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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00824 2478
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JOHN SHERMAN, COLONEL, SIXTY-FOURTH OHIO: UNITED STATES SENATOR. Organized the Sherman Brigade at Camp Buckingham, Mansfield, Ohio, September to November, 1861.
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CHARLES GARRISON HARKER, BRIGADIER-GENERAL. UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS; COLONEL, SIXTY-FIFTH OHIO; CAPTAIN, FIFTEENTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY. Killed in Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 27th, 1864.
THE STORY
OF THE
SHERMAN BRIGADE.
THE CAMP, THE MARCH, THE BIVOUAC, THE BATTLE; AND HOW "THE BOYS" LIVED AND DIED DURING FOUR YEARS OF ACTIVE FIELD SERVICE. V.L
Sixty-fourth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry . Sixty-fifth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Sixth Battery, Ohio Veteran Volunteer Artillery.
McLaughlin's Squadron, Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry.
WITH 368 ILLUSTRATIONS.
No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind; No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind. No vision of the morrow's strife The soldier's dream alarms; No braying horn or screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. - Theodore O' Hara.
BY WILBUR F. HINMAN,
Late Lieutenant-colonel, Sixty-fifth Ohio Regiment; Author of "Corporal Si Klegg and His Pard," etc.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1897.
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COPYRIGHT, 1897, "BY WILBUR F. HINMAN.
PRESS OF DAILY REVIEW ALLIANCE, O.
1897.
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TO JOHN SHERMAN, PATRIOT AND STATESMAN,
TO WHOSE ABILITY, WISDOM, AND ELOQUENCE THE COUNTRY IS SO MUCH INDEBTED, AND TO WHOSE PATRIOTIC EFFORT THIS BRIGADE OWES ITS EXISTENCE;
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THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES GARRISON HARKER, THE KNIGHTLY SOLDIER,
ENDEARED TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SHERMAN BRIGADE FOR HIS GALLANT LEADERSHIP, UNDER WHICH, THROUGH FIRE AND BLOOD, THEY WON AN HONORABLE NAME AND FAME AND WHO, AT KENNESAW, SEALED WITH HIS LIFE, HIS DEVOTION TO DUTY AND PATRIOTISM, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
OISTAS
A FEW REMARKS.
"After many days"-many years, in fact-I have redeemed the prom- ise I made long ago to write the story which I now submit to the survivors · and friends of the old Sherman Brigade. To collect the material and weave it into such a narrative as this was no small undertaking, amidst the engrossing cares and duties of a busy life.
For years I tried to write our "Story" at odd times, but my leisure hours were so few and my work as a "newspaper man" so engrossing that I found this impossible. I could only do it by laying aside everything else and devoting to it my entire time for several months. A good many of my excellent and esteemed comrades seemed to have the idea that all that was necessary in order to have a history written and published was to plant a few resolutions, water them with speeches, and the book would grow up of itself, like Jonah's gourd. They will pardon me for saying that they had not the smallest conception of the amount of labor involved in an effort to do the work thoroughly, nor did they realize the large expense involved in its publication. I knew something of all this, and I shrank from the undertaking. But year after year at our Brigade reunions, with unfailing regularity, the boys continued to fire volleys of resolutions and speeches at me, whom, for some reason, they had drafted to do the work, and at least I have done it. The body of the "Story" was written two years ago ; the work incident to its publication has occupied all my time, aside from my newspaper duties, for the past six months.
This is not a history of the war, or of the army of the Cumberland, or of anything or anybody except the Sherman Brigade. Its purpose is to tell what we did and how we did it. In this volume we "blow our own horn," which is a thing sometimes meet and right to do, for the old prov- erb says that "whosoever bloweth not his own horn, his horn shall not be blown." That I have not been sparing of wind in blowing this blast, the size of the book will sufficiently indicate. But lest some chance reader out- side of our "family" might imagine that I had blown the horn louder than the facts would justify, I have inserted here and there extracts from the official reports of those who wore stars on their shoulders, relative to the conspicuous services which make up the record of the Sherman Brigade during its four years in the field.
