Palmetto Sharpshooters Civil War Horse Burial
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Palmetto Sharpshooters Civil War Horse Burial
 Margaret_Buchanan
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Posted: 5 Mar 2008 11:30PM GMT |
Classification: Military
Surnames: McDowell, Jenkins
DAILY PICAYUNE, New Orleans, LA. August 16, 1885, Page 10, Column 5.
Buried with the Honors of War.
CHAPLAINS WAR HORSE LAID AWAY TO REST AND HIS GRAVE DECORATED WITH FLOWERS BY LITTLE GIRLS.
Correspondence of the Charleston News and Courier, from Manning, Aug. 12, says:
The survivors of the “Palmetto Sharpshooters” who see this notice will read with interest of the death of “Blake,” the horse of the Rev. James McDowell, their Chaplain during nearly three years of the war. The chaplain rode him from Richmond to the battlefield of Second Manassas, then in the first Maryland campaign and back into Virginia and hundreds of miles with the regiment in those trying scenes in which it acted so noble a part. When the command went to Lookout Mountain by railroad, “Blake” went through the country on foot with the other horses, and was ridden by his master in the campaign of the first(?) Tennessee and back to Virginia in time for the battle of the Wilderness, where Gen. Micah Jenkins, the gallant commander of the brigade was killed. Many sick and (?) soldier rode him on weary marches, and often his scanty forage was helped out by biscuits and rations given him by soldiers emptied by them on the roadside in their forced(?) marches. After the surrender at Appomattox he was ridden home to South Carolina and was greatly prized by his owner.
Yesterday he died and his remains were carried in a wagon to the outskirts of Manning and there buried. Little girls decorated his grave and ten shots were fired over him in honor of his faithful services in the “Lost Cause.”
Buried with the Honors of War.
CHAPLAINS WAR HORSE LAID AWAY TO REST AND HIS GRAVE DECORATED WITH FLOWERS BY LITTLE GIRLS.
Correspondence of the Charleston News and Courier, from Manning, Aug. 12, says:
The survivors of the “Palmetto Sharpshooters” who see this notice will read with interest of the death of “Blake,” the horse of the Rev. James McDowell, their Chaplain during nearly three years of the war. The chaplain rode him from Richmond to the battlefield of Second Manassas, then in the first Maryland campaign and back into Virginia and hundreds of miles with the regiment in those trying scenes in which it acted so noble a part. When the command went to Lookout Mountain by railroad, “Blake” went through the country on foot with the other horses, and was ridden by his master in the campaign of the first(?) Tennessee and back to Virginia in time for the battle of the Wilderness, where Gen. Micah Jenkins, the gallant commander of the brigade was killed. Many sick and (?) soldier rode him on weary marches, and often his scanty forage was helped out by biscuits and rations given him by soldiers emptied by them on the roadside in their forced(?) marches. After the surrender at Appomattox he was ridden home to South Carolina and was greatly prized by his owner.
Yesterday he died and his remains were carried in a wagon to the outskirts of Manning and there buried. Little girls decorated his grave and ten shots were fired over him in honor of his faithful services in the “Lost Cause.”