. Days and events, 1860-1866 . imental butcher, when a shot threw the earth about him,went on undisturbed, and no one else minded the missiles whichwhistled by overhead any more. There was a stone dam which furnished power to a mill onthe turnpike a few rods in front of us, which it was talked ofremoving or blowing up to lower the creek for our fording, andit was said our regiment was to accomplish the work. Some ofour men, I think, did do something about it, but the most ofus had not:much to do except to watch the eifect of the enemysfire and the troops who hurried by us nearly all day, mainl
. Days and events, 1860-1866 . imental butcher, when a shot threw the earth about him,went on undisturbed, and no one else minded the missiles whichwhistled by overhead any more. There was a stone dam which furnished power to a mill onthe turnpike a few rods in front of us, which it was talked ofremoving or blowing up to lower the creek for our fording, andit was said our regiment was to accomplish the work. Some ofour men, I think, did do something about it, but the most ofus had not:much to do except to watch the eifect of the enemysfire and the troops who hurried by us nearly all day, mainly, Ithink, of Burnsides command on their way to the lower bridge,where they crossed on the day following. Toward sunset we DAYS AND EVENTS 127 marched up on the heights and bivouacked near to the housewhich General McClellan occupied as Headquarters, to guardit overnight. From this place I had a pretty good view of thefield of battle of the right wing on the following day, and to^ aidmy description I sketch below the ^J^.laJiU, i-Lf (-d^Ai htauiii ^i^^ -■■ <■ From the position at McClellans Headquarters which we oc-cupied on the night of the i6th of September and that in frontof the New York artillery, I saw the features described on page123, which I can perhaps render a little more Intelligible by theaid of this sketch. The New York artillery stood on a bluff perhapsforty feet above the Antletam, and closer to the stream than In-dicated on the plan, which does not aspire to accurate measure-ments or in fact anything more accurate than memory at sevenyears can afford of my impressions at the battle. The base ofthis bluff was within perhaps thirty yards of the creek at themill and thence it receded as we looked upstream, until It waslost behind or In the woods around what I have marked asHookers Crossing. 128 DAYS AND EVENTS Between the base of the bluff and the stream there was anundulating interval, dotted with trees from the mill to the woodsabove mentione
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