. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ow 450 officers and 9S89 men present forduty in the First and Second divisions, makinga total of 10,337 officers and men.\ Hamptons command consisted of, as I havestated, Butlers brigade, the 4th, 5th, and 6thSouth Carolina; Rossers brigade, 7th, 11th, and12th Virginia, and Whites battalion of two com-panies ; Youngs brigade, Cobbs Legion, ten com-panies ; Phillips Legion, six companies ; Jeff DavisLegion, four companies ; 7th Georgia Cavalry, tencompanies, and Milieus Georgia bat


. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ow 450 officers and 9S89 men present forduty in the First and Second divisions, makinga total of 10,337 officers and men.\ Hamptons command consisted of, as I havestated, Butlers brigade, the 4th, 5th, and 6thSouth Carolina; Rossers brigade, 7th, 11th, and12th Virginia, and Whites battalion of two com-panies ; Youngs brigade, Cobbs Legion, ten com-panies ; Phillips Legion, six companies ; Jeff DavisLegion, four companies ; 7th Georgia Cavalry, tencompanies, and Milieus Georgia battalion, fourcompanies. Fitzhugh Lees division was composedof Wickhams brigade, the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4thVirginia; Lomaxs brigade, the 5th, 6th, and 15thVirginia, making for the two divisions, thirteenregiments and three battalions. The horse artil-lery, with Hampton at Trevilian, were three bat-teries, Harts South Carolina, Thomsons Virginia,and one other Virginia battery. The strength ofHamptons forces cannot be given accurately,but is estimated at about 5000 all told. force in that fight at 801)0.— •--20 WAITING FOR HIS BREAKFAST. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. GENERAL LEE IN THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. BY CHARLES S. TENABLE, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, C. S. A., OP GENERAL LEE S STAFF.


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