Find A Grave contributor Travis Holt provided the following:
"Do you think I have accomplished anything for my country? As I only had my sword instead of a musket, I fear I did but little in the fight." - Last words of 2nd Lt. William Preston Mangum, Jr. according to the book Let Us Die Like Brave Men by Daniel W. Barefoot.
Find A Grave contributor Travis Holt provided the following:
"Do you think I have accomplished anything for my country? As I only had my sword instead of a musket, I fear I did but little in the fight." - Last words of 2nd Lt. William Preston Mangum, Jr. according to the book Let Us Die Like Brave Men by Daniel W. Barefoot.