. Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . ng had been veryexhausting, some men being obliged to go back to the creekbut the return after dark was indescribable. The ram attimes fell in torrents, and the swampy roads churned to amlp by the morning march, now lay covered in longstretches by water six to twelve inches deep. -The menfell in -reat numbers from exhaustion, some like stones,unable to move, others in wild delirium, while some uncon-sciously continued the march, deliriously shouting and beat
. Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . ng had been veryexhausting, some men being obliged to go back to the creekbut the return after dark was indescribable. The ram attimes fell in torrents, and the swampy roads churned to amlp by the morning march, now lay covered in longstretches by water six to twelve inches deep. -The menfell in -reat numbers from exhaustion, some like stones,unable to move, others in wild delirium, while some uncon-sciously continued the march, deliriously shouting and beat-in «• the air When every available conveyance was full,stretchers were improvised, while others were borne inblankets by sympathetic comrades. Genl I. N. Palmer, the commander of the expedition, re-mained at Core Creek during the day, but learning thecondition of the regiment upon its return to that place,petulantly called it a set of white-livered cowards. Thisodium applied to a body of men returning from a field onwhich they had been so victorious that the enemy dared notfollow them, furnishes its own commentary. With neither.
Size: 1382px × 1808px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorderbywpw, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookyear1883
