. Reminiscences of the Civil War . ot mademore than i^ miles. Soldiers from the front say the HardeesCorps fronts us 2 miles ahead, and that he proposes to have heard no firing that near this morning, but have heardartillery 8 or 10 miles east, A number of prisoners have beensent back, whO all report Hardee at Dallas. I think Thomasnow joins our left. McPherson last night rode up to someReb. pickets, who saluted him with a shower of hot lead, for-tunately missing him. Osterhous commissary drives alonga lot of cattle for the Division. Last night he got off theroad and drove them into a
. Reminiscences of the Civil War . ot mademore than i^ miles. Soldiers from the front say the HardeesCorps fronts us 2 miles ahead, and that he proposes to have heard no firing that near this morning, but have heardartillery 8 or 10 miles east, A number of prisoners have beensent back, whO all report Hardee at Dallas. I think Thomasnow joins our left. McPherson last night rode up to someReb. pickets, who saluted him with a shower of hot lead, for-tunately missing him. Osterhous commissary drives alonga lot of cattle for the Division. Last night he got off theroad and drove them into a party of seccesh, who took com-missary, beef and all. Back at Kingston, a big box came toGen. Harrow with heavy express charges. An ambulancehauled it 20 miles before it caught up with him, and on open-ing it he found a lot of stones, a horses tail, and a block ofwood with a horses face pinned on it, labeled, head and tailof your Potomac Horse. At Van Wirt before we got therethe Rebs had a celebration over Lees capturing Grant and. Geo. W. Wright 65 half of his army. Theres a great deal of ague in the regi-ment. We will have a great deal of sickness after the cam-paign closes. I have only seen one man at home in Ga. wholooked capable of doing duty as a soldier. My health is ex-cellent. This creek runs into the Talladega River. One mile S. of Dallas, 2 p. m. After a lively skirmishing Jeff. Davis Division of the 14thA. C. occupied Dallas at 2 p. m. The Rebs. retired stub-bornly. We passed Dallas about dark, and are now the frontand extreme right of the whole army. I guess fighting isover for the night. Two very lively little fights have occurredbefore dark. The heavy fighting yesterday was Hooker. Hewhipped and drove them four miles, taking their wounded. May 27th. 8 A. M. Near Dallas, Ga. There has been very heavy fighting on our left thismorning, and everywhere along the line. We have been mov-ing in line since 6 oclock, supporting skirmishers and the 3rdBrig. H
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