Every old soldier has a right to be proud of himself and of bis com- pany and his regiment ; we are all proud of ours and are not too modest to say so. We know what we went through ; what we tried to do and gen- erally accomplished. Many other regiments and batteries did as well;
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none, we think, did better. The Society of the Sherman Brigade is, as it ought to be, a "mutual admiration society," like all other organizations of veterans of the war. Naturally, this "Story" is on the same line. The Sherman Brigade did not do it all. I fear that notwithstanding the tem- pestuous zeal with which we marched out of Camp Buckingham and went to "the front," we would scarcely have succeeded in putting down the rebellion if we had not had much valuable assistance. We only assert that we did our share, and this claim we are prepared to defend against all comers.
It is proper to explain that the name "Sherman Brigade" is purely an Ohio designation. The brigade lost its identity as such when it took the field, and the name which is so endeared to us does not appear in the rec- ords of the war; so that a person who look vainly in war history for men- tion of its deeds of glory, might imagine that this "Story" is all wind and nothing else.
When the volunteer regiments entered the service, with full ranks, they were at once grouped into brigades, usually four in each. Later in the war, when the regiments became much reduced in strength, the number in a bri- gade was increased, by additional regiments or by consolidation of bri- gades. For nearly a year after the battle of Chickamauga, the brigade of which the "Sherman Brigade" was a part, consisted of nine regiments. Their ag- gregate strength was a thousand less than that of the four regiments which constituted the original Twentieth Brigade, to which we were at first assigned.
At different times we were brigaded with the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio; Third, Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth Kentucky ; Fifty- first and Seventy-third Indiana ; Thirteenth Michigan ; Fifteenth Missouri ; Twenty-second, Twenty-seventh, Forty-second, Fifty-first and Seventy- ninth Illinois. With the exception of a few months in 1862, when General James A. Garfield rode at its head, Colonel Charles G. Harker, of the Sixty-fifth Ohio, afterward a brigadier-general, commanded our brigade continuously from the beginning, through all its battles, until he fell at Kennesaw, June 27th, 1864. He was succeeded by Colonel Luther P. Brad- ley, of the Fifty-first Illinois. After the latter was wounded at Spring Hill. the brigade was commanded by Colonel Joseph Conrad of the Fifteenth Missouri. In these pages, whenever the name "Sherman Brigade" is uscd, it means only the old Camp Buckingham organization. "Harker's Brigade" or "Garfield's" or "Bradley's" or "Conrad's" always has a larger meaning ; including the regiments of the Sherman Brigade, with others as well.
Until the year 1864 the Sixth Ohio battery was a part of our brigade and generally served directly with it. For the Atlanta campaign all the batteries of General Sherman's army were organized into an artillery corps, the former system of having one battery attached to each brigade being discontinued. The Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth were then in the division of General John Newton, while the Sixth battery served with the division of General Thomas J. Wood.
The service of Mclaughlin's Squadron of cavalry, continuing till the end of the war, was entirely distinct and separate from that of the rest of
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the Sherman Brigade. It was divorced from us immediately upon leaving Ohio and was sent into Eastern Kentucky. It served there and in East Tennessee, through the Atlanta campaign, marched "to the sea" with Sher- man and up through the Carolinas, and was at the "last ditch" in which "Joe" Johnston furled his flags. We only saw the Squadron twice during the entire four years. Its service ended in North Carolina and ours in Texas, fifteen hundred miles distant. This explanation seemed necessary to prevent the confusion likely to arise in regard to the term "Sherman Brigade."
As I have said, this volume is our story. It took so much space to tell it that I deemed it wise not to incumber the narrative with details of the general movements and compaigns of the army to which we belonged. That history has been written in a multitude of books. In writing of our campaigns and battles I have said as little as possible of this nature -- just enough to make clear our own operations and our relation to other brigades and divisions with which we were associated, and to the weighty events which transpired. Not more than a dozen pages, in all, are given to general history.
