. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . he south side of the skirmish line advanced,and found them in strong forceand vindictive and determinedas ever. From our camp wewatched the opposing batteriestiring at each other across theriver. From this point wecould clearly see the city ofAtlanta, which 1 think wasseven or eight miles lay in this camp a fewdays, drawing clothing on the12th. All except the picketspassed the few days here gath-ering blackberries, which were plentiful. We
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . he south side of the skirmish line advanced,and found them in strong forceand vindictive and determinedas ever. From our camp wewatched the opposing batteriestiring at each other across theriver. From this point wecould clearly see the city ofAtlanta, which 1 think wasseven or eight miles lay in this camp a fewdays, drawing clothing on the12th. All except the picketspassed the few days here gath-ering blackberries, which were plentiful. We re-mained in that beautiful camp eating and drinking asmerrily as if no enemy Avas near, though the picketswere tiring all the time. We all knew full well that wewere liable to be called into action in an hour, but allacted on the principle, Sufficient unto the day is theevil thereof. We received orders to move forward theevening of the 16th at 8 oclock the next morning. Onthe morning of the 17th we packed our little earthlypossessions, and stood waiting for orders to move, andlistening to heavy cannonading at or near the Jasper N. Stuart. Co. la. INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 109 Oars was to obey orders and the orders to forwardinarch did not come till noon. Then we marched upthe river three miles, to the point selected for was a pontoon bridge, and amid the rattle ofmusketry and the heavy boom of cannons in the woodsbefore us, we marched over the murky, turbid watersofthe Chattahoochee river, and formed on the left ofDavis division. At that point our mail came, and nearly everybodygot a letter or letters. A battle was imminent, bullets were flying over and aroundus, but bullets and battleswere not the rarity thatsweet words from a farcountry, and loved ones athome were, and we got onthe north side of tree stumpsand stones, and read and re-read the messages from•home, sweet home. In avery short time our reveriewas broken by the commandwe had h
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