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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stray leaves from a soldier's Journal. (search)
r from the Salem artillery rode by, and as he did so, remarked: You had better keep your eye upon a good horse; you will need him presently. I replied, I expect as much. We were moving to the right of Farmville, a short distance in Cumberland county, and through a densely wooded swamp. Two guns belonging to the Salem artillery were in my front, and, though at the head of the battalion, neither field nor company officers were with them. I stopped to get a drink of water, and in so doiediately spike his guns and abandon them, saving his men and horses, if possible; that the enemy would probably appear on his left flank— no Confederate force being between us and them. Whilst we were marching through this dense swamp in Cumberland county, our battalion being badly scattered, and we not being able to see but a few yards either to the right or left, Colonel Talcott, a Colonel of Engineers on General R. E. Lee's staff (I think,) rode up to Colonel Hardaway and made this statem