Some have entertained the idea that in this volume each of the or- ganizations that composed the Sherinan Brigade would have a separate history. Such a plan did not commend itself to me, for it seemed unwise to follow, each, successively, over the same route, upon the same marches and through the same battles, and the same experiences in all the phases of army life. This would have involved much repetition, and upon such a plan it would have been better to publish each in a separate volume. The wanderings of the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth were almost identical, not varying fifty miles in all. The route of the battery was not quite the same, the principal variations being its campaign on the Cumberland river, apart f om us, during the early months of the year 1862, its stay at Chattanooga while the two regiments were engaged in the East Tennessee campaign after the battle of Missionary Ridge, and its muster-out at New Orleans some months before the discharge of the two regiments. So I have carried along together the regiments and the battery, endeavoring to weave the facts relative to each into a connected and contemporaneous narrative. The history of the Squadron is necessarily separate, for the reason hereto. fore mentioned.
I have told the story in a conversational "free-and-easy" way, as we would talk around a campfire, with no attempt at literary excellence. i have made frequent use of the word "we", which means all of us. An apology is here offered, should any deem it necessary, for the occasional appearance of the big "I". In such a story it seemed impossible to avoid it.
If this book were entirely free from errors it would be little short of a miracle. I trust that while reading it my comrades will bear in mind two things: first, that this history was written more than thirty years after the events therein recorded took place; second, that after the lapse of so long a period, it is scarcely possible to find two members even of the same com-
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pany who agree in their recollection of facts and circumstances. The ma- terial which I have used was gleaned from a hundred different sources- diaries kept by myself and others, old war-time letters, documents of vari- ous kinds and verbal and written statements from scores of comrades-the latter often being conflicting and confusing. A very [full diary of my own, covering three-quarters of our service, proved indispensable as the ground- work, and this has been largely supplemented by information from the oth- 'er sources mentioned. Conscious of an honest, earnest effort to do the best I could in telling our story, I feel moved to say that any comrade is fairly estopped from "kicking" until he has undertaken the job and done it better. The writing and publication of this book, including the search for data, the collection and return of photographs, and other matters connected with the work, has involved the writing of more than two thousand letters. To go through the roster, name by name, and prepare the table on page 814, re_ quired thirty hours of close application. I only mention these things to give "the boys" an idea of the character of the work which they laid upon me, and which I have at least tried to do well.
In the matter of pictures this volume is unlike anything "that is in the heavens above, or that is the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth." It was not intended at first to have the book illustrated, on ac- count of the largely increased expense, with no expectation that the sale would exceed a few hundred copies. So urgent was the wish, however, that it was decided to put in about two hundred portraits. Before the end was reached the number of illustrations grew to nearly three hundred and seventy. I would have been glad to insert a thousand pictures, but this would have made it necessary to issue the work in two volumes and would have nearly doubled its cost. I apportioned an equal number to each com- panny and used such as were sent me. Those whose pictures do not appear were just as good soldiers as those whose faces have been here repro- duced. No rule was followed regarding their relative position in the book. They were purposely put in just as it happened, without regard to rank, af- ter the manner of a crazy quilt. The freshet of pictures began to flow in when the book was about half printed, and this will explain why they are " bunched " in the latter part, to the extent, in a few cases, of two on a sin- gle page. For the pictorial peculiarities of the "Story " no apology will be made. The full-page pictures are limited to general officers and to officers who at different times commanded our regiments, battery and squadron.
It was desired to make the engravings from pictures of the comrades as they were in war time, and this has been done in all except a very few cases. Some twelve or fifteen are from recent photographs. These il- lustrate what the rude hand of Father Time is doing for us all. The originals from which the pictures were made were collected from twenty- nine different states. They consisted of photographs, ambrotypes and tin- types, representing a variety of postures, military and otherwise. Many of the originals were yellow, faded and sadly defaced, and considering this fact it is a wonder that the illustrations are so good. That a few are not as perfect as could be desired, is due solely to the tact above mentioned.
