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The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], 200 Dollars Reward. (search)
o! the order came to cook and eat two days rations, and prepare to await further orders immediately. The air was soon redolent with the perfume of cooking corn bread, and the stillness of night was broken by the rhyming and the chiming of the rammer, and the hammer — marking time — time, time, &c., &c., "for eight years together, dinners and suppers and sleeping hours excepted." The voices of the Captain were uplifted — also those of the orderly sergeants and the teamsters. Parturient Montes. Next morning the Captain came in and said it was only a reconnaissance by one brigade of infantry and one of cavalry, but Major Spondoolix--of course he is a Q. M.--who is one of those who were at Missionary Ridge, says he hopes Grant wont make any more reconnaissances — that he made one at Missionary Ridge, and hopes he will come to fight next time. The weather and the state of the roads is most abominable, just now — the former being exceedingly spring-like, while the latter are b