612 THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN, VA. [Car XXII, August 2, 1862

August 2, 1862.

August 2, 1862.

I submit the following report of the operations of this brigade at or near Malvern Hili on the 1st ultimo:

On that morning I was ordered by General Lee to report to MajorGeneral Jackson for temporary duty with one of the brigades of his command, and was by him assigned to the command of the brigade lately commanded by Brigadier-General Elzey, in the division of Major-General Ewell. Of this brigade I assumed command: about midday on the road leading from White Oak Swamp to Willis’ Church.

In the afternoon of the same day the brigade, consisting of fragments of the Thirteenth, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, Forty-fourth, Fifty-second, and Fifty-eighth Virginia Regiments, and the Twelfth Georgia Regiment, numbering in all about 1,050 men present, was formed,

by order

of General Ewell, in line of battle in the woods on the left of ‘the road

leading from Willis’ Church to Malvern Hill, where it remained until

very late in the afternoon during a heavy cannonading between the

enemy’s artillery and our own, an occasional shell falling near the brigade, doing no damage, however, except the killing by the same shot

of a private in the Forty-fourth Virginia Regiment and a young gentleman named Field, who was a volunteer on the staff of Colonel Walker,

of the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment.

About sunset an order was received by General Ewell, in my presence, from General Jackson, through a staff officer, to send my brigade