. The Maryland campaign and the battle of Antietam . at the dif-ferent places; tentless boys of the Army of the Potomac inbrush canopies in Pleasant Valley, and shelterless on thenorth face of Maryland Heights—up near the big siege guns—where we drove stakes in the ground and placed logs abovethem so that we would not slide down hill when sleeping,and would wake nights sitting against the up-hill side of thelogs with legs hanging over; we were A-seein things atnight, and when we waked were A-feelin needles in ourlegs. The picture moves! We see the boys in brush canopieson a bench of the mounta
. The Maryland campaign and the battle of Antietam . at the dif-ferent places; tentless boys of the Army of the Potomac inbrush canopies in Pleasant Valley, and shelterless on thenorth face of Maryland Heights—up near the big siege guns—where we drove stakes in the ground and placed logs abovethem so that we would not slide down hill when sleeping,and would wake nights sitting against the up-hill side of thelogs with legs hanging over; we were A-seein things atnight, and when we waked were A-feelin needles in ourlegs. The picture moves! We see the boys in brush canopieson a bench of the mountain—to the right and a little lowerdown—fighting mosquitoes, wood-ticks, devils-dam-needles,and grey-backs we captured (or they captured us) at Freder-ick, South Mountain and Antietam. When the cold Octoberrains came how the roofs leaked. (In those days, pro-slavery orators preached from the textAll men were born free and equal. The grey-backs prac-ticed that they preached; to the grey-backs we were All freeand equal—equally good meat). 4. Midin Dumfries ihowef bath IrecWis WIT lime hos pi lal i ty, On beds of muO knee deep ne troJ And pillowed our htads on rain soakcj sod PULLING DUMFRIES MUD WITH BOTH FEET WITH A COLD SHOWER BATH FREE. THE BATTLE OF A N T I E T A M The picture moves! We see the same boys in dog tentsand later in log huts in Loudoun Valley; at times lying ontheir bellies in the frosty grass and weeds on a thin picket linestretching across the valley; at other times crouching behindrocks for shelter from piercing wintry winds and snow flurries—when on picket duty on the bald north face of LoudounHeights. We see the bivouac at Goose Creek—where we were allburied under six inches of snow, and hear the beat of drumsand the shrill of fifes and bugles—the reveille at break of and sore, racked with pains and aches, coughing andlimping, the men get out of snowy beds; the scenery as of acrowded graveyard—numberless white mounds stretchingirre
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