. . theduction of that place—theonly important port, on seaor gulf, except Galveston,over which the Confederateflag yet floated. The boyswere loth to leave theirluxurious quarters, but or-ders must be obeyed. Al-ter splashing through themud toward Florence forthree days, they were o\ ■taken by a courier with directions to face about andreturn to Huntsville. Theprogram had been changedand the Mobile order re-5| , ^, . .1 scinded. Of course, uponreaching their camp theyfound it a howling wilder-ness. Other troops hadtorn down all their
. . theduction of that place—theonly important port, on seaor gulf, except Galveston,over which the Confederateflag yet floated. The boyswere loth to leave theirluxurious quarters, but or-ders must be obeyed. Al-ter splashing through themud toward Florence forthree days, they were o\ ■taken by a courier with directions to face about andreturn to Huntsville. Theprogram had been changedand the Mobile order re-5| , ^, . .1 scinded. Of course, uponreaching their camp theyfound it a howling wilder-ness. Other troops hadtorn down all their shanties and appropriated everything t»» theirown use. A Kansas cyclone could not have made cleaner workof it. The battery boys had to skirmish around lively for materials with which to restore their ruined village. The battery went with the Fourth corps to East TeniKand pitched its tents at Greenville, the home of Andrew Johnson,and the scene of the death of John Morgan, while trying to en-tire Union soldiers, a few months before, Here the battery boys. wii 1 1 any c, SIXTY-FOURTH, i865.] IN THE TBNNESS3E CAPITA!,. 719 received the news of the surrender of Lee. The guns thunderedand everybody went crazy, just as we did in our camp at BlueSprings. Over thern, too, fell the same pall of deepest grief andsorrow when the tidings came that Lincoln was dead. CHAPTER LXIII. \IN AT NASHVI All the Way by Rail—Domicileo in Camp Harkbr Looking inVain for the Ordei eb Out—Grand Review of the Fourth Corps Congratulatory Order by GeneralThomas—Fatal Accident to a Sixty-fifth Officers—A LadyGuest at Headquarters—Epfbct Upon the Young Officers—General Grants Farewell Order. ON THE 20th of April we were thrown into a slate of vio-lent effervescence by an order to break camp at once andstart for Nashville. We all supposed that this would bebut a way station on the direct route to Ohio, and thatwe would soon be mustered out—but alas! Marching back toBulls Crap, we proce
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