. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . ion to awkwardsquads. The men knew how to march and shoot, really theonly two requisites at this time. Many a man in the Ninth re-called this day as a red-letter one in his calendar, for did henot here find goodly stores of food among the people, and howready he was to appropriate what he needed? Here is a briefenumeration: flour, corn-meal. lard, new potatoes, preserves,fresh pork—what more could he wan
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . ion to awkwardsquads. The men knew how to march and shoot, really theonly two requisites at this time. Many a man in the Ninth re-called this day as a red-letter one in his calendar, for did henot here find goodly stores of food among the people, and howready he was to appropriate what he needed? Here is a briefenumeration: flour, corn-meal. lard, new potatoes, preserves,fresh pork—what more could he want? Time has not effacedthe memory of the scalding day, nor how the members of thedifferent mosses worked to gel up a variety. The tire beneathhis skillet was scarcely hotter than that which the sun poured down on both him and hisfrying-pan—but werent thoseslap-jacks good? He had hischoice of dressing for them—flour-gravy, or sorghum thatthe Confederacy also this feast for so manymen leave families hungry?Doubtless, and at this period,it seems as though the homesshould have been left un-touched, but we were hungrythen; we are not now; besides,was on every tongue. With. From Hardtack and Coffee, by pemii.*sum •Alls fair in love and war FROM COLD HARBOR TO PETERSBURG. 115 intervening time and distance, moralizing is easy; no onethought of it then. Why: one man had no hesitation in sayingthat a woman, claiming to be ill, was lying on a bed underwhich he found most of his stolen articles. He always saidhe took them because she lied to him, saying there was nothingedible in the house, and of course no soldier could toleratelying, not even in bed. Our mission was to inculcate the high-est morality. Though we were thinking we might remain here some time,we were doomed to disappointment, for before night we weremarched by way of Jerusalem plank road to a point near theWilliams house, and halted between 9 and 10 oclock, natural-ly in a corn-field, though we had just
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