and, will you allow me to take out, by the river, my brigade? --If you move before I shall offer to surrender, Buckner replied.
Then, sir, said Floyd, I surrender thy command.
Pillow, who was next in rank, and to whom Floyd offered to transfer the command, quickly exclaimed, I will not accept it — I will never surrender.
While speaking, he turned toward Buckner, who said, I will accept, and share the fate of my command.
Sworn statements of Colonel Forest, Major Gustavus A. Henry, Major W. H. Haynes, and Hunter Nicholson, who were present at the council.
When the capitulation was determined upon, Floyd and Pillow, who, it has been justly remarked, had already disgraced the name of American citizens, proceeded to disgrace the character of a soldier also,
Coppee's Grant and his Campaigns, page 66. by stealing away under cover of the night, deserting, in the most cowardly manner, the soldierly Buckner and the brave men who had defended the post.
In order to aid their flight,
Foster, James Foster, Marshall Gross, B. Newman, Wm. Pollard, J. G. Seay, H. J. Vaughan, Geo. R. Williams, Jas. Barker, Jas. C. Britt, Robt. C. English, Jas. C. Garrett, Wm. R. Hopkins, John D. Malone, Jas. N. Marshall, A. P. Meadows, L. T. Meador, John Sheppard, Micajah Stone, J. A. Walder, Wm. H. Wicks.
Company H.
John Bradford, Captain.
Thomas J. Moncure, First Lieutenant.
R. W. Peatross, Second Lieutenant.
Sergeants—James W. Holt, R. M. DuBose.
Privates—William Wright, W. H. Haynes, J. B. W. Hall, A. K. Jenkins, Lloyd P, Weeks, A. Y. Carroll, Thomas A. Blakey, Joshua Lindsay.
Company I
S. Howell Brown, First Lieutenant.
P. Gay Scott, Second Lieutenant.
Sergeants—John Thomas Gibson, D. Averett, William deLacy, J. C. Harris, W. C. Powell.
Corporals-S. P. Dalton, B. H. Brightwell.
Privates—William M. Arnold, H. H. Bentley, Jacob Boone, M. L. Brightwell, I. X. Gauntt, J. W. N. Johnston, William Knight, J. H. Lecroy, J. W. Messer, William Perry, J. E. Wilk