Forty thousand men had fought a battle only about three hours long, and eight thousand of them lay dead or wounded upon the sanguinary field.

One half the Union army never reached the field in time to fight.
As both sides drew off in the darkness, Dick shouted in triumph, thinking they had won a victory.

A bullet fired by some retiring Southern skirmisher glanced along his head.

There was a sudden flash of fire before him and then darkness.

His body fell on a little slope and rolled among some bushes.
The close hot night came down upon the field, and the battle, the most sanguinary ever fought on Kentucky soil, had closed.