. 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 .. . ,had no adequate or well-defined conception as to why theywere bearing arms, or what their being in the army might in-volve. Any one who could have heard the almost constantdiscussions going on around the camp-fires would know better TWENTY-SEVENTH INDIANA. 85 than this. He would be ashamed to betray such of the real facts. T
. 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 .. . ,had no adequate or well-defined conception as to why theywere bearing arms, or what their being in the army might in-volve. Any one who could have heard the almost constantdiscussions going on around the camp-fires would know better TWENTY-SEVENTH INDIANA. 85 than this. He would be ashamed to betray such of the real facts. True, most Union soldiers were from the middle class andhad limited educations. Many of them had scarcely any ed-ucation, such as comes from books ; but that is not saying thatthey were not intelligent, and on some points, perhaps onmany, were not thoroughly well informed. This will not beso hard to believe if it is remembered that throughout Indiana,and all over the West, previous to the war, were to be foundmany men, of large means and of extensive and complicatedbusiness interests,who could not read or write. Yet the personwho tried to defraud these men in a business transaction, evenone that involved intricate problems of interest, discount or. two Isaac Van Buskirk, Orderly Sergt. JonnVan Buskirk,Co. F. Died of wounds at Sandy ok Co. F. taken at hoosier city. storage, invariably had his labor for his pains. So Unionsoldiers, if they were deficient in some respects, if they lackedinformation or insight concerning some subjects, when it cameto questions involved in the war or to the perils and sacrificesto be expected in the strife, what they knew and the extent towhich tliey anticipated things, were surprising. Ob HISTORY OF THE Among the occupants of one of the cabins at Camp Hal-leck was a young man who had a brother in the rebel in the same cabin had been born in slave States, andhad many friends and relatives living in the S
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