...Colonel Peter Hairston and Major Richard L. Maury, of the Twenty-fourth Virginia, all proved themselves eminently worthy of the positions held by them. Colonel—now General—Bratton, on Longstreet 's left, who witnessed the charge, says, many years after: The Twenty-fourth Virginia, meantime, emerged from the wood nearer the enemy than my redoubt, and moved in fine style upon them. * * * * I ha...