Re: Winning of the war
Weather conditions were terrible, as well. My folks' Company Commander, Captain James Lile Lemon, reported the banks of the ditch in front of the fort were frozen. He used his sword to dug steps and reached the parapet armed with his pistol, where he was promptly clobbered with with a rifle butt and captured. Col. S.Z. Ruff, of the 18th Georgia, my folks' regimental CO, was killed. Stan