The 28th Georgia regiment.
Camp 28th Georgia Vols., June 7th, 1862.
To the Editors of the Dispatch:
It is with an feigned regret that I am called upon to correct some of the statements of your correspondent of the 6th over the of "Observer," relative to the position, &c., of the 15th Georgia regiment during the engagement of Saturday last at the "Seven Pines."
Your correspondent reports the 4th North Carolina on the extreme right, the 49th Virginia next on the left, intersected by that of 2d flexions, and the 27th and 28th Georgia on the extreme left, "thereby throwing far into the latter, confronting thrown out on the Yankee right" was the position assigned each regiment before interring the field swamp which between the field, our positions were charged by a right movement on the part of the 28th, and to the left on that of the 49th, which relative positions from right to left, 4th North Carolina, 28th Georgia, 49th, (Virginia, 17th Georgia,) was ministered during the whole of the engagement; and so far from the 28th Georgia being "hid from view in the woods," one was in the open field, directly abreast the enemy's breastworks, subjected to as deadly a fire for three hours and a quarter as imagination can well conceive.
And though your correspondent has deemed it prudent to withhold any and every action on the part of the 18th, and attribute to other the deeds of this regiment, I can but believe that it was unintentional, and that it was from a misconceived view of the relative positions of each particular regiment in the brigade that caused the error; for, instead of others storming and taking possession of these particular breastworks, as was stated, it was the 28th, in conjunction with the gallant 2d Florida, who operated on our immediate right, that advanced upon their stronghold and drove them in confusion thither; and it was these two regiments that first put their feet and planted their colors upon the ramparts of the vandal for; nor did they stop here, but continued to advance until the enemy was in full flight and the right flank of the 28th rested opposite the enemy's camp on the right of the Williamsburg road, when we were ordered to retire.
This is an impartial and fair statement of facts, written not by an observer, but by a participant, and not written fur the purpose of endeavoring to detract from the well merited praise bestowed upon the representatives of each of the other States.
They did their duty, their whole duty, as also did the representatives of the Empire State of the South. To the Editors of the Dispatch:
