Corporal Abner C. Smith
Company C, 20th Conn. Vol. Inf.

But my dear comrade, Abner Smith, than whom there was no better or courageous soldier, who had marched by my side from the commencement of our enlistment in'62, almost three years, and had been in every general engagement in which the regiment had been engaged, and had been my tent-mate all the time--just as the battle closed, was wounded. I received permission to help carry him to the rear about one and a half miles to our field hospital. A minnie ball had entered his right leg just above the knee, and shattering the bone all to pieces. His leg was immediately amputated and he was laid in a tent on some straw. I took fifteen dollars and a twenty-dollar Confederate note from his pocket, and stayed there until the effects of the ether passed off, and returned to the regiment, where I arrived about 1 p. m., feeling very sad at the loss of my tent-mate and brave comrade.

...may god in his mercy spare us all to meet again ...