Our killed, wounded, and captured did not amount to more
than 600. We might have captured a whole brigade at one time during the battle,
but did not. They charged our batteries, not perceiving a brigade of our
own lying concealed just in the rear of the guns: so, when they advanced,
shouting, to within thirty yards of our troops, they rose and “let them
have it.” Nine-tenths of the enemy fell, and the rest were soon dispatched,
before they could get away. One of their dying officers said they would have
surrendered to us, if we had demanded it. He was reminded of Pope's beastly
orders, and died with a horrible groan.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 148
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