. . distributedamong the company and regimental offio rally did much to avert threatened punishment It IS safe to say that most of the officers, even up to the colonels and brigadiers, shared to ent the feelings ,,f the soldiers on this suhjeet. They thou. WILLIAM H. ITOZIBR, VAKh, sIXTV-KIl- i H. 124 for AG j my wo. [March, it was all right so long as the boys didnt get caught. But the or-of General Buell un ind the- officers would lecture their men in words of thundering sound. Thenthey would go to their tents and with keen relish,


. . distributedamong the company and regimental offio rally did much to avert threatened punishment It IS safe to say that most of the officers, even up to the colonels and brigadiers, shared to ent the feelings ,,f the soldiers on this suhjeet. They thou. WILLIAM H. ITOZIBR, VAKh, sIXTV-KIl- i H. 124 for AG j my wo. [March, it was all right so long as the boys didnt get caught. But the or-of General Buell un ind the- officers would lecture their men in words of thundering sound. Thenthey would go to their tents and with keen relish, gnaw drum-Sticks and spare-ribs which they had little reason to think hadbeen bought and paid for in coin of the realm. Frequently, in the early morning, a citizen who had sufferedfrom a nightly visitation, would come into camp and pour his taleof woe into the ears of the giural, with vehement protestation^of his loyalty. Then there would be a breeze in camp ; staff officerswould charge around in the vain effort to detect the CttlprJanother sulphurous order would 1 I—and at the next camp- ing place the pig-pens and he: old yield Up their victims just as before. As a matter of fact ui- did not find these thingslent? between Nashville and Savannah as we could have wished. Three di of soldiers, with the sain


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