History of the Fourth Maine battery, light artillery, in the civil war, 1861-65; containing a brief account of its services compiled from diaries of its members and other sources. Also personal sketches of many of its members and an account of its reunions from 1882 to 1905, Part 11

Author: Maine Artillery. 4th Battery, 1861-1865
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Augusta, Me., Burleigh & Flynt, printers
Number of Pages: 384


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1:44


Corp'l James M. Allen


About


185 Augusta.


lats, Cal ..


Accidently shot.


Corp'l Maurice S. Philbrick ..


1892 Mt. Vernon. -, Cal.


Killed making an


Corp'l Alvah Whittier


189> Vienna.


Corp'l Uriah Reed ..


Abont.


1569 Lewiston.


Corp'l Emery J. Packard ..


-, Mass.


Bugler Hebron M. Wentworth Bugler Harley F. Hicks.


1900;Togus.


Artificer M. W. Marvel.


1666 Lewiston.


Artificer Willitin Lane


les Monson.


Artificer Albert V. Thompson


Artifieer Charles L. Bigelow


1590


Artificer Osgood J. Cleary.


PRIVATEA.


Aelln, Henry.


Akers, John M.


About


Akers, Joseph W


About


1867


Alexander, Wilbam F


... Brunswick.


Austin, Prince L.


Brown, George W. E.


Brown, Jonathan E.


Brown, Lemuel 5.


Berry, Williamn P.


Bean, Moses T' 1292


Bokluc, Fortuna.


Farmington.


Chandler, Abel, Jr.


1598 Bethel.


Clifford, David S


1597


Cony, Henry C ..


April,


1-91 Auburn.


Crowley, Cornelius


1332 Rockland.


Crane. George B.


Cal.


Cornell, Quialoy


1-4 Portland.


Chase, Stephen About 1:88


Commbs, Charles T Coombs, 1su


Temple.


Clark, William


1-90


Donley, Franklin


Voith Ansou.


Pean, Charles.


1FL Solen. 150 Vienna.


Douglass, Greatye B.


Hearhorn, C. H. C


Jan. 25, 1901.Mt. Vernon.


Dollon, Sewell.


Davis, Lewis


Eldridge, Charles A


1866 Newcastle, N. H. 1:02 South Gardiner.


Aber, Avah.


Fogg, William H. H1


Foster, Leroy A


About 155 Portland.


Footman, James.


Griffin, Charles II.


July,


1-57 Norfolk, Va.


At Sollier's Home.


Gordon, Robert.


July 12, 1 .5 Mi. Vernon. J'hits


tipgna, Augustin


1 bout 1.5 Farmington.


Hutchins, Isaac M


Hatch, Augusto-, I


10 Guilford. J90 Peak's Island.


finoton, Samuel.


Handy, George W


Dec .. I Readfield.


Killed in the West by Murdered in West.


Corp'l Silas R. Kidder.


Corp'l Finals F. Whittier.


arrest.


Accidently killed in the West.


Goodwin, James


Holbrook, John B


Temple.


Dotton, Corneli F


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FOURTII MAINE BATTERY


DIED SINCE DISCHARGE-Concluded.


Name.


Date.


Place.


Remarks.


PRIVATES-Conchided.


llodgdon, Freeman,


Jones, Ethel H.


Sept.,


1902 Augusta.


Jones, Charles L.


1903


Jewell, John.


King, John A


1:02


Lake, William W


About


1380 Richmond.


Lincoln, Leonard H.


Lowell, William H.


Lane, Jonathan ):


1901 Bridgton.


McCann, Frank.


1897Auburn.


Morse, William B


IN2 Mt. Vernon.


Mace, Elijah.


[Mass


Merrill, David V


Cambridgeport,


Mathews, Cyrus .


Nutting, Thomas E.


1902 Farmington.


O'Riley, John.


Perhant, Charley IT


About


1897 Togus.


Ramsilel, A . K. P.


Rider, John.


Sawyer, Charles F.


About 1880 1900 Harpswell.


Smith, James C ..


Brunswick.


Scriggins, Charles 11


Oct. 25, lass' Covington, Ky.


Smith, O,myn


Bethel.


Sally, Horacc B.


July 6, 1004 Pittsburg, Pa.


Tozier, Franklin.


Whittier, James L.


Mar. 10, Ist4 Mt. Vernon.


Weston, Lorenzo.


About 1810


Weston, Ammara P


About


1963


Wright, Elbridge G


1903 Mt. Vernon.


Wright, James M.


1002


Wave, Lewis ..


1900, Worcester, Mass.


Weston, James B.


Whittier, Truc.


Williamson, Anthony G.


Withom, Alvin T.


Wright, George W.


Webber, Mark C ..


About 1>80'Oxford.


Winchester, John


Sept. 20, 1:01 Corinna.


Kitteridge. Charles R.


July 3, 18-6|St. Albans.


Southard, Amaziah


Wilson, Edwin II


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LIGHT ARTILLERY, 1861-65.


Discharged in 1862.


Name and Rank.


Dale.


Remarks.


LIEUTENANT. L. M. S. Haynes


september 22|Disability.


SERGEANTS.


Orrin O. Vittum.


May


28 Disability.


Harry Parkman.


June


Disability.


BUGLER.


Harley F. Hicks


June


Disability.


ARTIFICER.


Charles L. Bigelow


May


je, Disability.


PRIVATES.


Ayer, Joshua


November July


15, Disability.


Brown. Jonathan E


Disability.


Chapin, Henry D.


Not mustered.


Clark, Hiram S.


May 13; Disability.


Corbett, Harvey S.


February 22 Disability.


Douglass, George B.


June


2. Disability.


Elder, Alvah ..


February Claimed by 13th Maine.


Getchell, Ofis J


October


30'Disability.


Hunter, Albert


Not mustered.


funton, samuel.


May


5. Disability.


Handy, George W


october 30. Disability.


Lincoln, Leonard HI December


J' Disability.


Locke, Manson H.


May


3 Disability.


Magoon, Ephraim


October 28 Disability.


Merrow, Seth ti


May


30'Disability.


Manden, Wallace.


Not mut tered.


Rowe, John .. May


5 Disability.


Robinson, Lovi.


July


12 Di-ability.


Snow, Daniel E.


Not mastered.


Stevens, Oliver LeRoy


Not mu-tered.


Tozier, Franklin Max


5 Disability.


Turner, Harrison ().


Disability.


Washburn, Benjamin


February


22 Disability.


Werton, James B.


May


5 Disability.


Whittier, True ..


December 2 Di-ability.


Wills, Stephen 1


April 23 Di-ability.


Wills, Sylvester


April 6 Disability.


Wragg, Rocke F


December


16 Disability.


Wright, George W


Disability.


1


SERGEANTS.


Solon Robert-08 ...


March 1 - Disability.


Algernon S. Bangs


January 16 Disability.


CORPORALS.


George Hohlen ..


March 13 Disability.


Luther B. Jennings


February


& Disability.


PRIVATES


Brown, George W. E


MMV


5 Disability.


Brown, Lemuels


January


es Disability.


DAVIS, Abel.


January


" Account of Wound.


Fort William !!. !! March


2: Dianbility.


Kiteredge, Charles H August


1. Disability.


Lakin. AmdieW A


22 Disability.


I Transferred to Invalid Corps.


Sally, Charles H


July


Sally, Horace B


Smith, Isaac T.


August


Smith, O-myn.


March


Stur ly. Cyrus A February


Twitchell, Austin F


January


Discharged in 1863.


LIEUTENANTS.


Hamln F. Eaton.


1! Disability.


Mathew B. Copin.


January March 12 Disabihty.


Mace, Elijah A August


I'Transferred to Invalid Corps. Transferred to Invalid Corps. H Transferred to Invald Corps.


17 li-ability. Disability. Disability.


Menill, David V


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Discharged in 1864.


Name and Rank.


Date.


Remarks.


LIEUTENANTS.


Melville C. Kunball.


December 23 Disability.


Henry C. Haynes.


SOYember 30 Disability.


ORDERLY SERGEANT.


William H. Brooks.


December


20:3 years term expired.


Q. M. SERGIANT.


Cyrus M. Williams.


December 20.3 years term expired.


SERGEANT.


Alfred C. Bates ..


December 209 years term expired.


