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Gen. Humphrey writes :
SIDE LIGHTS. 21
" On the 17th of May, Brig. -Gen. R.
O. Tyler, with a temporary division of heavy artillery regiments
serving as infantry, and the Corcoran Legion, joined the Second
Corps, making an addition to it. General Hancock says, of
8,000 men. General Tyler was assigned to the command of
one of Gibbon's brigades."—Virginia Campaign of 1864-5
Humphrey, p. 109.
"Gen. Ewell was directed by General Lee on the nineteenth
to demonstrate in his front to ascertain whether the Army of
the Potomac was moving to his, Lee's, right, as he believed it to
be. General Ewell says that to accomplish this he moved with
his corps around on our right by a detour of several miles, on
roads impassable for artillery, when he came upon us prepared
to receive him— his force 6,000. Our position being developed
and his object obtained, he was about to retire, he says, when
he was attacked. Part of his line, he continues, was shaken,
but Pegram's and Ramseur's brigades held their ground so
firmly that he maintained his position till nightfall, when he
withdrew unmolested ; that his loss was about nine hundred
killed, wounded, and missing.
Ramseur (whose account is the only one I find besides that
of General Ewell) says that his brigade was in front, that their
movement was discovered, and that he then attacked with his
brigade and drove the enemy rapidly, and with severe loss, until
his flanks were enveloped, when he retired two hundred yards
and formed, Grime's brigade on his left. Battle's on his right;
but that Gordon's division on their left being flanked, retreated,
and the whole line was compelled to fall back, when it was
repeatedly attacked by a heavy force until night, when it quietly
and safely withdrew. Kersaw's division held Ewell's intrench-
ments while he was absent. The force encountered by Ewell
was Kitching's brigade and General Tyler's division, posted on
the Fredericksburg road in the vicinity of the Harris house.
Colonel Kitching, on the left of Tyler, perceived indications of
the movement in the course of the afternoon, and precautions
were taken to meet it. The firing began about half-past five
o'clock, and it being heavy. General Hancock was at once