Volume Two by Ulysses S. Grant]@TWC D-Link book Volume Two 16/19 In the darkness and uproar Hooker's teamsters became frightened and deserted their teams. The mules also became frightened, and breaking loose from their fastenings stampeded directly towards the enemy. The latter, no doubt, took this for a charge, and stampeded in turn. By four o'clock in the morning the battle had entirely ceased, and our "cracker line" was never afterward disturbed. The enemy lost most of his pickets at the ferry, captured. |