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[366] of the embankment with his head hanging in the fort. We pulled him down in the fort, and that night carried him out and buried him. During the night we strengthened the wrecked fort and in doing so unearthed numbers of Confederate soldiers who were killed and buried by the explosion. I remember in one place there were eight poor fellows lying side by side with their coats under their head. They seemed never to have moved after the explosion.
Richmond, VA. 1905.
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