. . es-tablished at was one of the prettiestand most attractive townswe had found in all ourwanderings through thesouth. Among its inhabit-ants were many loyal peo-ple, who hailed with delightthe success of the Unionarms. Major Smith and hisofficial family fixed them-selves in a private house,where they lived in Scran ton, who wasthen adjutant, writeWe had feather beds to sleep on, splendid, warm, first-classIs to eat, and some nice young ladies to furnish music andgood society. I tell Vlajor Smith, Quar
. . es-tablished at was one of the prettiestand most attractive townswe had found in all ourwanderings through thesouth. Among its inhabit-ants were many loyal peo-ple, who hailed with delightthe success of the Unionarms. Major Smith and hisofficial family fixed them-selves in a private house,where they lived in Scran ton, who wasthen adjutant, writeWe had feather beds to sleep on, splendid, warm, first-classIs to eat, and some nice young ladies to furnish music andgood society. I tell Vlajor Smith, Quartermaster Zollinger and I were just in clover ! But this blight and beautiful dream did not last long ;the brigade commander wouldnt have it that way. He thoughtthey were having altogether ton much riotous living, and or-dered them to move headquarters to Madison station, a seragglyvillage ten miles toward Decatur. He made the excuse that atHuntsville they were too far from the regiment. It was roughon those giddy young officers, but they had to go. Indeed, it. MARTINCOMPANY C, SIXTY-FOURTH. Died at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 2nd, i i865.] A SOVNI 0* RKVHLRV RV NIGHT. 695 served them right, for they had no business to fare so sumptu-ously—nice young ladies. splendid, warm, first-class meals/1feather beds, and all thai—while the rest of us were chewinghardtack at the blockhouses, with only mosquitoes to furnishmusic torus. There was no equity or reason in such an un-equal condition of things: it was a misdeal. In great vexa-tion of spirit, and with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, theypulled up and went to Madison station, where they took up theirquarters in an old, abandoned store. They had to come down toarmy rations, except as these were supplemented by such thingsas could be bought or foraged—chiefly the latter. Here theheadquarters remained until the hegira to Kast Tennessee. Captain Trescott and Lieutenants Moores and Bell were notonly extra A 1 as soldiers,
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