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guns. The brigade, reduced as it was to a handful by the fight of the day before, again suffered heavily. Lieutenant-Colonel Matthews, commanding Seventeenth Georgia, fell, mortally wounded, while acting in a most heroic manner. On the previia were killed or wounded. The reports are lost, but I remember what I have stated. The field officers were: Lieutenant Colonel Matthews, Seventeenth Georgia, mortally wounded and died at night; Lieutenant-Colonel Seago, Twentieth Georgia, shot thour guns each, one with its flag, and held them, after a desperate struggle by the enemy to retake them. Here Lieutenant-Colonel Matthews received his death wound, acting with most conspicuous gallantry. We were forced back behind the batteries, about forty yards, after having taken them, and there Matthews fell in the desperate stand we made to recover and save the guns. We saved them, and finally, the enemy retired out of sight. Report of Major-General A. P. Stewart. headquarter