"Surrounded by a vastly superior force, and skirmishing along the route, we reached Perryville on the 7th of October, where Gen. Bragg fought a pitched battle on the 8th, with odds of nearly four to one against him. (A large force having been detached.) Here, our Colonel, with some three hundred men then in the regiment, was moving alone, by the left flank, a stone fence on the right and a rail fence on the left, and to the left of the brave Cheatham, when from the stone fence, thirty-steps away, a volley of seven hundred guns was fired into us without note or warning." (Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate, Vol. I, John Berrien Lindsley, ed., Broadfoot, 1995, pp. 147/8)