. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . dents occurred about the tirst andsecond weeks in October, 1864. We remained at At-lanta about a month. The movement to the sea was begun on the 14th of No-vember. Co. Ii being in thecity, was about the lasl boleave. We saw severalwarehouses of cotton con-sumed. We commencedour tramp with the artillerycorps. It was march, andno duty; monotonous for amonth. A very few placesare remembered. Coving-ton and Millegeville, thecapital of Georgia, are re-membered. At
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . dents occurred about the tirst andsecond weeks in October, 1864. We remained at At-lanta about a month. The movement to the sea was begun on the 14th of No-vember. Co. Ii being in thecity, was about the lasl boleave. We saw severalwarehouses of cotton con-sumed. We commencedour tramp with the artillerycorps. It was march, andno duty; monotonous for amonth. A very few placesare remembered. Coving-ton and Millegeville, thecapital of Georgia, are re-membered. At the latterplace a few men wearingstriped clothing were weather was dry and pleasant and the roads we got to the Savannah river we crossed a broadswamp on a graded road, with a trestle bridge that hadan outlet a little way to the left through a deep cut justat the river. Co. B was located in it just at night, tointercept a rebel gunboat that had just gone up theriver. We were there all night, but saw no boat. Aday or two before we arrived at the swamp the corpsQuartermaster passed the writer as he tramped alone,. L. I>. Bond. Co. Intl. INDIANA VOLUNTEER VETERANS. 2011 saluted and said he would like some of that coffee atAckworth. An explanation was asked and one given,and so passed on. That night we had some coffee and crackers issuedto us—the first on the trip. It showed, too. that rationscould be had without a requisition. At Savannah wegot nothing but coffee and rice at the first. While atSavannah we went where and when we pleased, andstayed as long. When we went to the Savannah riverat the landing, eighteen miles from the ocean, wemarched down the streets or near the buildings andwent over or around the stoops (porticos), they extend-ing into or across the sidewalk, and some of them two orthree feet high. To go back to the swamp. There was a brickchurch there, built in 1765. The bricks were importedfrom England. Unpainted, hard, pine sea
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