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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
d, they advanced across two open fields in the face of a perfect shower of grape and musketry, until they reached a small ravine, (traversed by a fence,) within a short distance of the enemy's line of battle. Taking advantage of this slight shelter, they maintained themselves in this position until the arrival of reenforcements, when they joined in the general charge, which won the batteries. My loss here was very heavy: killed and wounded, one hundred and fifty men, among them First Lieutenant W. A. Hoostin, of company I, and my Sergeant-Major, A. Dumone, both of them young men of brilliant prospects, and as gallant, as daring, as devoted to the cause, as any officer in the Confederate service. Tuesday, at Malvern Hill, we were marched to the field, but were held in reserve, and had no opportunity to deliver a fire. Three of my men, however, were wounded by fragments of shell. My total loss has been two hundred and twenty-four in killed and wounded — a detailed statement having a