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in figure, and not less perfect in character, fell, shot through the brain. We would
not leave him to be insulted by the foe. Pearson, Gill, Ridge Howard and
Grayson placed his body on their guns and hurried off to the Davis house on the
railroad. Here they dug his grave, and each of us, taking a blanket from his
scanty store, wrapped it about our dead comrade, and so buried him. Soon the
guns of the enemy reopened, and we returned to the front."

Appended is a list of the killed, wounded and captured in the two days' battles :

BATTLE OF WELDON RAILROAD.

CAPTAIN J. PARRAN CRANE COMMANDING.
FIELD AND STAFF.

KILLED — Adjutant J. Winder Laird.

WOUNDED — Captain J. Parran Crane, received a severe contusion.

COMPANY A.--FIRST LIEUTENANT CLAPHAM MURRAY COMMANDING.

KILLED — Private Jacob W. Davis.

WOUNDED — Lieutenant William P. Zollinger, slightly; Corpora) Willis Brannock,
slightly; Privates J. E. Fitzgerald, slightly; John C. Henry, severely; N. Heenan, severely;

D. Ridgely Howard, severely; George W. Marden, slightly; Sommerville Sellers, slightly;

Richard C. Tilghman, severely; Joseph I. Joy, severely.

CAPTURED — First Lieutenant Clapham Murray, First Sergeant James F. Pearson,
Sergeant James W. Thomas, Privates William Adair, Charles S. Brannock, J. R. Phelps,
Theophilus N. Deale, William J. Edeiin, H. L. Gallagher, James S. Raley.

COMPANY B.—FIRST SERGEANT C. CRAIG PAGE COMMANDING.

KILLED — First Sergeant C. Craig Page.

WOUNDED — Sergeant P. T. Reeder. slightly; Corporal J. Z. Downing, severely;
Privates Dyonisius Ball, severely; John H. Chum, slightly; J. J. Delozier, slightly; J.
Marion Freeman, slightly; Washington Page, severely; Henry Turner, slightly.

CAPTURED—Sergeant F. Z. Freeman, Corporal W. F. Wheatley, Private James F. Keech.

COMPANY C.—FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES W. HODGES COMMANDING.

KILLED — Sergeant Robert T. Hodges.

WOUNDED — Privates Daniel Duvall, severely; H. H Crawford. slightly; John G.
White, slightly.

CAPTURED — Corporal Edward A. Welch. Privates Theodore Cooksey, W. C. Gibson,
John C Miller, Robert H. Welch.