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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
gave me nine guns (one of the howitzers of Captain Brown having been disabled by the wedging of a shell in the bore) replying to a much greater number of superior guns along the enemy's front. After testing fully the enemy's strength so far as his artillery was concerned, Lieutenant-Colonel Lee, chief of artillery, of General Magruder's corps, concluding that the contest was too unequal to be longer continued, ordered the batteries to retire. In this action, Captain Brown lost Corporal Charles W. Lucas, killed; Sergeant G. W. Beard, wounded; privates G. T. Lindsay and Benjamin Lucas, wounded, and two horses so severely wounded that he was compelled to leave them on the field. Captain Lane's battery distinguished itself for the accuracy of its fire and the coolness and courage of the officers and men. This report was made to Lieutenant-Colonel Lee. On the twenty-eighth, Captain Brown was ordered to take the same position occupied on the twenty-seventh. Captain Moody's battery
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
rts, and supplies. Brigadier-General C. Grover was placed in command of the post, and his division left for its defence. This reduced the force of the advancing column about three thousand men. While at Alexandria, on the twenty-first instant, a movement was organized against the enemy posted at Henderson's Hill,twenty-five miles in advance. The expedition consisted of three brigades of General A. J. Smith's command and a brigade of cavalry of the Nineteenth corps, under command of Colonel Lucas, of the Sixteenth Indiana volunteers; the whole under command of Brigadier-General Mower, of the Sixteenth corps. The enemy was surprised, losing two hundred and fifty prisoners, two hundred horses, and four guns with their caissons. Colonel H. B. Sargent, of my staff, was severely wounded in this action, and disabled from service during the campaign. This affair reflected the highest credit upon the officers and men engaged. Anticipating by a few days the passage of the gunboats,