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This book was not written to glorify any person or persons, or either of the four organizations of the brigade above the rest. It has been the pur- pose to be fair and impartial to all. A number of the comrades sent"me personal sketches of themselves, and they may be disappointed not to see them published. Let them remember that to print such sketches of a few would be unfair to those not thus favored. One excellent soldier furnished a biography of himself, before, during and since the war, that would have filled two pages of the book. Had he written the "Story," he would have found it necessary to draw the line as I did. The Sherman Brigade was full of heroes. To tell what they personally did is impossible. Each may find the full measure of honor in the fact that he stood in the ranks of the brigade and helped to make its spotless record.
Many have rendered cheerful and invaluable assistance. It is but just to acknowledge, personally, my especial obligations to Colonel Robert C. Brown, Captain William H. Farber, Adjutant Chauncey Woodruff, Samuel T. Beerbower, and Robert C. McFarland of the Sixty-fourth ; Cap- tain Edwin E. Scranton, Captain Brewer Smith, Col. Alexander Cassil, and Albert C. Matthias of the Sixty-fifth; Captain Cullen Bradley, Captain Aaron P. Baldwin, Lieutenant George W. James, and John C. Weber of the bat- tery; Albert A. Pomeroy, Thomas Everly, Barzillah F. Morris, and Peter M. Redding of the Squadron. All these promptly honored my frequent drafts upon them for information.
I shall be sorry indeed if any have raised their expectations to so high a pitch that this volume will prove to thein a disappointment. I have ex- amined more than seventy regimental and brigade histories, in the War Department library at Washington, and I may be pardoned for saying that among them all there is not one which so far as completeness and fullness of detail are concerned, is comparable to this. Of the character of the work, the verdict must be rendered by the jury of its readers. Indulging the hope that I have in some measure succeeded in meeting the wishes and expectations of my comrades, by presenting a narrative in the perusal of which they may find interest and pleasure, I give them, one and all, a cordial, fraternal greeting,
ALLIANCE, OHIO, December, 1897.
WILBUR F. HINMAN.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
BIRTH OF THE BRIGADE.
"To Arms"-Senator Sherman's Bugle Call-The Quick Response- Recruiting Officers Harvest the Crop-A Camp Selected-The Fledgelings in Blue-How Mothers and Sisters Loaded them Down -The Dreadful Bowie-knife-" First Blood" Drawn from Cap- tain Farrar-Off for Camp
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CHAPTER II. THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION.
Transforming Recruits into Soldiers-Life at Camp Buckingham- Our "Regular" Officers - Forsyth, Harker, Granger, Bradley and McLaughlin-First Official Roster of the Brigade-Mustered in- The Sibley "Circus" Tent-Wagonloads of "Soft Bread"-Our Military Outfit-" Left! Left! Lett!"-Learning the Tactics- Guard Duty and the Guard-House-The Orderly Sergeant-Guns and Horses for the Battery-Youngsters in the Ranks -- A Con- suming Desire to Go to " The Front"-Colonel Sherman's Fare- well Order.
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CHAPTER III. OFF TO THE WAR.
Marching Orders at Last, Whereat There is Great Rejoicing -- The Sixty-fourth Staggering Under Ponderous Knapsacks-Whirled Away to Louisvuite- The Sixty-fifth and me Battery Follow- Down the Ohio River-At Camp Buell-A Good furn That De- serves another
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CHAPTER IV. ROMANCE GIVES WAY TO REALITY.
Camping in Kentucky Mud-Fighting Against Homesickness-First Taste of Army Kations-Impressions and Observations Concern- ing Hardtack-Tom Clague's Story and the Irishman's Good Ad- vice-Our Old Friend, the Army Mule-Battles of the Teamsters -John Bumbaugh and his " Mools"-Visited by " Fakirs" -- A Solemn Christmas-Orders to March
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CHAPTER V.
OUR FIRST EXPERIENCE AS ROADSTERS.
On the Way to Bardstown-We Start off Beautifully, but-Those Mountainous Knapsacks and How They Were Lightened -- The Aches, thePains, the Limps, the Blisters !- Badly Used-up Pul- grims-A Bonanza tor the Natives-Camping in the Snow-No Confiscation, but the Quartermaster Furnishes Straw-Two Weeks at Camp Morton-A Wretched Tramp to Lebanon,
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CHAPTER VI. HALL'S GAP AND ITS MUDDY HORRORS.
