Excerpt from From Monocacy to Danville: A Trip With the Confederates Marching in any way, under a July sun, in the Southern States, is not particularly pleasant. In our own lines, where one could to some extent pick his own way, provided he did not straggle too much, a man found walking wearisome; but under the direction of an enemy, whose march was largely a forced one, where we must keep in place and plod along, the course became especially tedious. It soon became Obvious, however, that we had more friends among the ...
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Excerpt from From Monocacy to Danville: A Trip With the Confederates Marching in any way, under a July sun, in the Southern States, is not particularly pleasant. In our own lines, where one could to some extent pick his own way, provided he did not straggle too much, a man found walking wearisome; but under the direction of an enemy, whose march was largely a forced one, where we must keep in place and plod along, the course became especially tedious. It soon became Obvious, however, that we had more friends among the people whom We met than our guards had. It was a very common thing to find tubs of newly drawn water placed by the roadside to satisfy the tormenting thirst engendered by the excessive heat. Of our approach, I suppose the people had been informed by the enemy who had started very early on his attempt to surprise Washington. The kind and sympathetic looks Of many dwellers along that road, to say nothing of some pleasant words now and then heard, went far to alleviate the pain of our condition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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