. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . which the Dutch farmers of the region could be inducedto spare from their larders, while those who remained incamp pitched the shelter tents, dug ditches around them,and collected beds of pine boughs upon which to rest theirweary limbs. The foragers scoured the country so thor-oughly that soon not a loaf of bread could be boughtwithin five miles of camp for either love or money; butthe men displayed their gi-eenbacks so liberally as toarouse the avarice of the Dutch farmers to an uncontrol-lable degree,
. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . which the Dutch farmers of the region could be inducedto spare from their larders, while those who remained incamp pitched the shelter tents, dug ditches around them,and collected beds of pine boughs upon which to rest theirweary limbs. The foragers scoured the country so thor-oughly that soon not a loaf of bread could be boughtwithin five miles of camp for either love or money; butthe men displayed their gi-eenbacks so liberally as toarouse the avarice of the Dutch farmers to an uncontrol-lable degree, and while their stout wives went vigorouslyto work mixing dough, they brought forth the * Dutchovens, or built big fires in the brick ones, promising themen that they should have bread in any quantity in themorning. Many of the men paid in advance, so as tomake sure of their share, but the brigade was far awaybefore the next morning, leaving the disconsolate Dutchfarmers with bread cnougli upon their hands to last theirfamilies for many weeks. ..# CHAPTER XVI. THE BATTLE OF T two oclock, on the morning of thesecond day of July, 1863, we wererouted from the quarters we had socarefully prepared, and the brigade setoff through the darkness in the direc-tion of Gettysburg. Tramp, tramp,and splash, splash, we kept our way,halting a few minutes at sunrise torest and cook coffee, and early in theforenoon we ariived upon the fieldwhich will ever be so sharpshooters, scattered along in the fields to the leftof the road upon which we marched, told us that theentire rebel army lay in and beyond the woods, withinrifle shot. Screened from our observation Lee was mov-ing his troops into position for the approaching fight,rapidly extending his lines towards his right, opposite ourleft; and, in fact, half an hour after we had passed upthe Emmcttsburg pike, a rebel line of battle was formed 138 SECOND X. II. UIXUMKNT. across it, which would have given us a warm and u
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