of
the same staff on his errand, and soon rejoined me. Some movements
displayed large numbers of the enemy, whereupon Smith characteristically
exclaimed: "Get as many boys as ever you can; get as many shingles
as ever you can; get around the corner as fast as ever you can,--
a whole hogshead of molasses all over the walk!" Before this
outburst ceased a bullet whistled past by bridle reins and struck
Smith in the right leg. While yet repeating his lingo, he threw
his arms around his horse's neck and swung to the ground.

( 9) Grant wrote Sheridan informing him the Sixth Corps was
following him, saying: "The Sixth Corps will go in with a vim any
place you may dicate."--_Memoirs of Sheridan_, vol. ii., p. 182.

(10) _War Records_, vol. xlvi., Part I., pp. 1284, 1298.

(11) Longstreet, _Manassas to Appomattox_, p. 614.

(12) _War Records_, vol. xlvi., Part I., p. 980.

(13) Captains John F. Hazleton and T. J. Hoskinson, serving
respectively as my Quartermaster and Commissary of Subsistence,
reported to me at a critical juncture in the battle of Sailor's
Creek and volunteered for field duty, and for their exceptional
gallantry each was, on my recommendation, brevetted a Major by the
President.

(14) Tucker after the war expatriated himself from the country
for a time, and became an Admiral in the Peruvian navy, but as our
naval officers refused to salute his flag on the sea, Peru was
forced to dismiss him.

(15) _War Records_, vol. xlvi., Part I., pp. 683, 980.

(16) _Ibid_., p. 906.

(17) As to numbers engaged, see correspondence, Appendix C.

(18) Longstreet, _Manassas to Appomattox_, p. 616.

(19) _Memoirs of Grant_, vol. ii., pp. 477-8.

(20) _Memoirs of Sheridan_, vol. ii., pp. 191, 199.

(21) _Manassas to Appomattox_, pp. 618, 620; _Memoirs of Lee_
(Long), p. 416.

(22) Letter of General Gordon to the writer, of October 1, 1894.

(23) Longstreet relates that information came to him from Gordon
that a break had been found through which the Confederate Army
"could force passage," and that he dispatched a Colonel Haskell
"on a blooded mare" after Lee, who had gone to the rear expecting
to meet Grant, as requested by Lee by note previously sent, Longstreet
telling the Colonel "to kill his mare, but bring Lee back."--
_Manassas to Appomattox_, pp. 623, 626.

(24) _Memoirs of Lee_ (Long), p. 421.

(25) _Memoirs of Sheridan_, vol. ii., pp. 194-8.

(26) _Memoirs of Sheridan_, vol.