...as in the lines that morning—three regiments being absent, the Twenty-first, under Colonel Witcher, already alluded to, and the Forty-second and Forty-eighth, on picket, as I suppose, stated by Lieutenant Archer . Deploring, as I did, the absence of the artillery, I asked General Johnson why it was. This was his reply: I knew that the artillery had been removed, and ascertaining that the enemy was very ac...