Supplemental Report
Report of Captain James Harley Waters, Fifth Virginia Volunteers
SUPPLEMENT TO THE O.R. – VOL.1: REPORTS ADDENDUM TO SERIES I, VOL. 2, p. 191
Dear Sir: I have to report to you that neither my company nor myself was at Stone Bridge on the evening of July 21 as, unser your order, I had taken my whole company near the house on the hill above the battery with instructions to search for the dead and wounded and carry them off the field.
I had with me at the battery more than two-thirds of my company, which went into the battle eighty strong and but for those sent back with the wounded and killed during the fight, I think I might have counted at the battery all but three or four. I do not know of any that left the field without my leave.
J. H. Waters,
Captain, [West Augusta Guards] Company L,
Fifth Regiment Virginia Volunteers
Colonel Harper
[Indorsement]
Captain Waters had my consent to look after his killed and wounded as stated. The order to march in pursuit was received after my consent was given and I could not delay to collect his company.
[John W. Daniel Papers (#158), Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library]
Harry Smeltzer
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