... About a half-hour after the fight was ended, I suggested to General Sumner that if he had no objection I would carry out the commanding general's orders, so far as I was concerned, and cross the White Oak Swamp with General Smith's division. We were then on the field. His answer was, No, General, you shall not go, nor will I go — I never leave a victorious field. Why! if I had twenty thousand mo...