We had lost our best friend,--that superb soldier, our commander, General McPherson; his death counted so much more to us than victory that we spoke of our battle, our great success, with our loss uppermost in our minds.
Dodge expresses the profound loss felt by his troops after the death of General McPherson.
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General McPherson fell in battle, booted and spurred, as the gallant and heroic gentleman should wish.
They proved they might be wiped out but never made to run.
We opened with thirty-two guns; they answered with as many, and such a roar you never heard.
I remember distinctly that my Regiment would go into line, strip themselves, and throw down the chickens, potatoes, apples, and other eatables they had foraged and taken during the day, and as they would go forward the troops in our rear…
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