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George C. Burmeister diary, 1863
1863-11-23
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The left wing of our regiment under the command of major Abe John took the cars for Middleton this afternoon, a small station of the M.&C.R.R. about 25 miles from here. Monday 23. A number of our officers returned from furlough the other day; Captain Dill reports quite a change among the people in politics at home. Sergeant Sloan and Lt. Spencer were mustered in today, the first as 1st Lt. of Co. “A.” the last as captain of Co. “H.” of our regiment. Two recruits have joined our regiment, one for Co. “I.” and the other Fred. Hill the colonel’s son for Co. “D.” This afternoon we received orders to move. We had considerable trouble in getting on the cars, towards night, during a rain the train moved on. I was on the top of the baggage care and got a slight wetting. The train consisted of over twenty cars, all heavily laden, so the engine could not pull it up grade, the men had to get off and shove it along. Reached our destination a town called Pocahontas at 8 P.M. marched into the depot building, the men stacked arms and prepared to rest as well as they could without blankets for the night, I tried to get some vacant house for my company but found that a regiment
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The left wing of our regiment under the command of major Abe John took the cars for Middleton this afternoon, a small station of the M.&C.R.R. about 25 miles from here. Monday 23. A number of our officers returned from furlough the other day; Captain Dill reports quite a change among the people in politics at home. Sergeant Sloan and Lt. Spencer were mustered in today, the first as 1st Lt. of Co. “A.” the last as captain of Co. “H.” of our regiment. Two recruits have joined our regiment, one for Co. “I.” and the other Fred. Hill the colonel’s son for Co. “D.” This afternoon we received orders to move. We had considerable trouble in getting on the cars, towards night, during a rain the train moved on. I was on the top of the baggage care and got a slight wetting. The train consisted of over twenty cars, all heavily laden, so the engine could not pull it up grade, the men had to get off and shove it along. Reached our destination a town called Pocahontas at 8 P.M. marched into the depot building, the men stacked arms and prepared to rest as well as they could without blankets for the night, I tried to get some vacant house for my company but found that a regiment
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