Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-08-07
AFTER THEsMUD MARCH.
AN INCIDENT or CAMP lIFz sPoILs
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osmpa.v sf1aakses-sssssynsn Feast
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30 b11dted ~ i&smp1t N1les H1
sqd qpsned . winter campaign 30
tiled 70 strike the Aappahannoct some
miles above 1Iedesic6burg, ospee IT,
dvee On pontoons and resell te1Eye3.
Il began Is rain Oh The evening II tie
IA, and It rained inoeasantly for thIee
days The pontoons never reached tie
siver. They were stuck In seas Of mud.
Nearly every man In TIE army VA wet
20 tho waist for days In efforts 10 dag
them to dry ground. 49,
The Confederates on tho other ode OF
The Rappahannook quiot1y OWNED he,
situation. They stuck up Immense plA-
cards on tho bank Of the river beaTing
such inscription as ':Burnddeb Amy
Stuck In the Mud, :'Burnsids u not No
Clellan;" and other pit sayings When
the sun began to shine and tho poubpoos
were dragged from the sloughs the army
went back to It's old camp a.
Everybody was disheartened Thepeo-
hsula veterans, who were stanch Mo.
Clellan men, shook their heads, mourn
fully. saying, II told you bow Il would
b." The dlscontent rose to such . pitch
that there was . spirit Of mutiny in some
Of the regimenh Hundreds Of .deses-
lions occurred every day and tho army
had no confidence IN Ito commander MI
III ZOO Hooker succeeded Burnside ~-
THE RE0nGEs7a
Twas q sergeant In Company o a th4
Twenty-dxth New Jersey volunteers- ct
this time: The New Jersey regiment
WIS pant Of the Second brigade. This
brigade had won q brilliant reputation
ON tho Peninsula and at Antietam. Il
was known In the Army Of the Potomac
a. tho Vermont brigade. II was COM
posed, with tho exception Of the Jersey
regiment, Of Vermont troopA
They were tall. ungain1y YanheeA
They drawled their words, and gass
them s'pecultar nasal twang Their feet
were 10 bis that the Johnnies compared
them to old-fashioned griddleA ii
A Missssippian once told me they were
20 big that whenever he killed VefL
mont Yankee he had to go up and shove
him over before he would tumble,
lsaw some captured North Caroltnlans
sent In from the front at the first battle
OF fredericksburg. In stature, gait and
socent they resembled the VermonteFA
! believe that II they had worn the Fed
eral uniform the Ve1mopters themselves
would have taken them for bzothera
We went into camp after the mud
march near White Oak church. About
two weeks afterward Bill Young, 4 big
Scotohman In our regiment, conasoated
. sheep owned by Some farmer In The
vicinity. He had found 4 little copse IN
M out Of the way he BUTCH
cred the the sheep, hu9 eeazoas p
tho limb Of . tree b14e A4hd lees and
dressed t. He had shard1y 4pishad Tie
work when be was frightened by . 6le Of
men who were approaching The spot
After hastily concealing tbs carcaas be
sneaked back to camp a..
Two hours later he returned 20 the
oopse. The mutton seemed to BE- all
right It did not appear to have been
disturbed. =, He Asotded FodlliatoavVakh
the camp guard, aid nianaesdA6g6t Tit
to bis shelter tent after dark Than be
cut II up and distributed It among bis
friends In the ranks and The oommis.
stoned oflcerA
DOC MsrEAD OF MUTTON.
Twenty-four hours sfteGward / Yer
mont regiment, then commanded by
Louis A. Grant, now assistant secretary
OF war (and by the way, Red6sld Proctor
was . captain in the same regimentl
passed through our camp on picket d.
tail As they struck company O. street,
through which they marched down the
bill. they ali began 70, baTk uts dogs
Tho Jerseymen rushed from their tents
and wondered what tho barking meant
The Vermonters kept up tho canine dem
onstration for half . nis. yelling With
delight
Commissioned yeoaeen who bad paz.
taksu of the mutton were tie hrst to
solve tho riddle. Some OF the cold meat
was left. After the Vermont demoustra-
ton It did not taste like mutton ltwss
. little rank, one said, and tasted more
Ike, coon meat thsk hadn't been lpaf-
boiled. Many who hid received the GIT
we're dick akSthe stomach. + I
Il turned ont that some bright Yer
uonter bad seen Young at work On the
sheep he rang In his Comrades A&0a
frtghteued the ecotchman back TO camp
Then they stole the carcass. and put In
it, ploce tho dressed tody ekan old New:
toundland dog thaShada 6e eSu following
. Wisconsin brigade 49,
Whsp tho vermontees returned from
picket duty and began to cross our camp
the barking was resumed This time the
Jerseymen were ready for thefn. From
100 threats came the cry: "Head cheese.
head cheese, you Yankeesl'
This cry gave q pallor to the Vermont
faceA Their stomachs were turned.
While they were on picket duty some
Germans IN tie gJeessyrregiment h,d
gathssSd ~ ~ ~ e&d 1slt dor In
camp, iusanaitasls Into .kaad schsesa md
peddlsd. &c ~ jkSY n1o0tpictet reserve. =
Had Stsss1 III ~ s,ieacy rsrsiy Qeen
In ~ army ind gona Ike lot cakeA
Everybody bought It. Posdbly ,ayen &c.
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