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Brigadier General Isaac Trimble, brigade commander: “I accordingly in person moved the Fifteenth Alabama to the right along a ravine, and, unperceived, got upon the enemy’s left flank and in his rear, marching up in fine order as on drill. . . . The Fifteenth Alabama completely surprised the force in their front (the enemy’s left flank), and drove them by a heavy fire, hotly returned, from behind logs and trees along the wood to the westward.” -- Trimble’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 12, part 1, page 796
Captain William Oates of the 15th Alabama: “General Trimble moved the Fifteenth by the right flank around the fence and down a hollow some two hundred yards, and then divided it and sent the left battalion . . . against a regiment of the Dutch on the top of the hill in the woods and took the right battalion . . . farther around to the right to capture a battery which was playing upon us.” -- Oates’ memoirs and regimental history The War between the Union and the Confederacy and its Lost Opportunities, page 103
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