At night, while the First Louisiana was sleeping, a charge
was being made on the right and left of the rebel line at the same instant. The
one on the right was made by the 90th and 191st New York and the 22nd Maine
regiments. It was directly in front of our position. The troops undertook to
creep through a ravine, full of fallen timber, in the darkness: but they were
discovered by the rebels, who poured such a deadly fire into the fallen timber
that the attempt had to be abandoned. Some of the soldiers crept into holes and
remained there all day, and escaped in the night. Others crept back the same
night to camp, but a few lay dead and wounded on the field. The charge on the
left ended about the same way.
SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith, Leaves from
a Soldier's Diary, p. 68-9
