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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle of Southwest Mountain. (search)
o response to our guns. Having attended to our own dead and wounded, and also cared for the wounded of the foe, opportunity was given them to bury their dead, which they did in full view of our lines. The number of their dead must have been large, as several hours were occupied in their burial and removal from the field. Gen. Jackson was all the while in the thickest of the fight, and was within a few paces of Gen. Winder when that officer received his fatal shot. The report that Colonel Garnett, commanding the 21 brigade, was killed in the engagement, is erroneous. We learn from Captain Turner, who saw them afterwards, that his wound was slight, not sufficiently serious to cause him any great inconvenience. Corporal Lindsay, of company F, was shot through the head with a pistol by a Yankee officer, but the act was immediately avenged by Lindsay's comrades, who thrust their bayonets into the Yankee, killing him on the spot. It is stated that the Orange and Alexandria