There were no earthworks on either side.

It was to be an open field and a fair fight, when--"Fall back!" What's the matter?
I do not know how we got the news, but here is what is told us--and so it was, every position we ever took.

When we fell back the news would be, "Hood's line is being enfiladed, and they are decimating his men, and he can't hold his position." But we fell back and took a position at CASSVILLE Our line of battle was formed at Cassville.

I never saw our troops happier or more certain of success.

A sort of grand halo illumined every soldier's face.