Identifier: reminiscencesofw02copp (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Copp, Elbridge J., 1844-
Subjects: New Hampshire Infantry. 3d Regt United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Nashua, N.H., Printed by the Telegraph publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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side of the track, turning it completely over and downthe embankment. The sleepers were then piled up, therails laid across the top, and the pile set afire, the heatbending the rails. It was now past noon, and the boys tired and hungry,were allowed to eat their rations, stacking arms, break-ing ranks and finding convenient and shady places forrest. It was here, sitting upon my horse, with othermounted officers of the regiment, under the shade of antak tree eating our rations, that we saw the liveliest kindof a pig race. We were near farm buildings when a small pigmade its appearance, that weighed perhaps from fifteento twenty pounds, running for dear life, with two hun-dred or three hundred men after him. I need not saythat he was captured, divided up, and over the fire, inabout the same time it takes to tell the story. Upon such movements, the rations for the field andstaff officers were usually carried along by the cooiks andservants of our mess, but I made it a practice, and my 362
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M AP OF THE DEFENCES OF RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG. THE ARMY OF THE JAMES recollection is that the other officers did the same also,to carry along my own haversack with a small quantityof rations for emergencies, also a canteen of water. We were now about four miles from Petersburg,with woods intervening, and had been waiting orderswith stacked arms for two or three hours. More or lessfiring was going on in the distance when an aide cameriding up to Colonel Plimpton, halted, and with a salute,delivered an order from General Hawley, prefacing hiswords in terms used in the technical form required:General Hawleys compliments! (Following with theorder). You will report with your regiment to GeneralTerry; he is down this road to the right, a half a mile ormore, where he has established his headquarters. The Colonel immediately gave the order, and march-ing to the point designated, found General Terry, towhom the Colonel reported. General Terrys instructions to Colonel Plimptonwere to move his

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