The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Thompson * Roads, Louisa. Va.

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!. Mr.. Jno. ~. trodd:-7l have 3ust 3reao
company. y think I met you a. year or ~
ago, while you were In tho Legislature.
but OF courge & We could not recognize
each other. j remember you 5{as a. slim.
long-legged, rn ther ga AGING boy. IL that
description does not At the subject, or
does not please the nadnrn hom !
hope God has given you and still pre-
serves for YOU, have simply d con @
founded you with como one else. (Ny
wife says that was me. sure. y. ~. - RI
MY recollection OF your brother ts very Z
distinct. as NO went out tpg ethsr n fif6l
In fact, u soc Charles every nov ana
!, then. IN the last paragraph sou hope 4
for responses from others who went 10 I
North Carolina after we were q ndeu
-four men OF the Fl rst detachment y art Z
ed on that trip-Peters Williams Leigh
Robinson, w. * can and a Maryland man
named Buclsmaster. who was O }sergehnt
in Browns battery and An re~s pht
talon. Il Browns battery was ca ptured
when the lines were broken In front OF "a
Petersburg but he escaped. He fell IN s
withfus on the second day of the retreat
and stayed with %ua TO tho end. We Gus a
FOUR went by Campbell G. Il. and then Y
turned east to Halifnx count y 70 ! leave .
With his people Peter eSvi iia.nsi brot her.
Wat Williams. who Was aaso s1paL 'f.pu
w
trip. 7Jyro stopped n day In Halifax with
Williams. people and, leaving poor Ut
4 tie WAT Williams because we would 4 not
let him 30 wi tls. We q gain took up the
line OF march. Fortunately for vs. JUST
beyond Dnnville. j think. we met Captain
Paris 81 aifas who BELONGED ito to /, Cen =,
seral Johnston's army Peter Niiliams
knew i.!,n lie told 'us 1t was useless TO
70 on, as. when he JET, Generals john 4
#ston aud Sherman had had an interview
with reference ITO tho sllrrend er OF Sen 81
eral Johnston 50 I'VE footed Y PACK.
Williams and Robinson stopped IN i1 -tlI-E
fax county and 4 parted with B =
ana i on TO my home In Louisa, where
an now sitting under my own vine and {
fg-trec IT on your trips 70 n edmond
you will stop and sec me, we Will ttastei
the fruit OF that same vine ana fas-tree5
i(npple, in the con centrated forIn), anu
cnke. however. on the firing OF that
niece while Numbered up and stalled in a 9
smudhale. hope. for the sake IS your
wife and children, i am the only Artil-
leryman who has read that BY the
way, as you still keep an Interest n INC
old days, At may interest you TO tltno"
what became of the battery q has S, g.
after isharpsburg. A. q bait terry lt1ad no {
use for dag Ithe gun. being the can.
,,nroner's rnliyins point. our nag WAS al
ways carried folded up In tho lumber PEI,
chest OF tho nrst piece. = tier we nag
spiked and buried our guns, q TOOK tne
flag out OF the Timber chest sana' W..
Peter 4 Williams. went into the bushes
where j cut two holes in At for my arms, IS 4
a nut It on under my shirt. 4 wore It Z
until NE got back from North tGarollna
to Halifax county. lhon, eyerythl ng nay
Ing been lost. and not thinking there 7, vas \
any future. took It ~ and We CUT, ~, NJ "
would Va not give to have 1t now? That
3 YOU may the better recall me to your
mo,nory.I was the old MOL Of the zt II
apiece and was made corporal soon after
we got to the Dunn House in the summer
OF "a. Hoping all is well with Sou .,,ia
yours and that we may YET heo. R'.4'a
side of the river. am,
NJ Your old comrado. =
55 II a w. IlEAN.