The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-07-28
Soldering.
WET WEATHER.

A correspondent OF the Cincinnati Com
n,ercial draws the following picture of
2aigning in Georgia:
For two weeks together, as the clcck
runs, the rain has fallen upon this army
more or Iess-generally more-in quanti-
ties about as great as could descend thro'
the thick trees, and it will scarcely be
disputable at present that matters gener-
ally are very moist The extent to which
such state of affairs is productive of
Inconvenience and downright nuisance,
every one who has not actually exeeri-
enced it will utterly fail to appreciate
Let the reader look for moment into a
camp on a rainy day, and note what pre-
sents itself Look@iust minute at the
tcamsters' camp in the evening after a
days march, when the wagons are parking
for the night In convenient tract of
open woods, the train OF one corps, form
ing line seven miles lons, and composed
of about six hundred and fifty wagons,
will be massed with as much regularity as
possible. In one part of The woods three
or four hundred wagons have already dis
posed themselves in order, and the six
mule teams are tied around a tree or
elsewhere, while each individual mule of
them divides his spare time between kick
ing the remaining five and braying his
own variations of the assinine symphony.
In one place teamster, In attempting to
acarry" one of his animals to water and
lead the remainder, is hustled by his un-
ruly caravan under an overreaching limb
and suddenly deposited in the mire; in
another place, one is gathering savory
oak boughs, part of which he spreads
before the team to Tighten their pinched
rations, and with another part spreads for
himself couch. a part of the wagons
have not yet come up, and are still in the
midst Of the troubles of march. Ia a.
profound slough at the bottom of valley,
they are laboring through the mud, which
is nearly hub deep, when one of the ami
mails, weak from long starvation, is cast,
and the driver, after nominal effort TO
resto.e him to his feet, cuts him out of his
harness and drives over him if he can
When ten wagons have passed over the
place, the wretched brute is half sub
merged, and soon disappears entirely. IF
any part of the army swears, it is the
teamsters, and if ary part is excusable for
it, it is they.
In the camps of the soldiers, everything
is discomfort. The tired and bedraggled
soldier is often wiling to satisfy his hun
ger with hard cracker and slice of raw
meat, rather than lose any hours from
sleep to kindle a FIRE. Others are deter
mined to be comfortable at all hazards,
and set about achieving that result with
much ingenuity. One cuts around the
base of large tree, and, dividing the
bark into slips, strips it up, often fifteen
or twenty feet, and, if it s'slips" well, this
will yield him very useful slab: Upon
this he measures off his own stature, as
many times as it will contain it, and, lay
ing the pieces down with the outside up,
be stretches himself upon them, under his
'spurp tent" ard sleeps. If the surface
IF the bark is somewhat uneven, and not
IF the nature of feathers, it is, neverthe-
ess, dry. Another, more intent still
IN the comfort, nails coffee mill to a
rec, or cracks the kernels in cup with
he end of his musket, collects little
water from reservoir where several regi-l