Fourth Virginia infantry, May 3d, 1864;
We, the undersigned, officers of the Fourth Virginia infantry, Stonewall Brigade, “ do certify that we were engaged in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863, and that no troops passed through or over this regiment, and especially do we deny that any troops passed over us near the breastworks; some troops may have passed, moving by the flank, while the ” Stonewall Brigade, was moving by the flank from the left to the right of the plank road.
‘(Signed): John E. Roberts, Captain, Company F, Fourth Virginia infantry; George M. Hanson, Lieutenant, Company A, Fourth Virginia infantry; B. D. Fretton, Lieutenant, Company A, Fourth Virginia infantry; T. P. Campbell, Lieutenant, Company D, Fourth Virginia infantry; P. Hagan, Lieutenant, Company H, Fourth Virginia infantry; Thomas J. Kirk, Lieutenant, Company G, Fourth Virginia infantry; J. B. Caddell, Lieutenant, Company C, Fourth Virginia infantry; Jas P. Kelly, Lieutenant, Company C, Fourth Virginia infantry; Samuel H. Lyle, Lieutenant, Company I, Fourth Virginia infantry; John B. Jones, Lieutenant, Company I, Fourth Virginia infantry; S. S. Slusser, Lieutenant, Company L, Fourth Virginia infantry; H. I. Keister, Captain, Company L, Fourth Virginia infantry; Jas. N. Bosang, Captain, Company C, Fourth Virginia infantry; Wm. Wade, Adjutant, Fourth Virginia infantry; Joseph McMurran, Sergeant-Major, Fourth Virginia infantry.’
Early in the morning of the 3d May, 1863, the skirmishers of the Stonewall brigade were deployed some one hundred and fifty yards in the front of the brigade and about parallel with the breastworks on the right of the plank road.
When the brigade moved by the flank to the right of the road, the line of skirmishers moved also to the right, many of them crossing the road, and remained there some time awaiting orders.
I certify that the within are the only officers of the Fourth Virginia infantry who were in the battle of Chancellorsville, 3d May, 1863, who are now with the regiment, and that the facts stated by these officers (except the statement of Captain Wade, who was in command of the skirmishers, of which I have no personal knowledge, but whom I fully endorse as a gentleman of veracity) are true, and I further state that my colors at no time during the engagement
