The Fifteenth Georgia regiment at Gettysburg.
Report of Colonel D. M. Du Bose.
Headquarters Fifteenth regiment Georgia Volunteers, July 27th, 1863.
Lieutenant Perry, A. A. A. General:
Sir,--In obedience to orders No.--, received to-day, I herewith submit to Brigadier-General H. L. Benning a report of the part taken by my regiment (the Fifteenth Georgia) in the battle of Gettysburg on the 2d and 3d of July, 1863.
My regiment occupied that portion of the ground on the extreme left of the brigade.
On the 2d of July, after moving for a considerable distance across an open field under a heavy shelling from the enemy's batteries, I reached my position from which I was to move in line of battle to assist in supporting Brigadier-General Laws's brigade, which I learned had moved forward to attack the enemy.
After marching forward four or five hundred yards, I, with the rest of the brigade, was halted and rested until an order came to me from General Benning to move forward at once to the support of our advanced troops.
This movement was made at once, in good order, under fire of the enemy's artillery.
After getting within a hundred and fifty yards of the advanced troops, I was again halted by General Benning for a few moments, my regiment having gotten a short distance ahead of another portion of our brigade lines, owing, I suppose, to the difference in the nature of the ground, over which we had to march.
General Benning then left the position where he was, then near my right, and went towards the right of the brigade.
I rested a few minutes in this position, until I saw the balance of the brigade had moved up even with my position and were still advancing.
I immediately ordered a forward movement, and soon gained the point where our advance troops were fighting behind a stone fence, a little above the foot of a high, wooded, rocky hill.
At this point my regiment commenced the engagement with the enemy who occupied the hill.
At this point the nature of the ground was such that I could not see the other portion of our brigade.
After fighting the enemy in this position a short time, I saw from the heavy fire of musketry on my right that the other portion of the brigade were hotly engaged trying to carry the hill in their front, which was destitute of trees.
I immediately ordered my regiment to jump the stone fence and charge that portion of the hill in my front; which order they obeyed willingly and promptly, driving Lieutenant Perry, A. A. A. General:
