Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . on that Augustnight, I am one of the few left to tell the story. Miss Whites solo, dolefulas it seemed, was not with-out its good effect, for even the most thoughtless amongus was made to think seriously of the new and danger-ous duties upon which we were about to enter. As elsewhere noted, an order had been received fromthe State Capital at Springfield, directing the two BondCounty companies to rendezvous at Belleville, III, aboutforty miles away and not far from St. Louis, As the time for departure drew near, every man visitedhis home, mad
Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . on that Augustnight, I am one of the few left to tell the story. Miss Whites solo, dolefulas it seemed, was not with-out its good effect, for even the most thoughtless amongus was made to think seriously of the new and danger-ous duties upon which we were about to enter. As elsewhere noted, an order had been received fromthe State Capital at Springfield, directing the two BondCounty companies to rendezvous at Belleville, III, aboutforty miles away and not far from St. Louis, As the time for departure drew near, every man visitedhis home, made his final arrangements, said farew^ell tohis friends, and then joined his comrades at Greenville. But sad and tearful was this farewell, as father,mother, brother, sister, wife, or sweetheart, took theparting one by the hand, none knowing how soon hewould fall in the frightful death-harvest a great devas-tating war was tYtry hour reaping. At the appointed time friends, neighbors and relativescame with farm wagons and, early one beautiful Septem-. Flag; Real Old Glory. First Home-leaving. ^1 ber morning, the vehicles were loaded with hearty speci-mens of young manhood, all ideal cannon-food, andthe journey over a dusty road to the nearest -ailway sta-tion, twenty miles away at Carlyle, was begun. Three or four miles on the road was a hill where we,for some cause, halted for a time. From here I remem-ber taking a look at the Court House, about which wehad been drilling for several weeks, and whose friendlyroof had sheltered us from rain and sun alike, and asits familiar outline loomed up in the mornings sun Iwondered if I should ever again look upon it. About noon we reached Carlyle, on what was thenknown as the Ohio 8z Mississippi Railroad, now theBaltimore & Ohio Railway, and soon a west-bound traincame in and we all went aboard. And will the readerbelieve it, to many of us this experience was absolutelynew, for I, in common with most of m^y comrades, hadnever be
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