In three days from today, I will be lying right yonder on that hillside a corpse.

Ah, you may laugh; my time has come.

I've got a twenty dollar gold piece in my pocket that I've carried through the war, and a silver watch that my father sent me through the lines.

Please take them off when I am dead, and give them to Captain Irvine, to give to my father when he gets back home.

Here are my clothing and blanket that any one who wishes them may have.