We scared the enemy worse than we
hurt him....
"We saw the evidences of the flight all along our march, and
unmistakable indications of the overwhelming character of the
enemy's defeat in abandoned muskets and equipments. It was
impossible for me to pursue the enemy farther, as well because I
was utterly unacquainted with the crossings of the Run and the
woods in front, as because most of the men belonging to my
brigade had been marching the greater part of the day and were
very much exhausted. But pursuit with infantry would have been
unavailing, as the enemy's troops retreated with such rapidity
that they could not have been overtaken by any other than
mounted troops. On the next day we found a great many articles
that the routed troops had abandoned in their flight, showing
that no expense or trouble had been spared by the enemy in
equipping his army.... In my movement after the retreat of the
enemy commenced, I passed the Carter house and beyond our line
of battle. The enemy had by this time entirely disappeared, and,
having no knowledge of the country whatever, being on the ground
for the first time, besides not observing any movement of troops
from our line, I halted, with the expectation of receiving
further orders. Observing some men near the Carter house, I rode
to it, and found some five or six Federal soldiers, who had
collected some wounded there of both sides, and among them
Colonel Gardner, of the Eighth Georgia Regiment, who was
suffering from a very painful wound in the leg, which was
fractured just above the ankle.
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