The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison Story by Captain Moseley that appeared in the 1906 newspapers describing attack at Malvern Hill.
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Wondering who it was who stood foremost in a charge of a Louisiana brigade with fixed bayonet, advancing up the hill and across a clover patch, when a shell from a gunboat in the bay took off his head and spattered his brains and blood all about the uniform of Captain Moseley, himself advancing through the thick rain of shot with his Georgia brigade.

— The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison

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Edwin Francis Jemison

About Edwin Francis Jemison

Edwin Francis Jemison (December 1, 1844 – July 1, 1862) was a Confederate soldier who served in Company C, 2nd Louisiana Infantry, from May 1861 until he was killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill. Jemison's photograph has become one of the most famous and iconic portraits of the young soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies, resonating a legacy of the awful cost of the American civil war.