The battle raged furiously all this time; part of the time the Sixteenth Corps seemed to be in the worst; then it would let up on them and the Seventeenth Corps would be hotly engaged along their whole front.
"We had probably marched half an hour since leaving Logan, and were getting pretty near back to our main line of works, when the Colonel ordered a halt and knapsacks to be unslung and piled up.

I tell you it was a relief to get them off, for it was a fearful hot day, and we had been marching almost double quick.

We knew that this meant business though, and that we were stripping for the fight, which we would soon be in.

Just at this moment we saw an ambulance, with the horses on a dead run, followed by two or three mounted officers and men, coming right towards us out of the very woods Logan had cautioned the Colonel to avoid.

When the ambulance got to where we were it halted.