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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
rs to attack this battery, and thus to prevent it from playing on the other troops charging over the plain. In this movement the Twentieth North Carolina, Colonel Iverson, participated, sustaining a heavy loss; and, at a later period, I sent Colonel Scales, Thirteenth North Carolina, to reinforce our troops there. The attack was partially successful, our troops acting handsomely, and maintaining themselves against superior numbers. Having effected the junction with Major-General Jackson's tf this brigade throughout these trying scenes. Colonel McRae (absent from Malvern Hill under orders) exhibited his accustomed gallantry and good judgment at Cold Harbor, rendering me material assistance in looking after the left of my line. Colonel Scales, Thirteenth North Carolina, was conspicuous for his fine bearing. Seizing the colors of his regiment, at a critical moment, at Cold Harbor, and advancing to the front, he called upon the Thirteenth to stand to them, thus restoring confidence