. . The night was cold, and when we were aroused atdaylight a white frost covered our blankets. Chilled through,stiff and , we reluctantly turned out for roll-call, receivingorders to march in an hour. We were off prompth and made a most exhausting journc\of sixteen miles, without a drop of good water in the entire distauce. The country between Barren and Green rivers is inosthBat, with a spring that flows during the dry and there, however, are large natural basins, some of themtwo hundred feet in diameter. I
. . The night was cold, and when we were aroused atdaylight a white frost covered our blankets. Chilled through,stiff and , we reluctantly turned out for roll-call, receivingorders to march in an hour. We were off prompth and made a most exhausting journc\of sixteen miles, without a drop of good water in the entire distauce. The country between Barren and Green rivers is inosthBat, with a spring that flows during the dry and there, however, are large natural basins, some of themtwo hundred feet in diameter. In most of these we found water,but it was wretched stuff, dead and stagnant, and covered with avile, green somi. Yet W obliged to wet our parched mouths with it for there was no other Source of supply for OUT canteens. For hours we suffered from a consuming thirst. In a small village through which we passed there was a distillery —that a* auxiliary of every Kentiukx town. A small quautc fruntenti was found and t\\»> do/en can- for A I. FWI !... teenfuls of it were hailed with joy by our brigade. To manythis was like :i draught from the fountain of eternal youth; andsome drank whisky that day who had never t before. T do not believe it was marked down against them Oil the slate otthe Recorder. During the rainy Season the water collects in these naturalreservoirs oi which I have spoken, but the heat atid the accumu-lated impurities of the summer render it so nauseous to bothand smell that even the mules turned away from it in would have been gladto fill our canteens withcofii ich a march, but our Mipph mtj thai we had barely enoughfor a cupful morning andnight At no tune during this campaign did we have more than half rations, and much of the time between Bowling ( irei-n and I,oui> ville the mercury in the oomtttiasar) the r mom . ran down almost to < We could only eke out our itv hoard with such food as could be gleaned iohn o. bai from a regio
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