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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 2 Browse Search
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my horse. I then rode around to a point where I could get a view of the place at which I separated from the brigade, and seeing none of it passing, I rode forward on the road leading to the battle-field, with the hope of finding the brigade emerging from the woods farther off. It was then nearly dark, and I found the road filled with a large number of men retreating in confusion, being mostly from General Toombs's Georgia brigade. These troops, aided by my Assistant Adjutant-General, Captain Gardner, I endeavored to rally, but found it very difficult to do so. During my exertions to rally these men, the Twelfth Georgia regiment, of my own brigade, came up, under the command of Captain James G. Rodgers, and I marched it off, accompanied by Colonel Benning, with a few men from his regiment, of Toombs's brigade. These men were formed in line, by direction of General Ewell, who had preceded me with some men rallied by him in a field, over which a considerable body of our troops had ch
by his officers and men. He particularly mentions Major Williams, Fifth Virginia regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Lawson Botts, Second Virginia regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel R. D. Gardner, Fourth Virginia regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward D. Lee, Thirty-third Virginia regiment; Captain Charles L. Haynes, Twenty-seventh Virginia regim-seventh Virginia, commanded on this occasion as follows: The Fifth by Major Williams, the Second by Lieutenant-Colonel Lawson Botts, the Fourth by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert D. Gardner, the Thirty-third by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward G. Lee, the Twenty-seventh by Captain Charles L. Haynes. Captains Carpenter's and Poague's batteriesWeaver, wounded in ankle. Lieutenant James P. Charlton, of company G, missing, supposed to have been wounded and taken prisoner. Respectfully submitted. R. D. Gardner, Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding Fourth Regiment Virginia Volunteers. Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Botts. headquarters Second Virginia regiment, Augus