Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Kansas, 1861-'65VolI . ey promoted Second Lieuten-ant .\ugust 19. SiV(iely \,ounde(i at Chicamauga, September 20. Coiipany G- Caiilain In. Harrington and Second Lieutenant .Joseph Ran-dolph resigned Septemijer. First Lieutenant Robert Flickinger promoted Cap-lain, and J<irst Seigeant David Baker promoted FMrst Ivieutenant. SeptemberIl. Lieut. Baker s*verely wounded at Chicamauga, September 19. Company H—Cajitain P. Trego killed at Chicamauga, September ^irst lyieutenant Frank Curtis at Chicamauga. September 20. Conii)auy I—
Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Kansas, 1861-'65VolI . ey promoted Second Lieuten-ant .\ugust 19. SiV(iely \,ounde(i at Chicamauga, September 20. Coiipany G- Caiilain In. Harrington and Second Lieutenant .Joseph Ran-dolph resigned Septemijer. First Lieutenant Robert Flickinger promoted Cap-lain, and J<irst Seigeant David Baker promoted FMrst Ivieutenant. SeptemberIl. Lieut. Baker s*verely wounded at Chicamauga, September 19. Company H—Cajitain P. Trego killed at Chicamauga, September ^irst lyieutenant Frank Curtis at Chicamauga. September 20. Conii)auy I—Captain Henry C. Austin severely wounded at Chicamauga,September 19. Second Lieutenant Byron Slemmens wounded same day. Cmparij K- (.aptain William E. Kurd resigned July 16. First IJeutenantand Adjutant James E. Love promoted Captain July 16. Captain Love and taken prisoner at Chicamauga, September 19. The winter spent in East Tennessee was a very severe one. The cold wasintense, and the army was but illy equipped. I^ong use had almost worn out. 142 Militan/ Histori/ of K<ii),s: hli/iniriits. iho slitlli-r (cnla of Iho nieu. and iheir clothing was in tattrs. Of blanketsthere was scarcely one for every two soldiers: their shoos were nearly all sole-less, and their heads were covered with the ghosts of what had once been hats,sonu (loslitmc of tops, some without rims. At an insijection held at Straw-berry Ilains it was found that only about thirty men of the Eighth had shii-ts— constant use for months had worn out the others. Vet they were never de-spondent. They made the best of everything, and joked about their conditionwhen they could not mend it. They constructed nests of cedar boughsweaving the branches so closely and thickly that the wind could hardlypenttrato them; they built primitive cabins of logs, thatched with beef hides,and adorned with mud chimneys; they burrowed in tlie ground like could not daunt them nor could hunger—the
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