. Memories of the civil war . Chapter THE MAECH. And we marched away to join the fray,Where the work of death was done, And soon we stood where the battle cloudsHid the face of the mid-day sun. Mid the battles din onr ranks grew thin, And we dug our comrades brook and rill, by vale and hill, And laid away our braves. Benj. Russell Jr. Marching orders came on August 10th,and we gladly took up onr line of march, passingthrough Williamsburg, Yorktown and Big Bethelto Newport News, where we boarded steamerBelvidere for Acquia Creek, tlience hy rail toStafford Courthouse, near Fred
. Memories of the civil war . Chapter THE MAECH. And we marched away to join the fray,Where the work of death was done, And soon we stood where the battle cloudsHid the face of the mid-day sun. Mid the battles din onr ranks grew thin, And we dug our comrades brook and rill, by vale and hill, And laid away our braves. Benj. Russell Jr. Marching orders came on August 10th,and we gladly took up onr line of march, passingthrough Williamsburg, Yorktown and Big Bethelto Newport News, where we boarded steamerBelvidere for Acquia Creek, tlience hy rail toStafford Courthouse, near Fredericksburg. AVewere still kept on the move, and on August 27thwe marched out on the Gainesville road, and. ^^ 6, 1865. On the march. 11 formed in line of l)attle; here we had qnite asharp brush with the enemy. We were endeav-oring to liead him off in his march nortliward,but were too late, and had to chase him as rapid-ly as possible. I sliall never forget the long and wearymarch of the next day, wliicli happened to be mytwenty-first l)irthday. All that hot, dusty daywas spent in a forced march, and we sufferedgreatly for watei, of which th.^re was none to ])ehad in that dreary country. Along in the after-noon I came to a pnddle of water covered w^ithgreen slime, in which partly lay a dead mnle, whohad prol)ably died while trying to slake histhirst. I did not take warning by him, bntbrushed aside tlie green scum and took a drink;it was wet and that was all that could be said ofit. I drao^oed mvself alontr until within anhour of sunset, and then T dropped by the road-side as hundreds had done before me. Our sur-geon came along, and kindly urged me to keepon, saying we were to camp in
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