his lines were disorganized, and that it would be futile to attack;

that all I could do was to hold on, and aid in covering his

I accompanied him back to Rossville, and when we reached the skirt of

the little hamlet General Thomas halted and we dismounted. Going

into one of the angles of a worm fence near by I took a rail from the

top and put it through the lower rails at a proper height from the

ground to make a seat, and General Thomas and I sat down while, my

troops were moving by. The General appeared very much exhausted,

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