The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1864., [Electronic resource]

The Wounding of Gen. Longstreet.

Richmond, May 24, 1864.
To the Editor of the Enquirer:

Sir:

It has been generally rumored, and indeed, has appeared in some of the public prints, that the troops of Mahone's brigade wounded Lieut, Gen Longstreet and killed Brig. Gen. Jenkins.

I am in receipt of a letter, addressed to me by direction of Lieut. Gen. Longstreet, in which he exonerates that brigade from the charge. Did I possess facilities, I could with equal readiness, refute the charge in reference to the death of the lamented Jenkins.

Justice to these brave and true men, who have so scarcely attested their valor, and of whose numbers so large a proportion has fallen, killed or wounded, in the pending battle, demands this contradiction of the imputations cast upon them.

I am, Colonel,
Your ob't servant,

Robertson Taylor,
Capt and A. A. G., Ashone's Brigade.