. History of the One hundred and fiftieth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, Second regiment, Bucktail brigade, . portions ofthe field, and by the time it came within musket reach the150th was well established in its new position. By the advanceof Heths troops. Captain Jones was forced back from the skir-mish line and borne considerably to the left, into the woods,where his company fought for a time as an independent com-mand, but eventually joined the ranks of the Iron —as if elsewhere something decisive, for which theyhad been waiting, had occurred—a large portion of Hethscom


. History of the One hundred and fiftieth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, Second regiment, Bucktail brigade, . portions ofthe field, and by the time it came within musket reach the150th was well established in its new position. By the advanceof Heths troops. Captain Jones was forced back from the skir-mish line and borne considerably to the left, into the woods,where his company fought for a time as an independent com-mand, but eventually joined the ranks of the Iron —as if elsewhere something decisive, for which theyhad been waiting, had occurred—a large portion of Hethscommand marched obliquely to the right and was soon hiddenfrom view by the woods. The withdrawal of this force from its front gave the 150th amoment to breathe and listen to the sounds of conflict farthersouthward, where Biddles brigade had been posted in the fields,slightly to the left and many rods to the rear of the prolonga-tion of the line of the Iron Brigade. The attack on Biddlenecessitated a readjustment of the line on his right, and Mere-dith withdrew from his advanced position in the woods to one. Cmtain IIOKAIIO ,. Company Ci. (Kilkd .11 Wilderness, May 6, 1864.)


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