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The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
sband joins her, with all his honors. "My division had a desperate fight that day. I was under fire all day, encouraging my men and urging them on against superior numbers. I am under great concern for the other members of my staff. Scheetz and Lewis both left me, to deliver orders, and did not return. Late in the day Beatty was shot in the leg and left me with but two orderlies. "The reserves fought nobly, but they are terribly cut up. Simmons, commanding first brigade, killed; Meade, commanding second brigade, wounded, and a large number of officers with them. "After dark, the battle still raging on the right, I brought forward some five hundred men, rallied by Lieut. Col. Thompson, and riding in advance, in the obscurity of the evening, I rode right into the 47th Virginia, drawn up under some trees, and so ended the chapter. (Signed,) "Geo. A. McCall." The enclosure in the above letter was as follows: "Henry J. Biddle, Assistant Adjutant-General,