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tacks upon our retreating guns; but the battle, 

 as a battle, was over, and Forrest's whole advance 

 had been stopped and ended by six hundred 

 Fourth Missouri Dutchmen, galloping, yelling, 

 and swinging their sabres at several thousand 

 men well secured behind a rail-fence. I had 

 before, in drill-ground charges, seen old soldiers 

 and experienced officers jump down and run away 

 from a fence on which they were sitting to watch 

 the advance of charging cavalry which they knew 

 must wheel before coming within five rods of 

 them; but I had never supposed that hot- 

 blooded soldiers, in the full excitement of a suc- 

 cessful attack, could be unnerved and turned by 

 the roar and thundering oncoming of a regiment 

 that could by no possibility reach them. Our 

 first setting out had driven back a thin skir- 

 mish-line which had to cross the fence under 

 high speed ; this, doubtless, aided in the debdcle ; 

 the charge had stunned them, but it was the rally 

 that stopped the pursuit. 



The rest of our march was without interesting 

 inoiAint all the way to Memphis, but it was 



