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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 76 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 72 6 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 55 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 42 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 31 1 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 29 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 16 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 15 3 Browse Search
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vely by General Wade Hampton, General Fitzhugh Lee, and General W. H. F. Lee, the additional division organization undoubtedly growing out of the fact that General M. C. Butler's brigade of about four thousand men had joined recently from South Carolina. When this force developed in Gregg's front, he attacked the moment his trfronting him Hampton's and Fitzhugh Lee's divisions, supported by what we then supposed to be a brigade of infantry, but which, it has since been ascertained, was Butler's brigade of mounted troops, part of them armed with long-range rifles. The contest between the opposing forces was of the severest character and continued till north side of the creek with Devin's brigade. The fight then became general, both sides, dismounted, stubbornly contesting the ground. Of the Confederates, General Butler's South Carolinians bore the brunt of the fight, and, strongly posted as they were on the south bank of the creek, held their ground with the same obstinacy