nd rear from attack in that direction. My
regiment being the last of the brigade to fall back, the enemy had
already advanced so far after the other three regiments that I could not
fall back where they did. I therefore fell back in another direction,
rallying my regiment and forming on the right of the brigade referred
to; and that brigade, my regiment, and another brigade, which I think
had been brought up under General Emory, made an attack upon the enemy's
column, which had advanced some distance, and drove them back with great
loss. We continued to advance, and drove them a mile or more, so
completely off the field that there was no other attack made by the
enemy in that direction.

"That night we fell back again, marching all night and all the next
morning, until we reached the camping ground at the end of our first
day's march from Grand Ecore. I ought to state here that in that attack
of the enemy on our left the brigade commander, Colonel Benedict, was
killed, and I then assumed command of the brigade. We remained at Grand
Ecore some eight or nine days, where we built intrenchments to a certain
extent--rifle pits. I think the whole army threw up a kind of temporary
work in front."

General Fessenden's statements accord with the reports of Churchill and
his officers, and in other respects are accurate.

On page 62 of the volume quoted from, General A.L. Lee, commanding
mounted division of Banks's army, testifies:

"The next morning (9th of April) I was ordered by General Banks to
detach one thousand cavalry to act as scouts and skirmishers, and to
take the remainder of my division, and take whatever was left of the
detachment of the 13th army corps and some negro troops that were there,
and take the trains and the majority of the artillery of the army to
Grand Ecore. It was thought that the enemy would get between us and
Grand Ecore. I started about 11 o'clock with this train, and with six or
eight batteries of artillery, and reached Grand Ecore the next day. The
battle of the 9th of April commenced just as I was leaving. The next day
at night the main army had reached Grand Ecore and joined me there.
General Banks impressed on me very strongly that, in sending me back
from Pleasant Hill just as the fight was commencing, it was of the
greatest importance to save what material we had left. Early the next
morning, when I was distant from Pleasant Hill eighteen miles, I
received a dispatch from General Banks. I