ll the respect was shown that
circumstances admitted of.

One of our captains, who was wounded at the "guns" severely, fell into
the enemy's hands when we moved them--as everybody was too busy to
look after the wounded, and ambulance men and stretchers were this
time neither in the front or rear. He was taken up by his new friends
quite tenderly, as he thought, and put into an ambulance; but in the
course of the evening's entertainment the Yankee wounded came dropping
in, and our friend, Captain Walker, was disposed of rather
unceremoniously on the roadside, for others they valued at a higher
rate than even a Confederate captain.

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Immediately after the adjutant's horse came Custar's cavalry. Seeing
all clear before them, they came on without a check until, when
nearly opposite where our men of the Fifth squadron were lying in the
woods, they caught the fire of the entire squadron, which emptied a
good many saddles, and was the last shot probably fired that night.

The Federal cavalry kept on toward the town, and the squadron, under
cover, drew deeper into the woods, and moved round the town and went
into camp, but did not join the main body until next morning. The
enemy kept on until they got into, or nearly into the town, but again
fell back, establishing their line somewhere between the town and the
depot. Our outside picket was in the town.

We went into camp about one o'clock in the morning, on the Richmond
side of the town, in the woods--General Gary riding to General
Gordon's headquarters to report before lying down.

_April 9th._--The sun rose clear on this the last day, practically, of
the Southern Confederacy. It was cool and fresh in the early morning
so near the mountains, though the spring must have been a forward one,
as the oak trees were covered with their long yellow tassels.

We gathered the brigade on the green on the Richmond side of the
village, most of the men on foot, the horses not having come in. About
eight o'clock a large portion of our regiment had their horses--they
having been completely cut off the night before by the charge of
Custar's cavalry on the turnpike, and were carried, to save them, into
a country cross-road. Then the "Hampton Legion" got theirs. My
impression is that the Twenty-fourth Virginia lost the most or a good
many of their horses. The men built fires, and all seemed to have
something to eat, and to be amusing themselves eating it. The woods on
the