CORPORAL.


Jere Buckley.


December 20,3 years term expired.


BUGLER.


Hebron M. Wentworth


December 273 years term expired.


PRIVATES.


Allen, Henry.


December 20 3 years term expired.


Chandler, Abiel.


December 20 5 years term expired.


Donly, Franklin


December 203 years term expired.


Dean, Charles


December 273 years term expired.


Foss, John


December 20 3 years term expired.


Frye, Albion K. P


December 20 3 years terin expired.


Gates, Henry P.


Deeeinber 20 3 years terin expired.


Griffin, Charles 11


December


Moore, George W'


December


Morphy, John


December


Sawyer, Charles H


December


Southard, Amaziah


Decomber


Smith, James C.


December


Thompson, Octavus


December


Weston, Lorenzo.


December 20 3 years term expired.


Wright, Elbridge G


December


20 3 years term expired.


SERGEANT.


Gorham Powers


May


15 Promoted Lient. in U. S. Colored Reg't.


CORPORAL.


Alonzo Plummer.


February 9, Promoted Lieut. in 30th Reg't U. S. C. T.


PRIVATES.


Brick, George H


April Is Transferred to Navy.


Donaldson. Thomas


Claimed by Battery G, 30 U. S.


Davis, Lewis .


September 30 Transferie tto Invalid Corps.


Lowell, William II.


.. Transferred to Invalid Corps.


Maxwel, William A


April I. Transferred to Navy.


Seabot. John.


April 18 Transferred to Navy.


20,3 years term expired. 203 years term expired. 20 3 years term expired. 20 3 years term expired. 20 3 years term expired. 20.3 years terin expired. 20 3 years ferin expired.


CHAPTER X. BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL NOTES.


HEBRON M. WENTWORTH.


OBITUARY AND EXTRACTS FROM DIARY .-- A GARDINER EX- MAYOR PASSES AWAY .- HON. HEBRON M. WENTWORTH DIES AT THE NATIONAL HOME, D. V. S., SUNDAY.


It was not such a great many years ago that among the most valuable industries of Gardiner was counted the Wentworth Spring and Axle Works, giving hicrative employment to a large force of men, who commanded large wages and added greatly to the prosperity of the city. But large plants and Western com- petition killed the business in this city, and our citizens regret- fully saw it dwindle away and finally abandoned.


The founder of the business here. Mr. Hebron M. Went- worth, who died at the Togus Home Sunday, brought the busi- ness from Readfield here, and was a man of sterling integrity and character. He served his country faithfully in the Civil War, a member of the 4th Maine Battery, and was greatly respected in his adopted home. He was elected mayor in 1874, serving two years, having previously been a member of both branches of the city government. After closing out his spring business he commenced the manufacture of bolts in the grist mill building, but was only engaged in that business a short time. For the past four years he lived with his daughter, Mrs. Myra L. Moody, in Tacoma, Wash., returning to Gardiner last sum- mer, and being in feeble health entered the Home hospital.


His wife, who was Miss Caroline Williams of Readfield, died about four years ago, and he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Moody, and son Frank, and a brother, Mr. Charles A. Went-


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worth of this city. The funeral occurred at the Home Wednes- day afternoon, Rev. J. L. Quimby officiating, quite a number going out from this city. He was about seventy years old. -From the Gardiner Reporter-Journal.


EXTRACTS FROM DIARY OF H. M. WENTWORTH, 1862-1864.


Washington, April 9. 1862.


We left the barracks at Portland at 5 A. M. April ist, and at 6.45 started by train for Boston, where we arrived at 3 P. M. and marched directly across the city to the Fall River depot, and upon our arrival at Fall River went aboard the steamer Empire City for Jersey City, where we arrived at & o'clock on the morning of the ed. There we had to wait on the wharf until noon, when we took a cattle boat to South Amboy, a dis- tance of thirty miles, and there were put on a train of old cars with board seats, and at 3 o'clock started for Camden, where We arrived at 6 o'clock and crossed on the ferry to Philadelphia. Here they have a large hall fitted up for feeding soldiers in and we found a first-rate supper all ready for us. We had a very pleasant time until 10 o'clock, when we started for Baltimore. I slept until we reached Havre de Grace, where all trains cross the Susquehanna River on a ferry boat which is large enough to carry an engine and eighteen loaded cars. We arrived at Baltimore at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3d and had break- fast at the Soldiers' Relief. At ro o'clock we started for Wash- ington and were all day in getting there, owing to many long waits for trains, coming from Washington, to pass us. We remained over night at the Soldiers' Relief and on the morning of the 4th marched over to Capitol Hill and went into camp, and today have just got into our tents.


