. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: . ghtful home. Failing health was about to compel him toleave the service, when his many friends induced him to accepthis present position, to -which he was detailed November 14,1862. Egbert M. Goodwin, Captain in the 37th Indiana Volunteers,and Second Assistant Provost-Marshal General, was born inFranklin county, Indiana, in 1836. At the beginning of the warhe was engaged in a lucrative law-practice, which he resigned,and enlisted as a private in a company forming in his the organization of the company he was elected first lieu- 288 ARMY OF TH
. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: . ghtful home. Failing health was about to compel him toleave the service, when his many friends induced him to accepthis present position, to -which he was detailed November 14,1862. Egbert M. Goodwin, Captain in the 37th Indiana Volunteers,and Second Assistant Provost-Marshal General, was born inFranklin county, Indiana, in 1836. At the beginning of the warhe was engaged in a lucrative law-practice, which he resigned,and enlisted as a private in a company forming in his the organization of the company he was elected first lieu- 288 ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. * tenant, and afterwards succeeded to the captaincy. With hisregiment he participated in the campaign of Generals Buell andMitchel in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, during the springand summer of 1862. Upon Buells retreat, his regiment wasleft at Nashville, and remained there during the investment. Inthe battle of Stone Eiver he acted a gallant and conspicuouspart. He was detailed to his present position February 22,1863. Wlxt Pdical gfprtmcnt. This chapter is appropriately introduced by the precedingillustration of the field-hospital at Murfreesborough, cut is a faithful representation of the scene as taken froma distant stand-point: yet it fails to give—as would any singleplate of its size and comprehensiveness—that vivid impressionimparted to the visitor by a personal inspection, as he walksthrough the city of tents, with its broad streets, its alleys andwalks, the streets neatly worked up and rounded at the gutters upon each side, and channels being also formedaround each tent and house, and leading to main of plank, cinders, gravel. &c. are laid along eachsti-eet. The head-quarters medical tents, the surgery, the houseerected for hospital and sanitary stores, the post-office andnews-depot, &e. occupy prominent positions lu the centre ofc^thevillage, from which the ground slopes away gently in everydirecti
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