History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . camplast night. When the blind lead the blind, both will fallinto the ditch. During the day we met several men in blue and severaldetachments, whom I afterwards concluded to be man said he belonged to the 20th Corps, which isnowhere in these parts. The others claimed to belong tothe 10th Corps, but were not disposed to go towards it. They could not tell whereit was, nor when they leftit. One squad was ratheroverdoing the Yankee for-age party. An officerwit
History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . camplast night. When the blind lead the blind, both will fallinto the ditch. During the day we met several men in blue and severaldetachments, whom I afterwards concluded to be man said he belonged to the 20th Corps, which isnowhere in these parts. The others claimed to belong tothe 10th Corps, but were not disposed to go towards it. They could not tell whereit was, nor when they leftit. One squad was ratheroverdoing the Yankee for-age party. An officerwith an umbrella com-manded. The men werestraggling along. Theyhad a cart and severalnegroes. But in two re-spects they failed — theylooked green, and had noforage. One little squadmet in the woods were muchalarmed. But they wereall permitted to pass the midst of these wanderings through the wilder-ness, three Orderlies came, bringing a dispatch to ColonelMoore, to come on to Holly Springs by the shortest andbest route, without regard to Jones cross-roads, and then tofollow on to Avents Ferry, on Cape Fear river. The. CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVIS,*Company A. * Was mustered as ist Lieutenant of the Company October 9, 1861, pro-moted Captain June 21, 1862. He was severely wounded in the battle ofChickamauga, on account of which he was honorably discharged May 23,1864. He returned to his farm in Gibson county, and remained for severalyears. He then removed with his family to Nebraska, where he died a fewyears after. He was a brave man, a faithful soldier, and an honored andupright citizen. 520 CHAPLAIN HIGHTS HISTORY OF THti Orderlies also brought the rumor that Johnson had surren-dered to Sheridan, and all our army was halted. Our menare disposed to believe this, as they commonly are, whatthey want to. Some reflections are cast on Johnson forsurrendering to Sheridan. Some one had heard that John-son said in Raleigh that he would never surrender to Sher-man. In the midst of these ru
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