As I held it aloft, a maddening cheer burst around me, while from out the line each officer sprang madly forward, and rushed to the head of the column.

It was no longer a march.

With a loud cry of vengeance, the mass rushed forward, the men trying to outstrip their officers, and come first in contact with the foe.

Like tigers on the spring, they fell upon the enemy, who, crushed, overwhelmed, and massacred, lay in slaughtered heaps around the cannon.

The cavalry of the Guard came thundering on behind us; a whole division followed; and three thousand five hundred prisoners, and fourteen pieces of artillery were captured.
"I sat upon the carriage of a gun, my face begrimed with powder, and my uniform blackened and blood-stained.