lds, that no
one could expose any portion of his body on either work, without
drawing the fire of his enemy opposite. Some of the boys found good
quarters inside of the old furnace, within a few steps of our guns,
those of us in the outside wishing there were a few more furnaces. Talk
about not dodging! Whenever one of us had to move about, he had to
dodge from one cover to another. But there was one comfort, our
infantry kept our enemies dodging also. About Dec. 10th, we were
relieved from this position by another battery, and ordered to the
extreme left of the army and put in position on a small hill, about 700
yards west of the Hillsboro pike, opposite the house of Robert
Castleman, who lived on the east side of said pike some three and a
half miles south of Nashville, and three quarters of a mile, southwest
from the extreme western end of Hood's line, on the Hillsboro pike.
Here, we were ordered to entrench.

[The description of the duty to which Lumsden's Battery was
assigned in the battle of Nashville on December 15th, 1864 was lost
in some way and not printed in Lumsden's Battery History where it
belongs near the top of Page 56 just after the sentence "Here we
were ordered to entrench".

The omission was not noticed until after the volumes had all been
printed.

These special pages must therefore be put in an insert and read in
their proper place, after which again the history takes up the
further retreat of the remnant out of Tennessee.]

Major John Foster of the Engineers, with a detail of 100 men had
already started on the work. Hood's orders were that it should be a
regular fort enclosing the top of hill. As yet, it was simply a
redoubt, facing a ridge some 800 yards away that ran nearly
perpendicularly to the general direction of the army's line of battle
at the extreme left end of the army. Between the ridge and the
location of redoubt were cultivated fields, and had been some woods,
through which Richland Creek meandered towards the north west. The
woods our engineers had cut down, so as to give an uninterrupted view
of the lands in our front, and gave a cover for skirmishers who might
be driven back towards redoubt and also gave cover for an enemy line
of skirmishers to approach to within 100 yards of redoubt under
cover, when they had driven back the defending skirmishers.

Major Foster's force had started the redoubt shortly aft