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On for the _redoubt_ over the rampart they go, Not a rifle was fired, not a shot at the foe, By the weight of the column the _redoubt_ is theirs, And the enemy routed, the chivalry scattered everywhere Victorious shouts the empyrean ring in repay, Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

In the track of the brigade lay the loyal dead, Afric's hecatomb, her lineage's pyre to liberty wed, Their upturned countenances to the burning sun, Were appeals to Mars for their race's freedom won, Five hundred lives on the patriotic alter lay, Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

No marble shaft or granate pile mark the spot Where they fell--their bones lay harvested from sun-rot, In the Nation's cities of the dead. Hannibal led No braver than they through Alpine snow, nor wed To freedom were Greece's phalanx more, who o'er gory clay Followed Butler to New Market heights that day.

[A] (Author in the N. Y. _Globe_.)

[B] (Author in ”_Voice of a New Race_.”)

[33] See report of 29th Regiment Connecticut Colored Volunteers in appendix.

CHAPTER XII.

ROLL OF HONOR.

The following enlisted men of the Black Phalanx received medals of honor from the United States Government for heroic conduct on the field of battle:

Sergeant-Major C. A. FLEETWOOD, 4th Regiment.

Color-Sergeant ALFRED B. HILTON, 4th Regiment.

Private CHARLES VEAL, 4th Regiment.

1st Sergeant JAMES BROWNSON, 5th Regiment.

Sergeant-Major MILTON M. HOLLAND, 5th Regiment.

1st Sergeant, ROBERT PINN, 5th Regiment.

1st Sergeant POWHATAN BEATY, 5th Regiment.

1st Sergeant ALEX. KELLEY, 6th Regiment.

Sergeant SAMUEL GILCHRIST, 36th Regiment.

Sergeant WILLIAM DAVIS, 36th Regiment.

Corporal MILES JAMES, 36th Regiment.

Private JAMES GARDNER, 36th Regiment.

1st Sergeant EDWARD RATCLIFF, 38th Regiment.

Private WILLIAM BARNES, 38th Regiment.

CHAPTER XIII.