Page 122

“The officers reported the Yanks coming and tried to make us build breast-works, but we declined to work. Lieut. Albert Roberts did his best, the boys would drop down and go to sleep and declined to be waked up. Roberts and some other officer drew their swords and charged down the line; the boys hopped over the trenches and went to sleep on the other side. About this time Henry Ware came to W. E. Brothers and W. W. Batey and informed them that he had bought a bee stand, and that it was back a couple of hundred yards and was already open. The trio went back together, and not having eaten anything in thirty hours, eat honey as long as they wanted it, and then went a quarter of a mile to a spring and drank all the water they wanted, —and then they needed a doctor.”

Page 115

Company E

“Ware, Henry. Killed by citizens in Wilson County.”

Reference Data:

History of the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A., by McMurrar, Roberts and Neal, 1904, pages 122 and 115