of
front by them out of the question, and speedily bringing hopeless
disorder. A few were bayoneted on each side. The enemy fell
rapidly, while doing little execution. Flight became impossible,
and nothing remained to put an end to the bloody slaughter but for
the Confederates to throw down their arms and become captives. As
the gloom of approaching night settled over the field, now covered
with dead and dying, the fire of artillery and musketry ceased,
and General Ewell, together with eleven general officers and about
all the survivors of his gallant army, were prisoners. Ewell,
Kershaw, G. W. Custis Lee (son of General R. E. Lee), and others
surrendered to the Sixth Corps. Barton, Corse, Hunton, DuBose,
and others were taken by the cavalry. Crutchfield of the Artillery
Brigade was killed near me, and his command captured or dispersed.
Generals Anderson and Gordon got away with part of B. R. Johnson's
division, and Pickett escaped with about six hundred men.(11)
Tucker's Marine Brigade, numbering about two thousand, surrendered
to me in a body a little later.(12) It had been passed by in the
onset of the charge. About thirty-five of the officers of this
brigade had served in the United States Navy before the war. The
brigade was made up of naval troops who had recently served on
gunboats and river batteries on the James below Richmond. As
infantrymen they cut a sorry figure, but they were brave, and stood
to their assigned position after all others of their army had been
overthrown. They knew nothing about flight, and were taken as a
body. By reason of their first position they suffered heavily.
When disarmed there was found to be a wagon load or more of pistols
of all patterns which had been collected from all the countries of
the civilized world. Certain incidents relating to the surrender
of this brigade may be of interest.(13)

Tucker's command was not at once engulfed in the general disaster.
Tucker had, after making a gallant charge, withdrawn it from its
exposed position into the dense timber in a depression in the
bluffs. Near the close of the battle, just at dusk, it was reported
to me that a force of Confederates was in this timber. I made two
vain attempts to get into communication with it and to notify its
commanding officer that he was in our power. At last, having some
doubts of its presence where reported, and my staff and orderlies
being engaged reforming troops and caring for prison