. The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . behind us. Ifwe straggled any we had the advantage of having no organ-ized body of troops following us to report our conduct. Ourprogress was undoubtedly slow, as it was laborious and ex-haustive. The artillery and ammunition wagons stalled in 120 HISTORY OF THE rtiahy-places, and had to be pulled out of mud-holes and upsteep hills by hand. Da
. The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . behind us. Ifwe straggled any we had the advantage of having no organ-ized body of troops following us to report our conduct. Ourprogress was undoubtedly slow, as it was laborious and ex-haustive. The artillery and ammunition wagons stalled in 120 HISTORY OF THE rtiahy-places, and had to be pulled out of mud-holes and upsteep hills by hand. Darkness finally overtook us before we had regained theffike, andwe stopped and spent tlie night, almost withoutshelter or food. The next morning we found we had to fordthe North Fork of the Shenandoah. It was about one hundredyards wide and waist deep. The current was swift and thewater ice-cold, really melted snow. It had onlj been threedays since we had had several inches of snow, and plenty of itwas yet to be found in the glens and shady places. It triedour grit considerably to plunge in under such conditions, butthe members of the Twenty->eventh were all soon safely Jv:i^^^^ Bad Roads. Upon the suggestion of some long-headed person or personsan expedient was adopted in our regiment that greatly miti-.^ted the severityof the cold water. It was just time to dis-pense withdi-aWers anyway,-so by taking off our pants we hadthem to put on dry after we were over, while the drawerstempered the water considerably, and, on the other side, wetook them off and threw them away. Some remarks havebeen made about the appearance of the Twenty-seventh whilethus attired for wading, but we do not care for that. Just when we were preparing ourselves for the plunge,several members of another regiment came around a bend inthe river, on a raft. Some distance abave the ford was a saw-mill, and they had gone there and prepared that contrivance,upon which they hoped to cross dry-shod. Thev h
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