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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Francis S. Bartow. (search)
mand, composed of four companies of cavalry, Captain Shoemaker's Danville Artillery, Colonel William B. Tallaferro's 231 Regiment, Colonel Jackson's Regiment, Colonel Fulkerson's 37th Regiment, and tcommand. The retreat was then continued, and now our sufferings commenced in earnest. Col. Tallaferro had command of the rear division nearly the whole retreat, and had to sustain the hardest phey had to be left at the mercy of the enemy. Lieut. Lanier's Washington Artillery and Col. Tallaferro's 23d Regiment had no sooner crossed than they were ordered to give the enemy battle, and ooon took our position, and had hardly taken it, when the advance of the enemy came upon us. Col. Tallaferro gave the command orders to fire, when Lieut. Lanier and the 23d opened on them, and for an letter without bearing testimony to the bravery, coolness, courage and fatherly kindness of Col. Tallaferro towards his men, not one of whom but would follow him wherever he should lead. The same re