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equally gallant part, on the left, was probably not exceeded in any war. The firing, when resumed after the parley above mentioned, continued incessantly all the remainder of the day and far into the night.
Just before day the brigade was withdrawn without pursuit to a position near a part of
Longstreet's corps, and there rested with their Confederate comrades ready for the enemy, who did not choose to advance.
In this battle the brigade lost 86 killed, 241 wounded and 117 missing. Among the missing, it was afterward learned, were a large number wounded and left in the trenches and others that were killed.
Among the casualties were
Lieut.-Col. W. P. Shooter, of the First, and
Col. B. T. Brockman, of the Thirteenth, killed;
Col. C. W. McCreary, of the First, and
Lieut.-Col. G. McD.
Miller, of the Rifles, wounded.
On the same day General Bratton's brigade (Jenkins') was in battle on the Brock road, on the right of Kershaw's brigade, and the two repulsed a heavy assault.
Bratton reported that his brigade was about 1, 250 strong, and lost not more than 15, but the enemy left 500 dead in its front.
During the night Bratton's brigade covered the withdrawal of McGowan's brigade from the bloody angle, and without firing a gun, lost 70 men.
On the Cold Harbor line, June 1st, when a strong Confederate movement by the right was ordered, a diary of the First corps says:
Kershaw puts in his own brigade, supported by another.
Keitt's big regiment gives way, and in the effort to rally it, Keitt is mortally wounded.
Pickett is closed into the
