General Badeau gives four o'clock of the 6th as about the time this capture took place.

He may be right as to the time, but my recollection is that the hour was later.

General Prentiss himself gave the hour as half-past five.

I was with him, as I was with each of the division commanders that day, several times, and my recollection is that the last time I was with him was about half-past four, when his division was standing up firmly and the General was as cool as if expecting victory.

But no matter whether it was four or later, the story that he and his command were surprised and captured in their camps is without any foundation whatever.