A Virginia artillery officer on the campaign before Gettysburg wrote the following about confiscating horses in Pennsylvania, “It was my ill fortune to have to go frequently in charge of one of these expeditions…it appeared…that every other animal seized be the especial favorite of the woman and children of the family, who with ‘wailing and crying,’ begged that their ‘pets’ might be spared. Moreover, these horses turned out to be utterly useless. They were big, fat and clumsy, totally unfit for the quick movement and long, forced marches of the Confederate artillery service, and most of them had to be abandoned before we again reached Virginia.”

I am sure he was a captain and commander of a Virginia Battery. I need the citation for this quote. I believe Blue and Gray Magazine may have cited it in one of there Gettysburg issues a year or so. If any one can help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks