. Three years in the army. The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864 . Ninth New York (Eighty-third Vols.),the Twelfth and Sixteenth Indiana regiments. Whatever may havebeen their opinion of us, we were favorably impressed with our newassociates. We thus began an association with the Twelfth Massa-chusetts and Ninth New York regiments that lasted during the rest ofour service, and with whom we shared a good many hardships anddangers as time rolled on. It snowed and hailed last night, and to-day it rained,Thursday, so we were relieved of drills a
. Three years in the army. The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864 . Ninth New York (Eighty-third Vols.),the Twelfth and Sixteenth Indiana regiments. Whatever may havebeen their opinion of us, we were favorably impressed with our newassociates. We thus began an association with the Twelfth Massa-chusetts and Ninth New York regiments that lasted during the rest ofour service, and with whom we shared a good many hardships anddangers as time rolled on. It snowed and hailed last night, and to-day it rained,Thursday, so we were relieved of drills and dress parade. We were Msrch 20 surprised to find such weather as this in Virginia. It looked like an infringement on New Englands weather patent. Marched with the brigade in an easterly direction, ten Friday, miles, toward Berryville, and went into camp in the March ax. WOO(js aDout two miles short of that town. It rained hard nearly all day, and it was dark before we halted. Building fires with wet, green wood required a deal more of Christian patience than most of us possessed, to refrain from swearing. Some. THIRTEENTH MASS. VOLS. 41 of the boys, whose abilities to overcome obstacles seemed super-human, succeeded in boiling coffee. At daylight we built fires and tried to dry our blankets l862- before marching, as a wet blanket is no light load to tote Saturday, . , , , March 22 over a mountain- About 9 o clock we took up the line of march to Snickers Gap in the Bull Run Moun-tains, passing through Berryville, where we stopped for half an houror more, and where we saw some pretty girls, which prompted one ofthe boys to sing that song which includes : And the captain with his whiskersTook a sly glance at me. Though nothing but a village, it had a few stores and a hotel,so we were able to provide ourselves with some of the delicacies ex-posed for sale. We then proceeded across the Shenandoah River, bymeans of a pontoon bridge, and up the mountain to a level plain inSnickers
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