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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
ents of the twenty-seventh of June and first of July. On the twenty-seventh of June, while our regiment was on picket, five companies being immediately on the outposts, with the rest as reserve, composed of the following companies: Company F, Cherokee Brown Rifles; company C, Semmes Guards; company D, Burke Sharpshooters; company H, Wright Infantry, and company I, Buena Vista Guards, were ordered by Colonel Butts forward to the picket line, two hundred yards beyond the Garnett house to the left, to open fire upon the enemy's pickets. On arriving upon the line, Colonel Butts gave me command of company C, Semmes Guards, commanded by Captain Shepperd, and company F, Cherokee Brown Rifles, Captain Shuford, and ordered me to take those two companies sixty yards to the right and march them to the edge of the woods looking out upon the wheat-field; when in that position, to open fire upon the enemy. I did so at the time I halted them. A regiment of the enemy stationed in line opposite u