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ck the defenders, and speedily crossed over to the other side. It did not take long for our infantry, under the new excitement, to reach the river and deploy their own skirmishers in support of the cavalry. Among the first I reached the bridge, delayed a few minutes to reconnoiter, and then crossed over, following up the troops. A few staff officers were with me, including Lieutenant Colonel Stinson, who had been so severely wounded at Pickett's Mill, and who had just returned from Cleveland, Tenn., convalescent, but not entirely well. He was near me when the Confederates suddenly fired from the woods which fringed the opposite slope. A volley passed over our heads. At that instant I saw Colonel Stinson spring forward in his saddle as if hit. I called to him: Harry, are you hurt No, sir, he answered; the suddenness made me jump. That surprise was like a blow to him, for during the night his old wound opened, and he had a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. The next