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responded with alacrity to every call made upon them.
I had about five hundred men engaged between the Brooke pike and the Mill road and six pieces of artillery.
The enemy supposed to be between 3,000 and 3,500 men with five pieces of artillery.
Lieutenant Hudgin, with four pieces of artillery, was ordered to report to General Barton on the Mechanicsville road, and one section from Hankins's and one from Rives's batteries were sent to report to General Lee, before the fire of the enemy on my front had ceased—they having left my command for the time, I have not traced their operations, though I have been informed that they were not elsewhere engaged.
The loss of the enemy is not known, they being able, under cover of a dense fog, to carry away their killed and wounded.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. H. Stevens, Commanding Richmond Defences.
