Whether this Gaston Michel Miseroux got away alive without his knapsack, or whether he was captured or was killed, there is none to say.

His service record is here in the trampled dust and he is gone.
Before going farther the young lieutenant, speaking in his broken English, told us the story of the fight, which had been fought, he said, just forty-eight hours before.

"The French," he said, "must have been here for several days.

They had fortified this hill, as you see; digging intrenchments in front for their riflemen and putting their artillery behind at a place I shall presently show you.

Also they had placed many of their sharpshooters in the houses.