But as I said before, reader, a private soldier is but an automaton, and knows nothing of what is going on among the generals, and I am only giving the chronicles of little things and events that came under my own observation as I saw them then and remember them now.

Should you desire to find out more about the battle, I refer you to history.
One incident I recollect very well.

A Yankee colonel, riding a fine gray mare, was sitting on his horse looking at our advance as if we were on review.

W.H.rushed forward and grabbed his horse by the bridle, telling him at the same time to surrender.

The Yankee seized the reins, set himself back in the saddle, put the muzzle of his pistol in W.H.'s face and fired.