Major William G. Connor was killed in action. His last words, as reported by a Union prisoner of war, were that he was a major of the Jeff Davis Legion. “It was a sad day for the Legion, as they all mourn the loss of Major Connor,” reported Pvt. Joseph Dunbar Shields, Jr. “In him we lost a fine officer and a good man. We miss him very much.”7 Lieutenant Colonel J. Fred Waring, the commander of the Little Jeff, as the Jeff Davis Legion was known, was also wounded in the melee. Sergeant William Brownlee of Company A of the Jeff Davis Legion was also killed in the melee. “In losing Brownlee we
...more
