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several hours under fire. Later, Capt Alexander acted as my aide-de-camp in the transmission of orders and in observation of the enemy. I was most efficiently served throughout the day by my volunteer aids, Cols. Preston, Manning, Chesnut, Miles, Rice, Heyward, and Chisholm, to whom I tender my thanks for their unflagging, intelligent, and fearless discharge of the laborious, responsible duties entrusted to them. To Lt. S. W. Ferguson, A. D. C., and Col. Heyward, who were habitually at officers and men of forty seven regiments of volunteers, besides from some nine different regiments of regular troops, detachments of which were engaged. From their official reports, we learn of a regiment of volunteers engaged, six regiments of Miles's division, and the five regiments of Bunyon's brigade, from which we have neither sound or wounded prisoners. Making all allowances for mistakes, we are warranted in saying that the Federal army consisted of at least fifty-five regiments of vol