Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . U. S. Army HoS|.ital Steamer -U. A. January. (FromMedical ami Surgical History of the Civil War.). Interior of Hospital Boat. Cots made-up forreception of patients. (See page 70) Bellowing Alligators. 73 Our regiment, in common with the division, receivedmarching orders the evening of April 24, and about 8oclock at night got under way. The roads were roughand the night was dark, consequently ones footing wasmost uncertain. In the bayous all about, the alligatorsmade night hideous with their bellowing. All night ourregiment marched, and next
Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . U. S. Army HoS|.ital Steamer -U. A. January. (FromMedical ami Surgical History of the Civil War.). Interior of Hospital Boat. Cots made-up forreception of patients. (See page 70) Bellowing Alligators. 73 Our regiment, in common with the division, receivedmarching orders the evening of April 24, and about 8oclock at night got under way. The roads were roughand the night was dark, consequently ones footing wasmost uncertain. In the bayous all about, the alligatorsmade night hideous with their bellowing. All night ourregiment marched, and next morning at 6 oclock pulledup at Smiths plantation, two and one-half miles fromNew Carthage. Here our division went into camp, and,although two or three miles from the river, severalsteamboats came in on a bayou and were near campi fora day or so. Having met with such success running the blockadethe night of April 16, the Federals resolved to attemptit again, consequently the next week a number of trans-ports were loaded with stores, and with their boilers andmachinery well protected with baled hay and cotton,again ran the blockade, losing only o
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