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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 13 (search)
rrying the supplies under convoy of gunboats, down the York river to Fortress Monroe, from whence the army had started about three months previously. The men had seen immense collections of food burned, supplies of ammunition exploded and rail transportation itself demolished. They moved with rations and cartridges in their haversacks, cut loose from everything, with the events of the next three days still unknown before them. There was no time for undue caution and no choice of roads but Hobson's. It was On to the James, through swamps and comparatively unknown country, with all arms of the service intermixed en route. The trains, loaded with ammunition, forage and rations, were pushed with all possible speed toward the James River, the the army all the while keeping itself between them and the enemy. The troops moved until they came up with these trains, then formed line of battle, beat back the enemy each day, thus allowing the trains to get a good distance ahead. Then, und