. Observations of an Illinois boy in battle, camp and prisons-1861 to 1865 . he General, going bya circuitous route, and were obliged to climb the northside of the mountain, following a footpath. We dis-mounted and led our horses, having hard work to getthe animals up. After accomplishing this difficult featof climbing the steep mountain-side we found the Gen-eral and his troops already there. We marched east-ward to the end of the mountain, where I walked outon a projecting rock. A small town named Summertown, or Summerville,was here entered, and the road extended down themountain on the sout
. Observations of an Illinois boy in battle, camp and prisons-1861 to 1865 . he General, going bya circuitous route, and were obliged to climb the northside of the mountain, following a footpath. We dis-mounted and led our horses, having hard work to getthe animals up. After accomplishing this difficult featof climbing the steep mountain-side we found the Gen-eral and his troops already there. We marched east-ward to the end of the mountain, where I walked outon a projecting rock. A small town named Summertown, or Summerville,was here entered, and the road extended down themountain on the south side, on which the troops de-scended. We were then within three miles of Chatta-nooga, and again moved forward in a southerly direc-tion, or rather a southeasterly direction, leaving thetown to our left, and went into camp a short distancefrom Rossville, Sept. 9, and the following day movedforward as usual in a southeasterly direction. Wefound that the city had been evacuated by the Con-federates. On our way between Chattanooga and 90 IN BATTLE, Cx\MP AND PRISONS, 6l-65. A Projecting Rock on Iiookout Moimtain. IN BATTLE, CAMP AND PRISONS, 6l-65 91 Ringgold, Ga., \vc found a patch of the finest sweetpotatoes I ever saw. Whenever I hear the song, Marching throngli (icorgia, containing the lines, Plow tlic tuikejs gobbled, which our commissary found,How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground, I am reminded of that sweet potato patch away downin Georgia. We were getting in the vicinity of tlic enemy again,and now moved forward in a southerly direction butwithout encountering the enemy in large force untilafter passing Ringgold, Ga. I distinctly remembercamping there one night, only a few days prior to thebattle of Chickamauga. While there some of the boys got into a drug store, which seemingly hadbeen abandoned, where they procured something t(^drink that was stronger than water; so much so thatseveral of them became intoxicated. They were quitehilarious, and one of
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