Gen & Staff Officer CSA.
From an address by Gen. Henry A. Wise in 1870:
" In this fight the best and bravest fell among the killed and wounded, with them was Barksdale Warwick, of my staff, who died with a smile on his face, struck whilst waving his sword and shouting ‘Charge! Charge!'
The brother of Colonel Bradfute Warwick, who was also killed in battle and lies beside him.
2'nd great grandson of Col William Evelyn Byrd III of Westover Plantation
1860 Census:
Residence in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Corbin Warwick 68, Margaret E Warwick 40,
Bradfute Warwick 21, Barksdale Warwick 16,
Corbin Warwick 14, Byrd Warwick 12,
Otway Warwick 8, Imogen Warwick 5
"Of Barksdale Warwick, of Richmond, aged sixteen,
Gen. Henry A. Wise says : "As we drove the enemy the movement forward became slower and slower. I was pressing on the men with the words, 'Drive into them, boys; drive into them!' when Barksdale smiled and exclaimed, 'Let me cry charge, General Wise; let me cry charge!' 'Charge, my
brave boy !' I replied, and he shouted 'Charge !' and
bounded across the road and reached Lieutenant
McDowell, and was shouting, 'Charge, charge !' with
a bright smile on his face, when he was struck on the forehead and instantly killed. He did not seem to fall, but sat down on a log, and his head fell back against a tree, with its full expression of the 'gaudium certaminis' on his face. After the surrender at Appomattox two officers of the Federal army, one a surgeon, told me he had been honorably buried and his grave marked. The surgeon said he had never
seen so beautiful a corpse; that the color and smile were still on his face and he was sitting as he was left as if in repose, and with hardly a stain of blood or earth upon his person. He had been with me from the beginning of the war and had never failed in duty to his country or obedience to me. He was gentle and amiable, indomitable in courage and pluck, and his bravery was as natural and unaffected as his death was beautiful. After what has happened we ought not to wish such spirits still alive
to suffer humiliation of submission."
BOY SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
Susan R Hull
1905
From an address by Gen. Henry A. Wise in 1870:
" In this fight the best and bravest fell among the killed and wounded, with them was Barksdale Warwick, of my staff, who died with a smile on his face, struck whilst waving his sword and shouting ‘Charge! Charge!'
The brother of Colonel Bradfute Warwick, who was also killed in battle and lies beside him.
2'nd great grandson of Col William Evelyn Byrd III of Westover Plantation
1860 Census:
Residence in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Corbin Warwick 68, Margaret E Warwick 40,
Bradfute Warwick 21, Barksdale Warwick 16,
Corbin Warwick 14, Byrd Warwick 12,
Otway Warwick 8, Imogen Warwick 5
"Of Barksdale Warwick, of Richmond, aged sixteen,
Gen. Henry A. Wise says : "As we drove the enemy the movement forward became slower and slower. I was pressing on the men with the words, 'Drive into them, boys; drive into them!' when Barksdale smiled and exclaimed, 'Let me cry charge, General Wise; let me cry charge!' 'Charge, my
brave boy !' I replied, and he shouted 'Charge !' and
bounded across the road and reached Lieutenant
McDowell, and was shouting, 'Charge, charge !' with
a bright smile on his face, when he was struck on the forehead and instantly killed. He did not seem to fall, but sat down on a log, and his head fell back against a tree, with its full expression of the 'gaudium certaminis' on his face. After the surrender at Appomattox two officers of the Federal army, one a surgeon, told me he had been honorably buried and his grave marked. The surgeon said he had never
seen so beautiful a corpse; that the color and smile were still on his face and he was sitting as he was left as if in repose, and with hardly a stain of blood or earth upon his person. He had been with me from the beginning of the war and had never failed in duty to his country or obedience to me. He was gentle and amiable, indomitable in courage and pluck, and his bravery was as natural and unaffected as his death was beautiful. After what has happened we ought not to wish such spirits still alive
to suffer humiliation of submission."
BOY SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
Susan R Hull
1905
Gen & Staff Officer CSA.
