...taken, endured, or accomplished. There were regiments which traversed the State three times in 8 months, forward and backward, a distance of over 1,200 miles (the line of railroad from St. Louis to Rolla not taken into account), and this, especially during the first few months, with the most miserable outfit,--without tents, without knapsacks and other accouterments, the men carrying their cartridges...