A genealogical history of the French and allied families . FRENCH AND ALLIED FAMILIES where our regiment was camped. They gave me a great reception. BarneyKeyes was one of the first boys I met. In a few days I was granted a fur-lough and went home. When my furlough of thirty days had expired Iwent back to Atlanta and arrived just in time to go with Sherman on hismarch to the sea. REMINISCENCES One night during the escape we lay by a picket garden fence waiting tosee some negro, when a lady in the house began playing on the piano somebeautiful melodies. It was the first piano music I had heard
A genealogical history of the French and allied families . FRENCH AND ALLIED FAMILIES where our regiment was camped. They gave me a great reception. BarneyKeyes was one of the first boys I met. In a few days I was granted a fur-lough and went home. When my furlough of thirty days had expired Iwent back to Atlanta and arrived just in time to go with Sherman on hismarch to the sea. REMINISCENCES One night during the escape we lay by a picket garden fence waiting tosee some negro, when a lady in the house began playing on the piano somebeautiful melodies. It was the first piano music I had heard in years and itbrought the tears to my eyes. After a while we found a negro in a shedfeeding mules. We went up to him and touched him on the shoulder. Hewas so scared he jumped at least fifteen feet away and it was some timebefore we could get him to come near us. After telling him who we wereand assuring him of our friendliness, he said he would send us somethingto eat. Soon an old negro came out with a pail on his arm filled with directed us to
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