Saturday, 4th.—6 A. M., Federals fired salute. 9:30 A. M., white flags raised on our works; suppose we have been surrendered. 12 M., marched out and stacked our arms in front of our works, leaving our regimental colors with the guns; we then marched back to camp; Yankees immediately put guards in our ditches, and we are now prisoners of war. Treating us very kindly, good many of our boys going out to Federal camp, with one Yankee guard to six or seven prisoners, when the Federals soldiers gave them what rations they could carry back; and so the private soldiers fed us for two days, until rations could be issued to us.
Robert M. Magill—Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy.
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