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ing the Sixth Regiment, South Carolina troops, for promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General.

His superior capacity and constancy in the discharge of his ordi- nary duties as a Colonel would strongly recommend him for advance- ment, but he merits it more particularly for gallant conduct in battle.

At "Seven Pines" he was one of the leaders in the intrepid and irresistible charge of the Second Brigade, Longstreet's division, which encountered and beat a greatly superior force of the enemy in four successive combats, driving them two miles from their first line of battle.

Throughout the whole action he was conspicuous for skill and courage, coolness and good management.

At the close of the fourth and last encounter he received a very severe wound through the arm and shoulder.

His conduct excited my admiration, and I am happy to perform this rather tardy act of justice.

I am, very respectfully,

Your most obedient servant,

R. H. ANDERSON, Major- General Provisional Army*

To GENERAL S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector- General, Rich- mond, Va.

Reminiscences of Cavalry Operations.

By GENERAL T. T. MUNFORD.

PAPER No. 3.

OPERATIONS UNDER ROSSER.

The next day we moved over to Staunton, and the next day moved out to the back road to find where the enemy's pickets were. Ort the 5th of October, General Thomas L. Rosser arrived from General Lee's army with his brigade. General Early, in his narrative, page 98, says, " Rosser was attached to Fitz. Lee's division, of which he (Rosser) was given command, as Brigadier-General Wickham had resigned. The horses of Rosser' s brigade had been so much re- duced by previous hard service and the long march from Richmond, that the brigade did not exceed six hundred mounted men for duty when it joined me." Meantime we had moved to the front and