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Title: Four years with five armies: Army of the frontier, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Missouri, Army of the Ohio, Army of the Shenandoah
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gause, Isaac, 1843-
Subjects: United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: New York and Wahington, The Neale publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t by one man. He told me to report to my company for duty. I took my leave, and was soon among the boys. They were camped in a thick woods as dark as Egypt, and when my arrival was announced their shouts could be heard all over camp. They were always glad to get the mail tha tbrought news from home, and especially interested, as I had a new horse which I assured them was a good one. It had to be led up to the campfire for inspection. To the surprise of all it was a mare, and an explanation of how it all came about had to be given. The company had already been detailed to go on picket in the morning, and when the sun rose we were packing our saddles, and soon moved out through Jim Town and relieved a company about two miles below town on the river road. It was the fourth day of July, and a celebration had been arranged to take place in town, with Colonel Woolford as speaker and Kautzs artillery to fire the salutes. There was a heavy thunderstorm late in the afternoon, and it was still raining when a
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Mathias M. Springer Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry FACING 140 In Kentucky 141 courier arrived from Colonel Kautzs headquarters with orders to draw in the pickets. When we arrived at camp we learned that Morgan had crossed the river, and a part of Company B had engaged him at Columbus on July 3.* Among the wounded was one of my boyhood acquaintance, Henry Palmer. At two o'clock on the morning of the 5th we moved out. I began this march with no rations or forage, one talma, one change of underclothes, and no blanket. I was not able to carry anything from Somerset, and three days rations and forage had been issued to the company on the 3d. There had, of course, been no provision made for me. and I was compelled to depend on my friends for what I ate and fed. At daylight we arrived at the main road on which Morgan had passed, and at 9 A. M. we were well started on his trail, and saw the relic of the first depredation. A * Basil W. Duke, in speaking of that affair in his History of Morgans Cavalry, said that

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