Srxty-THirD REGIMENT. 575

through the village, on to their supports, consisting of the
Second Division of Infantry of the Third Corps and artil-
lery and cavalry under command of General Henry Prince.
It being impossible to dislodge them, only sufficient demon-
stration was made to engage their full attention. The Sixty-
third was on their right flank with Gordon’s Brigade and
Young’s Brigade on their front and two pieces of Griffin’s
Horse Artillery. Heavy skirmishing and artillery firing
was kept up on both sides until nightfall, when the “brigade
bivouacked for the night on line of battle.” Before daylight
the enemy fell back on Culpepper, Kilpatrick covering the
rear of the Third and Fifth Army Corps. Vol. 48, pp. 328,
439 and 460. On the morning of the 11th we marched, with
Gordon’s Brigade, along the flank of our infantry column, to-
ward Griffinsburg, and struck the Sperryville and Culpepper
pike at Stone-House Mountain. Here Gordon was ordered
to move down the pike and push the enemy back to Culpep-
per. This he did with the Fifty-ninth and Sixty-third Reg-
iments—the Fifty-ninth bearing off the honors of the charge.
The Sixty-third lost for the war the services of its brave, gal-
lant and efficient Adjutant, Lieutenant J. Turner Morehead,
son of Governor Morehead, severely shot in the mouth, the
ball passing out through the back of his neck, and among its
other wounded was that ever faithful soldier and valiant
young officer, Lieutenant W. J. Wiley, of Company F, also
shot in the mouth and his front teeth knocked out.

The whole Federal army was now falling back across the
Rappahannock on the roads to Brandy Station, rear guarded
by all their cavalry, except Buford’s Division, and Fitz Lee
who had been left on the Rapidan, was fast driving back Bu-
ford’s Division of cavalry and artillery towards Brandy Sta-
tion from Stevensburg. The position of the enemy’s artil-
lery and his strength near Culpepper, across Mountain Run,
was such that General Stuart would not attack; but left some
artillery on his front to attack him and a squadron of the

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