I try only to describe events as I witnessed them.
We marched back to the old church on the roadside, called New Hope church, and fortified, occupying the battlefield of the day before.

The stench and sickening odor of dead men and horses were terrible.

We had to breathe the putrid atmosphere.
The next day, Colonel W.M.Voorhies' Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment took position on our right.

Now, here were all the Maury county boys got together at New Hope church.

I ate dinner with Captain Joe Love, and Frank Frierson filled my haversack with hardtack and bacon.
BATTLE OF ZION CHURCH, JULY 4TH, 1864 The 4th day of July, twelve months before, Pemberton had surrendered twenty-five thousand soldiers, two hundred pieces of artillery, and other munitions of war in proportion, at Vicksburg.