Captain Beasley was killed, and nearly all his company killed and wounded.

The Rock City Guards were almost piled in heaps and so was our company.

Captain Joe P.Lee was badly wounded.

Poor Walter Hood and Jim Brandon were lying there among us, while their spirits were in heaven; also, William A.Hughes, my old mess-mate and friend, who had clerked with me for S.F.& J.M.Mayes, and who had slept with me for lo! these many years, and a boy who loved me more than any other person on earth has ever done.

I had just discharged the contents of my gun into the bosoms of two men, one right behind the other, killing them both, and was re-loading, when a Yankee rushed upon me, having me at a disadvantage, and said, "You have killed my two brothers, and now I've got you." Everything I had ever done rushed through my mind.