The surgeon says he noticed a Louisiana regiment that moved into battle eight hundred strong, its banners flying and the men elated at the prospect of success.

About five o'clock in the afternoon this regiment was withdrawn, and went into bivouac a short distance from the surgeon's hospital.

It was then less than four hundred strong, but the spirit of the men was still the same.

On the morning of the 7th, it once more went into battle.

About noon it came out, less than a hundred strong, pressing in retreat toward Corinth.