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Table of Contents:
Chapter
8
: battles of
Chancellorsville
,
Thoroughfare Gap
and
Gettysburg
.--wounded at
Gettysburg
and ordered home.
Chapter
9
: regiment ordered home.--receptions.--my
first
call upon
Governor
Andrew
.--return to the front.
Chapter
10
: battles of the
Wilderness
,
Todd's Tavern
and
Laurel Hill
.--Engagement at the
Bloody Angle
.
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had passed the day before, and he was delighted with them; said they had bands just like the circuses and guns that they loaded in the morning and fired all day.
After drying our clothes before the fire and cooking an ash-cake he took us to a barn across the road and covered us with husks.
Sherman was but ten miles away, and we felt confident that this was our last day in the rebel lines.
We planned to leave the road and travel through the fields.
If the pickets halted us, we were to run and let them fire.
We believed that they could not hit us in the darkness, and that the firing would alarm our pickets, who would protect us.
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