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Title: The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Edmund Randolph, 1845-
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 27th regt United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: (Monticello, Ind.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and had the wagon back again in no time. The next dayanother regiment was rear guard, and two wagons were takenand not recovered. Late at night we came up with thebrigade on the Little River Pike, east of Aldie. The brightrail fires, circling around on the hills and illuminating thecountry, were pleasant to look upon. The fumes of boilingcoffee filling the air, caused our empty stomachs to cry loudlyfor food. The rear guard usually comes in late, more tiredand hungry than common. The fourth day we marched over familiar ground to Fair-fax Court House, and the fifth, only five miles or less, toFairfax Station. Our entire corps was here. The otherbrigades had probably come from the upper Potomac byslightly different routes, as we had seen no signs of them onthe way. It was now clear that our destination was the front,down on the Rappahannock. We were all glad of it, thoughwe were not destined to arrive there as soon as present appear-ances indicated. No command having the right spirit is
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282 HISTORY OF THE content to spend its time idling in the rear, even under theguise of duty. The same day we had started from Dam Number Four,our comrades at the front had dutifully moved out to assail theimpregnable positions of the enemy about Fredericksburg, Aswe had journeyed laboiiously along, making our tiresomemarches, they had been fighting a hopeless, but heroic, bat-tle. It was getting to be an old story, sickening its repeti-tion, but we were forced to hear it once more : Our side hadlost! This explained our present dilatoriness. On the 15th, we only marched live miles. On the l(3th. wemarched ten miles, and camped in the afternoon, in a cleanoak grove, on the bank of the Ocoquan. On the 17th, orderswere still more vascillating. We • packed up, ready to go,then waited awhile. Then we marched a mile, halted sud-denly, on the side of the road, waited still longer, and finallywent into camp, where we were. On the 18th, we marchedback to Fairfax Station, and camped near the

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