. History of the Seventh Indiana cavalry volunteers, and the expeditions, campaigns, raids, marches, and battles of the armies with which it was connected, with biographical sketches of Brevet Major Genral John Shanks, and of Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Browne, and other officers of the regiment; . I didso. At New Albany, with some of their own wounded, I wasplaced in a lumber wagon, and after a march of five or six milesfurther, camped for the night. With the other wounded, I wastaken to a house, the lady of which, spared no pains to make uscomfortable. She gave greater attention to myse
. History of the Seventh Indiana cavalry volunteers, and the expeditions, campaigns, raids, marches, and battles of the armies with which it was connected, with biographical sketches of Brevet Major Genral John Shanks, and of Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Browne, and other officers of the regiment; . I didso. At New Albany, with some of their own wounded, I wasplaced in a lumber wagon, and after a march of five or six milesfurther, camped for the night. With the other wounded, I wastaken to a house, the lady of which, spared no pains to make uscomfortable. She gave greater attention to myself than to theothers. She placed a feather-bed on the floor for me to sleep on,and gave rne first something to eat. The rebel wounded com-plained of that. She then explained that her motive for sodoing was, in the hope that some Northern mother would be-stow the same kindness on her own son, who was a prisoner ofwar in the distant North. The next day we were taken in the same jolting, uncomfort-able vehicle to Pontotoc, where I again slept on a comfortablebed. The next day, we were taken to Okolona, on the Mobileand Ohio railroad, and from there by railroad to Lauderdale,Mississippi. At that place, I was placed in the hospital, estab-lished for the reception of the badly wounded from the battle. Tliomas «. Cogley. LIEUT. TH01IAS S. COGLEY. 249 fields in the north and interior parts of the State. The garrisonconsisted of convalescents. While there, I received the same care and attention given tothe rebel soldiers. The food was poor and scanty, but it wasthe best the confederate government could furnish. It wasplainly evident to those familiar with the internal affairs of therebel government, that it could not last much longer. Therewas an undisguised discontent among the rebel soldiers. Whatdisgusted them more than anything else was, the utter worth-iessness of confederate money. The soldiers would frequentlysay to me, that if their money was as good as our green-backs, they co
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