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rate States army. We got, also, a full supply of good tents, such as we would never have got but for the result of our recent conflict-in- arms.

Major John A. Harman, the efficient quartermaster of the brigade, selected for us a camping-place a few miles northward from Centre- ville, which was named after that officer, "Camp Harman," to which we went about the ist of August. Our company was given ample space in the edge of a natural grove of large oaks, near a beautiful and abundant spring. The horses and guns were on dry- ground near the woods. General Jackson's headquarters were on a hill less than a half mile from us, in a yard which lay around the house of a Mr. Utterbach.

Colonel Pendleton, who was in command of this company and other companies near it on the 2ist July, had been commissioned colonel in the Provisional army of the Confederate States army on the 1 5th, but was not relieved of command of this battery till the 23d. Lieutenant Brockenbrough being absent by reason of his wound, the company was in command of Lieutenant McLaughlin till the roth August, when Lieutenant Brockenbrough returned and took command, but resigned to take effect on the 26th August. On the 1 4th August the company was reorganized as a six-gun bat- tery, with the following officers:

Captain, William McLaughlin. First Lieutenant, William T. Poague. First Lieutenant, Archibald Graham. Second Lieutenant, John McD. Alexander. Acting Surgeon, Dr. John Leyburn.

Sergeants.

James C. Davis, J. Baxter McCorkle,

William M. Brown, J. Livingston Massie,

James L. Paxton, C. D. Fishburne,

Samuel C. Smith. John D. Moore, Q. M. Serg't.

Corporals.

William L. Strickler, John M. Goul,

John W. Jordan, Jr, Henry R. Paine,

James M. Garnett, Willoughby N. Brockenbrough,

David E. Moore, Jr.

Artificers. John B. Craig, Mark Davis.