. Reminiscences of the Civil War . orps yesterday andthat they salivated him considerably. We caught a couple ofhis men to-day, on our road, stragglers. We pick up a goodmany stray Rebs. along the road, but they are not half guardedand I think get away nearly as fast as captured. Nov. 29th. 10 miles S. of Sevastopol. All day in an awful pine forest, hardly broken by fence orclearing. I never saw such a lonesome place. Not a bird, nota sign of animal life, but the shrill notes of the tree a twig of undergrowth, and no vegetable life but justgrass and pitch pine. The country is very lev
. Reminiscences of the Civil War . orps yesterday andthat they salivated him considerably. We caught a couple ofhis men to-day, on our road, stragglers. We pick up a goodmany stray Rebs. along the road, but they are not half guardedand I think get away nearly as fast as captured. Nov. 29th. 10 miles S. of Sevastopol. All day in an awful pine forest, hardly broken by fence orclearing. I never saw such a lonesome place. Not a bird, nota sign of animal life, but the shrill notes of the tree a twig of undergrowth, and no vegetable life but justgrass and pitch pine. The country is very level and a sand pine trees are so thick on the ground that in some placeswe passed to-day the sight was walled in by pine trunks within600 yds. for nearly the whole circle. Just at dusk we passed asmall farm, where I saw growing for the first time the WestIndia sugar cane. One of the boys killed the prettiest snake Iever saw. It was red, yellow and black. Our Hospital Stew-ard put it in liquor. We made about 11 miles Mai. a Willison i6i Nov. 30. 8 miles east of Summerville. Passed through the above named town this morning. Allpine woods again to-day. Stopped at the first house I came tothis morning and asked the resident, an ash-colored negress,something about the country. She said shed had the chillsand fever so long she didnt know anything, but over darwas a house whare de folks had some sense. Capt. Smithand I walked over to the house she pointed to and found a fineold German, very anxious to know if we intended to burn hishouse. After he cooled down a little he grew much said he had been ordered to join the army one, two, three,twenty times, but had told them that he would rather be shotthan take up arms against the U. S. The 12th Ind. bandstruck up as they passed his house, and the music touched theold fellows heart. The tears rolled down his face and heblubbered out, That is the first music I have heard for four years; it makes me think of home. D
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