Then Colonel Este sang out clear and steady as a bugle signal: "'Brigade, forward! Guide center! MARCH!!' "And we started.

Heavens, how they did let into us, as we came up into range.

They had ten pieces of artillery, and more men behind the breastworks than we had in line, and the fire they poured on us was simply withering.

We walked across the hundreds of dead and dying of the regular brigade, and at every step our own men fell down among them.
General Baud's horse was shot down, and the General thrown far over his head, but he jumped up and ran alongside of us.

Major Wilson, our regimental commander, fell mortally wounded; Lieutenant Kirk was killed, and also Captain Stopfard, Adjutant General of the brigade.