Dale County AlArchives Photo document.....Memories of the CW by W.E. Preston nee Mathews pg 21 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christine Thacker http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00033.html#0008100 July 3, 2004, 11:48 am Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/dale/photos/documents/gph485memories.jpg Image file size: 208.0 Kb Page 21 that we could not get to them. We stayed there for thirty minutes or more and being no troops to our right they came around our right and were getting behind us, then we bore to the left and got out as best we could. As we got back to a depression about the center of this second valley, someone said liedown, we did so and while lieing there our color bearer Neal GODWIN said “ dinged if they ar’nt charging us”, and so they were and pretty soon we had to run back up the slope, But we met CLEBOURNS old briggad, afterwards GOVANS briggad and they made them run again. It was nearly sundown. We got our woonded boys together at the dry gully near the center of the first valley, carried wheat straw for them to lie upon, carried them water in our cedar canteens, from away under File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/dale/photos/documents/gph485memories.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb