. A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days . - are tbund he will hereafter report in thesepages. Lieut. D. W. King bound for Indian Village, , 1863 : Gen. H. E. Paines brigade, of which we tormed a part,started on the above date, as was supposed to Ibrm a junc-tion with our old commander. Gen. Weitzel, somewhereon Grand river. We landed on the west side of the Mis-sissippi river at the town and
. A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days . - are tbund he will hereafter report in thesepages. Lieut. D. W. King bound for Indian Village, , 1863 : Gen. H. E. Paines brigade, of which we tormed a part,started on the above date, as was supposed to Ibrm a junc-tion with our old commander. Gen. Weitzel, somewhereon Grand river. We landed on the west side of the Mis-sissippi river at the town and bayou of Plaquemine, twenty-two miles below Baton Rouge ; from thence we marchednine miles down the bayou to a little gathering of hutsglor3nng in the name of Indian Village, and occupiedby a few families of the copperskin persuasion and a fewrebel whites who all left at our approach. The * \illage is as forbidding a looking place as we have as yet occu-pied ; the ground being some feet lower than in the bayouwas, of course, very wet. A couple of reconnoissanceswere made, one down the bavou and one towards Grosse. -&30 ifay
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