History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . oms thismorning freshened the green carpet. We are going tomove, said the soldiers. And so we did. About the mid-dle of the afternoon, we moved two miles, and camped nearthe railroad. I paid a short visit to the military collegereferred to in a preceding page. From Pine Mountain, itlooked like a magnificent building, but when you comenearer you find it quite a tame affair. The building itself isthree stories high, but is not constructed after any of the orders of arc
History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . oms thismorning freshened the green carpet. We are going tomove, said the soldiers. And so we did. About the mid-dle of the afternoon, we moved two miles, and camped nearthe railroad. I paid a short visit to the military collegereferred to in a preceding page. From Pine Mountain, itlooked like a magnificent building, but when you comenearer you find it quite a tame affair. The building itself isthree stories high, but is not constructed after any of the orders of architecturethat I ever heard chapel, halls androoms are all empty,save a few benches,and an air of desola-tion pervades the estab-lishment. By climbing to theroof, I had an enlargedsight of the the rear, I couldsee the Allatoona andKenesaw and Lost moun-ains, and all the inter-vening country, werealso in view. In front,a vast panorama of hills and woods spread before my the left, an immense dust, and the smoke rising from theoccasional discharge of a cannon, told of the whereabouts of. GILBERT ARMSTRONG. Sergeant Company E. * Was mustered in with the Regiment at Camp Gibson, and was with theRegiment until the battle of Chickamauga, when he was severely the completion of his three years term of service, he returned to hisformer home in Dubois county. His death occurred several years gun shown in the cut is the Henry rifle, presented to him by some of hisfriends in the Regiment, for bravery shown in the battle of Stone River. JJ38 CHAPLAIX HIOHTS HISTORY OF THE the retreating foe. Still farther beyond, the proud form ofStone Mountain towered above the hills. We passed through a fine plantation—right through theyard. I never drank finer water than I obtained from thewell. The old planter was sitting under the tall columns,viewing quietly the passing cavalcade. The army is mov-ing forward all day. The position occupie
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