University of Texas at San Antonio Civil War Diaries

Genl Melton thus speaks. "Here we had a fair sample, of your Texans, under Hood. The best fighters in the Confederacy, Men upon whom one could depend, who seem to fight for the very love of it." While the boys were all giving in their experiences, I felt rather gloomy. I was tired & hungry. I had no remedy for the latter for in the morning I had thrown away my overcoat, in order to doub -le quick, and in double quicking I had lost my haversack, containing 2 ears hard corn, 1 cracker, and 3 bites of bacon, so my feelings can be better imagined than experienced, besides this, I was seized with a fever & cramps, and in the language of "Bowers" wished myself most dead.