Southern Historical Society Papers

During the entire engagement the officers and men behaved as well as could be
desired, notwithstanding the disorderly manner in which some of the troops we
were ordered to support fell back. Lieutenants Dunn and Coltraine, of the First
Virginia (Irish) battalion, tendered me their services on the field, as they had been
left without a command. I put them in charge of two companies of the Twenty-
eighth regiment, previously commanded by sergeants, and both discharged the
duties ...