caisson-cover

Updated: August 18, 2026

As I had not, he said, "That's your blood; that is the caisson-cover on which you were hauled around at Sharpsburg and neither rain nor snow can wash it out." The infantry of the Stonewall Brigade was in camp seven miles from us, toward the railroad. Having ridden there one morning for our mail, I met two men in one of their winter-quarters streets.

Edward Alexander Moore - The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson : In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia