He was a great favorite with all his Army, particularly of our Corps, which he commanded for a long while.

Our company, especially, knew him well, and loved him dearly, for we had been his Headquarters Guard for over a year.

As we marched along, toward the front, we could see brigades, and regiments, and batteries of artillery; coming over from the right of the Army, and taking position in new lines in rear of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps.

Major Generals and their staffs, Brigadier Generals and their staffs, were mighty thick along the banks of the little ravine we were following; stragglers and wounded men by the hundred were pouring in to the safe shelter formed by the broken ground along which we were rapidly marching; stories were heard of divisions, brigades and regiments that these wounded or stragglers belonged, having been all cut to pieces; officers all killed; and the speaker, the only one of his command not killed, wounded or captured.

But you boys have heard and seen the same cowardly sneaks, probably, in fights that you were in.