in his report of its
casualties of the late Battles near Richmond, thus mentions the circumstances
attending the death of the gallant Colonel Lee :--
“Col.
Lee was killed by a ball from a cannon on the 30th of June, late in
the evening. His regiment, with the rest
of Gen. Branch’s brigade, was charging a battery and had driven the enemy
before them for a considerable distance. When about 100 or 120 yards from the battery
as he shouted, “On my brave boys.” He fell.
Adj. Wm. T. Nicholson was in a few feet of him; he at once raised him up
and asked him if he was hurg—“Yes” was his
reply. “Colonel, are you hurt much?” was
then asked. He was unable to answer this
question, and almost instantly died in the arms of his adjutant, who brought
his body from the field, with such of his personal effects as were not thrown
away.
“A
better man or braver officer never fell at the post of duty. When his death was announced of the regiment,
his men wept as if they had lost a father.”
