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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek, Hanover county, Virginia, May 30, 1864. (search)
general officers, meant business as plainly as if it had been spoken. Five officers, friends in Edgar's battalion, Captain Read, Captain Swann, Adjutant Craig, Lieutenant Patton and myself, had met under the shade of a small tree, and lying arounor a big fight, no doubt of it, and I would give my left leg now if I could have my life guaranteed. So would I, said Captain Read. I would give my left arm, said Lieutenant Patton. They might have the tip of my ear, darn 'em, said Captain Swann. W dislodge the force of pickets if possible, and ordered out a skirmish line consisting of two companies, Company B, Captain E. J. Read's, being one. I do not recollect the other. But they met such a well-directed fire from the protected enemy, thatde their way back to the breastworks, many of them wounded and several left dead in the timber; among the wounded were Captain Read and Lieutenant Patton. The day wore on, the sun was getting down in the west, and the enemy were evidently massing