. . ry during thewar. Our hope of serv:as a brigade under the eyeof General Sherman, broth- •i Senator John Sher-man, was dashed to piec 1Three weeks wen cupied with daily drills, footand mounted, and in com-pleting our outfit for thefield. We drew a forge,wagons and teams and afull supply of ammunitionfor the battery. This con-sisted of percussion shells,si lot—which were firedwith a paper fuse—and can-ister far the Parrott the bronze guns we re-ed solid shot, shells andcanister. The battery wasinspected by General Gillman,
. . ry during thewar. Our hope of serv:as a brigade under the eyeof General Sherman, broth- •i Senator John Sher-man, was dashed to piec 1Three weeks wen cupied with daily drills, footand mounted, and in com-pleting our outfit for thefield. We drew a forge,wagons and teams and afull supply of ammunitionfor the battery. This con-sisted of percussion shells,si lot—which were firedwith a paper fuse—and can-ister far the Parrott the bronze guns we re-ed solid shot, shells andcanister. The battery wasinspected by General Gillman, General Buells chief of artillery,and was selected by that officer to proceed south to the Cumber-land river for the purpose of blockading the river and preventingsupplies from passing up from Nashville to the rebel GeneralCrittendens command, then encamped near Mill Springs, Ken-tucky. Having received orders to proceed by rail to Lebanon,Sunday, January 16th, 1862, found us at the depot, and in adrizzling rain we commenced our first movement with prom-. T HO MAS I AH1 A IN, AND A I- rERWARDCHAPLAIN, SIXTY-FIFTH, 184 ; KivKk. [January, of glory and all the accompaniments that active service andfield of battle furnish. At eleven 0 ve left the depot, the train pulling away slowly, giving us time to note the differ-ence in the people and to contrast it with our departure from Mans-field. We h elieve through the press that Ken-tucky was largely loyal to the government, and we expected to bereceived in Louisville with something of an ovation. As we sawnone, and the depot and grounds on that Sunday were deserted,we concluded that we or the newspapers had drawn largely uponimagination. We found that there was a big difference in manag-ing railroads between the north and the south, as it took thirteenhours to reach Lebanon, scarcely sixty miles distant. 3 the day passed away the drizzling rain turned to slet*tand by night everything was covered with a coating of ice.
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