Yesterday passed off in comparative quiet; a few shot and
shell thrown from our batteries into the lines of the enemy, and a few rounds
from their sharp-shooters in return, was all that disturbed the Sabbath-like
stillness of the first day of the year. The enemy were engaged in burying their
dead, under flag of truce, and I understand that they have a big job of it. In
Sunday's and Monday's fighting we killed, wounded and captured near fifteen
hundred,* and sustained a very slight loss. The Third and Thirtieth Tennessee
and the First Louisiana regiments were the troops who bore the brunt of the
fight, and right nobly did they do their duty against the fearful odds.
* U. S. Official Report, 1929.
SOURCE: Edwin L. Drake, Editor, The Annals of the Army of Tennessee and Early Western History, Vol. 1, p. 17
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