brave Anderson, by a fatal mistake, lost his life.--As the enemy advanced, he rode to the trench and invited them in, thinking they were our returning pickets, at the same time telling our men not to fire.
He was instantly shot down by the advanced body of the enemy's force.
Our men then opened a galling fire upon them, and they fell back into the fallen timber and brush, from which they kept up a constant fire at our men in the trenches and upon our artillerists.
My A. A. General, Captain Jas. Deshler, of the artillery, whilst behaving most gallantly, was shot down in the trenches by a wound through both thighs.
He refused to leave the field, and remained in the trenches until the day was over.
Captain Miller opened upon the enemy with his guns, and behaved with great gallantry, exposing himself at his guns to the fire of the enemy's sharp-shooters.
After the enemy's force, on the right, had been repulsed and driven from the field.
I ordered all of our men who had been
