Excerpt from Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 38 One of my duties was the charge of the reserve ordnance train of the army, which Vira hen encamped near Chester Sta tion (now Centralia) on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, and I took up my quarters and mess there with three fine young sergeants whom I found there, and all of whom had been dis abled or wounded and assigned to that duty. This was the custom of the army, where a man able to do full duty was needed for the front, and this illustrates our habitual shortage of numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.