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May 25th, A. P. Stewart sent Austin's battalion and Lewis' Sixteenth regiment forward as skirmishers near the church, the enemy showing activity.
Soon the remainder of the brigade was ordered forward to develop the enemy.
They drove in the skirmishers and found the enemy in line of battle.
Gibson was called back and put in reserve.
Then immediately followed that determined assault by Hooker's corps, and no less determined repulse.
By June 1st, the brigade had lost out of 889 enlisted men, 34 killed, 150 wounded and 19 missing; out of 85 officers, 4 killed and 13 wounded.
Said General Gibson: ‘Capt. E. J. Blasco, Thirteenth, was killed in the charge at Resaca.
He was a modest, skillful and brave young man, who had served with me from the beginning of the war and to whom I had become greatly attached.
Capt. M. G. Pearson, Nineteenth, Lieut. J. T. Craddock, Sixteenth, and Lieut. F. Hammond, Fourth battalion, excellent officers, fell at their posts.
Lieut.-Col. J. McEnery, commanding Fourth battalion, was severely wounded in the charge at Resaca; Maj. S. L. Bishop, commanding Twentieth regiment, lost his right arm in front of New Hope church, and Maj. W. B. Scott, Nineteenth, lost his leg and has since died of the wound.
Maj. W. B. Scott laid aside his ministerial robes for the sword, and while he served the brigade as a parson he gave up his life defending his native land.
Capt. J. W. Stringfellow, First infantry, and Adjt. O. O. Cobb, Sixteenth, were also severely wounded.
These officers and those of the wounded whose names I have mentioned were among the very best officers of the brigade.’
He especially commended Major Austin, who had been frequently distinguished on the skirmish line, and honorably mentioned his staff officers: Capt. H. H. Bein, adjutant-general; Capt. A. L. Stuart, inspectorgeneral; Maj. J. H. Henshaw, quartermaster; Maj. W. V. Crouch, commissary; Capt. G. Norton, successor to Bein; Lieut. H. P. Kernochan, an efficient aide in the
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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