Colonel Charles Ewing was inspector-general, and Surgeon John Moore medical director.

These constituted our mess.

We had no tents, only the flies, with which we nightly made bivouacs with the assistance of the abundant pine-boughs, which made excellent shelter, as well as beds.
Colonel L.C.Easton was chief-quartermaster; Colonel Amos Beckwith, chief-commissary; Colonel O.M.Poe, chief-engineer; and Colonel T.G.Baylor, chief of ordnance.

These invariably rode with us during the day, but they had a separate camp and mess at night.
General William F.

Barry had been chief of artillery in the previous campaign, but at Kingston his face was so swollen with erysipelas that he was reluctantly compelled to leave us for the rear; and he could not, on recovering, rejoin us till we had reached Savannah.
About 7 a.m.of November 16th we rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles.