Maj. Gen John A. Wharton, Confederate Veteran Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 8 (August 1897), page 417.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
HARRODSBURG, KY., October 7, 1862.
General Order No. 12:
The general commanding takes pleasure in bringing to the notice of the army under his command the gallant and brilliant charge made by Col. John A. Wharton, commanding the cavalry of the right wing, against a large force of the enemy, near Bardstown, Ky., on the 4th inst. Being posted four miles on the Louisville pike, which, as he believed, Col. Wharton occupied and guarded the town of Bardstown and its approaches, Col. Wharton received sudden intelligence that the enemy in force were within half a mile, to the east of the pike, between him and Bardstown. Immediately ordering his battery to follow after as soon as possible, he put himself at the head of the Texas Rangers and rode at half speed to the point of danger. In thirty minutes he passed the four miles and then found the First and Fourth Kentucky, Third Ohio, and Third Indiana regiments of cavalry---four times his own number---drawn up on the road and behind houses to receive him. In their rear, but not in supporting distance, was a battery of artillery and a heavy force of infantry. The enemy's cavalry was partially drawn up in columns of eight, prepared for a charge, and the rest as a reserve. The enemy was allowed to approach within forty yards, when Col. Wharton ordered a charge. The fearless Rangers responded nobly to the order, and in a few minutes the whole force of the enemy was drawn in confusion from the field with a loss of fifty killed and forty prisoners, among the latter a major. To this gallant action not only were the dangerous consequences of surprise obviated, but a severe chastisement was inflicted on the enemy and new luster added to the Confederate army. In complimenting Col. Wharton and the brave men under him for this daring feat of arms, the general commanding can not but mark the contrast with that which resulted so differently at New Harbor a short time before. Col. Wharton and the Texas Rangers have wiped out that stain. Their gallantry is worthy of the applause and emulation of their comrades of all arms in the army.
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