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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
retreat at this time was, in my judgment, proper or allowable. So the command was given to take the battery, and it was done. Soon after crossing the road, Captain McCawley, of General Helm's staff, informed me that the General had been mortally wounded, near the position occupied by the left of the brigade. The right not being then under fire, I left it in command of Lieutenant-Colonel Cofer, and started, on Captain McCawley's horse, to where the other portion of the brigade was. I encountered considerable difficulty in re-uniting the brigade, on account of the distance apart and the want of staff aid-having no one with me but Captain Hewitt, and notthroughout the entire action, after the death of General Helm, as well as previous thereto, as I learn, he displayed coolness, gallantry, and judgment. Captain G. W. McCawley, Assistant Inspector-General, promptly reported to me the wounding of General Helm, as before stated, at which time I got from him his horse, not having m