Our battery moved
back last night about one mile and camped on Hogan's farm. This morning when we
awoke we found a party of eight hundred Yankee prisoners at Hogan's house.
Amongst them were several surgeons, and they actually refused to attend to
their own wounded, but insisted, as surgeons were non-combatants, that they
should be sent to Richmond and immediately returned to the North.
A great number of
wounded Yankees have been brought in by our men, and are receiving all proper
attention. We moved forward to Gaines's house, where we remained all day, but
near us there was no more fighting.
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 122
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