The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

PRISON LIFE AND ESCAPE. 317
which will reach you by the Vaughan Road. All these forces,
except the cavalry, should reach you by twelve o'clock to-night.
You will assume command of the whole force sent to operate
with you, and use it to the best of your ability to destroy the
force which your command has fought so gallantly to-day.
(Signed) U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant- General.
This is all that passed on the subject between General
Sheridan and the lieutenant-general. It is short and to the
point on both sides, especially that part regarding reinforce-
ments— quite a model of military correspondence ; and
the
action of the lieutenant-general, unquestioning and uncomplain-
ing, evinces a confidence that must have been gratifying to his
lieutenant at Dinwiddle. General Grant says, speaking of the
Fifth Corps, "Two divisions will go by J. Boisseau's and one
down the Boydton Road, and should reach you by twelve
o'clock to-night." Here begins the association of General
Warren with General Sheridan, and so, with the reader's per-
mission, we will now change the scene to the camp of the
Fifth Corps, on the left of the Army of the Potomac.
[ To be continued. ~\
Reminiscences of Prison Life and Escape.
[ Con/tf!ued.~\
One day my own prison family got a chance to go outside
the guard line and get a pine tree for wood and to build us a
house. We got a good tree and got it cut, split and lugged
into camp and our house just completed. One of our boys,
A. T. Robinson, of my company and regiment, fell forward on
to a stick of wood, hurting him so as to cause a rupture for the
rest of his life. Our house was completed and we were proud
enough of it. It was made of flat stakes or stockades driven
into the ground as closely as possible, and a roof made of the