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iment soon became heavily engaged with Porter's van, the Twenty-fifth New York regiment, and drove it back, inflicting heavy loss. Pressing the Twenty-fifth they encountered Butterfield's Not Martindale's, as Lane reports. entire brigade. Helped by a friendly wood, Lane maintained his position for some time. However, in spite of the efforts of his two guns, Butterfield's force was soon overlapping both his wings, and so Lane gave orders to retire along a fence. All the horses of one of Pott's guns had been disabled, and he was forced to leave this piece. Lane says of the fight of this section: Never were two guns served more handsomely. On their retreat toward Hanover Court House, this regiment found the enemy between it and the rest of the brigade and lost many prisoners. However, Webb's assertion that it was almost entirely captured, is far wide of the mark, as Lane reports that it reached its brigade on the Chickahominy with 480 men. Regimental History. Colonel Lane sa