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Taken from Memoirs Historical and Personal; Including the Campaigns of the First Missouri Confederate Brigade, by Ephraim McD. Anderson, Saint Louis. Times Printing Co., 206 North Third Street, 1868.
This passage described the visitation of the author to the Wilson's Creek battlefield before the Missouri Brigade retreated from Springfield, MO to Arkansas in Feb. of 1862:
"We visited the sink-hole, also near, said to contain several hundred dead bodies; the earth thrown on top being partially washed away, the clothing and bones protruded in some places. A fellow who was along, fished out a pretty good looking cap, which was partly uncovered, and, shaking the dirt from it, placed it upon his head, at the same time throwing a worn out hat into the hole. Some of the boys asked him if he was going to wear it, and he said he was; afterwards I saw him several times with it on, and thought, though his head might need covering, yet he must be a tolerably hard nut."
This passage described the visitation of the author to the Wilson's Creek battlefield before the Missouri Brigade retreated from Springfield, MO to Arkansas in Feb. of 1862:
"We visited the sink-hole, also near, said to contain several hundred dead bodies; the earth thrown on top being partially washed away, the clothing and bones protruded in some places. A fellow who was along, fished out a pretty good looking cap, which was partly uncovered, and, shaking the dirt from it, placed it upon his head, at the same time throwing a worn out hat into the hole. Some of the boys asked him if he was going to wear it, and he said he was; afterwards I saw him several times with it on, and thought, though his head might need covering, yet he must be a tolerably hard nut."
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