Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-12-17
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From the Linn Rifles.
CAMP iNION, near Anna?-
oils, Nd, Dee. IL. (

| little thought, WheD wrote tuc !as'
time, that the scenes so family alluded
to, would soon have to be enacted By our,
salves-that the first soldiers burial III
oar Regiment would be from our ComPa-
NJ. So lit is, however. JEREMIAH MIL
LER, from E'imsport, Lycomiug couaty,
died about IL o'clock on Monday nigh,
Dee ,. We had not expected it, and il
was chilly in its sudlcnncss.
Thursday was brigh; bat cold. The
" general" sounded about 10 o'clock, tents
struck, the march beaten at II, aud
We went out ahou, mile and half from
Annapolis, aud pitched our camp upon a
hill s,oping toward town. TIE color line
vas arranged SO as TO run along around
the base of the hill, the officers tents on
the summit of the rise. 1t wasn't long
before our corn fodder, swamp grass and
spruce branches made a comfortable mat
ting fDr the hprr, VI the tents | t.it a.
i. were getting home, to get back to my
wall tent QnrteTs in a house feel too
tr4usirory, but your tent, however often
you may strike aud pitch i, in whatever
different places, Is the same olt home Ill
the time.
Wednesday morning, we wen. back TO
s.. Johns College to bury our late com
rlie. a, many of the Company as could
b. spared, without arms, aud !uucral
escort Of cisht mon with arms, aud the
baud, procured an ambulance at the Navy
\ ard, and the blank cartridges at the ulas
az!ne. twas the G,s, time [ had been Ia
tue Cd Battery, where We were quarter j
last spring, since then. Ii looked idm'.iar
the boards of the floor just Us bard a,
when We had our first experience IN Val.
Iuere was the Same beauty Of scenery
from the grassy parapcr, where We used 10
slr aud sroke aud look out over the Sew
ern aud the Bay. With the baud play
lDg a funeral dlrge, We followed the re-
maius If our comrld. out along the WIN
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