We had made the only really successful bayonet charge of the campaign.

Every other time since we left Chattanooga the party standing on the defensive had been successful.
Here we had taken strong double lines, with ten guns, seven battle flags, and over two thousand prisoners.

We had lost terribly--not less than one-third of the brigade, and many of our best men.

Our regiment went into the battle with fifteen officers; nine of these were killed or wounded, and seven of the nine lost either their limbs or lives.
The Thirty-Eighth Ohio, and the other regiments of the brigade lost equally heavy.

We thought Chickamauga awful, but Jonesboro discounted it." "Do you know," said another of the Fourteenth, "I heard our Surgeon telling about how that Colonel Grower, of the Seventeenth New York, who came in so splendidly on our left, died?
They say he was a Wall Street broker, before the war.