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command of the second brigade. "Colonel, advance your brigade till you develope something you haint developed anything yet." Now, if I am any judge of the tones of a drunken man, this order was given by a drunken man's voice. I turned to some of the recruits and remarked, "It is my opinion that brigade will not advance far before it developes something." As I saw all these signs of a coming reverse I grew blue. I told the soldiers that when the ball? opened I would run the first fire. Had I fulfilled my promise it would have saved me many a unclear day in prison. Well sure enough the brigade developed something the enemy passed a couple of brigades, around its left (without a picket) and into our rear, they there attacked the brigade, drove it back, they at the same time opened thier battery with renewed vigor on our right and threatened an attack in that direction. finally as the brigade which had developed on our left fell back, and being in the woods hid from our view, the bullets began to come