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Title: The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Edmund Randolph, 1845-
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 27th regt United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: (Monticello, Ind.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y toshoot. The picket therefore quickly dropped down upon oneknee and, resting the elbow of the arm which held the gunupon the other knee, sent a ball squarely through McCas-lins body. Death was instantaneous. When the picket wasadvised of what he had done it almost dethroned his reason.But the incident only showed that he had some of the elementsof a first-class soldier. He could remember his orders and hewas a crack shot. The distance was not less than four hun-dred yards. 62 HISTORY OF THE The evening of the 24th, after spending one night in ourtents, we broke camp hastily, under urgent orders,and marchedaway, after burning our straw and destroying other conven-iences. We went about a mile at a brisk rate, then haltedin the road for a few minutes ; then about-faced and marchedleisurely back to the spot from which we had set out. Therewe had orders to pitch tents again. There had been an alarmat another ferry, four miles below, but the order for us to gothere had been countermanded.
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An Army Wagon Train. On the 26th, Banks division returned to Darnestown.The return march was leisurely and uneventful, onlywe had our first sight of a long army supply train. Thecountry was rather level and. open, and an immense numberof army wagons, with their white covers, could be seenstretching for many miles, one following close upon another,in all the turns and windings of a somewhat crooked road.There must have been more than a hundred of them, markedGeneral Banks Headquarters. There was some specula- TWENTY SEVENTH INDIANA. 63 tion amonw us at the time as to whether it required them allto transport the Generals personal effects and those of hismilitary family. If it did, the monstrous nonsense of it wasnot greater than much else that prevailed in those first monthsof the war. We were pleased when we found that we were not goingin to our old camp again, and were not going to be very nearit. Though the weather was cooler now, and other thingswere to be more satisfactory, the ass

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