corn field on the right of his line. The front line being thus so extended by an additional regiment and the battery, I found it necessary to change the position of my brigade in order that I might be in more easy supporting distance. My line was therefore advanced to the front and to the right of my old position, the increasing fire from the right indicating that the regiment sent forward by me was already engaging the enemy. This regiment (the One hundred and fifty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment) was in fact already engaged when this new position was taken.

Very soon after this it was reported to me that the enemy was moving forward with the apparent design of flanking the front line on its right. I therefore moved forward my command and to the right until the front line was unmasked, at which time I was advised that the enemy with three regiments had certainly succeeded in entering the woods and corn fields on the right of the One hundred and fifty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment and would soon be in the rear of this regiment, now considerably advanced. Having assured myself of this, I caused a change of front forward on the left regiment to be executed,thus throwing the two right regiments entirely in the rear of the enemy, from which position my brigade advanced on him, taking him by surprise, and after a few well-directed volleys compelling him to abandon his cover and flee in great confusion toward his reserve. At this time the One hundred and fifty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment advanced and formed on the left of the line, and, the enemy having rallied, the whole brigade was again soon engaged, but under their steady advance and galling fire from Minie and Enfield rifles the enemy soon broke and fled for his rear, leaving the ground strewn thickly with his killed and wounded.

Some 500 prisoners were taken at and near this place by my command and turned over to Lieutenant Seay, detailed for the purpose of taking charge of the prisoners by the major-general commanding. The troops, being almost exhausted from previous hard marching, loss of sleep, and scanty fare, were compelled to desist from the pursuit and rest, during which their cartridge-boxes were replenished with ammunition preparatory to again advancing on the enemy.

At this time I was advised that Brigadier-General Cleburne had been wounded and had retired from the field. I therefore assumed command of the division, and the major-general commanding having arrived, by his direction I moved the division forward on the right-hand side of the road toward Richmond, Brigadier-General Churchill's division having been previously advanced on the left of the road and engaging the enemy soon after my division was put in motion.

This engagement was spirited, the enemy contesting the ground stubbornly with their force on the left of the road and shelling my command as we advanced toward him through the open fields; but being very hotly pressed by Brigadier-General Churchill's command he again fled, and by his superior speed secured to himself another ground on which to rally. The troops under my command were by this time almost famished for water, having only had about one canteen of muddy water to the man during the entire day. A scant supply of water having been obtained by the troops, we again pressed on and soon came in sight of him, posted in the south edge of the town of Richmond and in the country near that place. In this position he attacked the Third Division on the left of the road and the Second brigade of the Fourth Division on the right of the road-the Twelfth and Forty-seventh Tennessee Regiments held as a reserve and the One hundred and fifty-fourth Senior and Thirteenth Tennessee Regiments on the right of the Second Brigade-whence