Corporal John Ashe, 17th Regiment

"I belonged to the Sergeant's Picquet of 15 men from which I was detached with six. The sergeant's picket was on the right of the whole without the outer abatis. And I with the six men was posted close by the water side at about a quarter of a mile distance from the Outer Abbatis. I posted my sentries according to the order I had received. Captain Darby went the rounds between 10 and 11 o'clock and told me that it was Lt. Col. Johnson's order not to let any of my men sleep on any account but to keep them very alert. . . When I was first taken, the Rebel Captain, as they called him . . pointed to a hill . .where there was a 12 pounder and a 3 pounder, and told me that I was a rascal, and that we were all alike, and that many a good man had fallen on that spot the night before."

Corporal Ashe and his men remained trapped in their position until the morning when they surrendered to the Americans.