Drew
Major
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2012
“No one knows what they can do until they are forced to go to war. After the battles there were cries for water from both sides from the wounded and tired soldiers. After the Battle of Bull Run No. 1, I, with others, went in search of water a mile or two up and down the creek, but there were so many dead men and horses in the water that it looked like we would perish. After we found that we could only find blood and water mixed, we shut our eyes and filled our canteens and drank. I crawled along on my knees or rather snaked along one night a hundred yards with my canteen of water to a Union soldier who was dying on the battlefield begging, for God’s sake bring him a drink; when if his own men had seen me they would have killed me. They were afraid to go to him themselves.”
Pvt. Anthony A. Bryant, Company A, Ninth Alabama Infantry
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, Mamie Yeary, 1912, pp. 95-96
Pvt. Anthony A. Bryant, Company A, Ninth Alabama Infantry
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, Mamie Yeary, 1912, pp. 95-96