l Alexander, the history of the regiments composing Drayton's brigade is given.
Coming to Virginia after the Seven Days Battles it. of course, had no effect in increasing General Lee's numbers at these battles.
There is some strange mistake on your part, or that of General Drayton, about the brigade.
If it had 7,000 men in it when it came here, then the three regiments and the battalion composing it must have averaged 1,750 men each.
It lost only 93 men at Second Manassas, and 541 at South Mountain and Sharpsburg — in all, 634.
Yet it was in a division of six brigades, commanded by D. R. Jones at Sharpsburg, and in his report (page 219, 2d volume, Reports,) he says that in his six brigades there were only 2,430 men on the morning of the 17th of September, 1862.
Evans' brigade arrived from South Carolina in July, 1862, and its strength was 2,200.
This must have been the brigade which you could not name, as no others than those mentioned came from the South during that summer.
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fill whole volumes.
The ride around McClellan; the fights on the Rapidan; the night march to Catlett's, where he captured General Pope's coat and official papers; the advance to Manassas; the attack on Flint Hill; the hard rear-guard work at South Mountain; holding the left at Sharpsburg; the circuit of McClellan again in Maryland; the bitter conflicts near Upperville as Lee fell back; the fighting all along the slopes of the Blue Ridge; the crowding 'em with artillery on the night at Frederics incessant exposure of himself bring him so much as a scratch.
On all the great battle-fields of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, as well as in the close and bitter conflicts of his cavalry at Fleetwood, Auburn, Upperville, Middleburg, South Mountain, Monocacy, Williamsport, Shepherdstown, Paris, Barbee's, Jeffersonton, Culpeper Court-House, Brandy, Kelly's Ford, Spotsylvania — in these, and a hundred other hotly-contested actions, he was in the very thickest of the fight, cheering on the
