J. F. Girault, private, company K, twelfth Mississippi regiment, present at Fort Gregg.
A. M. Girault, private, company G, sixteenth Mississippi regiment, present at Fort Gregg.
Thomas M. Rea, private, company D, twelfth Mississippi regiment, present at Fort Gregg.
A. K. Jones, captain, company K, twelfth Mississippi regiment, present at Fort Gregg.
B. F. Chisholm, color guard, sixteenth Mississippi regiment, present at Fort Gregg.
Frank H. Foot, courier for Harris's brigade.
N. S. Walker, captain, company E, forty-eighth Mississippi regiment.
T. Q. Munce, captain, company G, twelfth Mississippi regiment.
We, the undersigned, endorse the above:
W. L. Haley, lieutenant, company D, twelfth Mississippi regiment.
C. P. Cook,""""""
Jessie Thompson, lieutenant, company D, twelfth Mississippi regiment.
J. J. Johnson, sergeant, company D,"""
E. G. Peyton,""D,"""
D. C. Wood,""D,"""
A. M. Martin,""D,"""
J. C. Martin,""D,"""
Norvell Slay, company C, sixteenth Mississippi regiment.
FROM CAPT. A. K. JONES.
Dear General:
Your esteemed favor to hand, as also three copies of the Southern Historical Society Papers. I have read the papers, and now remail them to you. Thanks for the loan. It is truly sad to think how history may be perverted. I have thought that if there was any one battle of the war in which there could be no doubt as who the participants were, on the Confederate side, it was the defense of Fort Gregg, and it does affect me to think that the men who voluntarily offered themselves a holocaust on that holy Sabbath day to save the Army of Northern Virginia from capture in the trenches at Petersburg should, after the lapse of thirteen years, have to come before the public to vindicate their rights. I have no fear, however, but that posterity will know the true history of the defense of Fort Gregg. The events of the war have mellowed down with time, and many scenes have slipped away from memory. I have looked over a memorandum book I kept during the last campaign, which has greatly freshened my memory concerning the stirring and exciting events of the defence of Petersburg. I find that on the 1st day of April, 1865, my company, "G and K " consolidated, including Lieut. Glasscock and myself, was thirty-five strong. When we left camp at Bermuda Hundreds at 3 A. M., April 2d, I left seven men of my company on picket;
