Sampson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Faison, Franklin J. 1862
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THE DAILY JOURNAL --PAGE 2-- WILMINGTON N. C. July 8, 1862
For the Journal
                                                                                    
                                                       
RICHMOND July 2nd, 1862

The Lamented Franklin J. Faison.

The subject of this communication was born in Sampson County, and was for a 
time a student of West Point. He volunteered at the beginning of the war in 
the first company which left Sampson. Upon the organization of the 20th 
Regiment he was elected Lt. Col., and was again unanimously re-elected. A man 
of affable manners, generous, impulsive and unbounded liberality, he was most 
deservedly popular at home and in his regiment. Lt. Col. Faison was in the 
charge on the battery of the enemy on the Mechanic's road on Friday last. He 
led the charge and was foremost in it leading his men, and with that ardor 
which had all the way through this engagement characterized the charges of 
North Carolina, he cheered his men on to victory. Reckless of danger, with an 
impulsive nature , he first mortared the principal gun of that strong battery, 
and while his face glowed with satisfaction, mingled with regret at the groans 
of the wounded and dying of his regiment, and was endeavoring to turn the guns 
of the battery with his own hands against the flying enemy, he was fatally 
wounded in the head with a Minnie ball, besides receiving two other wounds.

He was able to walk and was led by one of the 20th Regiment,--Frank Ireland--a 
little distance from the battery, which he was laid down. Mr. Ireland did all 
he could for his comfort, until Col Faison said to him, "Frank, I am mortally 
wounded--I do not fear to die, I have fallen in a glorious cause--now--go--to 
your Company, you can do no more good there--go now, but return again--you 
will probably find me dead, take my body home for burial. Take charge of my 
sword, and deliver it to my wife, tell her that I died in a good cause, and 
only regret that I could not see her and my children before I died." The scene 
of action was then changed, and Ireland returned to Col. Faison and found that 
he was dead ---He was then buried on the battlefield, and there rests as noble 
as specimen of a Christian soldier as the world  ever saw.  One while living, 
exhibited all the noble attributes of a man. The writer of this was honored by 
his friendship in all the varied walks of life---beginning with the school 
room, from thence to the legislative halls of his native State, as a volunteer 
in his Company, and knowing the real worth of the man, he feels the great loss 
his county and the service has sustained. His death has a gloom over his 
entire regiment; his county will long mourn his loss, and the stone which will 
mark his resting place will cover the remains of a pure and noble patriot and 
a Christian man.                    Sampson.


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