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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, September, 1863. (search)
wavered. I gave the order to advance, then to charge, and the brigade rushed forward with a yell, drove the enemy fully one-fourth of a mile, strewing the ground with his dead and wounded, and capturing many prisoners. Among the latter was General Adams, the commander of a Louisiana brigade. Finding now that Colonel Taylor had not followed the movement with his regiment and the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois, and seeing the necessity for some support for a single line so extended, I hastorn by a minnie ball, hailed me as I was galloping by early in the day. He was bleeding to death, and crying bitterly. I gave him my handkerchief, and shouted back to him, as I hurried on, Bind up the leg tight! The adjutant of the rebel General Adams called to me as I passed him. He wanted help, but I could not help him-could not even help our own poor boys who lay bleeding near him. Sammy Snyder lay on the field wounded; as I handed him my canteen he said, General, I did my duty. I