[35] NOTE.--“Near one of the batteries, when the wind would lift the smoke a little, we could distinguish a pair of (high) boots that resembled Burnside’s boots, and judging from an occasional glimpse of an old soft felt hat which seemed to be nearly above them, we knew that somewhere between the two, our commander had his headquarters established.--WILL. H. BREARLEY.” [36] Charles F. Walcott’s History of the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers states the Union troops at six thousand, and their losses twenty-six killed, one hundred and sixty-six wounded and fifty-seven missing. The Rebellion Record, Vol. VIII, gives the rebel loss as one thousand killed and wounded. [37] See Appendix: Note S. [38] Appendix: Note T. [39] Major Burrage, of the 36th Massachusetts Regiment. [40] Dr. Jackson, of Pennsylvania. [41] Mr. Robt. H. Armstrong’s, over one mile west of Fort Sanders. [42] Wm. Todd in “History of Seventy-ninth Highlanders, N. Y. Volunteers,” says that the Second Michigan was a part of the reinforcement, (page 383.) Chas. F. Walcott in “History of Twenty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers,” page 289, states that the garrison was reinforced by five companies Twenty-ninth Massachusetts, two companies Twentieth Michigan and a brigade of the Twenty-third corps. [43] The boast among the besiegers had been that they “had got Mr. Burnside and his pet corps into a trap.” [44] A fact. An intelligent eye witness of the scene, who served in the United States Army and numerous battles of the period, affirms that he never witnessed such a spectacle of human slaughter. [45] Capt. Poe says in his report, four killed and eleven wounded. [46] NOTE.--At a reception given Gen. Burnside, January, 1864, at Boston, by the Second Massachusetts Infantry, the General in the course of his speech, told how he asked a rebel prisoner four or five days after the attack on Fort Sanders why Gen. Longstreet did not make a second one. “Well,” said the prisoner “General, I will tell you. Our men just swear that they are never going into that slaughter pen again, and when they won’t go, the ball won’t roll.” (See Chas. F. Walcott’s History of the Twenty-first Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.) [47] NOTE.--One of them relates: “Whenever any of us could get off duty, we would stroll over to where the teamsters were feeding their mules; should the teamsters be gone, the mules invariably lost their rations. Frequently the kernels of corn that the mules and horses could not help losing, were picked up out of the dirt and eaten by the nearly famished troops.” [48] Appendix: Note U. [49] See Atlantic Monthly, for July, 1866. [50] See Appendix: Note V. [51] Bishop Otey was at first in the troubles of 1860-’61, a decided Union man, but when actual hostilities began, he espoused the cause of “the South.” Upon the occupation of Memphis by the United States forces, Gen. Sherman showed him kind and valuable attentions. [52] Rev. Joseph H. Martin.