From the Richmond Examiner, 6/4/1864,
p. 1, col. 3
THE REMAINS of Colonel Lawrence M. Keitt, of South
Carolina, who died in this city from a wound received in the battle of
Wednesday, were escorted to the Danville depot yesterday afternoon, and departed
en route for the State of his
nativity. A portion of the Public Guard and band, with the South Carolina
Congressional delegation, accompanied the remains to the depot as escort, the
latter officiating as pall bearers. Colonel Keitt reached Virginia but a few
days ago as the commander of the
Twentieth South Carolina regiment, one of the most complete regiments in the
service, numbering over twelve hundred men. Fresh from the memorable defense of
Charleston, Colonel Keitt was justly proud of his veteran command, and burned to
lead them to glory and renown. He led them to both, but fell at the moment of
victory, pierced by a hireling bullet through the lungs, dying in defense of the
capital of the Confederacy, and pouring out his blood on Virginia soil. Colonel
Keitt will be remembered in the old Congress of 1857-8, as the colleague of the
lamented Preston Brooks. – He was brave, talented and chivalrous, and a fit
type and model of the Palmetto State.
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