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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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Rev. H. Melville Jackson of Grace Church, present
assistant Bishop of Alabama, Dr. Charles Macgill
was a native of Baltimore, Md. His grandfather
on the maternal side was ThomasJennings, who filled
the position of King's Attorney under the Colonial
government of Maryland, and on the paternal side,
Rev. James Macgill, of Perth, Scotland, who settled
in Maryland in 1728 and was the first rector of
Queen Caroline Parish, Elkridge, Anne Arundel
County, Md. Dr. Macgill served as full surgeon
in the Confederate army during the war between
the States; and was one of President Jefferson
Davis' family physicians. Dr. Macgill died in
Chesterfield County, Va., May 5th, 1881. Mrs.
Rosenberg's mother, now eighty-eight years of
age, lives with her at Galveston. Of Mrs. Rosenberg's
brothers, Wm. D. enlisted at Palestine,
Texas, in Company A., Second Cavalry, and, after the
battle of Sharpsburg, was transferred to the First
Maryland Cavalry, Company C., and died in
Baltimore, Md., August 25, 1890; Davidge enlisted
in the First Maryland Cavalry, Company C.,
under Col. Brown in 1861, and served throughout
the war. Dr. Chas. G. W. Macgill was a surgeon
in Stonewall Jackson's brigade and James enlisted
in the Confederate army at sixteen years of age
and served in the same commands with his brother
Wm. D. until the close of hostilities. Dr. Chas.
G. W. Macgill and James Macgill surrendered with
the troops in Virginia as did their father Dr. Chas.
Macgill; but Wmi. D. and Davidge Macgill did not
surrender until April 20, 1865, as they managed to
get through the Federal lines and tried to make
their way to Johnston, who surrendered before they
reached him. A reader of the Birmingham AgeHerald,
living at Childersburg, Ala., in an interesting
and lengthy communication to that paper,
under date of October 11, 1890, contributes tle
following:"In
your issue of the 7th inst., under the
heading 'Some Persons of Prominence,' you
kindly give space to eulogizing Dr. Macgill and
family, formerly of Hagerstown. ild., and later of
Richmond, Va., but more especially of Mrs. Helen
E. Swan, from the announcement of her death,
which occurred on the 22d of September last, at
the home of her brother-in-law, Dr. S. A. Drewry
in Richmond.
" Among other things, you give prominence to
their many intellectual, physical and social graces,
together with their political prominence. * ' *
Now it may be that you 'reckoned better than
you knew' and that you did not know that
there were some ex-Confederates who were constant
readers of your valuable paper and inyour immediate vicinity who have special cause to
honor and remember this illustrious and patriotic
family. I allude particularly to Capt. John
('Piney,') Oden, Company, K., Tenth Alabama
Regiment, Confederate Volunteers, who was severely
and, at the time, thought by his comrades to be
mortally wounded, on Wednesday, September 17th,
1862, at Sharpsburg, receiving a wound fourteen
inches long, reaching the whole length of the thigh,
from which he has been a permanent cripple and
great sufferer ever since. Besides he received at
the same time a painful wound in the left side from
a piece of bomb-shell. * * * He lay upon the
battle-field in that helpless condition for twenty-six
hours. When all other efforts for removal failed,
he made some Masonic character5 upon a piece of
paper and requestel that they be carried to the
general in command of the Federal army, he being
then within the Federal lines. Very soon six men
came for him with an improvised litter, an old
army blanket. They made a slip gap in the fence,
near wliich he lay, and ran across the hill to a field
hospital with him upon the litter, which was more
than once punctured with balls from his frienls'
guns, they not understanding what was going on.
He was finally removed to the Hagerstown, Md.,
courthouse, which had been converted into a Federal
hospital. * * * Here he first met and learned
to love and honor the name of Macgill and the
members of the family, for the daughters that were
then at home came to the hospital and inquired
especially if there were any Confederate soldiers
among the wounded there. Capt. Oden being
pointed out, they began immediately to beseech, in
view of his condition, that he be paroled and they
he allowed to carry him to their private dwelling,
which request, at their earnest and importunate
solicitation, was granted. * * * For six
months the members of the family, including Dr.
Chas. Macgill, Jr., who was then at home, continued
their ministrations. * * * At one time the
femoral artery sloughed in two and Capt. Oden's
life was despaired of, but every physical, and even
spiritual, aid was rendered him. Finally he rallied
and recovered, and lived many years thereafter to
call them blessed. Capt. Oden often said that he
was especially indebted to Miss Mollie Macgill,
now Mrs. Rosenberg, of Galveston, and named a
daughter Mollie Macgill Oden in honor and grateful
remembrance of her. The intimacy and friendship
between the Macgill and Oden families has
been kept up ever since the war by correspondence
and interchange of visits. * * * "
Capt. Oden died in Odena, Talledega County,
Ala., May 23, 1895. All this particularity of detail
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