. Home-making and its philosophy . and a tremblingone it was. We led our horses in single file with muchfeeling of insecurity along the plank resting on the boatspointing up the stream, half expecting all the time thatwe would be thrown over by the swaying of the boats, orthe rise and fall under the tread of the horses, for bothmen and horses reeled as if drunken, and the horse is thesteadier and braver of the two. We really learn to lovethese noble animals. All got over safely and our faith inpontoons was increased. It was after midday when our crossing was day was very hot and w
. Home-making and its philosophy . and a tremblingone it was. We led our horses in single file with muchfeeling of insecurity along the plank resting on the boatspointing up the stream, half expecting all the time thatwe would be thrown over by the swaying of the boats, orthe rise and fall under the tread of the horses, for bothmen and horses reeled as if drunken, and the horse is thesteadier and braver of the two. We really learn to lovethese noble animals. All got over safely and our faith inpontoons was increased. It was after midday when our crossing was day was very hot and we suffered greatly for want ofwater after we left the river. Perhaps at no period cf mylife in the service was the suffering so intense. The lips,mouth and throat become so dry and parched that eventhe natural desire for life is deadened and indifference toall else is lost in the awful thirst, which steadily growsin intensity until stupor and delirium creep over the , once experienced, is never to be forgotten. That 242. CROSSING THE JAMES ON PONTOONS night was very dark on picket, the darkest I ever next day we recrossed the pontoons on the Jameswithout having felt the enemy. The main line of theUnion outworks in front of Petersburg conformed verynearly to that of the enemy, on the left, bending southwardso as to fall on or near the Weldon railway. On August 3 our headquarters were established atSycamore church, Major Baker commanding. This placewas about ten miles southeast of City Point on the JamesRiver. We were here from the eighth to the twenty-firstof August, doing picket duty on the Weldon railway,four miles from Petersburg. Our forces had taken posses-sion of the railway and the enemy made a desperate ef-fort to retake it on the twenty-first, when we participatedin the capture of a brigade of Rebel troops, with threestands of colors. On the twenty-second we were on picketand the next morning the regiment became engaged witha body of Rebel troops and
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