succeded in getting
out without being much
injured but such a looking
sight you never saw he was
one color from head to foot being
covered completely with mud
quite thick, no one expect
-ed to see him come out
alive, the horses had to
be dragged out by other
horses. At 9.A.M. the battery
moved through
Middle
town on towards
Sharpsburg
about two miles then took
a road to the left which
crossed
South Mountain
at
Fox's Gap. Here the
Gen. ordered our Battery
to ascend the mountain
to a certain point & then