The book, Mississippi in the Confederacy, As They Saw It, edited by John K. Bettersworth, and published for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi by the Lousiana State University Press, 1961, contains the following letter dated 9 July 1863 from Clindenen Black's step-brother, John W. Henderson, to Mrs. John Henderson [McAlister Papers] (brackets are mine): "... death of Clen [Clindenen] ... killed ... [July] 3d. At the time of his death he was and had been acting as clerk for Adj. Harman ... since he came to the regiment at Fredericksburg. His going into the fight was entirely voluntary ... it seems he preferred sharing the dangers of his company and messmates. He was killed instantly by a shot received in the left breast. His remains were decently buried in a garden with [Sergeant] John Gilliland, Isaiah Fletcher, Newton Nask and Jackson Weeks, who were all killed near each other. I did not see him until the day after the battle as I was very busy at the hospital assisting in taking care of the wounded." The garden mentioned by Henderson was likely attached to the Sherfy house - the barn, located about 50 yards south of the house, afterwards burned down. The Elliott map shows approximately 24 Confederate burials in the immediate vicinity of the Sherfy farm west of the Emmitsburg road. According to my calculations, Company I of the 13th Mississippi would have passed very close to the Sherfy barn during their attack, where they would have directly encountered and driven back the 114th and 57th Pennsylvania regiments on the afternoon of 2 July 1863. The dead of Company I were evidently gathered together in one spot by their company mates either that night or else the following day when Barksdale's brigade was posted nearby as an infantry support to Col. Edward P. Alexander's guns. As for L. D. Fletcher, he is mentioned in: History of Thurman Earl Hendricks and 20 Others in Service of the Confederate States of America, vol. 1, Gen. T. J. Churchill Chapter No. 1373, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division [typewritten], 1931 [at the Library of Congress]. The book mentions the formation of a company "known as the Minute Men of Attala with L. D. Fletcher, an ex-Mexican [War] soldier, as captain."