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Captain Moore, another
Captain (whose name I have forgotten, I am sorry to say), and twenty-eight or thirty men, who had been left on picket in the morning, with orders to follow the brigade as soon as relieved.
Captain Moore said that my orders would relieve him, in the eyes of
General Archer, for not obeying instructions to follow the brigade without delay, and went in at once and drove back the enemy's skirmishers, relieving the train of all annoyance.
Generals Archer and
Thomas arrived back with their brigades a few minutes later, but never fired a gun,
Captain Moore's brilliant dash having accomplished all needed.
If
Colonel J. Thompson Brown was in command or firing there I did not know it, and
Captain Stanard never mentioned it to me then or afterwards, and when
Archer and
Thomas came back I was the officer who reported the situation to them, as I think
General Thomas, if alive, can confirm.
Dear
General Archer is dead.
1Stanard and
Thomas and
Moore, I hope, alive and well.
Yours sincerely,