. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda . ent on this duty, a German, foot-soreand weary, on the return march gave out and sat down by theroadside, demoralized to the utmost. A teamster, driving by,upbraided him for falling out. Chris, for that was his name, inmixed English, answered : Yah, dot is very nice for you fel-lers vot all the times rides mules
. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda . ent on this duty, a German, foot-soreand weary, on the return march gave out and sat down by theroadside, demoralized to the utmost. A teamster, driving by,upbraided him for falling out. Chris, for that was his name, inmixed English, answered : Yah, dot is very nice for you fel-lers vot all the times rides mules, but if you has to valk on yourown feet, you dont speak so much about it. The teamster, agood-natured fellow, told him to get on one of the mules, and,that he might do so, halted his team. Chris accomplished thefeat of mounting the mule after several efforts, but in doing sohe happened to touch his royal cussedness with his loud bray and the upward extension of a pair of hind heelsfollowed, with a corresponding depression of the mules forwardpart, and Chris and his musket departed from the mule, and slidalong on the mud in front of the team. There was an exchangeof profanity between the teamster and Chris, and the latter wentlimping on his way, a sadder and lamer thats my overcoat !!! The mirid of the army mule seemed to pervade not only itsbrain, but its ears, tail and heels. He was subject to suddentransitions from joy to sorrow, which were punctuated in hisown way. It was Gen. Hooker who invented the pack-mule pack mule, when loaded on each side and with a medley ofcamp kettles and entrenching tools on top, was, to express itmildly, grotesque. Profanity was considered indispensable inmule-driving. The value of the mule in the army was very great onaccount of its being less liable to injury than the horse, andbecause it could adapt itself to circumstances much better. Before the war a dead mule was seldom seen. One wouldthink they lived forever. Dea
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