About one-third of the men engaged in the charge were killed or wounded in the space of a few minutes.

We retreated to get out of fire, not backward, but eastward and perpendicular to the direct road running into the city from Walnut Springs.

I was, I believe, the only person in the 4th infantry in the charge who was on horseback.

When we got to a lace of safety the regiment halted and drew itself together--what was left of it.

The adjutant of the regiment, Lieutenant Hoskins, who was not in robust health, found himself very much fatigued from running on foot in the charge and retreat, and, seeing me on horseback, expressed a wish that he could be mounted also.