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FORTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.

1. R. W. Stedman, 2d Lieut., Co. A.,
Famous Scout.
2. E. A. Moffitt, 2d Lieut., Co. H.

3.
4,
5.

John Ruffin Buchanan, Sergeant, Co.A.
Joseph M. Satterwhite, Private, Co. A.
James Andrew Wilson, Private, Co. A.

Forty-FourtH REGIMENT. 29

pital in Richmond, and was not able to rejoin his regiment
until a few days before the battle at Reams Station.

The regiment participated in all the engagements in which
its brigade took part from Spottsylvania Court House to Pe-
tersburg, constantly skirmishing and fighting as Grant con-
tinued his march on Lee’s flank. On 3 June, 1864, it was
heavily engaged with the enemy near Gaines’ Mill. In this
fight General W. W. Kirkland, commanding the brigade, was
wounded. Pursuing its march, and almost daily skirmish-
ing, the regiment reached Petersburg on 24 June, 1864, and
commenced the desultory and dreary work of duty in the
trenches. During the latter part of July, 1864, the regi-
ment left Petersburg for Stoney Creek, and whilst on the
march Colonel William MacRae, of the Fifteenth North
Carolina Regiment, joined the brigade and assumed com-
mand under orders. This gallant officer was promoted to
the rank of Brigadier-General in November, 1864, and from
that time never left the brigade, of which the Forty-fourth
was a part, until the last day at Appomattox. From Stoney
Creek the regiment returned to Petersburg.

REAMS: STATION.

The regiment bore its part with conspicuous good conduct
in the brilliant engagement at Reams Station on 25 August,
1864.

Upon the investment of Petersburg the possession of the
Weldon road became of manifest importance, as it was Lee’s
main line of communication with the South, whence he drew
his men and supplies. On 18 August, 1864, General G. K.
Warren, with the Fifth Corps of Grant’s army, and Kautz’s
Division of cavalry, occupied the line of the Weldon road at
a point six miles from Petersburg. An attempt was made to
dislodge them from this position on the 21st, but the effort
failed. Emboldened by Warren’s success, Hancock was or-
dered from Deep Bottom to Reams Station, ten miles from
Petersburg. He arrived there on the 22d and promptly
commenced the destruction of the railroad track. His in-
fantry force consisted of Gibbons’ and Miles’ Divisions, and
in the afternoon of the 25th, he was reinforced by the divis-