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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
hese, and proper ammunition-chests supplied with caps, lanyards, thumb-stalls, &c. We got, also, six United States army caissons, a new forge with all needed supplies for the blacksmith, additional horses, and full sets of new harness, made expressly for the United States batteries, but which we found admirably adapted for use in the Confederate States army. We got, also, a full supply of good tents, such as we would never have got but for the result of our recent conflictinarms. Major John A. Harman, the efficient quartermaster of the brigade, selected for us a camping-place a few miles northward from Centreville, which was named after that officer, Camp Harman, to which we went about the 1st of August. Our company was given ample space in the edge of a natural grove of large oaks, near a beautiful and abundant spring. The horses and guns were on dry ground near the woods. General Jackson's headquarters were on a hill less than a half mile from us, in a yard which lay around t