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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
ganganized troops in the State of Virginia. The enemy was on every road, and still we were penetrating deeper into the country. Why was it, if not to surrender? But why should we seek to surrender? I expressed the opinion that Echols himself did not know exactly why he was making the march. When we arrived at a beautiful bottom about two miles south of Big Spring Depot, the army was halted in the road and a council of war held. [When the column halted and huddled like sheep Sergeant A. J. Patton stood up in his stirrups and, looking forward, turned pale and said: This is the end, right here! And such was virtually the case. Then and there was formed the resoution practically to disband next day.] We then bivouacked and cooked one day's rations—the last that was in the trains, there being two days rations already cooked. The quartermaster distributed the clothing among the men without taking any receipts. This clearly indicated that the end was at hand. Such gloom a