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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
our ammunition could be used with better effect upon his infantry. At about twelve M., just as I had nearly given out of ammunition, I received orders from Captain Mendenhall to retire. At about four o'clock I moved to the front by order of General Palmer, and from on either side of the railroad opened upon the enemy's infantrrning I was ordered by different officers to resume my previous position. I was obliged to decline obeying these orders, owing to those I had received from Captain Mendenhall directing me to await his own. The position in which I was placed from this conflict of orders, was exceedingly painful, but I found myself justified by subsequent events. At about four o'clock in the afternoon of the second instant, after I had been placed in position by Capt. Mendenhall, on in elevation near Negley's division, two of the enemy's batteries opened upon us from our front, while a third gave signal for his last attack upon our left. I advanced the four rifles, hold