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[333] slowly, sometimes halting, at every moment fearing a shell from the belching batteries, which had heard the creaking of the train and were ‘feeling’ for our position. The glare and the boom of the guns, the dead silence broken only by a sob from some terrified heart, all filled up a few moments of time never to be forgotten. But we entered the city safely just as the moon was rising, and the next morning I handed my friend his daughter. A few days after the batteries closed — the gap on the Weldon road, cutting off Petersburg and Richmond from the South, and compelling General Lee to prepare for retreat.
Richmond, VA. 1891.
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