University of Texas at San Antonio Civil War Diaries

effort to walk, or fall into the hands of the enemy, my choice was soon made, and after walking some two or three miles I felt as if "Rich -ard was himself again." How ben -eficial is exercise! We commenced the march at 11 PM, and had the Yanks known of our [renegade?] movement. They could have bothered us much, strict silence was the or -der, and for ten miles, not a voice was heard above a whisper, for every moment we expected to be fired upon from Yankee ambush. To show the true state of affairs. I copy from Chaplain Davis his story of the 4th Txs. "What a hearty laugh a man could have had, had he been in a po -sition to observe, both armies