n gallant array,
Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

Volley after volley poured, cannon after cannon roared,
Like reapers in a field a thousand artillerists mowed
In the gap, the brigade's advancing files of four,
Yet on through the flood of death still the brigade pour.
Their battle cry, _Remember Fort Pillow_, the enemy dismay,
Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

Hark! above the raging carnage swells the shout,
'_No quarter to Niggers_,' with hope of a rout,
But the brigade was not deterred, they retaliate
The defiant yells, _Remember Fort Pillow_, the fate
Of its garrison how it fell, on through the fray,
Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

On for the _redoubt_ over the rampart they go,
Not a rifle was fired, not a shot at the foe,
By the weight of the column the _redoubt_ is theirs,
And the enemy routed, the chivalry scattered everywhere
Victorious shouts the empyrean ring in repay,
Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

In the track of the brigade lay the loyal dead,
Afric's hecatomb, her lineage's pyre to liberty wed,
Their upturned countenances to the burning sun,
Were appeals to Mars for their race's freedom won,
Five hundred lives on the patriotic alter lay,
Following Butler to New Market heights that day.

No marble shaft or granate pile mark the spot
Where they fell--their bones lay harvested from sun-rot,
In the Nation's cities of the dead. Hannibal led
No braver than they through Alpine snow, nor wed
To freedom were Greece's phalanx more, who o'er gory clay
Followed Butler to New Market heights that day.

[A] (Author in the N. Y. _Globe_.)

[B] (Author in "_Voice of a New Race_.")

[33] See report of 29th Regiment Connecticut Colored Volunteers in
appendix.

CHAPTER XII.

ROLL OF HONOR.

The following enlisted men of the Black Phalanx received medals of honor
from the United States Government for heroic conduct on the field of
battle:

Sergeant-Major C. A. FLEETWOOD, 4th Regiment.

Color-Sergeant ALFRED B. HILTON, 4th Regiment.

Private CHARLES VEAL, 4th Regiment.

1st Sergeant JAMES BROWNSON, 5th Regiment.

Sergeant-Major MILTON M. HOLLAND, 5th Regiment.

1st Sergeant, ROBERT PINN, 5th Regiment.

1st Sergeant POWHATAN BEATY, 5th Regiment.

1st Sergeant ALEX. KELLE