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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
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amage, but she kept on. On the sixth, the battery was augmented by two rifle pieces of Rogers's battery, and proceeded to Wayne's Oak, lower down the river. During that night and next day, (seventh,) the batteries commanded the river, seriously damattery. On the sixth instant, the same guns, accompanied by a section of Rosser's battery, proceeded to a point known as Wayne's Oak, on the banks of the James River, four miles below Charles City Court-House. About seven A. M. on the morning of tconvoyed by a gunboat, came up the river, as also several small river steamers. The guns were drawn up behind a bluff at Wayne's Oak, and, when the transports were opposite, ran to the edge of the bluff and opened on them. Some seventy shots were ord, and Burwell Mitchell. Company G. William T. Garrettes, J. W. Carter, R. S. Burch, T. M. George, A. W. Hundley, W. C. Wayne, and E. D. Munday. Company H. Privates A. E. Vaughan, G. W. Vaughan, N. Mason, E. Clagville, and J. R. Trader. Corp
s right, when General R. came by, and ordered me to move by the left flank into the wood, which I did; my skirmishers, (the right wing of the Georgia regulars, Captain Wayne commanding,) not having the command to change direction, had continued moving by the flank, and uncovered my front. Having moved some distance over the mountain's side, I halted and sent forward to find Captain Wayne, but could not, for the reasons above given; and finding that the fire of the enemy was more to my left than front, I changed front, forward on the left, and had the left wing of the Georgia regulars, under direction of Colonel Magill, deployed as skirmishers, and as I was of General Ripley, and having to recross the road to avoid being surrounded, my men were not engaged in the fight, except the first line of skirmishers, under Captain Wayne. For casualties, see accompanying lists. Falling back from this place, I was ordered to report to Brigadier-General Hood, commanding the rear guard, and rema