Some of the Union infantrymen who defended this ground on the night of September 14th returned the next day to bury their dead. Although the Confederate strategy had won the battle for Harpers Ferry and these Union soldiers were part of the largest surrender of United States troops in American history, they still had unfinished business here. Private John Paylor of Company D, 111th New York Regiment recalled going to the foot of the hill to bury Disbrow, who had been shot in the head the night before and was buried wrapped in an overcoat and blanket. Private Newman Eldred of Company H, 111th New York Regiment remembered that Horace Acker of Meridian had been killed and found dead in front of the line, with no way to tell whether friend or foe had shot him. Colonel Jesse Segoine of the 111th New York Regiment reported finding four men killed and one very seriously wounded who later died, making five killed, while perhaps nine or ten others were wounded, mostly slightly, and after the surrender Confederates told his men they had killed twenty of them and wounded more.