. On wheels and how I came there; . guns, Dan borrowed one ofours, and, with two others, fully equipped with car-tridge boxes, haversacks, and canteens, started, say-ing, We do not expect to return before mid-night. When reveille broke the stillness of the followingfrosty morning the blue dome above us was stillspangled with thousands of twinkling luminaries, andas we gathered around our camp fire, wrapped incur ON THE MARCH THROUGH JACKSON. 81 blankets, to dispatch our early breakfast, old Sol Ladnot yet dispelled the morning twilight. The foraging expedition of Dan and his comradeswas a deci
. On wheels and how I came there; . guns, Dan borrowed one ofours, and, with two others, fully equipped with car-tridge boxes, haversacks, and canteens, started, say-ing, We do not expect to return before mid-night. When reveille broke the stillness of the followingfrosty morning the blue dome above us was stillspangled with thousands of twinkling luminaries, andas we gathered around our camp fire, wrapped incur ON THE MARCH THROUGH JACKSON. 81 blankets, to dispatch our early breakfast, old Sol Ladnot yet dispelled the morning twilight. The foraging expedition of Dan and his comradeswas a decided success, and, as the result, Jack gave nsa breakfast of delicious boiled turkey and sweetpotatoes and honey, in addition to our usual fare. This being the lirst fowl or fresh meat of any kindI had tasted since reaching my regiment, I can assuremy readers it was decidedly toothsome, although itwas simply boiled in clear water, seasoned with saltand pepper, destitute of any brown basting, andhaving no delicious oyster CHAPTER IX. T II K S K I K ISI I S H. X^^TE had barelj iinished storing away the remains\^v of our turkey in our liaversacks wlien wewere ordered to fall in, and take arms. We passed along over the dusty road at a good pacewithout any noteworthy event until we reached Bran-don, then a good-sized village, which we entered justas the sun Avas gathering its fading rays behind thetree-tops in our rear. Here we found the depot ofthe Jackson and Selma Railroad, several large ware-houses, and wharves stored with cotton hales, ail inflames. As we entered one street the intense heat causedby the fiery wrath of the old white King, now l)eingoffered as a burnt sacrifice on the altar of the LostCause, was unbearable, so that we Mere compelled tohalt, about face, retreat, and take another street be-fore we could pass his fiery majesty. After going into camp in a piece of timber whichskirted the town two of our mess, Jim Ilowelsbunkie, and Nic, my bimkie, were det
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