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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Foraging. (search)
mazingly. It is needless to say that the boys had an abundance that day. How a Yankee soldier kept a hotel in Dixie. When General Banks' army moved on up the Shenandoah valley from New Market, Quartermaster-Sergeant Reuben W. Oliver, of Cochran's New York battery, had to be temporarily left in a barn, on account of injuries he had received. Soon after our departure he made application at the lady's house adjoining for board; but he was informed, in true Virginia style, that she did noain halted at Potomac creek or Burke's station, tapped the barrel, and drained it to the dregs! Foraging by veteran soldiers. In March, 1862, in the advance upon Winchester, Brigadier-General Abercrombie commanded the first brigade, having Cochran's battery with it. Abercrombie was very strict, not allowing his men to forage. The next morning after we camped near Berryville, the general rode through the battery. The captain was in his tent. Approaching it, he discovered the quarters o