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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 172 (search)
d almost before the officers were aware of the situation of affairs, the artillery was in the enemy s hands. It was Captain McKnight's Twelfth New York battery. The moment the rebels appeared in sight Captain McKnight opened upon them with canisterCaptain McKnight opened upon them with canister. They separated in front, and, coming in on the right and left, surrounded the guns. A rebel color-bearer immediately mounted and planted his colors on the parapet. In the meantime Captain Clark's First New Jersey battery, which was posted in td Gibbon's Second corps, were in aligned positions on the right of Barlow. Gibbon had planted one battery of four guns (McKnight's Twelfth New York Independent). I have been unable to sift a vast contrariety of statements, so as to arrive at even a lost a thousand prisoners yesterday, and Mott's and Barlow's together as many. Beside these is the loss of four guns. McKnight stood by them and his colors till a rebel flag flaunted beside his own, and there was but one man with him. To-day, whil