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uag. i maae mm get up and hoist his flag. I told them to form a line and went with them near the top of the hill. I made them kneel behind a bank where they could bow their heads while they loaded their guns. Theh they could straighten up and shoot over the bank at the enemy. The most of them did very well, but some few of them put their heads down and never raised them. Just after‘ this, one of my comrades asked me to take his cartridge box off for him, as the strap that went over his shoulder hurt his wound. [ did so. and now having nothing better to do, I fastened nu» chrttTdge'Box drfm^ own person,
picked up 'a ^iysket and fired about twelve or fifteen times. This was the only time I Shot at the enemy during the war. After awhile I hearc the firing to our right getting farther away, and finally the enemy disappeared from our front and the battle was won. On the first day of September, we started to the lower part of Loudoun County. When on the turnpike near Gum Spring,. I got Col. Berkeley to let me go out foraging, and .1 went home, it having been six months less eight days since I had left. We now started for Maryland, and on the 14th of September were in the battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro. The 17tfr we fought at Sharpsburg, or Antietam, General Garnett commanding our brigade. I do not remember our loss in each battle, but we generally lost from a fourth to a third in killed and wounded. I saw General Lee, where shot and shell were flying, apparently indifferent to them. On the 13th of December ’62 ■ ■
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