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and was not actively engaged. The other three regiments fought very gallantly, drove the enemy back to a commanding position near the river, held the ground over which they fought, removed all their dead and wounded, and were not relieved by Davis's brigade until ii o'clock that night, at which time the fighting had ceased.

Lastly, the Index denies that Fort Gregg was defended by any part of Wilcox's command, and says : " The infantry garrison at Fort Gregg was composed entirely of members of the Mississippi brigade of Harris, formerly Posey's." This assertion is not true. The true defenders of Fort Gregg were a part of Lane's North Carolina brigade, Walker's supernumerary artillerists of A. P. Hill's corps, armed as infantry, and a part of Chew's Maryland battery. Harris's brigade and a few pieces of artillery occupied Fort Alex- ander, which was to the rear of Fort Gregg and higher up the Appo- mattox ; and that fort was evacuated, the infantry and artillery retiring to the inner line of works, before Fort Gregg was attacked in force. I have letters from Lieutenants Snow, Craige, Howard, and Rigler, of my brigade, who were in Fort Gregg when it fell ; and these officers estimate the number of Harris's brigade in that fort at not more than twenty, including a Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan and his adjutant, while they estimate the number from my brigade to have been at least three-fourths of the entire force.

I commanded a North Carolina brigade from the battle of Sharps- burg to the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and during that time, with the single exception of the Thirty-seventh regiment at Jericho Ford, my entire command always behaved most gallantly, and won for themselves an enviable "army reputation"

JAMES H. LANE, Late Brigadier- General, C. S. A.

GENERAL EARLY'S VALLEY CAMPAIGN.

BY GENERAL A. L. LONG, CHIEF OF ARTILLERY SECOND CORPS, ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA.

[The following paper, now amended, originally appeared in this serial in March, 1877 (Vol. Ill, No. 3, pp. 112, 122 inclusive). Unintentionally, due credit was not then given several highly meri-