Lieutenant Cookes, Bengal horse artillery, reports that "about daybreak on that day I advanced my half troop at a gallop, and engaged the enemy within easy musket range.
About eleven o'clock A.M., when the guns were still in action, the same gunner, while sponging, was again knocked down by a musket-ball striking him on the hip, thereby causing great faintness and partial unconsciousness, for the pain appeared excessive, and the blood flowed fast.