Grenville Dodge: “Ho! comrades of the brave old band, we gather here once more, With smiling eye and clasping hand, to fight our battles…”

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.

It was during this ambulance trip, while lying on my back, that I received a telegraphic dispatch from General Halleck notifying me of my promotion for services in this battle.

The only strategy or tactics was the movement of Van Dorn attacking on the right flank and in the rear, and these moves were fatal to his success.

They proved they might be wiped out but never made to run.