any for some time and I must write of the past from memory.
Not getting any better, I went to the Company hospital on September 24
and there was treated for fever of which I had but a very slight touch.
On the morning of October 1 every man that could not join his platoon
was to be sent to Corinth as the Battery was going to move, so I and
four others were put in the ambulance and driven to the depot, but the
cars did not come till 2 P. M. When they came, they loaded all the
commissary stores in the rooms. E. R. Hungerford and myself were lucky
enough to get into the box car. We got to Corinth in about two hours,
and after waiting an hour we were taken in a mule wagon to the Seminary
Hospital situated on a hill about one mile and a half from Corinth.

We were put in a comfortable tent and lay there unmolested until the
3rd, when early in the morning heavy firing was heard and continued all
day. We learned that the cannon had been attacked by the rebels
consisting of Price, Breckinridge, Van Dorn and one other commander. In
the afternoon we had to move down under the hill, we being right in the
range of the guns should they open fire in that direction at night. We
were ordered to have everything packed so as to leave at a moment's
notice. At about 12 o'clock at night we were ordered out on the road,
while the tents were struck and cots piled. Presently the teams began
driving in and loading men and cots. At last our turn came, but not
until the rebs had opened fire on the town with three guns throwing
shells. We had to pass under the fire. The shells whistled over our
heads in every direction, while off went the mules as fast as they could
trot. It certainly was a rough ride. They drove us through town and left
us on the east of it about 1/2 mile. By this time it was nearly daylight
and the guns used by the rebs throwing shells were taken. About 9
o'clock the engagement became general. The noise of the musketry,
occasionally broken in upon by the loud peal of artillery, made it truly
terrific. The fight lasted about three hours, when the rebs were obliged
to skedaddle.

All of this time we had heard nothing from the Battery. We supposed that
it had been engaged, when at 12 o'clock Dr. Miller came around and told
us that the Battery had been engaged that morning, and had been taken
and retaken, but he could not give us a list of the casualties. We heard
nothing more from the Battery until to-day, G. M. Spencer came with a