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ght beyond the creek, and company G of my Regiment was also thrown over the stream to protect the howitzer under Capt. Brown. Capt. Bridgers, of company A, 1st N. C. Regiment, took post in the dense wood beyond and to the left of the bridge. Maj. Montague, with three companies of his battalion, was ordered up from the rear and took post on our right, beginning at the Church and extending along the entire front on that side. This fine body of men, and the gallant command of Lieut. Col. Stewartexcept under cover of woods, fences or paling.--Under cover of the trees he moved a strong column to an old ford, some three-quarters of a mile below where I had placed a picket of some forty men. Colonel Magruder sent Captain Werth's company of Montague's command, with one howitzer under Sergeant Crane, to drive back this column, which was done by a single shot from the howitzer.--Before this a priming wire had been broken in the vent of the howitzer commanded by Captain Brown and rendered it u
enders of the State. If we have to depend on militia, he thought, we might as well give up the war at once. Several ordinances were taken up and either passed or amended and referred, relative to the Banks of the State and the payment of interested bonds due in England, in specie — The whole banking subject was fully discussed, the privileges of monopolies dissected, and the advantages resulting from banking institutions to the communities in which they are located fully developed. Mr. Montague inquired if Banks which had suspended specie payment had not occasionally sold specie to private individuals? Mr. Macfarland answered 'No.' The ordinance was laid upon the table and ordered to be printed, and several ordinances on the same subject were adopted. An ordinance treasoning Winfield Scott, and annulling all acts heretofore passed in his favor by the Legislature, and changing the name of Scott county to Davis county, and of Buchanan county to Stephens county, was taken up,