Fort Ramsay, Ta., April 26, 1863.


We have to go through inspection every Sunday morning. Everything has to be packed in the knapsacks and after the Battery is formed in line the knapsacks are unslung and opened for inspection by the officers. After inspection the Captain orders the First Sergeant to drill the Battery, and that is about all the company drill we get. The 6th Maine Battery is in Fort


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Buffalo, about a mile from us. They fitted up the old Wash- ington church in good shape, put "Maine Volunteers" over the desk, and invited Lieutenant Haynes to preach. Captain Rob- inson forbade any of the 4th Battery boys attending. Under the circumstances Lieutenant Haynes decided not to accept the invitation.


Fort Ramsay, Pa., May 12, 1862.


In the night I heard several shots fired and the bugle blown at Fort Buffalo. The Corporal of the Guard called the Cap- tain, who ordered the Assembly blown and three detachments sent into the fort and three for outside guard. It was 10 o'clock when I blew the call and we did not get back to bed again until 2.30.


May 1.1. 1862.


I went over to Falls Church last night and visited the old church that Washington used to attend. The old pew that he used to occupy is still there. The citizens claim that he was married here, but this does not agree with history.


Washington, May 20. 1862.


We are back on our old camping ground on Capitol Hill. I blew the reveille at 3.30 this morning and we broke camp, made the march from Fort Ramsay (eight miles) and got our tents pitched at 3 P. M. We think that we have been sent back here to be mounted and equipped.


May 27, 1802.


We were just called into line and the drivers scut after horses and are now certain that we are to be mounted immediately. There are rumors that we are to stay here for garrison duty.


Washington, May 28, 1862.


Ex-Governor Morrill called to see us today. There has been quite an excitement for the past few days about General Banks being defeated, and Sunday night we expected to be sent to the front. Other troops were sent to reinforce him and now things have quieted down. The Battery is now all fitted up and having mounted drills. In the Battery we have six guns, six caissons,


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a battery wagon and a forge, two four-horse baggage teanis, seventeen saddle horses and ten spare horses.


June, 12, 1862.


We are still on Capitol Hill drilling every day. There are five batteries and two regiments of cavalry bere, and it is quite lively when we are all out at drill.


Cedar Creek, V'a., June 22, 1862.


We broke camp on Capitol Hill at 6 A. M. of the 13th and marched to the depot, where it took until 4 P. M. to load the horses and guns aboard the cars and get started for Harper's Ferry. We passed the Relay House at dark and arrived at Sandy Hook, one mile from the Ferry, at daylight. The bridge had been carried away by a freshet and we had to wait there until Sunday noon. We unloaded the horses and took them up on the heights, where we fixed up brush shelters for our- selves. We lost two horses by their falling over the bluff.


At this place Maryland Heights comes close to the river and the base has been out away to give room for the canal, railroad and road to pass. At the side of the road the heights rise per- pendicularly from 30 to 300 feet, and near the bridge juts out over the road so that a house has been built under the bluff. Harper's Ferry is nothing but a ruin. I was in the engine house where John Brown was captured.


We left Harper's Ferry for Wadesville at 4 P. M. with fifty cavalry for an escort, and remained at Wadesville two nights. We then hitched to the guns (which had come by train) and moved to Queenstown, three miles above Winchester. We passed the handsomest field of wheat that I ever saw. General Jackson told the people here that he was coming this fall to harvest it. We remained at Queenstown over night and the next day made the march to Middletown, where we camped for the night and then came here. We are in a pleasant place and have bad a good time since we left Washington. We are forty- five miles from Harper's Ferry and two and a half from Stras- burg, and are in camp on a high hill with about 400 infantry. The 6th Maine Battery and a New York battery are on other hills near us, with three regiments of infantry between us. The Shenandoah Mountain is about a mile from us. The turnpike


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here crosses Cedar Creek, which runs along the foot of the hill. General Jackson destroyed the bridge when he was here a few weeks ago and our troops are now repairing it. We are now in General Sigel's command.


