. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . interspersed with terrific thunder showers. The nextmorning we were wet, tired, hungry and happy beyondbounds. We had fairly become round shouldered fromstooping to avoid wounds, and now we experienced the un-utterable relief of once more standing erect and fearless, forby tacit agreement there was no firing on the BermudaHundred front. So we rested for twenty days and grewclean and well-conditioned, and had not a grumble in ourhearts. On the twenty-eighth an order
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . interspersed with terrific thunder showers. The nextmorning we were wet, tired, hungry and happy beyondbounds. We had fairly become round shouldered fromstooping to avoid wounds, and now we experienced the un-utterable relief of once more standing erect and fearless, forby tacit agreement there was no firing on the BermudaHundred front. So we rested for twenty days and grewclean and well-conditioned, and had not a grumble in ourhearts. On the twenty-eighth an order came to brigadeheadquarters which made some of us look sober. There wasto be a sudden move, if possible a surprise for the enemy—asharp assault in which the bayonet was to do the whole, andnot a musket in the column was to be discharged or evencapped. By nine oclock in the evening the whole division wasunder arms and marching without noise toward AikensLanding. Not a clattering canteen was allowed to swing,nor a word of boisterous mirth to escape from any recklesslips. Quietly we sank down on the grass by the swiftj[river.
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