. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . colonel, on his horse, upon the march was atthe head of the column, the adjutant usually along withthe colonel; the lieutenant-colonel, whose place was nearthe right of the line, would frequently be at the head ofthe column with the colonel; the major of the regiment,whose place was on the left of the line, as a rule was inthe rear of the regiment. The colonel w^ould sometimessay, Adjutant, take a look down the line, and report tome if the men are keeping closed up. I would move outto the side of the road and as the several compa
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . colonel, on his horse, upon the march was atthe head of the column, the adjutant usually along withthe colonel; the lieutenant-colonel, whose place was nearthe right of the line, would frequently be at the head ofthe column with the colonel; the major of the regiment,whose place was on the left of the line, as a rule was inthe rear of the regiment. The colonel w^ould sometimessay, Adjutant, take a look down the line, and report tome if the men are keeping closed up. I would move outto the side of the road and as the several companies passedalong, if the men were not keeping well up, I would say,Captain, the colonels orders are to keep the men wellclosed up. And so on until the regiment had passed,then I must rejoin the colonel, and to get along the roadpast the men would be somewhat difficult, and frequentlyI would go into the field or woods and reach the head ofthe column in that way, and here my horse Don showedhis superiority, for with little apparent effort, over the 356 4. THE ARMY OF THE JAMES fence he would go like a trained hunter, and over ditches,too, that were not so very wide, saving me many a detourto reach my objective point. On this occasion, jump-ing one of the Virginia rail fences, I lost my sword out ofthe scabbard. I had given it up, when fortunately it wasbrought back to me. In the 9th New Hampshire regiment one of ourNashua boys, who then was First Lieutenant in commandof his company, one day gave the men of his company asurprise. It was in one of the earlier campaigns, thelieutenant was but recently commissioned, and was uponthe first march that the regiment had taken, when he wasin command of his company. He w^as a Sunday Schoolboy at home, and had carried into the Army hisBible, his principles, and his religion. The boys didntknow him very well: they thought he was a goody-goodykind of a boy. The troops were upon a forced marchwhich had been long and very tedious, and the men ha
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