He also told us that General Scott was captured by their Division, at about the time and almost the same spot as where General McPherson was killed, and that he was not hurt or wounded, and was now a prisoner in their hands.
"Quite a lot of our staff officers soon came out, and as near as we could learn the Rebels wanted a truce to bury their dead.

Our folks tried to get up an exchange of prisoners that had been taken by both sides the day before, but for some reason they could not bring it about.
But the truce for burying the dead was agreed to.

Along about dusk some of the boys on my post got to telling about a lot of silver and brass instruments that belonged to one of the bands of the Fourth Division, which had been hung up in some small trees a little way over in front of where we were when the fight was going on the day before, and that when, a bullet would strike one of the horns they could hear it go 'pin-g' and in a few minutes 'pan-g' would go another bullet through one of them.
"A new picket was just coming' on, and I had picked up my blanket and haversack, and was about ready to start back to camp, when, thinks I, 'I'll just go out there and see about them horns.' I told the boys what I was going to do.

They all seemed to think it was safe enough, so out I started.

I had not gone more than a hundred yards, I should think, when here I found the horns all hanging around on the trees just as the boys had described.