. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . ortuous stream which creeps northward to the Neuse with a flowso sluggish as to be hardly perceptible ; while on its left bank, andbetween the two rivers, is the citj- of Newbern. We are two milesfrom town by direct course and the railroad-bridge; some four orfive miles, if we choose a pleasanter route through woods, crossingthe Trent by an old bridge near the barracks of the Forty-fifthMassachusetts Regiment. Our regimental line extends north and
. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . ortuous stream which creeps northward to the Neuse with a flowso sluggish as to be hardly perceptible ; while on its left bank, andbetween the two rivers, is the citj- of Newbern. We are two milesfrom town by direct course and the railroad-bridge; some four orfive miles, if we choose a pleasanter route through woods, crossingthe Trent by an old bridge near the barracks of the Forty-fifthMassachusetts Regiment. Our regimental line extends north andsouth, the left toward Newbern, the right resting on the river,which at this point wears gently inward upon us. The rising sunlooks into the tent-doors of the field and line officers, and up thecompany streets. At dress-parade, when the day is withdrawing through the west,amid its setting splendors we fancy ourselves at Readville , the glories of Bine Mountain are not in front of our line ofbattle ; but just over the extreme right, between our hospital andchapel tents, and beyond the river and the far-stretching marsh, we n > Ocm. THE VOYAGE. 35 see the sun go down precisely as at our first encampment in oldMassachusetts. There are the same officers in the same relativepositions, the same commands in the same ringing tones, the sameglistening bayonets, polished musket-barrels, shoulder-scales, andvarious housings, burnished bjr the same peaceful radiance; andthe surface of the Trent, no longer dark and sullen,but beamingwith the brightness of the descending sun, whose benignant smilehas overlaid it, seems no other than that of the little lake whichspread so sweetly between us and the Forty-fourth hardly morethan a month ago. THE REGIMENT. There was no time previous to our arrival in North Caro-lina which could be devoted to a description of our regiment,for changes were taking place from day to day, which nowmeasurably ceased, and the battalion took permanent form.
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