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ight assault at the earliest possible moment, and arranged it for the morning of the sixteenth. On the evening of the fifteenth, General Benham called the principal officers together, Generals Wright and Stevens, and Colonel Williams, Captain Drayton, senior naval officer, also present, explained his plan for the attack, and the reasons which made it important that it should be done without delay. This plan was, that General Stevens, with nearly all his force, which was over four thousand to both of these questions. Not the slightest objection was made to the movement by any of the officers or the slightest doubt expressed as to its success, General Wright even remarking: We can take the Fort. This is proven by a letter of Captain Drayton to General Benham, where he states that if they were opposed to it, no one said as much as this, and that he recollects no opposition to the plan, except as to the time, which General Stevens proposed to delay to afternoon. This delay was p
er Colonel Walker,) together with Evans's brigade, was posted along the mountain on the left; General Hood, with his own and Whiting's brigade, under Colonel Law, Drayton's, and D. R. Jones's, under Colonel G. T. Anderson, on the right. Batteries had been placed by General Hill in such positions as could be found, but the ground w65268 1st South-Carolina,Jenkin's,Pickett's,8094124 2d South-Carolina,Jenkin's,Pickett's,94958 5th South-Carolina,Jenkin's,Pickett's,23739 15th South-Carolina,Drayton's,McLaws',s31821 51st Georgia,Drayton's,McLaws',s 99 8th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,85464 9th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,12116128 7th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,Drayton's,McLaws',s 99 8th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,85464 9th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,12116128 7th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,20100120 11th Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,20178198 1st Georgia,Anderson's,Hood's,2777104 15th Georgia,Toomos's,Hood's,64854 2d Georgia,Toomos's,Hood's,25153 17th Georgia,Toomos's,Hood's,108292 20th Georgia,Toomos's,Hood's,19113132 18th Georgia,Wofford's,Hood's,19114133 Hampton Legion,Wofford's,Hood's,116374 1st Texas,Wofford
n and Whiting's brigade, (under Colonel Law,) Drayton's and D. R. Jones's, (under Colonel G. T. Andusive: Killed, wounded, and missing, 12,233. Drayton's Brigade211872  931171162643176541634 Anderections. Anderson soon became partially, and Drayton hotly, engaged. But Ripley did not draw trigof General Evans, will figure in his report. Drayton's brigade, supported by Toombs's brigade, comwagon train. Halting just beyond Boonsboroa, Drayton's and Anderson's brigades were temporarily deth only Toombs's two regiments, and Kemper's, Drayton's, and Walker's brigades. When it is knownparated at least three hundred yards from General Drayton's right, when General R. came by, and ordo attack our troops on the right, composed of Drayton's and a portion of Kemper's brigade. I movedrced his way to the Braddock road between General Drayton's force and my own, and sent a column of am indebted to Captain Middleton, of Brigadier-General Drayton's staff, to Lieutenant Williams, of [39 more...]