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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
ng in the mean while sent to the rear for horses, and removed all the captured guns and equipments to a place of safety. I omitted to mention that the Forty-seventh Virginia, Colonel Mayo, after getting possession of the guns on the left of the road, manned two of them and used them against the enemy. This regiment also captured Major-General McCall, commanding the Federal forces on the field. I desire to call the attention of the General commanding to the conspicuous gallantry of Captain R. C. Collins, Engineer corps. He joined me as a volunteer aid, just as we were going into action, and by voice and action led and cheered the men through all the fight with unsurpassed spirit. The conduct of Captain Pegram's battery in the engagements excited my admiration. Always eager, always alert, Captain Pegram was in every action where opportunity offered, and always doing his duty, as the loss of every officer, killed or wounded, and sixty, out of about eighty men, sadly attests. I tru