A Brief Record of the Army Life of Charles B Amory

untry road in column of fours in the direction of the firing. Soon we met wounded men going to the rear and after this the dead and dying were seen lying where they fell,? this their first and last fight. It was a terrible sight, but not a man flinched; many faces were pale, but there was a look of determination to do or die on all these. Soon we heard the cheers of a charge and in a moment we came in sight of the rebel breastworks and saw our bluecoats going over them. We marched through these earthworks and halted, when General Foster and staff rode up to our colonel and gave him orders to follow up the retreating rebels. The organization of the other regiments was somewhat destroyed and we rushed after the enemy and went some two milesbefore we overtook them at their camp on the east side of the Island. They sent out a flag of truce and asked for terms of surrender. General Foster sent back word that the terms must be unconditional surrender, which, after a short parley, was accepted and we marched in and took possession of their arms. Some twenty-five hundred of them surrendered to about eight hundred of our regiment and none of the other troops were nearer than two miles at the time. General Burnside's troops remained on Roa- noke Island until the middle of March. Then all but a small force re-embarked on the transports and we soon learned our destination was Newbern. We landed some seventeen miles below the city and marched up to within one thousand yards ...