"There's no signs of 'em, so far as I can see, but there ain't no air, an' the smoke hangs close to the ground." As he said, it was useless endeavoring to perceive what was happening without, the powder smoke clinging to the earth, and hiding everything from view.

Yet I realized what must have occurred; the dead bodies in sight proved how severely the assaulting column had suffered, and no doubt the entire force had been disorganized, and sent helter-skelter for safety.

Yet they would come back--either they or others.

This muss must be cleaned up; this opening closed.

After that we could attend our dead and wounded.