. War as viewed from the ranks. Personal recollections of the War of the Rebellion, by a private soldier . st-ful and completely satisfactory. Twelve miles were covered that dayin the march, and we went into camp, I was there to stack arms withthe boys. In a half hour Jake Wilt came in pretty well sobered. Jake,where have you been ? 82 Among Luxuries. Oh, my boots are not broken in yet. They will be all right in a dayor two. The next day we put in at marching, and when night came I was againwith the boys in camp. About an hour after we had retired, Jake Wiltcame limping in, saying something ha
. War as viewed from the ranks. Personal recollections of the War of the Rebellion, by a private soldier . st-ful and completely satisfactory. Twelve miles were covered that dayin the march, and we went into camp, I was there to stack arms withthe boys. In a half hour Jake Wilt came in pretty well sobered. Jake,where have you been ? 82 Among Luxuries. Oh, my boots are not broken in yet. They will be all right in a dayor two. The next day we put in at marching, and when night came I was againwith the boys in camp. About an hour after we had retired, Jake Wiltcame limping in, saying something hard about those boots. He askedwhy the government would let a man live who would make or sell suchboots. He swore if he could not sell them he would give them next day he sold them and no doubt they went on to torture someone else, each one learning that there is nothing like the old army shoe. We were now at Alpine, Georgia, where we joined our Division, theSecond of the Fourth Corps. On the 26th of October, just twenty daysfrom the time we reported at the provost marshals office in Sandusky,. Confederate Sharp Shooters. I was standing picket guard and my post was on the state line betweenAlabama and Georgia. We were also posted in an immense sweet potatopatch,where there was an abundance of peanuts as well. Here we alsomade the discovery that we were thoroughly supplied already with thepestilential gray-backs. I said to Uncle Jake : Did you know that you are favored with gray-backs?Ill give any man five dollars that will find a gray-back on me, saidUncle Jake. Off with your shirt, Uncle Jake, said I. Happy Jack. 83 He vSOon divested himself of the underwear and as I rolled back theseam of the part worn under the arm-pit there rolled out some very finespecimens of the old lion-backed, glossy-shelled gray-backs, while therewere nits enough adhering to the fabric to start a colony for the Jakes five dollar bills grew very scarce at that time and he owesme that
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