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Lt. Col. Thomas Ruger handwritten report on the Battle of Cedar Mountain, just four days after the battle. Datelined 13 August 1862 from a ''Camp near Culpepper, VA,'' Ruger's report to the Acting Adjutant General, Captain H. B. Scott, is titled, ''...of the part taken in the action of the 9th by the 3d Regt Wis Vols.'' Text reads in part, ''...The enemy line extended beyond the right of our considerably overlapping my regiment sufficiently to give by an oblique fire of that part of their line a most destructive crossfire on the right wing of the regiment. The enemy also had a force on the right which opened a flank fire on the regt. [Ruger adds a small diagram ''of the relative position of the forces.'']...The right of the regt was forced back under a most destructive fire the loss here in killed and wounded of the right was in some companies over one fourth and in two a third. The whole line was driven back. With the assistance of the officers I rallied sufficient men to make a force about equal with the three companies that had not been engaged...My regiment remained and continued fire until the line was driven back by the turning of the right flank...Thos. A. Ruger''. The following week Ruger was promoted to Colonel and was breveted a brigadier general after his involvement at Gettysburg. 4pp. on 4 ruled sheets measures 8.25'' x 11''. Faint toning and expected creasing, else near fine.
Civil War Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Ruger Handwritten Report on the Battle of Cedar Mountain -- ''...My regiment remained and continued fire until the line was driven back...''
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