General Polk himself led the charge in person, and was the first man on top of the Yankee breastworks (_vide_ General D.H.

Hill's report of the battle of Chickamauga), and in every attack he had the advance guard, and in every retreat, the rear guard of the army.

Why?
Because General Lucius E.Polk and his brave soldiers _never_ faltered, and with him as leader, the general commanding the army knew that "all was well." Well, this evening of which I now write, the litter corps ran up and placed him on a litter, and were bringing him back through Company H, of our regiment, when one of the men was wounded, and I am not sure but another one was killed, and they let him fall to the ground.

At that time, the Yankees seemed to know that they had killed or wounded a general, and tore loose their batteries upon this point.

The dirt and rocks were flying in every direction, when Captain Joe P.Lee, Jim Brandon and myself, ran forward, grabbed up the litter, brought General Polk off the crest of the hill, and assisted in carrying him to the headquarters of General Cleburne.