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Image from page 186 of "Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives
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Title: Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Patrick, Robert W Williams, E. B
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Portland, Oregon, J.K. Gill & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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led, and he tried then to dehverover Kentucky to the Confederacy. The battle ofCorinth had been fought, and in Tenessee the Unionlines had been extended south by the capture ofMemphis. Fresh troops were wanted after the losses sustained bysickness and in our recent campaigns. The call came,and again the Korth responded. Those who did notwish to undergo a personal experience in the armyadopted the bounty system, and sent others to fill thegaps, and replete our diminished forces. After Antietam our army was a good deal disorganized.We had lost a good many men by malaria and feveramong the swamps of Yirginia, and about every regi- KNAPSACK AND lilFLE. 155 ment had ample material for starting a hospital, evenafter we escaped from the sickly region where ouroperations had been carried on. Along the Potomac our troops were distributed afterLee had been foiled at Antietam and had found to hisgreat mortification that the people of Maryland were byno means friendly to his advance. ==c-^ oo ,o^

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MRS. PETERS WELCOMES OUR TROOPS WITHHER GINGHAM APROIST. We learned many little incidents that showed thespirit of the population along the line of Lees march. How did you treat them ? I said to an old womanwho, as she had no Union flag to welcome us with, waswaving her gingham apron from the front door of hercottage with an enthusiasm which led me to fear that theapron would be spoiled beyond redemption. How did I treat them? As they deserved, sheexclaimed, with an emphasis such as a woman knowshow to give. Did you get a call fi-om them? I asked. 156 KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. Lor, yes; and I hope youll return it for me. You were not pleased to see them, I take it. IS^ot much; they stole pork out of my cellar, andthen they added insult to injury by calling me granny,I wonder what they took me to be. And as sure as youlive, twas the first time I was ever called granny. Otheyre a rough set. No, Mr. Officer, my neighborsalways have respect for me, and they know my name isMrs. Peters; believe m

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