. . a dozen glasses. He made aninspection, and when he discovered the game that had been playedon him he started away ina highly inflamed state ofmindt declaring that it *the orneriest crowd heever saw. March 5th we were upbefore daylight, havingceived the night before or-1 to cross Barren w We left camp in the midst I furious rain. As weneared Bowling we passed the desertedcati« the my. The Confedeiarmy had lived in whaljudged to have been ■ .ifortabk- huts, with places and chimneys. On leaving, the rebel sold set fire to them, and
. . a dozen glasses. He made aninspection, and when he discovered the game that had been playedon him he started away ina highly inflamed state ofmindt declaring that it *the orneriest crowd heever saw. March 5th we were upbefore daylight, havingceived the night before or-1 to cross Barren w We left camp in the midst I furious rain. As weneared Bowling we passed the desertedcati« the my. The Confedeiarmy had lived in whaljudged to have been ■ .ifortabk- huts, with places and chimneys. On leaving, the rebel sold set fire to them, and for of blackened chimneys alone remained. The enemy ha« road and wa. bridg ral Mitehel had found three small Steamboat the river, and using the it, he contrived, with the aid of a fev as, a passable bridge. Thejbanks were, how- T, extremely precipitous, and fully forty feel in heightcept for the fact that tin ich word as M impossible in the army lexicon, we would not have thought that wagons andartillery could be drawn up. We marched over the bridge and to. JACOB G. HITT1NO 109 the top of the hill, where we stacked arms, and returned to bear a hand at the wagons. We took them one at a time. At the foot of the hill two ropes seventy-five feet long were fastened to the end of the pole and run out :::. A hundred men e<l within the fortifications. * Ver) strong works had hbuilt by the enemy n al! the hills which surround Bowlingn They did a east amount of work to no purpose, just aswe did so many tin of tin- finest buildings in the d burned, including the warehouses containing suchinilitan in his ha flight immediately after the tall of Port Donelson. We obtaiiplenty of good f
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