Note 9 — RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST CAMPAIGN IN THE PENINSULA. (continued 2)

The author of the “Subaltern” has gone too far in heightening the horrors of the siege, by stating that it was burnt; his words are “long before midnight it was one sheet of flame, and by noon on the following day, little remained of it except its smoking ashes.” I walked about the town many times on the following day, but saw no marks of fire; perhaps the town was subsequently burnt.