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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, chapter 9 (search)
was to throw the troops into the woods and ravines on the left of the plateau, and necessarily throw them into great confusion. . . . In the meantime Gen. Kershaw came into the field with his brigade, near one of my regiments, the 2d Ga., which still remained in very good order; and my adjutant, Capt. Du Bose, proposed to him to unite that, and some other companies of other regiments, with his command in the attack on the enemy's batteries, to which he assented; and this command, under Cols. Butt and Holmes, accompanied by Capt. Du Bose and Maj. Alexander (my quartermaster, who acted as one of my aides on the field) advanced with Gen. Kershaw's brigade beyond the edge of the wood into the open field, but, under the destructive fire of the enemy's cannon and small-arms, wavered and fell back into the road skirting the pine thicket. . . . My losses were very severe, the total being 194 killed and wounded, out of about 1200 carried into action. I am happy to add that the disorders