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The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Blue Hen's Chickens. (search)
had to be carried on the baggage wagon. "We met with no 'rebels' on our march, although we sent scouts out ahead. We stayed all day at the Junction, but not to rest, as we had three full dress parades in the hot sun. We don't look much like the soldiers who marched down Broad way the Sunday we left New York. All our faces are skinned and sore, our hair cut off close to the skin, and our clothes dirty and torn. It has been very hot." Another soldier, from the same State, uses John Hickman's desk, in the House of Representatives, for the purpose of writing to the editor of the Standard "a little history:" "We left Trenton, where we slept in tents and barracks, on Friday afternoon. The food was very poor at first, and we refused to eat it. About four days after we upset the tables and threw the fat meal and bad butter at the negro, but our sufferings were slight compared to what other companies were obliged to submit to." The same writer describes his first exper