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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
e highest degree creditable to themselves. The loss of the Seventeenth was very heavy, it being one hundred and one, out of not more than two hundred carried into action. Major Pickett, who commanded the regiment, fell late in the fight, desperately wounded by a ball through the breast. Hardly had Captain Jones, the next in rank, assumed the command before he was killed by a ball through the temple. The Second regiment was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Holmes, and the Fifteenth by Colonel Willican. Both of these gallant officers have since been killed in battle. They fell at Sharpsburg. Major Pickett's wound has kept him from every kind of duty. The consequence is, that we have now, for reports of the conduct of these three regiments, to depend on officers, none of whom, except Captain French, was in command during the action, and he but for a short time, near its close. It is to be expected, therefore, that the regimental reports must be less full and perfect than they woul