Sitting Down in the Wilderness-A Fortnight of Rain and Mire- "Zollicoffer is dead."-We Build a Corduroy Road, or Try to- A Wagon Train Strikes it, with Calamitous Results-Tribulations of the Mule Drivers, and Everybody Else-Once More on Terra Firma
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CHAPTER VII. PREPARING TO ADVANCE.
Back to Lebanon-By Rail to Munfordville-A Cornfield Camp-A Few Days of Drill -First Visit from a Paymaster-We Draw Fi- nancial Rations in Gold-An " Officers' Drill"-The Sixth Di- vision Organized
CHAPTER VIII. OVER THE "KNOBS."
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We Cross Green River-Our Camp Struck by a Cyclone-Deluged by Rain-The Pike Impassable-We Take to the Hills-Three Days of Tugging and Yelling - Disaster to the Bakery on Wheels -Kentucky Pies-We Reach Bowling Green 103
CHAPTER IX. ON TO NASHVILLE.
The March from Bowling Green-Lost River-In the Capital of Ten- nessee-Disloyalty of the Citizens-Our first Picket Duty-Corinth Our Next Objective Point-Stripping for a Long March-Extract from an Orderly Sergeant's Diary. 10
CHAPTER X. PIGS, CHICKENS, STRAW AND RAILS.
Some Remarks About Foraging-Early Restraining Influences- " Hands Off " in Kentucky-Orders Must be Obeyed -How It Was in Tennessee-Two Sixty-fourth Raiders Encounter General Wood -They Carry Rails for Two Hours, but Sup on Chicken-Sketches of Some Gifted Foragers-" Bill " Weigle and Dr. Anderson ... ....... 121
CHAPTER XI. THE MARCH TO SAVANNAH.
On the Road for a Long Pull-A Fresh Crop of Aches and Blisters- General Garfield Takes Command of the Brigade-A Sunday of Excitement-The "Cannon's Opening Roar" at Shiloh-We Strip for a Swift March-A Fearful Night-Stumbling on Through a Terrific Thunder-storm-Half Drowned. We Welcome the Dawn. 129
CHAPTER XII. ON THE FIELD OF SHILOH.
The Battle Renewed-Up and Away to Savannah-A Scene of Wild Excitement-Ghastly Picture of War-Up the River by Steamboat -A Hurried Debarkation- Double Quick to the Front-We Only See the Enemy's Heels-Another Awful Night-Scenes and Inci- dents on the Battlefield.
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CHAPTER XIII.
AN ESCAPADE AND A RECONNOISANCE.
The Brigade Leaps into Fame-An Idiotic Fusillade that Arouses the Whole Army-Generals and Colonels in a Frenzy-We have a Sham Fight, if not a Real One-Off on a Reconnoisance-Gar- field Exhorts to Valor-No Chance to be Brave that Day-Back to the Rear-Rest after Sixty-eight Sleepless, Toilsome Hours ......... 150
CHAPTER XIV.
CREEPING TOWARD CORINTH.
A "Siege" at Long Range-Camping in a Sea of Mud-Rations of "Commissary"-Lugging Supplies from the Landing-Sickness Makes much Business for the Doctors- Blue-mass and Quinine : -Revolting Scenes on the Battlefield-An Order to Promote Early Rising-Pick and Shovel-Adjutant Woodruff Tells some Stories. 157
CHAPTER XV. THE SIEGE CONTINUED.
Drilling 'Neath a Blazing Sun-Capturing Unseen Batteries-Prodi- gious Feats of Valor-Captain Orlow Smith's Wig-Paid off Again -"The Accepted Time" for the Sutlers-Advancing the Lines- Some Exciting Days-Our First Wounded-Last Night in the Trenches 170
CHAPTER XVI.
THE SIXTH BATTERY.
