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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
d much to the capture of the enemy at the river bank. There were many instances of individual heroism which I have not space to particularize. The Federal force fought well. A number were killed with the bayonet by my men. The loss of the Eighteenth, the largest of any command in action on the Confederate line, was 22 killed and 63 wounded. Colonel Featherston, of the Seventeenth, in his report mentioned with praise the service of Lieut.-Col. John McQuirk, field officer of the day; Major Lyle, who acted as lieutenant-colonel; Capt. W. D. Holder,--who acted as major; Adjutant Fiser, Capt. E. W. Upshaw, and the particularly gallant record of Captain Duff. In the last charge which crowned our success and completed the discomfiture of the enemy, no troops could have behaved better, wrote Featherston of the Seventeenth. The whole line marched forward in the most admirable order upon a vastly superior force, reserving their fire until within the most effective range; then pouring it