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REBELLION REMINISCENCES.Written by One Who Participated Inthe War.On the 27th our furloughs were all made out and we took care for our homes. All had plenty of money, and it was difficult to distinguish a private from a commissioned officer by his dress. We remained at home 30 days, where we enjoyed ourselves, eating public dinners, etc.We suppose that the “Butternuts,” were pleased when we all left; because they had but little rest whilewe remained. According to program, ] man cj the 24th would rendezvous at Vin- and olCOMFWife oThecom pi i whenand tta was aicircuit aid. Ik piteous was m but bii He wecennes, Knox county. Feb. 29, 1864, we staid in the city all night and next day took rail for Evansville, Vander-burg county, owing to the fact that smallpox had made its appearance in Vincennes. A few minutes before we left the latter city, the boys had a spree, tearing down what was calledthe Vincennes Sun, a “Butternutsheet, patronized by Copperheads. We arrived at Evansville at night, March 1st, and found supper prepared for us. March 2nd we drew tents and marched 1% miles below the city, pitched tents on a high hill above a fine coal mine in successful operation, at whose base ran Pigeon creek. We have plenty to eat, as many comrades live inthe city, and are at home on French leave. The regiment having as yet arms to care for, or drill with, is slow about reporting for duty.March 9th drew our same old arms and had dress parade in the afternoon.Glories of Camplife—By a Soldier.Reinlisting was a glorious thing,For soldiers in the field,Who all went home to stay 'til spring, To get their homesick feelings healed.But “thirty days” soon slipped away, As pleasures ever will,And when the sun arose next dayUpon our camp at Evansville,It shone upon a sorry set Of heroes from the North.Not a gambler from the state would betThey were the Twenty-fourth.They sat and moped around Upon a steep hill side,Then pitched their tents on slanting groundAnd swore ’twas time.to slide.So into town the boys all flew, Drank beer to drown their sorrow. Many of tue boys got quite blue Regardless of the morrow.Our “rations” seemed so hard and dry, We piled ’em all together.Then off to town the boys would hie And spend the squally weather.We’d visit camp in a day or two All feeling very fine,To find our rations hau been destroyedBy a thieving herd of swine.At length the boys ran short of tin And had to stay in cIt made some recruits grin To sleep out in the damp.March 16th ground covered with snow, weather clear and fine. Soon after sunrise the snow began to disappear, which caused our steep clay hillside to become slippery again. Soldiers began to fall. Sometimes three or four of them would go below par, all at once. The majority of the boys are opposed to rolling clay ground forcamping purposes. Had battalion drill at 2 p. m. The boys performed first rate. They are now getting pretty well broke in. Many of them were absent in the city. Colonel Grill issued orders for all absentees to have company drill in the morning— from 10 to 11. Then at 2 p. m., to fall in in regimental order, with all regimental uniforms on, and to proceed to the city, and go through a regular “dress parade.” All this for the benefit of the prying curiosity of the elite of Evansville.May we all be conswaggled into a double revolving splnning-jenny, and turned loose upon a large southern plantation, covered with the contraband article, in question, and set a going by a master spirit, at such work, and may there be such a rearing and tearing, and double-revolving, self-acting, cylinder escaping 6et to work,that long ere the machinist is able to oil all the joints and bearings, pinions and eccentrics properly, the whole fabrication may part asunder, and fly into such a general conflumixed mux that no man except General George Washington or Andrew Jackson, who ever lived upon terra firma could produce form or order out of so muchchaos. If we like any such proceedings, we don't. Therefore be It resolved, in view of the above, that the 24th Indiana, V. V. I., do appoint A. J. Connelly of the First Bummers, Co. F, Uncle Steve Gibson, the gileph of Co. H, and Jack Elliott of Co. B, to proceed to Hickory Bros’. Main street, Evansville, Ind., and buy and present to Colonel John F. Grill a meerschaum pipe, not to cost less than one cent, nor more than 125.SERGEANT L. B. JESSUP.(To be Continued.)taine’s factor] ed anc their turned hold she re jail, v out foishe wband i is said New i the afl throug with (intent! to hai in thlt; fee., take t Regers atthere,crowdsensattion 1TheyChattlt;scene:ed hilt;daysand c;“Yes,’quartlt;at ontgavethe YblockOfficeVorh€over 1the pherespent claim and t: deavc facto; They Tuesc eveni Weds Lake noonrig.saw thoug tion : did n sense She band and wouh turne be le and £ ter 8 Vorh shal the i beenNew withi ten false Thhardmucl wife. $75. 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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 08, 1904
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