We had not been out but a short time when we saw a flag of truce, borne by an officer, coming towards us.

We halted him, and made him wait until a report was sent back to Corps headquarters.

The Rebel officer was quite chatty and talkative with our picket officer, while waiting.
He said he was on General Cleburne's staff, and that the troops that charged us so fiercely the evening before was Cleburne's whole Division, and that after their last repulse, knowing the hill where we were posted was the most important position along our line, he felt that if they would keep close to us during the night, and keep up a show of fight, that we would pull out and abandon the hill before morning.

He said that he, with about fifty of their best men, had volunteered to keep up the demonstration, and it was his party that had occupied the traverse in our old works the night before and had annoyed us and the Battery men by their constant sharpshooting, which we fellows behind the old tree had finally tired out.

He said they staid until almost daylight, and that he lost more than half his men before he left.