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who had escaped capture to form in line. In half an hour we had succeeded in getting together some three or four hundred men, with officers here and there of various ranks. There were ten (10) Louisiana regiments (fragments), two (2) North Carolina and eight (8) Virginia regiments in Johnson's division, and the remnants of these, which had not been captured, were intermingled together when reformed. They made a pretty good regiment ready for bat- tle. I took command of them and marched them forward to Gen- eral Gordon's assistance, reporting to him for duty.

ROBERT W. HUNTER,

Major and Assistant Adjutant of Major- General Edward Johns ori s Division.