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and thus checked for a few moments the charge of the Second Maryland Infantry. I take
pleasure in narrating these deeds of our Maryland brethren, and doubt not you will join
in the feeling.

A VIRGINIAN.

Considering the desperate fighting which took place within the fifteen minutes
required to retake the salient, and the severe artillery and musketry fire to which
the battalion was subjected during the remainder of the day, even though the men
were sheltered behind the works they had recaptured, their loss was not so heavy
as might have been expected out of about four hundred men. Appended is a list
of casualties :

COMPANY A.—CAPTAIN GEORGE THOMAS COMMANDING.

KILLED — Privates William H. Hollyday, Henry C. Owens.

WOUNDED — Alexander Fulton, mortally; Thomas O'Brien, severely; Frederick
Hoerster, slightly; William Hoffman, severely; John C. Henry, slightly; Thomas
D. Harrison.

COMPANY B.—FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN H. STONE COMMANDING.

WOUNDED — First Lieutenant John H. Stone, severely; Privates James R. Herbert,
severely; Rinaldo J. Moran, slightly; A. W. Neale, slightly.

COMPANY C—CAPTAIN FERD DUVALL COMMANDING.

WOUNDED—Second Lieutenant Thomas H. Tolson, severely; Privates William H.
Clagett, severely; C. S. Ford, severely; Henry Loughran, slightly; R. B. Willis, severely.

COMPANY D.—FIRST LIEUTENANT JAMES S. FRANKLIN COMMANDING.

KILLED—Private James Hurley.

WOUNDED — Second Lieutenant S. Thomas McCullough, severely; First Sergeant
Thomas C. Butler, severely; Abram Phillips, severely.

COMPANY E.—CAPTAIN JOHN W. TORSCH COMMANDING.

KILLED — Private Charles E. Byus.

WOUNDED — Captain John W. Torsch, severely; First Sergeant Samuel Kirk, severely;

Privates Levi G. Dawson, slightly; William Wilkinson, mortally; Joseph Smith, slightly.