Exhausted, physically and mentally, and with my mind a

had performed efficient service and shown much capacity in the recent

Colonel G. W. Roberts, of the Forty-Second Illinois Infantry, also

came to me in the reorganization. He was an ideal soldier both in

mind and body. He was young, tall, handsome, brave, and dashing, and

possessed a balance-wheel of such good judgment that in his sphere of

action no occasion could arise from which he would not reap the best

results. But he too was destined to lay, down his life within a few

days, and on the same fatal field. His brigade had been performing