--An account written by John Oliver Andrews, a private in Company I, 14th Georgia, describes the period: "The next battle I was in was June [22], 1864, on the Welden (sic) Road, South of Petersburg, Virginia, where I went through some exciting and dangerous experiences. I and Jim O'Neal, of my company, were on the picket line, when the Federal line of battle advanced. Our orders were to fire on them and fall back to our line. They opened a volley on our line and our line opened fire on them; hence, we were between the two lines. We saved ourselves by jumping in a hole where a big oak tree had blown down and the clay roots gave protection. Another man we didn't know jumped in behind us, and was struck by a grape shot and killed. After that battle we went into camp for several weeks and did picket duty ... between the two armies."
--The book on the 35th Georgia, Red Clay to Richmond, pp. 284-285 also describes the period. The 35th reported three wounded and three missing around the timeframe of Mahone's rolling back the Federal left. On 4 July, Thomas' Brigade is reported to have crossed the Appomattox River and occuped a defensive line several miles northeast of Petersburg.