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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)
xhausted soldiers and jaded teams struggled and toiled in pain all that miserable day and far into night; for even at midnight feeble stragglers staggered into Mount Vernon, where the Fourteenth and Seventeenth rested, to find their comrades. This night the poor lads went to bed supperless, for fatigue was overpowering, and sleapprehend that the brigade would be cut off unless it made the forced march, why send the Tennesseeans and Kentuckians bck to be sacrificed? Who will answer? Mount Vernon, November 15. Thank God! the sun shines to-day. We learn this morning that the Thirty-eighth Ohio encamped five miles below here last night. During the namp, and see whether rails were burnt. A member of the Fourteenth, coming in late, reports: I saw a dead man of the Fourteenth, lying on the roadside beyond Mount Vernon. He died of exhaustion. Another says: I saw another dead man on the roadside to-day. He died of exhaustion. A surgeon says: I saw two men yesterday in the