. History of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5 . uge piles of boxes of hard-tack and other stores, the muleteams, General Grants headquarters on the bluff to the right,the military railroad running up hill and down dale, thedusty trail to the front, with the bones and skeletons of mulesand horses scattered along the way, the large tents back fromthe river with the sign Embalming across its front, thesoldiers camps, the hospital tents, the long lines of graves,which made rather a serious picture for our first experience onlanding. . Our camp here was some half a mile or moreback f
. History of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5 . uge piles of boxes of hard-tack and other stores, the muleteams, General Grants headquarters on the bluff to the right,the military railroad running up hill and down dale, thedusty trail to the front, with the bones and skeletons of mulesand horses scattered along the way, the large tents back fromthe river with the sign Embalming across its front, thesoldiers camps, the hospital tents, the long lines of graves,which made rather a serious picture for our first experience onlanding. . Our camp here was some half a mile or moreback from the landing. Companies C, D, and E left October 5, under CaptainGreenough, in the absence of Captain Wallingford, who wasdetained on official business at Concord. The route takenwas by rail via Nashua and Worcester to New London andthence by steamer to New York. Captain Greenough saysof his command: As the companies were without rations the men weregiven permission in New York to obtain breakfast atnearby restaurants. Upon reassembling in a street at.
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