Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . rsttime since leaving my regiment, five months before, washappy and content. Doubtless, part of this feeling w^asdue to my much improved health. While many of our men had been captured, a consid-erable nucleus was left, and in the ranks and among theofficers I came across not a few^ of my old friends andacquaintances. I found my individual department not a 184 Muskets and Medicine. little down-at-the-heel, if I may so speak, and I soongot busy setting things to rights and getting in the har-ness again. Not long after my return a number of th
Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . rsttime since leaving my regiment, five months before, washappy and content. Doubtless, part of this feeling w^asdue to my much improved health. While many of our men had been captured, a consid-erable nucleus was left, and in the ranks and among theofficers I came across not a few^ of my old friends andacquaintances. I found my individual department not a 184 Muskets and Medicine. little down-at-the-heel, if I may so speak, and I soongot busy setting things to rights and getting in the har-ness again. Not long after my return a number of the regimentalofficers came to us who had been captured at Mansfield,but were so fortunate as to secure paroles. Amongthese was our Lieutenant Colonel John B, Reid, who wasshot through the lungs and was first reported killed, but,fortunately, made a good recovery, served till the warended and returned to Greenville, III, where he recentlydied of old age. He was one of the bravest and bestofficers in our regiment, and had the esteem and respectof Lieutenant-Colonel Tolin B. Reid. 13(ithInfantrv \olunteers. CHAPTER XX. On The Mississippi in 1864. Wars a brain-splitting, wind-pipe slitting, artUnless her cause by right is sanctified. —Byron. Tents, guidons, bannerole are moved afar,—Rising elsewhere as rises a morning-star. —E. C. Stedman. Baton Rouge seemed quite a pleasant place, thoughits State House was in ruins, having been burned in theexigencies of war and left with some of its bare brickwalls standing. Just north of the town was the Arsenalenclosed with earthworks and well protected by this the Post Quartermaster had his office and sup-plies, and hither I w-as w^ont to come to get the hospitalrations. It was Baton Rouges fortune to be twice in the handsof the Confederates and twice in the possession of theFederals. The Confederates occupied it from the out-break of the war till the Federals took possession of itshortly after Farragut captured New Orl
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