Harbour, Lee keeping between Grant and Richmond. We were

Harbour, Lee keeping between Grant and Richmond. We were in the trenches, defending Richmond and Petersburg, until the first of April 1865 when Gen. Lee had to fall back and finally surrender at Appomattox Court House. Early in March ’65 Gen. Sheridan was raiding north of Richmond; Pickett’s division was between him and Richmond. I was riding about, watching S h e r i da n’s movements. The first day I started to the Berkeley residence, three miles from Hanover C. H. in Caroline County. A short distance from the Pamunkey River, I saw a servant of Maj. Wm. Berkeley’s. I asked him what he was doing there; he told me his mistress was in the woods close by. I rode to the place where she was. She was very glad to see me; she had been over in Hanover County after some fowl she left there when she moved. She had been to the Pamunkey River, but the boat was igtine'affd eHe--’ could not c rods' the river. She had been within one mile of the house, but could not get there. We went several miles down the river to Mrs. Normon’s Ferry. When we got there, the large boat was gone, but there was a small boat that we could cross in but we could not take the wagon and horses. I tried to swim my horse across, thinking the wagon horses would follow me, but they would not; we had to cross in the small boat and leave the servant with the horses to hide and take care of as best he could. We borrowed a mule and a buggy from Mrs. Normon, and got to her home about eleven o’clock that night. There was great joy when Mrs. Berkeley got to her children and friends, who did not know what had become of her. We expected Sheridan and his men to come there; so I spent the greater part of the night hiding provisions, clothes, etc. I hid over a hundred pieces of bacon, sugar, tea, coffee, pickles, flour, side saddles, and their nice clothea They came as we expected and took what they found, but they did not find anything that I had hid. I left about half a ba r rel of flour in the store room. They took it all. I left thirteen pieces of bacon in the smoke house;