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This 24th Oliilt;r relieved u* from ourduty there, nnd I had i h ft pleitsuio o!' seeing Lieut. Forouere arid the boy* ifrom IJrllsboro. They tiro u11 wvll and hearty cueept Add Glenn, whom u ; slight indisposition had kept in cutup. Thus relieved, w»j were permitted to return to on nip (or n day's rest, and were | Oirt*irr ordered out with three day*’ pro I visions, and Imvo lip on nut ever since ! ! urrtil venter day nfttirnoow. Our wag nns )n tho meantime, however, were i Rent hack for provender. Nearly tIn*| whole of our inarch of l’rfl mile* vfn* tin Tinhornitig# county, through which, 'hr Paul would nay, we fetched it cam ipttM. and withal it tv as the hardest1 marching I liato seen since I Invc I been out. Through the day marching under a hrwilitrg atm whose ray* made la perpendicular to the horizon, anti in 1 dost deep and hot that rose in deuV columns, (Killing and blinding Ms; sit night, freezing between tho damp I ground and a thin blanket, which by I morning boeatnei saturated with the heavy dew that ha* fallen; Ml tho time j fueling tho hunger that if poorly whUmlied with tho HOfltfl ration of ‘‘Pilul-| Broad, nnd pickled nwino cooked on n forked stick, and a oup nf strong coffee | mode in a tin can with grains mashed j with u bayonet., wo led n precariously amphibious lift*. The monotony of the
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The Highland Weekly News
Hillsboro, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 10, 1862
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