The National tribune., 1907-11-07

road. AS the regiment with its eolors
came into the works. they We're greeted
ty the boys. who had become lost in
the charges in the woods. and many
hearty handshakes We're had, as they
believed the regiment had been cap
tured. The regiment lost no prisoners
except those badly wounded and unabla
TO leave the field, but brought in 35 of
the enemy
The Different Companies.
Co. c did not participate with the
regiment in the action, being on picket
on the right. When the enemy attacked
they were driven in, and, passing down
by way of the Nine Mile road and the
railroad, joined Birney's Brigade of
Kearny's Division, the company being
complimented by Gen. Birney for It's
efficient services.
Co. B was left in camp as camp guard
when the regiment moved to the front.
AS the action proceeded il went into
support of Miller's Pa. Battery, gather
ing up arms from the wounded and
slragglers. Capt. Hildebrand placed his
men in the trenches in front of the
guns. and when the enemy drove in
Casey's line and pressed on to take
Miller's guns. the latter opened on them
with canister, and, aided by the fire
of Co. b, each man having at least six
charged they were driven back. Here
they remained until the battery was re-
tired, when it joined the regiment as it
was falling back from its old camp.
Miller says the fight the regiment made
in its camp and the support of Co. B
saved his guns.
The troops the regiment engaged be-
yond the Nine-Mfle road and in its
camp We're the 9th Ga, 9Th S. c.. the
Do II,
der the command of Col. Micah Jen-
kins, who was afterwards killed in the
Wilderness while serving as a Briga-
dier-General under Longstreet.
Official Credit.
The following extracts from the Off
cial reports of Gen. Abercrombie, bri-
gade commander, and Gen. Keyes, corps
commander, is a brief Of the brigade
services at Fair Oaks:
Gen. Abercrombie in his report says:
Shortly afterwards the 61st
Pa. was placed in position near the 23d,
then already engaged. The
dead of the enemy on portions of the
battlefield occupied by the 1st Long
I have of the gallantry displayed by
these regiments"
Gen. Keyes: "At little past
2 o'clock ! ordered Neilrs 23d and Rip
peys 61st Pa. regiments to move to
the support of Casey's right. Neill at
tackled the enemy twice with great gal
lantry. In the first attack the enemy
was driven back, and in the second at
tack and under the Immediate COM
mand of Gen. Couch these two regi-
ments assaulted a vastly superior force
of the enemy, and fought with extraor-
binary bravery; were compelled at last
to retire; brought in 35 prisoners. Both
regiments were badly cut up.
After this attack the 23d Pa. took part
in the hard fighting which closed the
day near Seven Pines. Some
of the 10th Mass, the 93d Pa of Peck's
Brigade, portion of the 36th n. Y,
a portion of the 55th N. Y. and 1st Long
Island (67th n. W, together with frag-
ments of other regiments of Couch's
Division, still contended on the right
of this line. while number of troops
which I did not recognize occupied the
space between me and them.
CAS- the ground was miry and incum-
bered with fallen trees, ] dismounted
and mingled with the troops. The first
l questioned belonged to Kearny's Di-
vision, Birney's Brigade, Heintzelman's
Corps; the next. 56th N. Y, and the
third 10th Pa, Casey's Division.
Il took out my glasses to examine