We fell back to the works we had taken, Warren and Wright came up to help us, and we had it hot and heavy for the rest of the day and part of the night.

The Johnnies seemed so mad over what we'd done that they were half crazy.

They charged us five times, coming up every time just as if they were going to lift us right out of the works with the bayonet.
About midnight, after they'd lost over ten thousand men, they seemed to understand that we had pre-empted that piece of real estate, and didn't propose to allow anybody to jump our claim, so they fell back sullen like to their main works.

When they came on the last charge, our Brigadier walked behind each of our regiments and said: "Boys, we'll send 'em back this time for keeps.

Give it to 'em by the acre, and when they begin to waver, we'll all jump over the works and go for them with the bayonet.' "We did it just that way.