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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 3: up the St. Mary's. (search)
that they saw the leader of an approaching party mounted on a white horse and reining up in the pathway; others, again, declare that he drew a pistol from the holster and took aim; others beard the words, Charge in upon them! Surround them! But all this was confused by the opening rifle-shots of our advanced guard, and, as clear observation was impossible, I made the men fix their bayonets and kneel in the cover on each side the pathway, and I saw with delight the brave fellows, with Sergeant Mcintyre at their head, settling down in the grass as coolly and warily as if wild turkeys were the only game. Perhaps at the first shot a man fell at my elbow. I felt it no more than if a tree had fallen,--I was so busy watching my own men and the enemy, and planning what to do next. Some of our soldiers, misunderstanding the order, Fix bayonets, were actually charging with them, dashing off into the dim woods, with nothing to charge at but the vanishing tail of an imaginary horse,--for we