Captured one hundred and fifty prisoners, one thousand head of horses and mules, and an equal number of cattle, hogs, and sheep; also one hundred bales of cotton, besides keeping the whole command in meat for three weeks.
Dodge reports on the successful capture of enemy supplies and livestock, bolstering his forces.
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The men, if properly officered, would make good soldiers, but with their present officers they are little better than an armed mob.
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.
Suppose the Sixteenth Corps, with less than 5,000 men, seeing at least three times their number in their front, should have retreated, instead of standing and fighting as it did: What would have been the result?
The charge without ammunition took them all, and as we passed down the line the whole Army cheered us.
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