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194 Southern Historical Society Papers.

The following list of casualties in the engagement at Clary's Farm was also furnished me by Major Glover, but the memorandum is without date.

Company A. Wounded: Privates D. C. Marsh, slightly in elbow, and J. W. Carter, slightly in arm.

Company C. Wounded: Privates F. R. Parsons, mortally in leg, and W. E. Graham, severely in hand (amputated).

Company D. Wounded : Privates A. Owens, and S. A. Owens, slightly in hand.

Company F. Wounded: Privates J. W. Rucker, slightly in thigh; C. Stroman, severely in the arm.

Company I. Killed: Private G. F. Gibbons. Wounded: Private J. H. Richbourg, severely in side.

Major John V. Glover and the other mounted officers of the regi- ment procured remounts from the horses of the battery captured on the 1 6th of May at Drewry's Bluff. A few days afterwards the major was kicked on the leg by his vicious horse. Though lamed, he con- tinued to lead the regiment with his accustomed ability and gallantry for two or three weeks afterwards, till a shot from the enemy's lines took off his little finger. I am unable to state the place or date, but it was near Richmond, where the command was fighting behind breastworks. The major was sent to the hospital, where erysipelas supervened on his wounds, and South Carolina lost another of her brave sons, and the Twenty fifth South Carolina volunteers an officer, honored, respected and loved by every officer and man of the regi- ment.

Pegram Battalion Association.

The following addresses were delivered on the 3ist day of May, 1887, on the occasion of the dedication of a memorial window, erected in memory of the dead of the Pegram Battalion Association, and the depositing of a register of the same, at the Chapel at the Soldiers' Home at Lee Camp. The following companies constituted the bat- talion: "Purcell" Battery, of Richmond, Virginia; "Crenshaw" Battery, of Richmond, Virginia; "Letcher" Battery, of Richmond, Virginia; " Fredericksburg" Battery, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and " Pee Dee " Battery, of South Carolina commanded by Colonel Wm. Johnston Pegram until he fell mortally wounded at Five Forks, April ist, 1865: