...d; around the top we built a low wall and over that a roof, and when we filled them we used straw and chaff to pack the ice in. The icehouse I speak of was convenient and empty; so we took those dead Yanks and put them in the pit as close together as we could. There was over a hundred of them (some of them must have been from the 16th N. Y. who were on our right and lost heavily). I thought if they ...