Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-21

| uo1 W rdlse tue rope out VI tue Watel
and thus up-trip him. When 60
within Is or 20 feet of him, and th
crowd ON shore, and the man in the wa
ter saw that was not going to raise tn
rope out Of the water they quit hollow
ing, and all was perfect silence. W,
soon reached him, and l held to the rop
with one hand, and caught hold of hin
with the other, and called Bart. Hysel
from the stern Of the skiff and we pulled
him in, at VI which the crowd on the banl
broke the silence with shouts of joy
| The Major and all the rest of then
agreed that I was rig in holding t.
the rope, and said that we managed il
frst-rate. Tho Artillerymen were be
side themselves with joy. They sale
the fellow was the pet Of the company
and splendid young man. Our Lieut.
received special order the next day te
excuse Bart. and from duty for week
for meritorious conduct.
To return to the history Of our march,
we got our two remaining teams out OF
the mud and ferried across and in Bowl
ing Green by 3 o'clock P. NJ, when we
found our Regiment had left about 6 A.
N. We ate our dinners as quick as
we could, and then started ahead to over
take them. We marched till after mid
night when we came across the Regi-
ment in mill and large brick house,
in the town of Franklin, KY, having
travelled about 21 miles, and work ed
hard all day before we started. We
started from here about Z o'clock, and
took the rail track, as there was no more
pike to travel on until We got into Ten
nessee. We travelled about { miles and
crossed the line. About two miles
farther we stopped for dinner in a little
town called Mitchellsville. After din
ner VIC marched till about 3 o'clock and
stopped on the place of rank "Sec esh. !"
We had started with only two days ra-
tions, and they were gone, SO the boys
went to popping over the hogs, and soon
the whole force was we'll supplied with
fresh pork. Next morning we started
again about O'Clock with some meat
and piece of short cake, about the size
of biscuit for our. days rations.
We marched about / miles and stop
ped for dinner at the Ferry Springs
After dinner we moved on and encamped
about Is miles from Nashville. Had
some beeves killed and got some meat;
also captured couple barrels whisky,
on the way, which was dealt out by
'jiggers." I had some parehed corn
ground and moistened with coffee and
sweetened with sugar for my supper
Started again in the morning, having
had nothing for breakfast but small
piece of dough-nut made Of -four and
water mixed together fried IN grease,
md an ounce or so of meat.
We expected to march within four
niles of Nashville, where the other two
Brigades of our Division were encanped
md stop; but when we got there the
wo other Brigades were ready to march
head, and one of them went in ahead
If US, and one fell in behind, conse-
,uently we had to march on without
nythins to eat; but we kept good
leart, expecting to get plenty when we
hould stop.
When we got to the Cumberland, op- !
,osite Nashville, about half past 3
''clock, our Brigade stopped and en-
amped, as there was no chance for US
o cross before morning, as the other
wo Brigades would have to cross before
Is. We found, when we got here, that
omebody had made blunder, and that
7e would have to unload the teams and
end them back 10 miles after provis-
ons, so we again went to bed hungry.
hey got back about midnight but we
7ere all asleep, SO we waited until morn
ng. We had a splendid breakfast of
coffee, tea and pork in the
1orning, which refreshed US consider
bly,.
About o'clock we received orders
o strike tents and get ready for cross
ne the river, but we soon received or
ers to unsling knapsacks and rest, as
7e would not have an opportunity to
ross before noon. About II o'clock
re went to our wagons and got some
ettles to make some coffee, and just
efore it commenced boiling, we were or
cred to fall in, and we had to go without
. We were marched out short dis
lnce and ordered to halt and wait
alf hour for the 24th H., which was
head to get across. When the half
our was up, we again fell in ranks and
larched to the ferry. We had to wade
trough water 10 inches deep to get to
ne boat, as the Cumberland was very
Ugh There were several steam boats
lere ferrying the troops across. We
rossed on the Silver Moon.
While we were waiting on the boat to
ross, Jerry Goats came down from the
a lie List which WAS LAYING a few hun