Fragments of a Confederate artilleryman's memoirs, ca. 1900-1909.

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Fragments of a Confederate artilleryman's memoirs, ca. 1900-1909.

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The fragments present begin with a very brief recounting of events in the Petersburg Campaign of 1864 including the battles of Taylors Woods and New Market Road. Topics in 1865 fragments include the desertion of 12 men on the 15th of March 1865; the attack on Fort Stedmen; the evacuation of Petersburg; events on the retreat to Appomattox, including losing an altercation with some infantry over right of way; General Mahone's division marching into camp playing "The girl I left behind me"; falling ill and being placed on a hospital train just before Union cavalry fired the depot and surprised and stampeded his battery [at Five Forks?]. Other topics on loose papers include difficulty in getting soldiers to work as laborers to cut and haul ice; meeting sabre slashed men of his battery after the war; and the building of a memorial by a Maine regiment.

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University of Virginia. Library

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