The moral wealth of high resolves, fearless purposes, noble exertions and generous sacrifices in the cause of truth, justice, liberty, property and honorthe appreciation of duty performed and manhood vindicated the consolations which flow from a consciousness of rectitude in the high endeavor, the record of brave deeds, the memories of a heroic past, and the rich legacy of the valor and the devotion of fathers, and brothers, and sons, are all that remain to cheer the hearts of those who knew best, and loved, and upheld the once puissant Confederacy in the days of her grand armies and eventful struggles.

All else seems lost, and as memory dwells upon the proud hopes which have been extinguished in the gloom of despair, as we reckon the grievous disappointments and losses which have fallen upon the land, as we experience the miseries of the present, and mark no cheering bow of promise amid the dark clouds which hang upon the brow of the future, as we embalm in the sacred recesses of our own bosoms the recollections of a hallowed struggle, and in sorrow recognize the fact that the eye will never more brighten at sight of the loved emblem of a young nation battling for its primal existence, full high advanced in the pure light of heaven, and appreciate the reasons why these things are so, with what peculiar pathos do the following mournful strains sink into the heart!

“Furl that Banner! for 'tis weary;
Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary;
Furl it, fold it, it is best,

For there's not a man to wave it,
And there's not one left to lave it
In the blood which heroes gave it ;

INDEX.

Chatham Artillery-(Continued).
police regulations, 46; drills, 46;
drivers enlisted as such, 47; selection
of membership, 47; routine of duty,
48; target practice, 48; esprit de corps,
49; character of membership, 49; ap-
plication to accompany Lawton's bri-
gade to Virginia, 50; first hostile guns,
50; picket at Montmollin's point, 55;
guards approaches, 55; marched to
Skidaway island, 56; bivouac, 58;
removal from Camp Claghorn to Camp
Hardee, 92; first battery animal died,
94; 76th anniversary, 94; reorganiza-
tion under the conscript act, 94; sec-
tion ordered to James island, 95;
present at battle of Secessionville,
98, 102; removal to Camp Stonewall
Jackson, 103; roll of the company,
June, 1862, 103-105; members dis-
charged under conscript act, 106; con-
scripts from Camp Randolph, 107;
unhealthy character of Camp Jackson,
108; removal to Camp Ashby, 108;
company at Coffee bluff, 110; bat-
talion parade, 111; two sections on
the Great Ogeechee river, 112, 113; re-
turn to Camp Ashby, 146; formed into
a temporary battalion, 146; furnished
with a section of twelve-pounder
Napoleon guns, 146; ordered to James
island, 149; affair of the 16th July,
1863, with the Pawnee, 150; exposures
on James island advanced lines, 154;
duties on James island, 154, 155; de-
tachments from the Battery on duty
in Battery Wagner, 162, 163; Camps
Simonton and Wheaton, 171; severe
picket duty, 172; reduced from a six
to a four-gun battery, 172; a four-gun
Napoleon battery, 172; fires salute in
honor of President Davis, 173; or-
dered to Florida, 174; reaches Olustee
station, 175; services in the battle of
Olustee or Ocean Pond, 181; Capt.
Wheaton's account of the part sus-
tained by the Battery in this engage-
ment, 184-188; section of captured
guns assigned to the company, 190;
conduct of the Battery during the
battle, 190; moves with the army in
the direction of Jacksonville, 192;
engaged in the attack upon the Fede-
ral advanced guards, 192, 193; parked

Chatham Artillery-(Continued).

with the artillery under command of
Lieut. Col. Jones at Camp Milton, 194;
return to James island, 195; asso-
ciated into a temporary battalion,
195; severe duties on James island,
195, 196; Capt. Wheaton's letter, 195;
affair of the 2d of July, 1864, 197–200;
one section guarding Federal prison-
ers at the Charleston race course, 201;
Battery ordered to Combahee river
ferry, 201; pleasant change, 201; left
section ordered to Old Pocotaligo,
203; roll of detachments and infantry
support, 204, 205; diary during the
campaign in the Carolinas, 212, 234;
at Granbys, shelled Federal camp,
212; losses sustained, 213; nearly cut
off at Columbia, 213; at Charlotte, N.
C., 214; at Chapel hill, 214; at Ra-
leigh, 214; at Hillsboro, 215; want of
supplies, 215; retreat with Loring's
division, 216; near Greensboro, 216;
good conduct of, 216; Battery sur-
rendered at Greensboro, 220; condi-
tion at time of surrender, 221; home-
ward march, 223; good conduct on
the march, 223; finally disbanded, 223,
224; review and concluding remarks,
225 - 232.

Chestatee Artillery, 102.
City Light Guard, 61, S4.
Claghorn, Camp, appointments of, 43; recol-
lections and beauties of, 43, 44, 46;
removal from, 92.
Claghorn, Capt. Joseph S., charged with

ordnance duties, 10; occupies Fort
Pulaski with detachment of the Chat-
ham Artillery, 13, 15; great credit
due to, 27, 33, 37; receives Confede-
rate flag presented to his company,
31, 39; his liberality, 43; reelected
Capt. 94, 102, 103; resignation, 109;
accepts position of Lieut. Col., 109;
especial praise due to, 109.