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about us, a member of the company was very zealously and earnestly calling upon the Lord for mercy, for protection, and for help in the time of such imminent danger.
During his devotions he would tell the Lord that he had been all through Mexico, but he had never seen anything half so bad as that; just then another shell would whistle over in very close proximity, when with the greatest earnestness he would exclaim:
‘Oh, Lord, have mercy on me!’
At this point a comrade near his side would respond: ‘Me, too, Lord,’ whether from inability to frame his own supplications or in a spirit of humor, no one then present took occasion to enquire.
J. B. Caddall, Co. C, 4th Va. Infantry.
