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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
nduced to retire by assurance from the surgeon that further exertion would cost him his life. I beg to commend to your notice my Aid, Lieutenant Wm. Herwood, who evinced, throughout, zeal, enterprise, and daring; and to my volunteer Aids, Captains Wm. Morriss and Philip Haxall, I am indebted for valuable assistance in delivering orders in entire disregard of danger, as well as in encouraging and rallying the troops. It was in the engagement of the twenty-seventh of June, at Cold Harbor, that CCaptain Morriss was severely, and I fear dangerously, wounded by a musket ball, breaking his thigh bone. My brigade Commissary, Major Lewis Ginter, and Quartermaster, Major R. T. Taylor, more than justified my favorable estimate of their qualifications. I have not referred more particularly to the two field batteries, attached to my brigade, commanded by those accomplished officers, Captains McIntosh and Greenlee Davidson, because they were under your immediate command. Nor should I omit to e