. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . d found a darkey, three mules and awagon near the side of the road in a sinkhole in thewoods. The wagon bed was nearly full of hams andshoulders. Bloom took command; the darkey droveout to the road andwaited till our wagontrain came up when theytell into line with theirprize. We had a goodsupply of hams for a fewdays. The darkey hadbeen sent from our rightwing to save the pork,but fell in with us. Evi-dently the natives didnot know that we werequite so numerou
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . d found a darkey, three mules and awagon near the side of the road in a sinkhole in thewoods. The wagon bed was nearly full of hams andshoulders. Bloom took command; the darkey droveout to the road andwaited till our wagontrain came up when theytell into line with theirprize. We had a goodsupply of hams for a fewdays. The darkey hadbeen sent from our rightwing to save the pork,but fell in with us. Evi-dently the natives didnot know that we werequite so numerous andthat darkeys boss losthis mules, wagon, meat,darkey and all. Whatwas his loss was our gain, but we never went back tothank him for his present. Soon after getting pos-session of the city of Savannah our supplies werereceived at the wharf from the ocean vessels in greatabundance. The enterprising Yankee also was therewith trading vessels from the North laden with fruits,vegetables, etc., to sell to the army. Apples andoranges sold as high as fifty dollars per barrel, potatoesand onions as high as twenty dollars per barrel and. Martin Moor. Co. H,Forest Hill. Ind. 190 HISTORY OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH fifty per cent, higher retail. Then the provost marshalinterfered and prices became more reasonable. While the Companies were near Savannah theywere sent out one evening to support a battery near thefort that Gen. Lincoln had built near the old Ebenezerchurch that he used as a hospital in the War of theRevolution. The battery was to intercept a rebel gunboat that was reported to be up the river: but the boatfailed to come, and we did not get to immortalize our-selves by blowing it out of the river or sinking it. How-ever, some of the boys went to the cemetery and sleptby the graves of the Revolutionary patriots. On the march from Atlanta negroes of all , shades and grades, by the thousands followed ourarmy, carrying a few household goods in all imaginableshapes, sizes and
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