University of Texas at San Antonio Civil War Diaries

Night coming on the battle closed for the day.

We stood in the water, unable to rest our weary limbs, and not a half mile distant could be heard the moving columns of Yankee reinforcements, and their officers giving commands We were extricated from this di -lemma by a courier from Hood, who had been sent in search of us. We were [?] back to the Brigade, whom we found had taken a position on the "Nine Mile road" after taking our position, the majority of the regt, pitched out for the Yankee camp, and came back loaded down with blankets, clothes