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122 Scared back on Hatchers run

consequently each man has sense enough to take care of no 1 and retreated back to the run and stoped. I found 18 of my company and in the evening the rest of them all came in. I called it a disgracefull affair but it could not be helped by the men of the ranks. Our Colonel C D Gilmore had been wounded while he was a Capt in the 2nd Me regt and was still lame from the wound and could not get along fast enough to keep with the rest and the rebs came on so fast that they shot an officer that was retreating by his side when the other man fell, Col Gilmore fell upon his face also to avoid the enemy if he could posably. The reb line [?] along passed the two men laying on the ground when some of them caught the Col by the coat and began to pull him about when he groaned out, you don't use a wounded man that way do you? and an officer says to his men let him be and we will see to him when we come back, so they passed on and left him.