Wake-Robeson-Cumberland County NcArchives News.....Pvt Jesse Allen (31st NCT) Killed at Wagner 18 July 1863 1863
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Unknown 1863
Pvt Jesse Allen -  Killed at Wagner 18 July 1863  -  Unknown Newspaper 

Camp 31" Reg't, N.C.T., James Island, S.C., August 29, 1863. A meeting of the 
members of Company H was held August 29, to pay their last respects to Private 
Jesse Alien, of this company, who was killed at Battery Wagner on Morris 
Island, S.C., by the enemy during the assault on the night of the 18" ult. He 
was detailed as one of the ambulance corps. Up to the time the enemy had gained 
possession of a part of the breastworks, he performed his duties very nobly—
going wherever the wounded were lying, and assisting them, regardless of the 
deadly fire the enemy was pouring into our ranks. Seeing that a squad of the 
enemy were in the act of spiking our guns which were near him. He seized a 
musket and picked them off until his bayonet unfortunately came off his gun and 
was left in the carcass of a Yankee. He then reversed ends of his musket, and 
with club musket, he knocked them down until a Yankee officer ascended the 
works and shot him dead with his pistol. Having known Private Jesse Alien for 
two years, we say emphatically that no better soldier has died in the cause of 
the Southern Confederacy. We tender our heart felt sympathy to his bereaved 
family which is left behind to mourn their irreparable loss.


Additional Comments:
I found this article while doing research, there was no documentation as to 
what newspaper is was printed in.  His Compiled Service Records testifies to 
this account:  

Allen, Jesse, Private --  Born in Wake County where he resided as a laborer 
prior to enlisting in Wake County at age 36, October 14, 1861.  Captured at 
Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862.  Paroled at Elizabeth City on February 21, 
1862.  Returned to duty on or about September 15, 1862.  Killed at Fort Wagner, 
Charleston, South Carolina, July 18, 1863.  --North CArolina Troops 1861-1865 A 
Roster, Division of Archives and History (1981)

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