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ing officer in that brigade . 1 It was only when the last ofStewart’s reserves had tried all that courage and dash couldaccomplish, that they relaxed their efforts. Some askedfor quarter in the ditch, and came in as prisoners; some laydown in front of the hedge, and waited for darkness toenable them to crawl away undiscovered. The remainderfell back to a position near the extension of the line Wag-ner’s brigades had occupied.
Cleburne had led his division forward, on the east of thecentral turnpike, with a desperation that was born of thewounded feelings he had shown in the morning, and he fellamong the first who were at the ditch when the rash of ourreserves restored the line between the cotton-gin and theroad. His three successive lines pressed forward to avenge -his death, but only to leave a thousand gallant officers andmen beside him. On the other flank, Bate had moved for-ward his division at the same time with Brown, deploying ashe went. His left reached beyond the Carter’s Creek roadas he neared the intrenchments, but the shape of our lines,which there bent back to the river, made him travel on alarge cui've, and his assault was considerably later thanBrown’s. It struck the right of Buger’s division, and theleft of Kimball’s, but finding the works before him stoutlyheld, and that the cavalry which he expected to advanceupon his flank were not doing so, his attack was not pressedas determinedly as that of Brown. The success which thisdivision seemed to have at the first, and the fact that forsome distance they continued to hold the outside of theworks, encouraged them to the most desperate and persis-tent efforts there. General Strahl was with his brigade inthe ditch, personally directing the fire of his men who got
1 Walthall's official report.