wounded, prisoners, wagons, cannon, &c., scattered in inextricable confusion upon the road!
Thus, for four hours, did our inferior force, unaided by a single piece of artillery, withstand over thirty thousand of the enemy, assisted by twenty-six pieces of artillery!
In total, we captured many prisoners, and thirty peices of artillery up to 5 P. M. Friday, and in the battle of Gaines's Mills, captured 26 field-peices, 15,000 stand of arms, 6 stand of colors, three Generals, (Reynolds, Sanders and Rankin,) and over 4,000 prisoners, including dozens of officers of every grade — from Colonel to Lieutenants of the line.
The Federal force.
Every arm of the service was well represented in the Federal line — cavalry were there in force, and when our men emerged from the woods, attempted to charge, but the three brigades on the right, and Jackson's three brigades on the left, closed up ranks and poured such deadly volleys upon the horsemen, that they left the ground in confusio
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Col C C Peynes, 5th Ala; Lt Col Stephen F Hall, 11th Ala; Wm P Lucas, 5th Ala; Jas T Hardanay, do; Wm A Dudley, do; J W Joiner, do; Perry Duke, 8th Ala; John Dely, do; Lt A A Walden, 11th Ala; Thos Avery, do; Luther C Kirksey, do; Wm H H Sanders, do; Samuel A Blake, do; Sergt Martin C Norris, do; Henry McGee, do; Dan'l N Cosley, do; Ellis Woods, do; Sergt W R Garthright, do; W C Allen, 10th Ala; Jas H Brownice do; Wm H Merlone, do. Jos S Merrill, 11th Ala; E C Reaves, 13th Ala; Wm B Nan of Louisiana Volunteers, June 25th, 1862.
Field Officers.--Wounded: Lieut-Col Wm R Shivers, commanding, arm, severely; Sergeant- Major Henry E Entzminger, leg broken.
Company A, Capt Barman.--Killed: J L Turner, J B Babb, L L Gage, Jno Sanders.
Wounded: Sergt A H Leonard, Sydney Atkinson, James Blair, Wm Youngblood, Thos J Dolan, W W Williams, B S Gilham, S Sparks, Johnson P Kelly, Peter Nicholson, W T Logan, Thos McGovern, Wm Miles.
Company B, Capt Groves.--Wounded: Sergt J M