It was lively for a time, and Stuart pushed clear up to the enemy's rifle-trenches, and forced them to keep sheltered.

Hammond was mostly with Steele; Sanger sent to McClernand, and McCoy, myself, and John Taylor were with you and Stuart.

At about half-past three I got your permission to go to Giles Smith's skirmish-line, and, thinking I saw evidence of the enemy weakening, I hurried back to you and reported my observations.

I was so confident that a demand for it would bring a surrender, that I asked permission to make it, and, as you granted me, but refused to let another member of your staff, at his request, go with me, I rode directly down the road with only an orderly.

Colonel Garland, commanding a brigade, was the first officer I saw, to whom, for you, I made the demand.