The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-11
SOME or MY COMRADES
 SLEEP THE ETERNAL SLEEP.

Dear Mary-As Mir. Lundy Will leave Tor home In a day or two, avail my self of the opportunity to drop you few lines by him. I have been quite unweil for the past two weeks. but am better now and hope to soon regain my health. I have never been real well since was sick in. Mont gomery last March, but I have undergone SO much exposure the, past three months it is not at all strange that do not improve much. Nearly every man in camp is sick. but attribute nearly every case to unnecessary exposure. It Is impossible to make the men take care Of themselves. and as an inevi- table consequence many of them are sick all the time. and occasionally a fellow plays out"
 Matters are very quiet up this way now. The Yankees are yet under cover of their gun boats at herkley about thirty miles below Richmond. and presume they will remain in that lo- cality till the SO0.000 men Lincoln has called for join them. The licking we gave them last month wiil, no doubt. make them Q little cautious how they make tracks" around this burg for some time to come. If they aint satis- fled ali they have to do Is to make an- other advance and we will endeavor
 
 we did In June last. >
 Since the late battles miss the faces of many I once was on terms of inti- macy with. Some of them sleep their dreamIess sleep" on the battlefield. and others are 90 badly injured their ser vices to the cause will be forever lost |. Of all the gallant dead we miss the gallant Lomax most. and if this regi- ment were to exist twenty years. we would never look on his like again !" It is true we have a good and brave to supply the place of our martyred hero. Of the officers commanding reg iments in this brigade. all did their duty like brave and patriotic Southern CTS. Colonel Pegues of the 5th was killed at the battle of Gaines Mil i; Colonel o'Neal of the 26th was badly wounded at Malvern Hili, and the list Of inferior ofiicers is truly appalling.
 Colonel Gordon of the 9th regiment (who acted as our brigadier in all the battles around. Richmond. General Rhodes not having recovered from a wound received at Seven Pines) is as brave Q man as I ever kneV. At Mall vern HiiI he received no less than sew .en balls through his clothing and yet. singular to relates he, escaped without injury.
 He attends faithfully 70 ms mtntaFy duties all the week and pre&ches to the boys on Sundays. He Is Decidedly what we call "a trump" ana if he lives through this war. his name will be found inscribed high up on the roll of fame. f fH
 would not. give Genrai Malone for all the officers in the Confederate States and nothing could please me better than to be again under his command. We have got rid of old Bethel Hilp' and the division Is now under command of general Ripley. Hill commands now fin the vicinity of Drury's Biun, and William has the honor to. serve under him.
 don't think we will have any fight ing in front of Richmond again this wear. By the time /the Yankees get endorsements enough to make an- other advance the season will be too far gone for them to do much. We win nave to winter here expect; and I see no alternative but for many of us to freeze, as we have no clothing suit able for winter and God only knows how we are, to get it. I did hope the war would end in time for all of us to be home by Christmas. but see no prospect of such consummation now and I suppose will have to content my self to remain in the army egfhteen months longer. or 'till the war closes. Hooper is detached temporarily by the Brigade Quartermaster. and I hope the position will be given him perma- nently. He is not able to do duty' or