. Sparks from the camp fire : thrilling stories of heroism, adventure, daring and sufferng . 3- RI «• A PROMPT didnt like it. 113 DIDNT LIKE IT. During the month of March, 1863, an extensive forag-ing and reconnoitring expedition, comprising severalhundred men and teams of Major-General Reynoldss di-vision, went out from Murfreesborough towards Lebanon,through a fertile and well-stocked country, the people ofwhich were mainly intensely rebel. The expedition wasvery successful, bringing back corn, fodder, poultry, pigs,and cattle innumerable—also some four hundred head ofhorses a
. Sparks from the camp fire : thrilling stories of heroism, adventure, daring and sufferng . 3- RI «• A PROMPT didnt like it. 113 DIDNT LIKE IT. During the month of March, 1863, an extensive forag-ing and reconnoitring expedition, comprising severalhundred men and teams of Major-General Reynoldss di-vision, went out from Murfreesborough towards Lebanon,through a fertile and well-stocked country, the people ofwhich were mainly intensely rebel. The expedition wasvery successful, bringing back corn, fodder, poultry, pigs,and cattle innumerable—also some four hundred head ofhorses and mules, to aid in mounting Colonel Wildersinfantry brigade. While out upon this expedition, the train came to thepremises of an active, wealthy, bitter .©Id rebel—^one-whohad made himself very busy in procuring voliflrteers forthe rebel army, and particularly obnoXious to his Unionneighbors by assisting the r^bd agents to hunt downconscripts. He looked rather astonished when our ad-vance cavalry was followed off* horses. The quar-termaster came next, with his mules and the contents ofhis corn-cribs. When
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