Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... MY RETURN TO EAST TENNESSEE. My arrival at Indianapolis was unannounced, and surprised Lieutenant Harvey, and angered him when I presented the request of Captain Von Sehlen and Lieutenant Torr, as also the order of General Burnside, for him to report without delay at the battery headquarters. The recruiting service had been an easy berth, and for some officers quite a plum. Their rank gave them a social position, their work was not scrutinized, and their pay, on account of being on detached service, was always ready for them, and sometimes, as I have known, when paymasters were willing, was drawn in advance. According to the promise to Lieutenant Torr, I made my stay in Indianapolis only forty-eight hours, and returned to Cincinnati, where I was joined by Lieutenant Harvey two days later. He claimed that the winding up of his business as a recruiting officer would detain him that much longer. I was really glad to get away from Indianapolis, as some of the families of our men loaded me with all sorts of delicacies to take to their boys in the field, never thinking how I was to get them there. As a result I soon became overloaded with canned fruit, pickles, condensed potatoes, cakes and biscuits, and before I left Cincinnati one of the relatives even wanted me to take a stuffed turkey to her son, for Thanksgiving dinner, but I promptly drew the line and declined. Several of our men in the hospital, at Covington, two of them, Bunderand and McDonald, were convalescent and ready to go with us. I saw the ordnance stores which I had drawn started, and the ambulance I turned over to the two men, to meet us at Nicholsville. We had bought some supplies for our mess, as also some baggage for ourselves, as the trip for the ambulances by wagon road...
