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stand of arms. The prisoners taken were from five different Regiments from Alabama & Texas. Twelve of the number were officers, some of the staff of the General commanding their Brigade. They admitted that they had charged on us with a Brigade, & said that they had fought a dozen battles, &never had been stopped before.

We were afterward ordered, or asked, to carry a height which afforded the Rebels a very advantageous position, & was considered by our Generals a strong point to carry; and exhausted as we were the one hundred & ninety eight bayonets I had left after that days fighting, charged up that hill & carried everything before them -- Taking many more prisoners& arms, but what is better taking the heights & holding them. The darkness which had now come on deceiving the enemy as to our numbers.

Our services have been officially acknowledged, though no partial friend has published our praises in the state whose name we are proud to bear, & which, we believe, we have not dishonored.

I protected my men in every possible way, but I grieve over the loss of thirty two gallant fellows who fell on that field which