"Previous to this Gen. Mansfield fell, some of my men carrying him
off the field on their muskets until a blanket was procured." (Page
492, Vol. XIX.)
It cannot be determined from the report, exactly when or where "this" was;
but it was plainly early in the morning and before the 125th entered West
Wood, where (and not in East Wood) they fought.
This report annoyed me much when I first saw it in 1887, but Col. Higgins
has written to me that he knows nothing personally of the event but
reported it because officers whom he trusted assured him it was so.
III. Col. Knipe, (46 Penn.) who made the brigade report, simply mentions
that Mansfield was wounded.