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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 170. retreat of the wild Cat Brigade. (search)
ed march must end to day. The brigade can go no further until it gathers its scattered fragments. An order from Headquarters meets us — the only one giving relief. The column goes into camp two miles below Crab Orchard. The lads, inspired, move briskly, and camp is at last in view. In camp.--The Seventeenth Ohio, excepting a few feeble stragglers, was first in camp. The Fourteenth followed shortly after, but it had its stragglers too. Which regiment had not its large share? But Manny Richards, the energetic teamster of the Seventeenth, pushed in his wagons, and the Fairfield boys pitched their tents merrily. But the prospect for the other regiment was cheerless. Their wagons were far behind. Officers threatened to move where shelter could be found for the men, but orders must be obeyed, and they prepared again to bivouac on the cold, cold ground, in the freezing atmosphere of drear November. But now there is another order fresh from Headquarters at Crab Orchard. Exhaus