. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . ted on a forty-mile ride for Washington,but, being sidetracked so often for passing trains, it was noon ere thatcity was reached. We filed into some barracks, called a SoldiersRetreat, for dinner, but a single company could have eaten thewhole spread had the quality of the food admitted. This was ourfirst experience with the outrageous army contractor who receivedfull pay for food that would insult a hog. Ranks were again formed, and up Pennsylvania avenue wemarched, thence south to
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . ted on a forty-mile ride for Washington,but, being sidetracked so often for passing trains, it was noon ere thatcity was reached. We filed into some barracks, called a SoldiersRetreat, for dinner, but a single company could have eaten thewhole spread had the quality of the food admitted. This was ourfirst experience with the outrageous army contractor who receivedfull pay for food that would insult a hog. Ranks were again formed, and up Pennsylvania avenue wemarched, thence south to the Long Bridge across the Potomac, whichleads to Secessia. Here the regiment was halted for some time toallow a long train of ambulances to pass, containing wounded from theneighboring battle-fields. In one was the body of Colonel Horace , of Detroit, which produced a profound sensation in theregiment. The sight of these wounded soldiers caused the firstemphatic impression of the work we had enlisted to engage the Long Bridge to the tune of Dixie, we first set feetupon rebellion SCENE IN PENNSYLVANIA WHILE GOING TO THE FRONT. CHAPTER III. First Months of Army Life. ALEXANDRIA — FORT LYON. PURSUING our march into Virginia on the evening ofSeptember I, we reached Alexandria, the quaint old townfrom which, in colonial days over a century before, Braddockstroops marched for the field of his fatal defeat. The city wasa hot-bed of secession. Here was the Marshal House where theyouthful Ellsworth and Jackson, his murderer, met death in the samemoment. Yonder was the Slave Pen from which the F. F. Vs*shipped their surplus human chattels to the slave marts of the farSouth. But its barbarous purposes were ended forever. Marching a couple of miles beyond this city, we climbed to the topof a high hill crowned by Fort Lyon, named in honor of the hero ofWilsons Creek. Its ponderous guns frowned down upon the seceshcity below. It was now past sunset, and scarce
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