PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN--SEVEN DAYS' BATTLES
No. 262. -- Report of Col. John B. Gordon. Sixth Alabama Infantry, of the battle of Gaines' Mill.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ALABAMA REGIMENT,
July 15, 1862.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of the action of my regiment in the battle of the 27th ultimo, at Cold Harbor:

Having moved across an open field in line of battle with the brigade in a westerly direction, we were halted by Brigadier-General Rodes and ordered to change front forward on left company. This done, I was ordered forward at double-quick in common with other regiments of the brigade. Passing through a most densely wooded morass, the line of the brigade was broken and my regiment separated from it. Reforming my regiment under heavy fire from artillery and infantry, I moved it forward until I discovered my total isolation, and that I occupied a position in rear of another line of Confederate troops. This was a position of great danger, and one from which I could neither fire nor advance. Exposed to fire from the flank by our own troops and in front from the enemy, I withdrew the regiment in good order to the position occupied by the Third Alabama, near the swamps.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J.B. GORDON,

Colonel, Commanding Sixth Alabama Regiment.

Capt. H. A. WHITING,

A. A. G., First Brigade.

P. S.— Casualties already reported.(*)

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