The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 10, July 1906 - April, 1907 Page: 292
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was terrible, nearly one man in three being either killed or
wounded. Battery after battery was disabled, and their brave
dead lay silently attesting how gallantly they had stuck to their
guns. Particularly I remember one Union battery; the wheels of
some of the guns were shattered, and dead men and dead and
wounded horses lay -around. The men seemed to be all young and
clad in new uniforms with the red cap and red stripe of the artil-
lery branch of the service still fresh and defiant on their lifeless
forms. Their wounds were ghastly; and, though they were invad-
ers of our Southern homes, as I looked into the pallid young faces,
I boyishly felt pity for my dead enemies.
Directly after leaving that part of the field, where 'the order
above mentioned was sent to General Breckinridge, General Johns-
ton made other rapid moves, first to one part of the field, then to
another. I do not remember our ever coming in contact with
General Beauregard; but for a part of the day that general was
very active on the left, though sick the most of the time, as re-
ported. He had two horses killed or wounded under him during
the day.
While passing through one of 'the encampments, we stopped long
enough to snatch a morsel of food, for, remember, we were still
fasting. Fortunately a sutler's shop was near and into that I
went. Boy-like I looked for cake, and I got it, too. Some of us
did not forget our poor horses, and I for one quickly bagged a feed
of oats and carried it until my horse could eat it. How strange
it is these little things should occur to me now as I write. At one
time General Johnston's movement was so rapid and the smoke so
thick we did not keep up with him, and I remember how he turned
to us his grave face and steady eye as he watched us in column "at
attention" close in upon him.
A great many things occurred during the day that I have only
an indistinct mental view of now, and I can not recall them. One
I will mention. Away off to the right in some fields we were
passing through, one of the staff-Colonel Preston, I think--called
attention to a body of men who, he was 'apprehensive, might be
part of a Federal column. At any rate, he called for a scout, and
Jesse A. Norwood was sent to him. Norwood was promised men-
tion, if his work should be satisfactory, in the official report of the
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