The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out, with accounts of life in a rebel prison, personal experiences, names and addresses of surviving members, personal sketches and a complete roster of the regiment . eceive the remainderof their military outfit. Their guns were the obsolete Belgianrifles with sabre bayonet, 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 WASHINGTO
The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out, with accounts of life in a rebel prison, personal experiences, names and addresses of surviving members, personal sketches and a complete roster of the regiment . eceive the remainderof their military outfit. Their guns were the obsolete Belgianrifles with sabre bayonet, 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 Madge here preached his first sermon in camp, andwas followed by Capt. Gregory of Company B, also a clergyman,A strangei who had been in the South also tried to make upthe Beecher loss, and smalthymn-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 barrack*.As many chroniclers mention his remarks in close connectionwith their recollections of Barnum, 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,. TSitftff^ 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 thetiJSth were on church attendance bent, for there were those whowere given to excessive inibibings 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 4.:i() with some of these men, butit is fully half past ten before they march to the Hudson riverand cross b
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