. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . ose firedat us by the Confederates, again entertained us with apleasing adventure. This time he had captured a young-pig, weighing, perhaps, twenty or twenty five pounds, anda fire having been bnilt on the brow of the hill, and thepig having been cut
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . ose firedat us by the Confederates, again entertained us with apleasing adventure. This time he had captured a young-pig, weighing, perhaps, twenty or twenty five pounds, anda fire having been bnilt on the brow of the hill, and thepig having been cut in two, he was industriously engagedin roasting one part, which anyone would have judgedfrom Herr Blinns dimensions, would aftbrd him just KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. 67 about a square meal. Quick as a flash of lightning outof a clear sky, the battery on the other side of the creekopened, and a ball, grazing the ground, tearuig it up,and making general havoc, struck not many yards started as if it had been imbeded in his owncorporation, and shouted, Mine Gottl then suddenlyrolled over, fiightened almost out of his senses, and wentdown the hill like a beer-barrel, amidst the burstingshells and din of laughter, still holding on for dear lifeto his pig. It was hog up, and then man up, and so onalternately until both rolled into the ^^ \ ^^i ^../ BLINlSr MEETS WITH AN UPSET. We remained here several days waiting for provisions,but under the spring thaw^s and the dripping rains, theroads had become impassable. It was evident that underthese circumstances we could not move forw^ard. Rich-mond was quite as secure as if half a million men hadnot been placed in the field; and all military operations,the plans of the most brilliant generals, the valor andcourage of troops, all sieges, marches, borabardmenta, 58 KNAPSACK AXD BIFLE. were dependant on the weathei. In thinking of the situ-ation, I am confirmed in the opinion that the weather justabout rules the world, that it can
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