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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 8.82 (search)
his crisis I relied with entire confidence on that undaunted bravery of those chivalric sons of the South, which, when skilfully directed, no enemy could resist. My thanks are especially due to Major F. P. Beck, chief quartermaster; Captain L. D. Sandige, district inspector and acting assistant adjutant-general; Major Beverly Matthews, inspector of cavalry; Colonel John M. Sandige, volunteer aid-de-camp; Second Lieutenant A. B. de Saurres, engineer Confederate States army; and First Lieutenant M. B. Ruggles, aid-de-camp, for services most promptly and gallantly rendered on the field of battle. Your dispatch of the 19th from Canton, notifying me that three thousand of the enemy's mounted troops were moving against General Chalmers, was received on the battle-ground at half-past 1 P. M. the 20th, and I immediately sent off scouts to report the actual positions, &c., of the enemy, with the view of assisting in his expulsion; but the defeat of one of their columns by the troops of G