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and moved them each time that They made an effort to stand my Company (A) was that day on the skirmish line. They charged the enemy and by dark had them driven two miles. Nor did night end the contest for three hours after dark the whole plains of Manassas was one sea of light - bombs screaming warning and bursting in the air. "Minnies" whizing all about. such I never saw - it was a thing that man can see once in a life time, be his years long or few. Parson Davis then speaks "It was so dark that one flag could not be distinguished from another, nor the Yankees