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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 5: life at camp Benton. (search)
in the sunlight. Often, too, the doleful strains of the muffled drum and the fife were heard as the burial detail bore a comrade through the miasmatic cloud to his final resting place, but none of the participants could be seen. The plan for the removal of the tents of the regiment at Camp Benton, on October 26, was unique in conception and novel in execution. The camp literally walked and this was an actual reality much more true to conception than the fake removal of the trees of Burnham Wood to Dunsinane, in Macbeth. It was decided to remove the entire regimental camp up the sloping ground to a higher place and this was accomplished with military movement and precision. It was a feat never duplicated by any other regiment in the service, to the writer's knowledge. After removing everything from the tents, regimental line was formed, in heavy marching order. Guns were stacked. knapsacks unslung and piled at the foot of the stacks. Then the order was given: By the ri