Some of our men got permission to go back to the field, and they returned us loaded

with canteens, haversacks well-filled with hard tack, and oil cloth and woolen blankets.

Others went with a horse or two, and came back supplied with many luxuries which we

had never known.

Among the plunder brought to us were large tarpulins used to cover the guns and casons

of the celebrated Ricketts battery which we had not into uselessness.

We went into camp very near the Lewis house and had our supper for the most part from

the haversacks of the enemy.

We slept as usual in the open air for we had no tents and had head done up to that time.

During the next day we recalled to Barry Young Davidson, a private and a rock bridge infantry

company.

We had nothing to dig a grave with, our battery not being supplied with spades as batteries

usually are.

But we got axes, stones, and such things as we could, and made a grave wherein we laid

him, enshrouded in the old blanket in which he was lying, and coffened with barrel staves

which we laid over his body.

It was a sad scene, this rainy dreary day after the victory, a band of soldiers, some of

them personally unknown to the poor fellow, laying away his body in this ignoble grave.

Private Clement D. Fishburn, Rockbridge, Virginia, Artillery, Jackson's Brigade.

Hey everyone, welcome to episode 59 of our Civil War Podcast.

My name is Rich.

And I'm Tracy.

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