. . imile, in bills of five, ten,twenty, fifty and a hundredimaginary dollars. It maynot have been very credita-ble to pass the stuff uponnegroe s and i g n o rantwhites in the south in pay-ment for chickens andtruck, but many did victims of misplftconfidence t h o u g fa t theywere being paid for theirpoultry and a man who hadbeen victimized would enterthe camp and tell his taleof woe at headquarters, andhe would be assured thatthe offender, if identified,would be properly pun-ished ; but the soldiers w
. . imile, in bills of five, ten,twenty, fifty and a hundredimaginary dollars. It maynot have been very credita-ble to pass the stuff uponnegroe s and i g n o rantwhites in the south in pay-ment for chickens andtruck, but many did victims of misplftconfidence t h o u g fa t theywere being paid for theirpoultry and a man who hadbeen victimized would enterthe camp and tell his taleof woe at headquarters, andhe would be assured thatthe offender, if identified,would be properly pun-ished ; but the soldiers wereall dressed alike, and hecould not tell one from another. Frequently an officer would (It-liver a lecture to his men upon the turpitude of such things> butit is to be feared that in most cases his words were like thescattered by the sower in the parable, which fell among thornsor upon stony ground where they had not much earth. This money was used with utter recklessness upon the,( chuck-a-luck ,7 board and in fattening jack-pots —whateverthese may LEMUEL KKISHKR,>ND LIEUTENANT, SIXTH BATTERY. CHAPTER XLVI1. KIGHTI\ ATI \ NT \. Opening of the Gri Few ( .km k \i ( >bserva noNS—Harkers Brigade Climbs Rocky-pace Ridge—The Desperate Sti ie Crest SuperbGallantry of the Sixty-foukth—Its Sever* Loss—Death ofilohel McIlvaine—We Descend the Ridge. GENERAL SHERMAN began the Atlanta campaign withninety -nine thousand men and two hundred and iifty-fourpieces of artillery. This force comprised the Army ofthe Cumberland, (Thomas), Fourth, Fourteenth andTwentieth corps; Army of the Tennessee, (McPherson), Fif-teenth and part of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth corps; ArmyOf the Ohio, (Schofield), Twenty-third corps. Tin- Eleventhand Twelfth corps, from the Army of the Potomac, had been isolidated, designated the Twentieth, and permanently attached tothe Army of the Cumberland. General Gordon Granger was re-lieved of the command of our (Fourth ) corps, on account offr
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