Finding ourselves alone we stopped and took possession of a vacant house.

As no troops came up we moved back a mile or more until we met the head of the column just going into bivouac on the road.

We had no tents, so we occupied the porch of a house which had been taken for a rebel hospital and which was filled with wounded and dying who had been brought from the battle-field we had just left.
While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend..