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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
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and swamps, for the purpose of discovering the enemy's pickets. Whenever he became engaged, he was promptly and fearlessly sustained by Captain R. B. McRae and J. G. Knox, of companies C and A, under my command. Captain McRae succeeded in bringing away the enemy's flag from the first skirmish, near Crenshaw's, and Captain Knox dCaptain Knox did his best in effecting the dislodgment of the enemy. After this second skirmish, company F was withdrawn from the front, and company A ordered to assume that position, in order to divide the labors of the march. Captain Knox's company was now engaged in actively firing for a while upon an actual or supposed enemy in our front;Captain Knox's company was now engaged in actively firing for a while upon an actual or supposed enemy in our front; but there was no response. About the middle of the afternoon, having learned that the greater portion of Major-General A. P. Hill's division had crossed the Chickahominy, and was in front of us, I reported to you; whereupon I was ordered to unite my command with the rest of my regiment, under Colonel Campbell. I may confident
e Potomac at Williamsport, and marched on Harper's Ferry, through Martinsburg. The evening of the fourteenth, we advanced down the Winchester and Harper's Ferry Railroad. The Seventh regiment was in advance, and its skirmishers, commanded by Captain Knox, succeeded in driving the enemy's sharpshooters from a high position overlooking the railroad. The remainder of the brigade reached this position after midnight, and there slept upon their arms until day, when every one was in readiness, and nant-Colonel Purdie, who bravely commanded the eighteenth in most of these engagements, desires that special mention should be made of Captain John D. Barry, of company I, for his coolness, and gallantry, and devotion to duty. Captains Turner and Knox, of the Seventh, have on all occasions, but especially as commanders of skirmishers, won the admiration of the entire brigade by their daring and efficiency. Lieutenants Clominger and McCauley, of the Twenty-eighth, are also deserving special not