I heard the balls cutting the leaves above our heads, and saw several men and women running in all directions, some of whom were wounded.

Of course there was a general stampede.

Charles Ewing threw Willie on the ground and covered him with his body.

Hunter ran behind the hill, and I also threw myself on the ground.

The fire ran back from the head of the regiment toward its rear, and as I saw the men reloading their pieces, I jerked Willie up, ran back with him into a gully which covered us, lay there until I saw that the fire had ceased, and that the column was again moving on, when I took up Willie and started back for home round by way of Market Street.