. Observations of an Illinois boy in battle, camp and prisons-1861 to 1865 . hings they may have for others thatthey want more. The rebels bring tobacco, rebelnewspapers, and sometimes corn-bread and fresh meat,but mainly tobacco. The Union soldiers bring cofifee,hardtack, papers, knives, combs and similar articles,l)ut mainly cotiee. The rebels wanted many thingswhich were ])lentiful enough in the Inion cam]>s, butthey wanted coffee more than anything else. Theyand tlTcir women folks seemed half crazy for■■ Yankee coltee. They would swap anything excepttheir muskets for it. A pound of Yank
. Observations of an Illinois boy in battle, camp and prisons-1861 to 1865 . hings they may have for others thatthey want more. The rebels bring tobacco, rebelnewspapers, and sometimes corn-bread and fresh meat,but mainly tobacco. The Union soldiers bring cofifee,hardtack, papers, knives, combs and similar articles,l)ut mainly cotiee. The rebels wanted many thingswhich were ])lentiful enough in the Inion cam]>s, butthey wanted coffee more than anything else. Theyand tlTcir women folks seemed half crazy for■■ Yankee coltee. They would swap anything excepttheir muskets for it. A pound of Yankee coffee wasthe most acceptable present one of them could sendback home to his mother or sweetheart. It was notoften that one of them had the self-denial to do this,lie Avanted it too badly himself. From the way theUnion soldier in the foreground is displaying his stockof coftee, he must be expecting to buy up everythingthe Confederates had in that section of the country. 118 IN BATTLE, CAMP AND PRISONS, 6l-65 The Historic Balm of Gilead Johnson Farm, Waterloo, N. r EAVING his scythe hanging in this tree Wyman J. John--■— son enlisted and was mustered into service at Elmira,N. Y., November 15, 1861; and became member of CompanyG, of the 85th N. Y. Volunteers. He served in 15 engage-ments; was promoted to Fourth Sergeant April 13, 1863;was wounded at New Burn, N. C, and died in the hospital,Raleigh, N. C, May 22, 1864. The young sapling has now grown to be a massive tree,enveloping nearlj all of the scythe, and becoming indeed, aliving monument of the dead. CHAPTER Capture by the Confederates. I was made a prisoner of war at the close of the bat-tle of Chickamauga, Ga., Sept. 20, 1863. Being amounted orderly on Gen. Palmers staff, my dutieswere to go where ordered, carrying messages from onepart of the army to another. Gen. Palmers divisionheld its position during the last day of the battle, andjust about the time that the battle closed, which wasnear the cl
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