During the afternoon I went with a flag of truce, with reference to burying the dead.

I saw between eighty and one hundred of our men dead, all stripped.

There were others closer into the enemy's works than I was allowed to go.

On going later to where the Sixth Missouri crossed, I found that they were under the bank, and had dug in with their hands and bayonets, or anything in reach, to protect themselves from a vertical fire from the enemy overhead, who had a heavy force there.

With great difficulty they were withdrawn at night.