Carrying The Colors In Battle

At Gaines Mili, where Gregg's Fir.-st Sonth Carolina regiment bore the bruut of an assault upon a certain strong position while inoving forward at a run, young James Taylor, a lad of, 16, was carrying the flag and was killed after being shot down three times, twice rising and struggling onward with the colors. The third time he feil the flag was seized by George Cotchett, and when he in turn feil by Shubrick Hayne. Hayne also was struck down almost immediately, and a fourth lad - for none of these men was over 20 years old - grasped tbf colors and feil mortally wounded across the body of his friend. The fifth, Gadsden Holmes, was pierced with no less than seven balls. The sixth man, Dominick Spellman, more fortúnate, but not less brave, bore the flag