direction of the city, on a path running through the woods and a corn field, with orders to arrest any one, not a commissioned officer, going to or from the camp with or without the countersign after tattoo. The first I heard of the attack, was after I was relieved from picket duty. Private Selvage, of Company B, who was on picket, came running back and said the rebels or some one were in the city and that it was filling up with cavalry. At that time I was cooking breakfast in camp. There were no day pickets out. None of the officers, so far as I could see, noticed his statement. I heard nothing until I say the flag of truce coming in about 5.30 a. m. Soon as it arrived the officers ordered the men to fall in. The flag was in camp two minutes after we first saw it and the rebels were closing in all the time. My company being absent I fell in with Company A. Captain Hughes went to mee the flag, and the next I knew the camp was surrendered. There were about 83 men in camp for duty at the time the flag came up. As I was told, there were from 1,100 to 1,500 rebels opposed to us. I don't think there would have been any use in resistance at that time. There were no scouting parties sent out, only a heavy camp guard and pickets. There were a few mounted pickets sent out on the roads at night about a mile from camp on impressed horses. I was not visited during the night by any one. I always found Colonel Boone with his clothes on at night, and think he was as watchful as possible, and as far as he was able did his whole duty. I never knew Colonel Boone to be out of camp except the night of the attack, when his wife was very sick. Have often seen him late at night visiting the guards and pickets. The enemy kept closing in and surrounding us while the flag was being received.

Statement of Corpl. T. T. Baldwin, Company E, Twenty-eighth Kentucky Volunteers.

I was on camp guard and had 8 men on guard; but after 10 o'clock, on account of the absence of two companies, only had 4 men. The pickets relieve themselves about reveille, and most of them were in camp at the time of the surrender. The first I saw or heard of an attack was a soldier of our camp running in and saying the town was full of cavalry. The next was I heard the men saying the rebels were coming and had our colonel prisoner. They then fell in of their own accord and appeared anxious to fight. We formed around the amphitheater, and some one asked if they were going to fight, and the reply was made that there was no use, as there were too many of them. The adjutant, Lieutenant Boone, said, "For God's sake let us fight and show them that the Twenty-eighth was not afraid of them!"

Captain Hughes went out to see the flag of truce. I met him coming in and asked him what was the prospect. He said, "I expect we will have to fight them." He said they claimed 1,500. The rebels, as far as I could see, were on both sides of the road and in the corn fields all around us.

Statement of Private John Shirley, Company E, Twenty-eighth Kentucky Volunteers.

I was a mounted picket, posted about 3 miles from camp, on the Hartsville road. Was ordered not to interfere with citizens coming into camp and to pay no attention to what was going on off the road. These orders were given by the adjutant. Was not visited during the night. Was