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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Lane's North Carolina brigade. (search)
ed. Lietenant-Colonel Cowan ordered four companies--two from the Seventh and two from the Thirty-third--under Captain Thomas G. Williamson, of the Seventh, to precede him as skirmishers. Captain Williamson engaged the enemy's skirmishers, drove theCaptain Williamson engaged the enemy's skirmishers, drove them back upon their line of battle and reported the result to Lieutenant-Colonel Cowan, who was making his arrangements for an attack when I joined him with the balance of the brigade. I had been ordered to the oak woods near the ice-house by Generay-third, Thirty-seventh, Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth. In this position I threw forward skirmishers before advancing, Captain Williamson, with his four companies, being still on the right flank. Mahone's brigade, under Colonel Weisiger, had formed aboback at right angles to our general line and then had it moved forward, under Captain J. G. Harris, in the direction of Williamson's skirmishers. When I ordered the general advance I notified Colonel Weisiger of the fact through my Adjutant-General,