We can see the line of dead and wounded along the track over which he passed, and finally we see our battle flag planted upon the Federal breastworks.

I cannot describe the scene.

If you, reader, are an old soldier, you can appreciate my failure to give a pen picture of battle.

But Breckinridge could not long hold his position.

Why we were not ordered forward to follow up his success, I do not know; but remember, reader, I am not writing history.