A thousand hungry men gave them chase.

The fatal bullet soon laid them all low, and there was great feasting and hilarity in the camp.

The carouse was much promoted by the arrival that evening of a large barge, which had sailed up the Alabama River from Mobile, with sugar, coffee, and,--best of all, as the soldiers said--worst of all, as humanity cries,--with a large amount of intoxicating liquors.
The scene presented that night was wild and picturesque in the extreme.
The horses of the army were scattered about over the plain grazing upon the rich herbage.

There was wood in abundance near, and the camp-fires for a thousand men threw up their forked flames, illumining the whole region with almost the light of day.

The white tents of the officers, the varied groups of the soldiers, running here and there, in all possible attitudes, the cooking and feasting, often whole quarters of beef roasting on enormous spits before the vast fires, afforded a spectacle such as is rarely seen.
One picture instantly arrested the eye of every beholder.