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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
nvinced that the hospitals were dangerously, if not fatally, exposed. I therefore sent two of my aids--Capt. Hart and Lieut. Blake--to Brig.-General Hancock, to request of him that he would be so good as to authorize me to take all that was left of so numerous as to require the assistance of all those who were unhurt. Even while I was waiting for Captain Hart and Lieut. Blake to return, several discharges of shell and Minie balls broke over and through the hospitals of the Sixty-ninth, the Sixty-third, the Eighty-eighth, and the buildings and fences which immediately adjoined them. Capt. Hart and Lieut. Blake, on their return, having given me to understand that I had a conditional authorization from Brig.-Gen. Hancock to transfer the diligent, and indefatigable in the discharge of his duties as Acting Assistant Adjutant-General of the brigade. Lieutenant John Blake, of the same regiment, displayed courage and soldiership of the highest order, but in doing so only continued to