. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . valry wasat hand. Away they went like the wind, putting spursto their horses, and not even stopping to look back. I lost no time in retracing my steps tomy headquarters, determining then andthere to avoid making such unpleasantacquaintances in the fu
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . valry wasat hand. Away they went like the wind, putting spursto their horses, and not even stopping to look back. I lost no time in retracing my steps tomy headquarters, determining then andthere to avoid making such unpleasantacquaintances in the future. It is a well-known fact that the ma-jority of those who professed to be farmersdid more to reinforce the bands of gue-rillas than any other class of citizens,and were the most dangerous of all theenemies we met. Our men found this a very desirable camping ground, with plenty of water, abundance of good shade, and excellent roads in all directions. Provisions were plentiful, and were largely drawn from the surrounding country. A striking scene occurred at this camp one Sundayevening. A chaplain of one of the Pennsylvania regi-ments announced that he w^ould hold a religious service,arid invited all to attend who felt like doing so. Alarge congregation assembled at the appointed course the service was in the open air, and as the. OAPTArN E. KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. 275 day was departing and the soft shadows of evening werejust beginning to flill, everything conspired to renderthe service pecuHarly impressive. Around us were thesymbols of savage war. Officers, guards, stackedmuskets, men in the bhie uniform of the Union, longrows of shelter tents, troopers and horses in the back-ground, all helped to throw over the scene a strangesolemnity. Could it be that the brave spirits of ourdeparted comrades who had fallen in the great fight werehovering around us ? One of m} men, Thompson, who, as already related, hadopened his heart in confidence to me as we were lying
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