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s hardly possible for my small regiment to do what his large brigade had failed to accomplish, he ordered me to remain where I was until he could reform his brigade, the locality of which he did not then know. Being exposed to a severe fire, to which they could not reply, I ordered my regiment to fall back to the cover of a fence in the cornfield, which they did in good order. My loss on this occasion was 1 killed and 9 wounded. Among the latter were Lieut.-Col. William Stockton and Capt. Gaston Finley, both slightly. Col. J. J. Finley, Sixth Florida infantry, in his official report described vividly the experience of the 19th, when the whole of my line was subjected for some time to the enemy's fire, solid shot and shell passing over and near, diagonally in many places, from right to left, frequently striking in front and ricocheting over my men, who were in a lying position. It was at this time that a shell from the enemy's guns exploded upon the right of the third company, in