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Title: The Falling Flag
Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox

Author: Edward M. Boykin

Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32611]

Language: English

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[Illustration: A CAVALRY CHARGE.]

THE

FALLING FLAG.

EVACUATION OF RICHMOND,
RETREAT AND SURRENDER
AT
APPOMATTOX.

BY EDWARD M. BOYKIN,
_LT. COL. 7th REG'T S.C. CAVALRY._

Third Edition.

NEW YORK:
E.J. HALE & SON, PUBLISHERS,
MURRAY STREET.
1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
E.J. HALE & SON,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

DEDICATION.

TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE

7th South Carolina Cavalry,

THIS

SHORT ACCOUNT OF AN INTERESTING PERIOD IN THEIR
MILITARY HISTORY,

AND THAT OF

THE CAUSE THEY LOVED SO WELL, AND FOR WHICH THEY
FOUGHT SO FAITHFULLY,

Is Dedicated,

BY ONE WHO CONSIDERS HAVING BEEN THEIR COMRADE THE
PROUDEST RECOLLECTION OF HIS LIFE.

PREFACE.

The writer only attempts to give some account of what occurred within
his own observation; he would have esteemed it a privilege to enter
into all the detail that lights up the last desperate struggle, made
by that glorious remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia, with its
sk