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connection with the entire line on that part of the field, and resulted, after a conflict in the ravine of half an hour, in the rout of the enemy from the field.
This rout was vigorously pressed to the very foot of the mountain, up the sides of which the enemy fled in greatest confusion.
The loss of the enemy was here very great, his dead lying upon the field by the hundred.
Nothing but the exhausted condition of the men prevented them from carrying the heights.
As it was, with no supports of fresh troops, and with the knowledge that the enemy were pouring reinforcements from their right into the ledges of the mountain, it was found impracticable to follow him further.
In this charge large numbers of prisoners, taken by men of this command, were sent to the rear, but no guards were kept over them specially, and it is impossible now to ascertain the number.
The regiment retired with the line to the ravine and went into bivouac for the night, the pickets of the brigade holding the field.
The rout of the enemy was manifested in the fact that no attempt was made to follow our retreat, and scarcely any effort to annoy us in retiring.
The regiment lost many valuable officers and men. Amongst the killed are Captain M. T. Nunnally, company H, Captain John W. Stokes, company B, and First Lieutenant Holmes Baskins, company K, who fell gallantly at their posts.
A comple list of the casualties is herewith transmitted.
From this it appears that the number of killed was twenty-three (23), of wounded one hundred and seventy-one (171), and of missing five (5); total, two hundred and four (204).
I take pleasure in testifying that the behavior of officers and men was satisfactory and worthy the proud name heretofore won by the troops of this army.
I am, your obedient servant,
Henry D. Mcdaniel, Major Commanding Eleventh Georgia Regiment. To Captain Charles C. Hardwick, A. A. G. Anderson's Brigade.