June 21, 1862.


There are a large number of troops here now. General Fre- mont with the rest of his corps has joined Sigel and has made a stand waiting for Jackson, and if he comes there will be a battle. There are thirty-six pieces of artillery, that I know of, within a mile of us, and 120 pieces in the valley.


To obtain forage for the horses an officer with a detail of men are sent out to take what they can find. An infantry officer went to a mill about a mile from camp and asked the miller if he had any flour to sell. The miller told him no. Upon look- ing around thirty barrels were found in an old building with a lot of empty barrels thrown over them. Twenty-five barrels were taken and five left for the miller. The next day the miller fired at one of our pickets and very soon his mill was burned down.


June 20, 1863.


We had orders this morning to go to Middletown for target practice. There were five batteries at the practice at a distance of three-fourths of a mile, and our battery made the best shots of any. This is the first time we have fired shotted guns. There is a large army here now, consisting of Fremont's, Banks' and Sigel's troops, all under command of General Pope.


Warrenton, July 16, 1862.


We left Cedar Creek July 5 at 4 A. M. for Front Royal, and passed over a very rough, hilly road for sixteen miles to the turnpike, which we followed to the Rappahannock River. where we arrived after dark and found the bridge gone. We then went up the river a mile and found a bridge that had just been built. The bridge was only three feet wider than the carriages and it was a skittish thing to cross in the dark, but we got over safely and went into camp on a hill nearby at 4 A. M., where we lay down and slept for two hours. That day ( Sunday) we moved about a mile, where we remained until 5 o'clock Tues-


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day morning, when we started with 3,000 infantry and took a road through the mountains to a place where it was reported there were 3,000 Rebel troops. The hills and roads were the worst that I over saw and after a march of nineteen miles we came out eight and a half miles from where we started, with men and horses pretty well tired out. The next day we moved to Perryville, ten miles, and the following day harnessed up at daylight and moved a mile, where we stood until 4 P. M., when we again started and marched until 11.30. The next day we moved to this place, where we arrived at dark.


Little Washington, July 28, 1862.


We have been among the hills and mountains ever since we left Cedar Creek, and it is a splendid country. Today we have had a grand review of 20,000 infantry and eight batteries.


Culpeper, August 14. 1862.


On the gth we were camped just above Culpeper. At IT A. M. we heard the long roll and harnessed up and started for the front. It was very hot and many of the infantry fell out. I saw some that were sunstruck fall like logs. We passed through a piece of woods and went into battery on a hill and commenced firing. It was but a few minutes before there were thice batteries firing at us and the shot and shell came thick and fast. We were engaged three and a half hours and at dark a staff officer came and ordered us to fall back through the woods. There never was a battery that came nearer being captured than ours was and get away. One of the enemy's batteries followed us through the woods and commenced shelling us at short range, but was quickly driven back by two batteries that were in posi- tion to the right of us. The enemy's battery left three men and six horses killed and a disabled caisson. We lost one man killed and several wounded, seven horses killed and one gun disabled.


Near Fort Ellsworth, taco miles from Alexandria. Sept. 3. 1862.


We have had a hard time marching and fighting the past three weeks. After Cedar Mountain we moved back to Rappahan- Bock Station and went into position on the east side of the river to protect the bridge and ford until our troops were across. 'Three other batteries were in position near us with infantry


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for supports. There was some firing along the river, both above and below us, but we did not see the enemy until the third day, when their batteries opened on us from the woods west of the river and at the same time about 5.000 infantry came out of the woods. A few shells from our battery and a New York battery very quickly sent them out of sight. Just then we saw a Rebel battery going at full speed to get into position on a small hill. We got the range of the hill and as soon as they began to unlimber our battery fired. The first shot struck among them and they left as quickly as they came.


