1. W. W. Kirkland, Colonel, 4. Alexander Miller, Lieut.-Colonel,

TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

2. Saunders Fulton, Colonel. 5. W.J. Pfohl, Major.
3. B. Y. Graves, Lieut.-Colonel. 6. James F. Beall, Major.

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W. G. Foy, 1st. Lieut. and Adjutant,

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appeared, ordering me to fall back at once. Turning to start
off his horse tripped and fell, throwing his brave rider who
rolled over and over in the dust. Horse and man seemed
to rise together, and went away amidst a storm of
shot and bursting shell. 18 July, after a forced and very
tedious march, we met Hunter at’ Lynchburg, who
had made his murderous and marauding expedition up the
valley, where many a fair mansion fell before the incendi-
ary fire-brand. After a severe skirmish, he fled in the direc-

tion of Kanawha, W. Va. The regiment lost a few men in
this fight.

A STREAM REDDENED WITH BLOOD.

Then began that memorable march down the valley to
Washington City. 9 July we engaged the enemy in the
battle of Monocacy, Md., near a railroad bridge. The en-
emy being badly defeated, fled to his fortifications around
Washington. General Gordon, in his report of this battle,
said: ‘I desire in this connection, to state a fact of which I
was an eye witness, and which, for its rare occurrence, and
the evidence it affords of the sanguinary character of this
struggle, I consider worthy of official mention. One portion
of the enemy’s second line extended along a branch, from
which he was driven, leaving many dead and wounded in the
water and upon its banks. So profuse was the flow of blood
from the killed and wounded, that it reddened the stream for
more than one hundred yards below.”

AGAIN AT WINCHESTER.

12 July we engaged the enemy in a severe skirmish in
front of Fort Stephens, retreating the same night. 19 Sep-
tember engaged the enemy again at Winchester, after they had
driven back in great confusion the divisions of Gordon and
Ramseur. At no time during the war was the courage, en-
durance and discipline of the regiment put to a greater test
than in this battle. Amid great confusion, it fought with a
desperation rarely equaled, and by its steadiness, contributed
largely in preventing a disastrous rout. At no time was its