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were as distinguished a regiment as any in Civil War History. When they faced their Union counterparts at Appomattox there were only Fifty-four men left to surrender. The Confederate Army was so decimated that brigades could march under the banners of regiments.
Funkhouser was a prisoner of war at the time of Appomattox, so Hale uses Major Henry Kyd Douglas’s account of the surrender of the Forty-ninth:
"When the time came to march out and give up our guns and flags in surrender, I asked General Gordon to let my brigade - as it had fired the last show — be the last to stack arms. This he readily granted. In a little while my
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