For the last two weeks I, with four militiamen, have been on detached duty guarding a siege gun in position at the Smithfield house, on the eastern outskirts of Winchester. But to-day, December 11, 1861, in the Smithfield house I volunteered to join Chew’s Battery, an artillery company that was organized in Jefferson County about the first of November, for the express purpose of operating with Colonel Ashby’s regiment of cavalry.
Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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