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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 24: the winter camp at Falmouth. (search)
arbine, as firing party. Directly behind him were four negroes, two large and two small, bearing between them two sticks upon which rested a cracker box,—the casket of the deceased. Then came the mourners (officers who had anticipated eating the turkey), all so disguised that even their mothers would not have known them. With bowed head and solemn mien, the sombre column moved with measured tread to the creek. Capt. Adams, in his capacity of the band, was combing out the Dead March from Saul. As they reached the creek, filled to the brink by the recent rains, the column halted and the pall bearers deposited their burden upon the bank. The others formed in half circle around it, with uncovered heads and then Capt. Jack, after a few earnest words as to the goodness and virtue of the dear departed, cast the cracker box and its contents into the flood. As the turbid waters bore it out of sight, the column re-formed, and, to the tune of Yankee Doodle on the comb, marched back to ca