Grenville Dodge: “Every man was at his post; every man doing a hero's duty.”

General McPherson fell in battle, booted and spurred, as the gallant and heroic gentleman should wish.

This caused the troops to stand and fight, preferring to die rather than to fall into their hands.

This campaign demonstrated early in the war what could be accomplished by a small Army 300 miles away from any rail or water communication, in a rugged, mountainous, sparsely settled county, marching in winter, and virtually subsisting…

I say that in all my experience in life, until the two forces struck and the Sixteenth Corps stood firm, I never passed more anxious moments.