...rit to his God, having fallen with up-lifted arm in the far front of the battle. On the evening of the 8th my brigade was in front, we had had a very severe fight, and had forced the enemy across Tom's Brook , in sight of their infanty camps; our loss had been considerable, on that very evening we had lost some of the very seed corn, the very best boys in my regiment: Lieutenant Thomas D. Davis, Company D...