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Whitthorne was not seen again that day by Anderson. The battle was still raging on all the other parts of the line. First one side gained an advantage, then the other, and so continued until night closed in on the combatants. A truce was agreed to, and hostilities ceased for the time being. "The Colonel worked most of the night, collecting his wounded and burying his dead.
"Whitthorne answered: "'I cannot say that I am glad to see you, and had it not been for making my sister a widow, you would have been among the killed to-day. "The Colonel turned and walked away without making any reply, but said to himself: "'Can that man be my wife's brother? I will not, however, condemn him; his blood is hot now; he may have a better heart than his speech would indicate."
John served as a private soldier the first year of the war, and at the reorganization at Corinth, Mississippi, he, W. J. Whitthorne and myself all ran for orderly sergeant of Company H, and John was elected, and the first vacancy occurring after the death of Captain Webster, he was commissioned brevet second lieutenant.
Anderson was pressing the enemy in his front closely, and as they gave way he ordered a charge, which was magnificently executed. "As the enemy gave back, evidently becoming badly demoralized, he looked and beheld before him Jos. Whitthorne. "The recognition was mutual, and each seemed determined to outdo the other.
Stephen Lyon, he replied: "'I have sworn to kill him if I ever met him, for sending a spy into my camp. "Stephen was unarmed, and protested that he knew nothing about the charges alleged against him. But it did no good. Whitthorne ordered his men to shoot him, and it was done and my poor boy was in this cold-blooded way murdered by this gang of bushwhackers.
The first step toward meeting this necessity was made in 1887 by Senator Whitthorne, of Tennessee, who in that year introduced a bill "to create a naval reserve of auxiliary cruisers, officers, and men, from the mercantile marine of the United States."
The fighting was severe, the rebels saw that this kind of fighting meant the capture of Richmond. Anderson led his men in person, and was one of the first to scale the enemy's works. The enemy retreated in great haste. Anderson again recognized Joseph Whitthorne leading one of the brigades in retreat. "'My God? he exclaimed, 'am I always to meet this man in battle!
He cried out: "'Tom Anderson, is that you? "Gen. Anderson responded affirmatively, at the same time saluting him in proper military style. At this Whitthorne drew his pistol and was just in the act of firing at the General, when Lieut. Whitcomb rushed at him and ran him through with his sword. He fell from his horse and expired. Gen.
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