There were but three commissioned officers besides myself, that I can now call to mind, with the advance when the above position was reached.

One of these officers was a Lieutenant Semmes, of the Marine Corps.

I think Captain Gore, and Lieutenant Judah, of the 4th infantry, were the others.

Our progress was stopped for the time by the single piece of artillery at the angle of the roads and the infantry occupying the house-tops back from it.
West of the road from where we were, stood a house occupying the south-west angle made by the San Cosme road and the road we were moving upon.

A stone wall ran from the house along each of these roads for a considerable distance and thence back until it joined, enclosing quite a yard about the house.