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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 1 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
noble conduct on this day. Especial credit is due to Colonel Barclay, of the Twenty-third Georgia, and Major Graybill, Twenty-eighth Georgia, who, with their regiments, met and defeated the fiercest assaults of the enemy. My thanks are due Lieutenants Jordan and Grattan, of my staff, for their assistance this day. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, A. H. Colquitt, Colonel, commanding Brigade. Report of Colonel Colquitt, commanding brigade, of battle of Sharpsburg. brigadeack a large force by their annoying fire, and the apprehension, excited by their boldness, that they were supported by a line in rear. During the engagement of this day, I had the misfortune to lose my Acting Assistant-Adjutant-General, Lieutenant R. P. Jordan. He fell while gallantly dashing toward the enemy's line. I have not known a more active, efficient, and fearless officer. Lieutenant Grattan, my Aidde-camp, was conspicuously bold in the midst of danger, and untiring in the discharge
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
e, of the same regiment, said Hill, deserved special mention. Of him it could be truly said that he shrank from no danger, no fatigue and no exposure. Maj. Robert S. Smith, Fourth Georgia, fell fighting most heroically. He had received a military education and gave promise of eminence in his profession. Capt. N. J. Garrison, commanding the Twenty-eighth; Lieut.-Col. C. T. Zachry, Twenty-seventh; Lieut.-Col. E. F. Best and Maj. J. H. Huggins, Twenty-third, were severely wounded—and Lieut. R. P. Jordan, acting assistant adjutant-general of Colquitt's brigade, fell in the course of gallant service. Further south on the line, standing between the village of Sharpsburg and the southernmost bridge on the Antietam, was the division of D. R. Jones, six brigades but only 2,430 men, to whom fell the duty of holding back Burnside's corps of the United States army. General Toombs was ordered to defend the bridge with the Second and Twentieth Georgia regiments, Col. John B. Cumming and Lieu