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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 5 1 Browse Search
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for this, I would have secured a new formation of the regiment, and taken it altogether into action. But as it was, some were on the left, and others on the right of other troops. Men and officers, as far as I could discover, acted very well in the engagement. The casualties were as follows: Company A. Killed: Private James Henley. Wounded: Privates James G. Tate, in leg; H. Snodgrass, in arm; H. It. Coltherco, in head: A. J. Pierce, in left shoulder. Company B. Killed: Private James T. Sanders. Wounded: Corporal George W. Gross, in thigh; private Daniel Munick, in mouth. Company C. Killed: Private George Snuffer. Wounded: Privates John Newby, James M. Sloan. Company D. Wounded: Privates S. E. James, William Umbarger, James Duncan, Isaac Broun, A. O. Saunders. Company G. Killed: First Lieutenant Robert C. Taylor. Wounded: Sergeant E. McIngles, privates William Duarty, John Craig, J. H. Kropff, E. D. Cradock. Company H. Killed: Sergeant Samuel G. Rapp. Wound
more numerous than their wounded. The close proximity of the combatants to each other may account for the disproportion. General Cobb's brigade, going in, extended itself farther to the right than I intended; but the Colonel commanding, Colonel Sanders, Twenty-fourth Georgia, did not learn my orders to correct the error, (so it is reported,) and the engagement commencing immediately, the brigade went on to a position several hundred yards to the right of the woods and defended it. Gener disparity between our forces and those of the Yankees are considered. Brigadier-Generals Kershaw, Semmes, and Barksdale deserve high praise for their heroic conduct in the fight, and for the skilful manner their brigades were handled. Colonel Sanders, of Twenty-fourth Georgia, who commanded Cobb's brigade during the first part of the engagement, carried it forward in good order, and the brigade maintained its position, and drove the enemy for some distance, retiring, after losing forty-t