We are requested to insert the following:
It is generally understood that the celebrated battery of
Sherman consisted of sixteen guns, and as it is not probable that
all these guns were placed in immediate juxtaposition, hence the fact that they were not all captured by the same charge or the same regiment, and hence the conflicting claims set up by different regiments to the honor of taking them.
From accounts received by the writer from eye-witnesses at
Manassas, he feels entirely warranted in saying that the 18th Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, under
Col. Withers, certainly participated in the final capture of some of
Sherman's guns, and that
Lieut. Shields, of the Black Eagle Company,
Cumberland county, belonging to that regiment, assisted by a gentleman named
Evans, an officer in one of the South Carolina Regiments, actually turned one of the guns and fired it several times on the retreating enemy.
Justice.