God! what a battle! And again at Stone River, when the Johnnies surprised us and took us in flank.

It was you Kentuckians then who saved us." "Just as you would have saved us, if it had been the other way." "I hope so.

But, Mason, we left a lot of the boys behind.

A big crowd stopped forever at Perryville, and a bigger at Stone River." "And we left many of ours, too.

I suppose we'll land soon, won't we, and then take these Grand Gulf forts with troops." "Yes, that's the ticket, but I hear, Mason, it's hard to find a landing on the east side.