. The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . egulation. Extra efforts were made by company officers andothers (also enjoined bv higher authority) to have it worksatisfactorily. It may have done better now than formerly, orit may not; but we never tried it again, after leaving thiscamp. The best illustration of the difference between the systemof company cooks and that of small messes tha
. The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . egulation. Extra efforts were made by company officers andothers (also enjoined bv higher authority) to have it worksatisfactorily. It may have done better now than formerly, orit may not; but we never tried it again, after leaving thiscamp. The best illustration of the difference between the systemof company cooks and that of small messes that is possible for 298 HISTORY OF THE the ordinary citizen is to imap[ine all the families in a villageor in a certain district of a city, regardless of their habits or pro-pensities, giving up their own homes and domestic way ofliving and begin living in one, common hash-house. Thosethat have self-respect, not to mention love of order, cleanlinessand plenty, would soon understand in that way, somethingabout the company cook system in the army. Yet the WarDepartment, and most of those high up in the army establish-ment, are intensely set on having a company cook in each andevery company. 1 i -^ ■: 1 * w -«.. j£^ l* HI W- 1 1 f~ rfe. / L -^ ! L. jMaj. Gen. Henrv W. Slocum.(From a War Time Photograph.) Gen. Thos. H. Ruger, (From Photograph Kept by Capt. Williams since the War.) We participated in three grand reviews during this first was on March 5th, by H. VV. had succeeded the lamented Mansfield in command of ourcorps, while we were at Maryland Ilights, but up to this timewe had seen little, if anything, of him. As the commander ofthe larger Twentieth Corps, later on, and of vShermans LeftWing, in the March to the Sea, and up through the Carolinas,Slocum became widely and favorably known. He never TWENTY-SEVENTH INDIANA. 2J9 attained to a higher position, or wider fame, than the mem-bers of the Twenty-seventh wished for him and believed himwort
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