Apart from the acute pain in my calf I knew that the dacoit’s

commanded by General Sill, Colonel Frederick Schaefer and Colonel Dan

McCook; but a few days later Colonel George W. Roberts's brigade,

from the garrison at Nashville, was substituted for McCook's.

General Sill was a classmate of mine at the Military Academy, having

graduated in 1853. On graduating he was appointed to the Ordnance

Corps, and served in that department at various arsenals and ordnance

depots throughout the country till early in 1861, when he resigned to

accept a professorship of mathematics and civil engineering at the