In 1861, Lorenzo enlisted in the Army of the Confederacy. On September 17, 1862, he was in the major Battle of Antietam at Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lorenzo wrote about it.

"Our regiment passed through a corn field with the fodder just right for pulling, and the bullets cut that corn down and whined as they would hit the blades of fodder. As we was going in, we met a battery coming out. Just as it was passing us, a shell hit one of the horses and as far as I could see him he was going with his head up and his entrails dragging on the ground. When we got over the hill, we formed a line of battle and were ordered to lie down. We were as much exposed lying down as standing up. They were killing us faster than the litter bearers could carry them away. Louis Pumphrey, my good old neighbor boy friend, was positioned in the rear of our lines to keep them closed up. When I did not hear him talking to the boys to "keep close and be brave", I looked behind to see where he was. He was lying on his side looking up at me. The blood was running out of his mouth and nose. I stooped down, took his hand and said, "Louie, are you shot bad?" but he could not speak. George Pender (Perdue ?) and I laid him at the foot of a mulberry tree 10 or 12 feet away. He was dead, the ball had passed entirely through his body. I never saw him again."

Lorenza Miears had enlisted in the 2nd Ark. Infantry Regiment. It was shot up so badly at Antiitam (Sharpsburg) that Gen. Lee mereged it into the 3rd Arkansas, placed it in reserve and ordered them to fill in weak places in later battles. These boys had enlisted with their squirrel rifles and were exceptionally good marksmen. Both US and CSA called them "the fightingest bunch in the war".

Site for Lorenzo's memoirs: http://members.cox.net/preston1863/miearswebpage/miearsh.html

His wife, Missouri Lee Weathers, is buried beside him in front of the CSA stone.

Thomas Allen Jones, Great Grandson
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