September 14. [continued]

We came back and met Capt. King of Company K. of Roxbury, who had got lost from part of his company. During the chase in the woods our company and Company B (Capt. Bartlett) got separated from the rest of the regiment. We then marched to an open field from which we had driven them and where now lay our brigade, and were ordered to lie down.

We had hardly got in that position when the Rebs, who had followed us out of the woods poured a volley into us, wounding our Colonel18, Isaiah Hunt of our Company and some others in the regiment19. We were then ordered to fall back a few feet into the woods, our brigade engaging the enemy in front until nearly 10:00 P.M. While we lay in the woods, all the shot from the enemy fell directly onto our regiment, and, strange to say, but a very few were hit.

During the engagement all the Company but ours, retreating without orders in the dark, left us alone. After the firing had ceased, we fell in with a Maryland regiment, 2nd, and afterwards found our own regiment. We went to sleep, not far from midnight without dinner or supper.

The dead and wounded lay so thick that we could hardly walk without stepping on them, and we lay on the battlefield covered the same way. I had lost my overcoat and blanket during the fight and I lay rather cold, but we were so tired we could sleep well enough. A great many of the wounded died before morning. I talked with many of the wounded and found they all wanted the war to stop. They were tired of it.