. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . h of theState of Connecticut. It was to be a spread that we would remember until longafter we licked the rebels and returned home. We weredrawn up in line on the tracks, near the station, and, after along wait, our tin plates were ordered to be ready. After alonger wait along came waiters with pails of something theycalled soup, the same variety of chicken soup as made by ahen wading through a brook. About one-half pint was puton each plate. We supposed this was a r
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . h of theState of Connecticut. It was to be a spread that we would remember until longafter we licked the rebels and returned home. We weredrawn up in line on the tracks, near the station, and, after along wait, our tin plates were ordered to be ready. After alonger wait along came waiters with pails of something theycalled soup, the same variety of chicken soup as made by ahen wading through a brook. About one-half pint was puton each plate. We supposed this was a relish for what wasto come and it quickly disappeared. I wont say that, 398 Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Micawber-like, we waited for something to turn up, or, likeDavid Copperfield, we asked for more, for everbody quotesthat, but that was about the truth of it. We waited and calledagain, but the small dipper of hot water was the beginningand the end of the anticipated feast. The state agent wasthere to make us comfortable, and the state paid for it. We were then counted off, forty to a car, and put into hot. OUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT E. S. WHEELER. box-cars, which had been occupied by swine and cattle, andbut partially cleansed for our use. But we soon made whatis now called open-air cars of them by tearing off thesides of the car down to about three or four feet high. Agreat many got out and rode on top of the car with their feethanging over the sides ; a ride never to be forgotten. By thetime we arrived in Philadelphia the Connecticut breakfast had Incidents and Coincidents. 399 made us ravenous. We did not expect much, for we had nostate agent there, but not one of us, I venture to say, will everforget the meal we were treated to in the famous CooperShop restaurant. A regiment marched out as we was ample room for all—never was such vast extent oftables cleared and filled with everything that was good, and ingreat abundance. We had a great feast,
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