The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19

,ns. A fine loss occurred just there.
 T.ha aeth Pa was in front of the slp
 16soIanel Edwards report, p, oo9''
 xxUhat other regiments the otn en- countared later is not clear
 , Tha counter charge of our line pe-
 gan when the 9th Ala. rose from tns around where 1t had been iyins, .had SnS forvVard, As they reached our line the sth went with them. We drove tne sneov with A yell that made the woods ring and the charge was taken up successively along the line untii U en,- braced the whole of Wilcox's Brlgaoe and two regiments of Senimes. These
 Syare fine troop, that in the language or
 General Lee, drove the enemy neaf-
 ly a mile" .o
 scseneraI Wheaton. who was near 70
 the road, says, (p. 61S) that peioIe
 inc ssrd and 102 Pennsylvanla en
 gagged there were pusnea srs driven % to-
 wards us in confsion.| These were
 tbe troops that in the language or
 shoes that were so much neeoeu, were among our spells. An. officer re-
 norted that during that night, wnlie searching the woods for the woundeo' he found sold Robinson" and Irish-
 man ,,u of Go. A., sitting on the ground
 bv the side of a badly wonded Federai officer, quietly smoking his pipe.
 what are you doing here. Robin
 sonT'
 The gruesome reply was:
 ssIsnn waiting on this man here.
 we's got 6 bit of job to do. l took him for a dead one. and was after pull ling his boots of of him. when ne said he was dyin' and asked me 10 wait till he was dead. Ana laltn' ne very slow about it!'
 We buried the Federal dead in long trench near the church, and allowed General Sedgwich to send surgeons 10 assist us in caring for his wounded, but we had not allowed him to eaten Cadmus."
 battle was forty-four killed and woun- l ded In Lieutenant Colonel Heroert s report of the battle Lieutenant c. l p Rice. Captain W. W. Mordecai l and Lieutenant W. Sterling were mem | tioned as conspicuous for gallantry, and all were said to have acted with steady bravery. The soldiers lately enlisted" conscripts, were specially mentioned. General Wilcox in his re- port of the battle co. n. series. vol ume XIV, D. S6O) says, Colonel Royston. sth Alabama( and after his severe wound. Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Her. bert. who commanded the Sth Alabama) Colonel PinckaId, 14th Alabama. Col Onel William ii. toIucyt ASth .<NhsOAhAe' colonel ]. c. c. Sanders. >11th Alabama, Major J. H. ]. Williams, 9th Alabama. were intelligent. energetic and gallant 1 in commanding, directing and leading
 their men
 The mems roll of honor was: Private Allen Boiling. Company A. Private [. N Howard. Company B.
 Sergeant Robert Gaddes. Company C..
 Sergeant F. H. Mays, Company D. Sergeant T. A. Kelly, Company F. Private Patrick Leary. Company I. Private James Reynolds, Company K,
 killed.
 On the next day, May 4, General Lee had planned an assault on Sedgwick. but the troops sent to connect on our rikht with Early, who was still on the left of Sedgwick, were slow in get ting into line and about dark 1t was ascertained that Sedgwick had all day been retreating over pontoon bridge near Banks's Ford. General Wilcox having asked permission to send a regiment In pursuit, ordered forward the sth. We double-duieked in that direction. Nearing them, we could hear the rumble of artillery and the ] 'shoutings of the Captains" as the rear of the command. was being hur- ried In the darkness over the river Everywhere in the woods we picked up prisoners. Captain Pagan whose | figures may always be relied on, re- cords that the prisoners captured by our Brigade were 1920, and the rest oi Andersons Division brought in others
 the total being abgut 2,0oo.