t of Vermont.

About 8 A.M. Wright came to me with information of Getty and
Wheaton's success. He said he would soon have cavalry on the
enemy's right flank, and that he believed the battle could be won.
He was tranquil, buoyant, and self-possessed. He did not seem to
pay any attention to a wound under his chin, made by a passing
bullet, though he was bleeding profusely. He had no staff officer
with him, and was without escort.( 6) I ordered Captain Damon of
my staff to report to him. Wright repeated Ricketts' order to hold
my division behind Meadow Brook well down to Cedar Creek. This I
had been enabled to do when not threatened on my left flank. It
must be remembered that after 6 A.M. the divisions of the corps
having been faced about, and the Eighth and Nineteenth Corps driven
to the rear, Getty's division became the left, Wheaton's the centre,
and my division the right of the army, the whole line facing, in
general, eastward. In this position, isolated as before stated,
the divisions maintained the battle. My greatest anxiety arose of
the possibility of the ammunition of the men becoming exhausted.
One officer conducted to us through the fog, smoke, and confusion
a considerable supply of cartridges in boxes strapped on mules.
Colonel Ball sent Captain R. W. Wiley of his staff to hasten forward
another such mule-caravan. Owing to a change in the location of
the brigade, he conducted it within the Confederate lines. Captain
Wiley was the only officer of my division captured in the day's
battle.

Getty, who had successfully fought with his division near Middletown,
took up a position before 10 A.M. with the left of his division
resting on the turnpike north of the town about three fourths of
a mile.

My division was fiercely engaged all the morning. Colonel Tompkins,
Chief of Artillery of the Sixth Corps, assembled a number of guns
on the plateau to my left under Captains McKnight and Adams. They
were unsupported by infantry. The enemy approached under cover of
the smoke and fog and captured most of them. Under my direction,
Colonel W. H. Henry and Captain C. K. Prentiss with the 10th Vermont
and 6th Maryland changed front and retook them after a fierce
struggle. The guns not disabled were drawn off by hand. My position
was in open ground along the crest of a ridge, right resting near
Cedar Creek, covering Marsh Run (or Meadow Brook). The enemy forced
a crossing of the Run near its mouth, but soo