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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.4 (search)

ening, July 9th or 10th--I have forgotten which—and assumed command. We came from Laurel Hill, where General Garnett was in command. When we got to Rich mountain there were a few troops there-how many I do not now remember. Among them was a field battery commanded by a gray-bearded and brave old gentleman named Anderson. But all told, Pegram's force on July 11th didn't number more than 1,000 men, if so many. The College Boys—students from Hampden-Sidney College, commanded by Professor John M. P. Atkinson, brave and splendid soldiers, every one of them!—constituted one company only in the 20th Virginia, but they were only a small part of the Confederate force who held the mountain summit so bravely that day. As well as I remember, there were no entrenchments—if any, very poor indeed—on the mountain top. We had not been there long enough to throw up entrenchments worthy the name, and the few troops there before we got to Rich mountain were engaged in felling trees and making an

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