Its Service Before Joining the Twentieth Brigade-Blockading the Cumberland River-Life in Camp Green-Mud and Misery-New Way to Roast Turkey-Ordered to Nashville; then to Shiloh- The Battery Complimented-Assigned to Wood's Division-An Akron Judge at the Front. 182
CHAPTER XVII. SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES.
Which the Soldiers Never can Forget-The Pediculus, or "Grayback" -He "Took the Cake" Among the Pests-The Musical and Blood- thirsty Mosquito-The Quiet but Industrious Woodtick-The Nim- ble Flea-The Exasperating "Jigger"-The Black Fly .. 191
CHAPTER XVIII.
A BLOODLESS VICTORY.
The Union Army Occupies Corinth-After a Trick on Picket we March, March Away-Our Toes Turned Eastward-Mud, Malaria and Mosquitoes-The Train Stalled-"I-u-ky-sah!"-General Wood's "Shirt Order"- How Tom Kelley Obeyed it-A Bath in Bear Creek-Captain Brown Catches a Tartar. 205
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CHAPTER XIX. STILL TRAMPING.
Brief Halt at Tuscumbia-A Wonderful Spring of Water-Heat that - Makes us Sizzle -- But we have Four Drills a Day-The March Re- sumed-Incidents by the Way-Captain Voorhees's Fancy Bayo- net Drill-We Reach Decatur-Ferrying Across the Tennessee River-Lieutenant Tom Powell Goes Fishing and Catches Some Salted Mackerel. 218
CHAPTER XX. THERE IS REST FOR THE WEARY.
Two Weeks at Mooresville-A Fourth of July Celebration-Speech by General Garfield-Patriotism and Perspiration-Salutes by the Sixth Battery-Demoralized Darkeys-Garfield Leaves the Twen- tieth Brigade-Woes of Our Officers-They Didn't Make Returns - Another Fishing Expedition. 225
CHAPTER XXI. THE "SIAMESE TWINS" SEPARATED.
A Wild Rush from Mooresville-Lunacy at Headquarters -- A Journey bv Rail -- The Sixty-fourth and the Battery Stop at Stevenson- The Sixty-fifth Goes to Bridgeport-Five Weeks of Idleness and Hunger-Bathing in the Tennessee-Trading With the John- nies-Coffee for Tobacco-Old Jack and the Orderly-Lieutenant- Colonel French Resigns-Recruiting Details Sent to Ohio-Mat- ters at Stevenson-Building a Fort-Scouting and Reconnoitering. 233
CHAPTER XXII. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG SCAMPER.
There Was a " Hen on "-Bragg Starts for the 'Ohio River-We Start After Him-The Brigade Reunited-Crossing the Mountain-A Long, Hard Pull-Our Tents and Baggage Burned-A Night March on the Plateau-" Roasting" the Officers-In Elk River Valley 246
CHAPTER XXIII. AS WE GO MARCHING ON.
Traveling "by Jerks" Day and Night-A Babel of Confusing Orders -A Gypsy Life, Without Tents-In Sun and Storm -- Through Nashville Without a Halt-We Win a Foot-race-A Night March : With Flying Feet-At Bowling Green Again-" Will You Wait ?" -A Company in a Sorry Pickle. 256
CHAPTER XXIV. KICKING UP MORE DUST.
We Ford Barren River-Pushing Toward the North Star-A Water Famine-Great Suffering from Thirst-Total Disappearance of Hardtack-Rations of Flour-The Awful " Bread " We Made- An Orderly Victimized-Death Would Have Been Mild Punish- ment-" There it Comes, Now !"-Captain Smith and "Com- pany G. " .. 263
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CHAPTER XXV.
THE GOAL IS REACHED.
Spoiling for a Fight, but None to Be Found-Tom Kelley's Joke- Rebel Shells Burst Around Us-We Feel a Little Solemn-Wad- ing Green River-Rebel Stragglers-We Find Among Them a Bridgeport Acquaintance-Bragg Draws Off-The Road Clear and Away We Go-" Only Two Days to Louisville "-We Reach the : Ohio River-Cheers for God's Country-A Glorious Bath-We Strike a New Regiment-In the City 274
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