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I told the men to supply themselves with rations out of the cut clown and broken up wagons which the
Yankees had left near
Flat Creek, and we had a plenty of raw provisions for the time being.
We marched on together, crossing
Appomattox River on a ferryboat near
High Bridge, and got to
Farmville on Thursday evening. Our rations had now given out, but a Confederate commissary at
Farmville gave us a new supply, which lasted us to the end. We spent that Thursday night in
Farmville.
On the next morning (Friday) I took my ten men and marched towards the county bridge that crosses the
Appomattox, not far from
Farmville.
I met
General Pendleton on the eastern side of the bridge and inquired for
Haskell's battalion.
He told me that it was coming on, and in a short time I met Colonell
Haskell on the
Richmond side of the bridge with two batteries of his battalion, which had been marching with him. About this time
General Robert E. Lee rode up at the head of a column of infantry.
He halted the men on the eastern side of the river to stop their progress along the line of our subsequent march towards
Appomattox. (
General Lee looked as he always did, and showed no sign of any discomfiture whatever.
