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FROM SHERIDAN’S ARMY: A Fight with Mosby; Return of Captured Men (11/23/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/23/1864
Posted on 11/23/2024 6:47:08 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
The Army-Health of the Troops-Promotions.
MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION. Saturday, Nov. 19, 1864.
The month of November thus far, as to the atmospherical changes, has apparently entered the lists as a rival of the fickle month of April; for we have had alternate days of rain and sunshine, sandwiched with cold cycles, which would put the philosophy of "E.M." to a severe test, were he now recording the changes on this mundane sphere. Yesterday water fell in torrents from the clouds all day long. This morning the sun rose in regal splendor, causing people to forget the gloom of yesterday, and we can almost fancy it is bright May and not gloomy Autumn, and the May end of it at that.
The army has quietly settled down again into what the casual observer would consider winter quarters; such wonderful apt ways experienced troops have of making themselves comfortable under the most adverse circumstances, even when expecting every day to receive marching orders. Let a corps or a small detachment halt more than one night in a spot, and at this season of the year, every squad turns to work, and one day covers the barren ground with a village of huts, with chimney, door and bunk accompaniments. Truly necessity is the mother of invention. Before me as I write is a camp where every hut boasts of a brick chimney; possibly by tomorrow's sun the men enjoying the luxuries may have to abandon their abodes, and leave them for others to occupy.
Corp. Wm. H.F. AMWAKE, Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, reported by me to have been captured on Tuesday last, at the time Capt. MOUNTJOY, with 109 men of MOBBY's command attacked Sergt. SCHAFFNER and 16 men of the Seventeenth, near the Opequan, returned to camp to-day.
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TOPICS: History
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