During the war he kept a detailed diary. Sometime in April, 1862 he supposedly wrote the following :

"One of the Negro Confederates was only wounded, but the other was killed one afternoon after leaving the security of a hollow tree (probably to relieve himself). Two Confederates tried to get to his body but were driven away by the Union gunfire". In 1975 his diary was edited by David H. Donald and published as "Gone For A Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard". Is someone familiar with this book ? Does it indeed have this entry ?

Glenn