a, under Major-General Holmes; twenty-two thousand men from South Carolina and Georgia, and above sixteen thousand men from the Valley, in the divisions of Jackson s battles, amounted to 15,000 men.
As to the 22,000 from South Carolina and Georgia, General Johnston says:
General Ripley gave in this number.
He brought o thousand men who we are informed came to General Lee from South Carolina and Georgia to aid in driving McClellan from the Chickahominy — that is, those two brigadebered nine thousand to make up the twenty-two thousand from South Carolina and Georgia.
It may have been so. There may have been a brigade in General Lee's army n General Johnston as to the number of troops that came from South Carolina and Georgia, that there is danger of a like error.
Among those troops was Lawton's brigader brigade, of which I do not know the strength.22,000 from South Carolina and Georgia, and above 16,000 from the Valley, in the divisions of Jackson and Ewell, whic
ere standing looking down into the Crater, that awful pit of death, lined now with daisies and buttercups, and fragrant with the breath of spring.
Tall pines, whose lusty young roots had fed on the hearts of dead men, were waving softly overhead, and nature everywhere had covered up the scars of war with the mantle of smiling peace.
I paused, too, to watch them, and we all stood there awed into silence, till at last an old battle-scarred hero from one of the wiregrass counties way down in Georgia, suddenly raised his hands to heaven, and said in a voice that trembled with emotion: Thar's three hundred dead Yankees buried here under our feet.
I helped to put 'em thar, but so help me God, I hope the like ‘ll never be done in this country again.
Slavery's gone and the war's over now, thank God for both!
We are all brothers once more, and I can feel for them layin‘ down thar just the same as fur our own.
That is the sentiment of the new South and of the few of us who survive from
