First Lieutenant Edward Flood, of Company K, 6th Louisiana, was in charge of the Pioneers of Jubal Early's division during the Gettysburg campaign. Robert Stiles (a Yale graduate), in his book, Four Years with Marse Robert, described Flood as "a New Orleans stevedore, a rough but very efficient man, who, among his many admirable qualifications, possessed this highly acceptable one, that he had no sort of objection to Old Jube's airing his choice vocabulary of profane rhetoric about him, his work, or his men whenever he might happen to need relief in that direction." The men assigned to Flood included Privates Edward Davis (5 LA), Joseph Smye (6 LA), John Cooper (7 LA), Frank Normend (7 LA) and Daniel Yancey (9 LA). In the Army of Northern Virginia, Pioneers were organized at the division level. Stiles quotes Early as saying, "the main use I had for a pioneer corps was to bury dead Yankees and horses." Indeed, they did do that, but in other organizations they did a lot of other odd jobs such as cutting down fences to allow passage of troops and artillery, assisting wounded from the field, clearing barricades, cutting paths through timber, building pontoon boats and bridges, collecting discarded weapons from the battlefield, burning buildings for military purposes, or putting fires out. They typically were given one wagon in the quartermaster's train, which hauled their implements: spades, axes, picks, and sperm oil candles for night work.