. The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . adthis monstrous knapsack on that day and when he tried toget under the building it was no go. Do his best, the open-ing was too small. While he was still vainly trying, theenemy came up and took liim. As he rose up to lace his cap-tors he shouted, Vou might as well come out boys, we are alltaken. That betrayed the hiding place of the others a
. The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . adthis monstrous knapsack on that day and when he tried toget under the building it was no go. Do his best, the open-ing was too small. While he was still vainly trying, theenemy came up and took liim. As he rose up to lace his cap-tors he shouted, Vou might as well come out boys, we are alltaken. That betrayed the hiding place of the others and, of■course, they had to come out too. The distance from Winchester to \\illiamsport is thirty- 154 HISTORY OF THE five miles. It was near nine oclock A. m. when we left theformer and about the same hour in tlie evening we arrived atthe river opposite the latter. A sliirht Iialt for rest w^as madeat JNIartinsburg. Tlie people there t ncouraged us quite a lit-tle by their Union sentiments and supplied many with sub-stantial articles of lond. The rest, however, only served tostiffen our joints and develop the sure places. The twelvemiles from there on seemed longer than the twenty-threebefore reaching there. We found the bank of the river oppo-. PoTOMAC River at Williamsport, Md. site Williamsport a vast jumble of wagons, camp equippageand men. The means of crossing were limited to a few smallrow boats and one rope ferry boat, capable of carryingtwo wagons and thirty or forty men, or their equivalent. Aneffort to ford the teams was abandoned :;fter a trial. Severalmules were drowned in this attempt and two or three wagonswere left standing out in the stream. The water would almostswim a horse, the bottom was rough and the current Bertram, of the Third Wisconsin, at first hadsole charge of loading the ferry boat, but finding it difficult tosecure proper order, he called for some ollicerlo hel{) Reed, of the Twenty-seventh, \oUuiteered. They TWE
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