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of one of the old cavaliers." 4Īllegedly, Hays placed Adjutant Brown under arrest "for publishing that letter that gives Co A the honor of turning the Grand flank of the rebel Army." 5 He was a no-nonsense West Pointer, "a princely soldier brave as a lion. This brought a prompt, but unexpected, response from a higher source, division commander Brigadier General Alexander Hays. Then, it appears, the equally proud parents submitted their older son's letter to their local paper, the Penn Yan Democrat. He charged the rebel line with 10 men and captured it." 3 We have been fighting now continuously for 60 hours. Smith Brown, the regimental adjutant and older brother, was more restrained in his letter to their parents:
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I captured three times as many prisoners as I had men. I cant see nor can I ever tell why I was not taken prisoner for I was on the left flank and almost in the rear of the whole army.
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It was a proud day for me I can tell you. Oh! you ought to have heard the whole brigade cheer me. Bringing the AmericanCivil War to the Classroom:Suggestions and Sources Wayne MahoodĪfter waving the captured flag of the 28th North Carolina Volunteers and heading his Yankee company back to the original line of battle, twenty-one-year-old Captain Morris Brown, Jr., of the 126th New York Volunteers boasted in a letter to his parents: