. History of the Fifteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers . Sergeant Lum,also healed of his wound, returned. We endeavored to givemuch attention to the music, and had a good many hymns at ourmeetings, that were very attractive to the men. Fifty-three recruits joined us on the 2d of September and wereassigned to different companies. They were unarmed, withouttents and rations. In the cold rainstorms which followed theirarrival they had a rough experience. Without food for two daysuntil rations were issued to the regiment, they began, in theirearly experience, to know something of the privations
. History of the Fifteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers . Sergeant Lum,also healed of his wound, returned. We endeavored to givemuch attention to the music, and had a good many hymns at ourmeetings, that were very attractive to the men. Fifty-three recruits joined us on the 2d of September and wereassigned to different companies. They were unarmed, withouttents and rations. In the cold rainstorms which followed theirarrival they had a rough experience. Without food for two daysuntil rations were issued to the regiment, they began, in theirearly experience, to know something of the privations of a sol-diers life. Other squads of recruits arrived at intervals of everyfew days. As a regiment, with the exception of a few men of theold Fifteenth, and some transferred from the Second and ThirdKegiments, we were now mostly made up of recruits and substi-tutes. Field Report 15th N. J. V., Sept. 8th, 1864. Comd Officers. Musicians. Sergeants. Corporals. Privates. Co. A 2 B 2. 1411 281914 28 151622 Field and staff, 5 3. 14 20 16 28 175. BATTLE OF OPEoTAN*. CHAPTER XVI. OPEQUAN—FISHER S HILL HARRISONBURG. There was impatience in some quarters at the slowness ofGeneral Sheridans movements. General Grant had held himback by advising caution. It was only in the exercise of properdiscretion that he had been waiting for the hour to strike. Although so many troops had been withdrawn from the Army ofthe Potomac, the pressure uj:>on the Confederate lines around Pe-tersburg was not relaxed. Lees diversion had not succeeded inbringing relief there by causing the withdrawal of the Union forces,as he had cherished the hope it might. Sheridan had been act-ing upon the defensive, retiring as Early advanced, and advanc-ing as Early retired. He had not joined battle with his an- BHEHAKDOAH VALLEY. 255 tagonist, neither had he given him any advantage by which hemight be overthrown. The month which passed after Lee loanedEarly troops had been spent in marching and counterm
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