 As we dashed forward, firing as we went, a young man, whom I took for an officer, came towards us, with a handkerchief fastened to a rod, reached it to me and said he wished to surrender….I directed him to the rear — the line just captured and held by our troops — and ran to the edge of the woods and fired.A man fell across the small stream with his head almost in the water, and immediately a tall rebel, who was near, threw down his gun, ran forward, caught him, sat on the bank with his feet in the water, and placed the head of the wounded man [a major from a Tennessee regiment] in his lap….