From an address by Gen. Henry A. Wise in 1870:
" In this fight the best and bravest fell among the killed and wounded, with them was Barksdale Warwick, of my staff, who died with a smile on his face, struck whilst waving his sword and shouting ‘Charge! Charge!'
The brother of Colonel Bradfute Warwick, who was also killed in battle and lies beside him.
2'nd great grandson of Col William Evelyn Byrd III of Westover Plantation
1860 Census:
Residence in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Corbin Warwick 68, Margaret E Warwick 40,
Bradfute Warwick 21, Barksdale Warwick 16,
Corbin Warwick 14, Byrd Warwick 12,
Otway Warwick 8, Imogen Warwick 5
"Of Barksdale Warwick, of Richmond, aged sixteen,
Gen. Henry A. Wise says : "As we drove the enemy the movement forward became slower and slower. I was pressing on the men with the words, 'Drive into them, boys; drive into them!' when Barksdale smiled and exclaimed, 'Let me cry charge, General Wise; let me cry charge!' 'Charge, my
brave boy !' I replied, and he shouted 'Charge !' and
bounded across the road and reached Lieutenant
McDowell, and was shouting, 'Charge, charge !' with
a bright smile on his face, when he was struck on the forehead and instantly killed. He did not seem to fall, but sat down on a log, and his head fell back against a tree, with its full expression of the 'gaudium certaminis' on his face. After the surrender at Appomattox two officers of the Federal army, one a surgeon, told me he had been honorably buried and his grave marked. The surgeon said he had never
seen so beautiful a corpse; that the color and smile were still on his face and he was sitting as he was left as if in repose, and with hardly a stain of blood or earth upon his person. He had been with me from the beginning of the war and had never failed in duty to his country or obedience to me. He was gentle and amiable, indomitable in courage and pluck, and his bravery was as natural and unaffected as his death was beautiful. After what has happened we ought not to wish such spirits still alive
to suffer humiliation of submission."
BOY SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
Susan R Hull
1905
From an address by Gen. Henry A. Wise in 1870:
" In this fight the best and bravest fell among the killed and wounded, with them was Barksdale Warwick, of my staff, who died with a smile on his face, struck whilst waving his sword and shouting ‘Charge! Charge!'
The brother of Colonel Bradfute Warwick, who was also killed in battle and lies beside him.
2'nd great grandson of Col William Evelyn Byrd III of Westover Plantation
1860 Census:
Residence in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Corbin Warwick 68, Margaret E Warwick 40,
Bradfute Warwick 21, Barksdale Warwick 16,
Corbin Warwick 14, Byrd Warwick 12,
Otway Warwick 8, Imogen Warwick 5
"Of Barksdale Warwick, of Richmond, aged sixteen,
Gen. Henry A. Wise says : "As we drove the enemy the movement forward became slower and slower. I was pressing on the men with the words, 'Drive into them, boys; drive into them!' when Barksdale smiled and exclaimed, 'Let me cry charge, General Wise; let me cry charge!' 'Charge, my
brave boy !' I replied, and he shouted 'Charge !' and
bounded across the road and reached Lieutenant
McDowell, and was shouting, 'Charge, charge !' with
a bright smile on his face, when he was struck on the forehead and instantly killed. He did not seem to fall, but sat down on a log, and his head fell back against a tree, with its full expression of the 'gaudium certaminis' on his face. After the surrender at Appomattox two officers of the Federal army, one a surgeon, told me he had been honorably buried and his grave marked. The surgeon said he had never
seen so beautiful a corpse; that the color and smile were still on his face and he was sitting as he was left as if in repose, and with hardly a stain of blood or earth upon his person. He had been with me from the beginning of the war and had never failed in duty to his country or obedience to me. He was gentle and amiable, indomitable in courage and pluck, and his bravery was as natural and unaffected as his death was beautiful. After what has happened we ought not to wish such spirits still alive
to suffer humiliation of submission."
BOY SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
Susan R Hull
1905
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