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tions. The next day, the 131!!, the enemy followed us up, and there was heavy skirmishing, with occasionally hard fighting on this day and the i4th. At this time General Hoke seems to have had com- mand of the division with which I was acting. On the I4th, man- ning the fortifications to our right was Ransom's (Matt.) brigade. About it o'clock on this day, Ransom's brigade was outflanked and driven from their position. This necessitated a change in our posi- tion. Corse was moved to the right to aid Ransom. After some fighting Ransom got again into line some distance in rear of his former line. Corse moved again to his left and had heavy skirmish- ing the entire evening. On the night of the I4th, we retired to our inner lines of fortifications. All day of the I5th. in front of and around our lines, the skirmishing was very heavy and the artillery practice most severe. I lost a number of my men on each of the days, viz: I3th, 1 4th and I5th. At night on the 15th a consider- able force of the enemy stealthily approached our works in front of the Eighteenth regiment; whether for scouting and reconnoitering purposes, or to attack, I never knew. They were discovered and driven off with considerable loss.

Charge of Black's Cavalry Regiment at Gettysburg.

By P. J. MALONE, of its Color- Guard. ORANGEBURG DISTRICT, S. C, January 6th, 1867.

Colonel JOHN LOGAN BLACK,

Ridgeway, South Carolina :

DEAR COLONEL, I have taken the earliest opportunity to attend to your request, and trust that the sketch herewith given, though hastily drawn from materials only in memory, may fully comprehend the object you contemplate. You may find that I am occasionally led into the recital of facts irrelevant to the matter of inquiry, but they are concomitant facts, and serve to illustrate the statement I de- sire to make more fully than could be accomplished did I avoid all digression.

It is the history of a single charge that I propose to write, but no leaf in the history of any revolution bears record of a prouder heroism, a more invincible courage, than was on that day exhibited