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No. 49:
Report of Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade. (relating to battle of Williamsburg, 5 May 1862)
Main Report (subdivided for this site at suitable intervals)
1: Yorktown and the pursuit
2: 5th May, moved to right flank
3: Advances across Cub Dam Creek and captures enemy works
4: Ordered to retreat
5: Enemy Attack
6: Hancock's counterattack
7: Conclusion
8: Mentioned in dispatches
Inclosures
a: List of volunteers to investigate lines at Yorktwon
b: Correspondence relative to the re-enforcement of General Hancock May 5: JOHN HANCOCK, Assistant Adjutant- General.
c: "": L. D. H. CURRIE, Assistant Adjutant-General.
d: "": Hancock's written note
e: "": FRED. A. AIKEN, Capt., and Volunteer A. D. C. to General Smith, and your Acting A. D. C. on the 5th instant.
f: "": I. B. PARKER, JR., Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.
g: "": FRANCIS U. FARQUHAR, Second Lieutenant of Engineers.
h: "": C. R. CRANE, Lieutenant and Ordnance Officer, General Smith’s Division.
Official Records of the Rebellion: Volume Eleven, Chapter 23, Part 3: Peninsular Campaign: Reports, p.601-606
web page Rickard, J (20 June 2006), http://www.historyofwar.org/sources/acw/officialrecords/vol011chap023part3/00074.html