FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMOND AND THE SPOTTSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN

Description: FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMONDANDTHE SPOTTSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN A SKETCH IN PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE SCENES A SOLDIER SAW BY WILLIAM MEADE DAME, D.D.Private, First Company, Richmond Howitzers Baltimore Green-Lucas Company 1920 First Edition PUBLISHED BY GREEN-LUCAS COMPANY, BALTIMORE, IN 1920 “Willy Dame, One of the best Men of the Old Battery – No. 4 at the Fourth Gun….” Major Robert Stiles, C.S.A. This is the extraordinary memoir of Confederate Private William Meade Dame who participated in almost every major battle in the Easter Theater. Born in Virginia, Dame was attending the Danville Military Academy at the start of the Civil War and, at age 17, enlisted in the 1st Company of the Richmond Howitzers. An elite unit, the 1st Company Richmond Howitzers, a four-gun battery, participated with distinction at almost every major battle in the East. These include First Manassas, the Peninsular Campaign, Seven Pines, the Seven Days Battles, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and the retreat from Richmond to Appomattox. At Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863, its two rifled guns expended 200 rounds of ammunition in less than two hours at Devil’s Den, and the next day, one piece alone expended 300 rounds in support of Pickett’s Charge. “All was ready; guns loaded and pointed, carefully, every man at his post – feeling right solemn too, - and a dead stillness reigned. The Captain’s steady voice rang out! As an echo to it, Dan McCarthy sung out “Fourth Detachment commence firing, fire!:” I gave the lanyard a jerk. A lurid spout of flame about ten feet long shot from the mouth of the old “Napoleon’, then, in the dead silence, a ringing, crashing roar, that sounded like the heavens were falling, and rolled a wrathful thunder far over the field and echoing woods. Then became distinct, a savage venomous scream, along the track shell. This grew fainter, - died on our ear! We eagerly watched! Suddenly, right over the heads of the enemy, a flash of fire, a puff of snow-white smoke, which hung like a little cloud! We gave a yell of delight; our shell had gone right in the midst of the Federals, and burst beautifully. The ball was open!” – William Meade Dame First Edition, antique book is in nice condition. Bound in Confederate gray, cloth covers with impressed, gold lettering on the cover and spine, the book is solidly bound.

Price: 45 USD

Location: Jonesborough, Tennessee

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