Our next move was to White Sulphur Springs, where we were with the rear guard and spent the day in short duels with the enemy. It was marching and fighting from there to Alex- andria. My memorandum during that time is missing. but it included the battle of Chantilly, where we had a sharp fight and a regular Virginia thunder storm at the same time, and where Generals Kearney and Stevens were killed. We got thoroughly wet in the shower and had a most uncomfortable night. It also included Second Bull Run, where we had a hard time. Our corps ( General Banks) was left to rebuild the bridge the enemy had burned at Broad Run and to bring in the trains. About as soon as the bridge was repaired the enemy came in ahead of us and we were cut off from the rest of the army. The trains were burned and we were obliged to get guides and make a forced march of twenty miles around to get ahead of them again.


Brownville, MId., September 20, 1862.


Since September 2d there has been some hard fighting. Last Sunday there was a hard battle at South Mountain, where the enemy was driven back, with great loss on both sides. We are now in the reserves. Our horses have given out on account of overwork and short rations, so that on the 17th we had on one gun only two horses where there should have been six.


Harper's Ferry. September 21, 1802.


We have again moved. After the enemy had been forced back across Antietam Creek on the morning of the 17th we were stationed to protect a bridge and ford across the creek. From our position I could see two miles of the line of battle, which included the Dunker Church and the corn field where


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General Meagher's brigade Sabi three times on one of the strongest places the enemy ? After the second charge both sides were reinforced and : -third charge I could not see friend or foe for a few in :- account of the smoke and dust. When it cleared up driven back again. The ba


ig was on the hill and was not Es equally severe on the right and left as in the centre whe. wild sec. The enemy asked and were granted a day to be- Er dead, but instead of doing Virginia.


that they crossed the Potones We crossed the battlefield : second day after the battle and it was an awful sight. We were the whole day in getting across the field. Our army were having the dead, the weather was hot and it was awful. Trentas were dug and two men would take a body, each one by a hand and drag it to the trench, and when the trench was filled cover the bodies lightly with earth. Our battery crossed one of the . ditches and I saw the arms and legs fly up the same as stick, ill when you drive over them and break them. I have read of troops being shot down in piles. I saw where they were three deep as they fell, and five deep where they had been moved to clear a space for the battery to cross a road.


Harper's Ferry, October 2, 1862.


The army for two weeks has been encamped here and along the river for thirteen miles above here. The enemy's army is in the valley on the other side of London Heights. President Lincoln has been visiting the army for two days. The national salute was fired and there is lots cheering as he goes through the camps.


Maryland Heights, October 11, 1862.


I have been around the mountain to Pleasant Valley for the mail. I got three letters and a bun lle of papers. My papers are the only ones that are received in our detachment and they are read until nearly worn out.


Near Sharpsburg, AId., November 1, 1862.


Thursday we moved from Maryland Heights to this place, fourteen miles. The army is crossing the river, at and below Harper's Ferry, into Virginia, and nearly all the troops have


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gone from around here. Our battery is stationed at the fords along the river. One section is at this place, one section about a mile down the river, and one section at Antietam Iron Works, five miles down the river. Sharpsburg is three miles east of here. I saw good houses with as many as eight holes where cannon shot went through them at the battle of Antietam. Shepherdstown is just across the river from here and is a very pretty town. We can see four large church steeples, which is an uncommon thing for Virginia small towns. The enemy occupy the place and have many of their sick and wounded there. Their pickets are on one side of the river and ours on the other and often talk to each other. This morning one of their pickets told ours that he would meet him half way and swap his whiskey for a shirt. I heard a Reb picket ask ours if he had any good tobacco. Our picket replied that he had. The Reb said that he wished he would bring some over to him for his was poor. We have been short of rations since leaving Harper's Ferry, and the pork we have received has been poor and the hard bread wormy. I have sat down to supper with a cup of coffee and put my hard bread into it and seen the worms half an inch long crawl ont. Usually our rations are good, but such fare as this, and no money to buy better, makes one think of home.


.


Near Sharpsburg. November 9. 1862.


We have had three inches of snow and it is so cold that it does not go off. A rebel Captain died in our hospital, between here and Sharpsburg, and his brother had him carried across the river to Shepherdstown and buried yesterday. There was quite a gathering at the funeral and I could see them plainly with my glass. Since we went to Harper's Ferry I have had much riding to do and see much of the country and like it very mnich.




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