. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . which he had no doubt that of theCumberland would fight well. Right there before him,however, were the Veterans who had stood with Thomas onHorseshoe Ridge in the fiercest tempest of bullets and shellever encountered by mortal man since the use of firearmsbegan without losing an inch of ground—from high noontiireight oclock P. M. the twentieth of September, 1863—and who were destined within a month to be the foremostto reach the
. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . which he had no doubt that of theCumberland would fight well. Right there before him,however, were the Veterans who had stood with Thomas onHorseshoe Ridge in the fiercest tempest of bullets and shellever encountered by mortal man since the use of firearmsbegan without losing an inch of ground—from high noontiireight oclock P. M. the twentieth of September, 1863—and who were destined within a month to be the foremostto reach the crest of the neighboring Missionary Ridge inthe grandest charge recorded in military annals! We were hemmed in for another month, but we were nevercompletely without food to eat after Grants arrival. Therewas a fair share of coffee, almost enough of hard-tack, and oncea week about half a ration of beef was issued to each one of these distributions only the stomach of a bullockfell to the portion of Company D, and not a single man of usknew how to prepare a dish of tripe! We were not whollyshut out from news from home, or from the doings of other. The Nineteenth Illinois 257 armies, in the meantime. Undoubtedly food was scarce,but we managed to keep our health, and we held our ground,which was the main thing to do. It is a fact when provis-ions were scarce—the health of the troops was at the was plentiful with us in those days of restraint andhungry spells. Before starting on this Chickamauga cam-paign the army had been paid for several months due, butit was impossible to get rid of our thirteen per while clam-bering over hills and mountains, or while fighting the^Johnny Rebs in the Valley of Death, and here we were, inChattanooga, loaded down, so to speak, with Uncle SamsGreenbacks, like the shipwrecked mariner who saw watereverywhere, yet not one drop to drink; with us it was moneyeverywhere, and no where to spend a single , a
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