ee ee ae

COPPA RARE SOE TS

RAMET URE

a ee

FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

. John P, Cannady, Sergeant, Co. K.

2. Wm. Ellis Royster, Corporal.
. Henry C. Adcock, Musician, tok
. John H. Williams, Private, Co. K.

(Killed near Petersburg, Oct., 1864.)

. Rhodes Frazier, Private, Co. K.

6. Albert Eaks, Private, Co. K.

7. John H. Dean, Private, Co. K. (Killed
at the Wilderness. )

8. James C. Knott, Co. K. (Killed at
Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.)

9. James W. Adcock, Private, Co. K.

 

Firry-Firta REGIMENT. 305

and to make the charge with all the dash that was possible. I
went back to the line and gave the men the information. They
expressed hope that it might not be necessary to make the
charge, but there was no disposition to shirk the duty if it
had been imposed. But the order for the charge was not
given, and about sunset the firing had nearly ceased in our
front, and Thomas’ Georgia Brigade of Wilcox’s Division
came in and relieved us, and we were sent to the right of the
road where we rested for the night. We had held the enemy
in check. Not one yard of our line had given away one foot
during the three hours the fearful onslaughts had been made
upon us, but of the 340 of the regiment, 34 lay dead on the
line where we fought and 167 were wounded. The Sergeant
of the ambulance corps counted the next day 157 dead Fed-
eral soldiers in front of our regiment.

On 6 May, early in the morning before sunrise, the Fed-
eral forces opened the battle on our left before Davis’ Brigade
was in line, and while our arms were yet stacked, and forced

the troops to the left of us, and our brigade along with them,
nese were fresh troops which

back upon and along the road. lias
Gen. Grant had moved into position during the night, and

they were attacking the troops of A. P. Hill’s Corps, which

had been fearfully depleted by the engagements of the day be-
fore. But just at this time Longstreet’s Corps came up and
Kershaw’s Division relieved our division. Our regiment was
not engaged further during the Wilderness fight. Our bri-
gade composed part of the rear guard of th
march from the Wilderness to Spottsylvania, and consequent-
ly, the regiment did not reach Spottsylvania until 9 May. We
had some skirmishes along the march—nothing serious. On
the afternoon of 10 May our regiment was part of the force
which made an attack upon the enemy’s right near Talley’s
mill. We charged and captured a piece of artillery and drove
the enemy across‘the Mattapony. The regiment upon this oc-
casion behaved with great gallantry, charging for half a mile
up the hillside through an old field. . Though subjected dur-
ing this charge to a fire from both artillery and small arms,

the loss was not very great; we were charging up hill and the

20

e army on its