. On wheels and how I came there; a real story for real boys and girls, giving the personal experiences and observations of a fifteen-year-old Yankee boy as soldier and prisoner in the American civil war . teaming hot bakers bread, wliicli with our coffeeand bacon made us a relishable snpper. But JackMould never tell ns where he obtained the bread. GUARDING RAILROAD IN SHERMANS REAR. 175 always replying when asked about it: Don ax Jackdat question. Jes ax if dar is any rao wliar dat comefrom. One day while encamped at Marietta General JohnM. Palmer, our first colonel, made us a visit, and theh
. On wheels and how I came there; a real story for real boys and girls, giving the personal experiences and observations of a fifteen-year-old Yankee boy as soldier and prisoner in the American civil war . teaming hot bakers bread, wliicli with our coffeeand bacon made us a relishable snpper. But JackMould never tell ns where he obtained the bread. GUARDING RAILROAD IN SHERMANS REAR. 175 always replying when asked about it: Don ax Jackdat question. Jes ax if dar is any rao wliar dat comefrom. One day while encamped at Marietta General JohnM. Palmer, our first colonel, made us a visit, and thehour among his old comrades was very pleasantly spentin reminiscences of previous campaigns. This was thelast time we saw him during the war. Also it waswhile we were encamped here that General McPher-son, our old corps commander, was killed, on July 22d,near Atlanta. Tlie death of this gallant and greatlybeloved officer cast a gloom over the whole strange that our noble corps commander, wholed us on the Meridian raid, and General Polk, whocommanded the Confederate forces at the place atthat time, had within a few days both fallen on Georgiasoil and 0:1 battlefields but a few miles apart!12. CHAPTER XIX. Busy Behind Siiekman. BOUT August 1 we were ordered back to Ack-wortli to guard the railroad over which Sher-man was getting liis supphes. We went bjtrain, and when we arrived we took quarters in thedepot and abandoned storehouses. Here we werekept on the go night and day, scouting and patrollingthe railroad to prevent its being torn np or trainstlirown off by the Johnnies. This work was both arduous and dangerous, for theenemy seemed determined to capture or ditch alltrains possible. The road in this section runs througha rough, broken country, which was then covered withbrush and timber close up to the track, so that wewere in constant danger of being ambushed as wepatrolled it in small squads. Our beat was two anda half miles north to Altoona Creek Block House, andtw
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