. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ir cottonade suits. The general often remarkedafterward that the deception nearly choked him, adding, * Init something hadto be done. The army was not only badly clotlied, ln;t in general liadly armed. Manyof the men had only shot-guns and squirrel rifles. Requisitions on the WarDepartment were not fiUed for want of supplies; and General Lee wrotethat oAving to the scarcity of arms he was haAing pikes made, which heoffered to furnish General Marshall for his unarmed troops. The fi
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ir cottonade suits. The general often remarkedafterward that the deception nearly choked him, adding, * Init something hadto be done. The army was not only badly clotlied, ln;t in general liadly armed. Manyof the men had only shot-guns and squirrel rifles. Requisitions on the WarDepartment were not fiUed for want of supplies; and General Lee wrotethat oAving to the scarcity of arms he was haAing pikes made, which heoffered to furnish General Marshall for his unarmed troops. The field of operations lay in the Cumberland Mountains, along the sourcesof the Big Sandy River,—a poor, wild, thinly settled country. The roads ranalong the water-courses between the mountains, and were often renderedimpassal)le by the high waters, and during this winter were ruine<l by thepassage of cavalry, wagons, and artillery. Captain Jeffress was three daysmoving his battery from Gladesville to Pound Gap, only sixteen miles. Gen-eral Marshalls report states that his wagons were sometimes unable to make. MAP OF BIG SANDY EIVER AND MIDDLE-CREEK BATTLE-FIELD (JANUARY 10, 1802). MARSHALL AND GARFIELD IN EASTERN KENTUCKY. 395 over foui miles a day. An unusual amount of rain fell, di-enching the unpro-tected soldiers, most of them raw recruits, and keeping the roads deep andthe waters high. This fiist winter was the worst of the war, and the scantyrations and gi-eat hardships made hundreds of the men sick. Besides, themeasles and mumps broke out in the camps, and many died from thesediseases and from exposure. The command at Prestonburg was over onehundred miles from its base of supplies at Abingdon, Va., with the Cumber-land Mountains between. The farms were generally small and poor, lyingalong the mountain-sides or in narrowvalleys. During January, 1862, corn wasworth ten dollars per barrel, and had tobe hauled thu-ty miles over desperateroads. For weeks they subsisted uponm
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