. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . the remainderof their military outfit. Their guns were the obsolete Belgianrides with sabre bayonet, and,with the accompanying cartridge-boxes, they became soldiers indeed. But they were not to bedeprived of a sermon, though he was not Beecher who talked. FROM AUBURN TO WASHINGTON. 23 Chaplain Mudge here preached his first sermon in camp, andwas followed by Capt. Gregory of Company B, also a


. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . the remainderof their military outfit. Their guns were the obsolete Belgianrides with sabre bayonet, and,with the accompanying cartridge-boxes, they became soldiers indeed. But they were not to bedeprived of a sermon, though he was not Beecher who talked. FROM AUBURN TO WASHINGTON. 23 Chaplain Mudge here preached his first sermon in camp, andwas followed by Capt. Gregory of Company B, also a stranger who had been in the South also tried to make u\)the Beecher loss, and small hymn-books, then given out, servedas tangible mementoes of the day and hour. Company BsBible class had a short meeting, and the evening diversion wasan address by Parson Brownlow of Tennessee in the many chroniclers mention his remarks in close connectionwith their recollections of Barnuni, it is not difficult to inferwhat kind of impression the sulphurous sentiments of theKnoxville preacher made on his Cayuga and Wayne one doubted his intense loyalty and thorough bravery, r~^. From Hardtack and Coffee, by permission. THE UNION VOLUNTEER SALOON. though some must have recalled sundry punishments, receivedin their boyhood, for using language far less emphatic. Fromthe foregoing, it must not be inferred that all members of the138th were on church attendance bent, for there were those whowere given to excessive imbibings at gardens, more or less re-mote, and whose resultant condition rendered their return moreperemptory and also more noisy than that of the men who hadendeavored to remember the fourth commandment. Monday morning begins at with some of these men, butit is fully half past ten before they march to the Hudson riverand cross by ferry to Monmouth Point, N. J. Thence by railthe regiment is again flying southward. Western New Yorkeyes note a wide difference in


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