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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Second battle of Manassas. (search)
hed, commenced to retreat, or, I may say, to fly in great disorder. We were ordered to halt at the cut; but some of the command, among whom was Major Poinsett Tayloe, of my regiment, with a considerable number of the men, did not hear the order, and continued the pursuit for some distance beyond. As soon as the battle was over I went to the rear to have my wound dressed, and having found the field hospital, I slept that night with one of the surgeons under a wagon. The next day Dr. W. A. Spence (our brigade surgeon) and I rode over the whole battlefield together. So thick were the enemy's dead. along those portions of the line where they had fought, that I found. myself mentally repeating, as I rode along, those lines which Campbell puts into the mouth of Lochiel-- Though my perishing ranks be strewn in their gore Like ocean weeds heaped on a surf-beaten shore. They lay peculiarly thick just in front of the railroad cut; in some instances one on the top of another, a