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Chapter 16:
Battery XIV.
August 26 to October 24, 1864.
Our Parrotts
to the front once more
Battery XIV
Artillery as Sharpshooters
warlike Pyrotechnics
a six-gun Battery again
marching orders.
As there must come an end to all things earthly, so we found our season of rest no exception to the rule, and the camp began to wear a business-like aspect.
By the 11th of September we were once more supplied with the requisite number of horses and harnesses, rubber buckets, tarpaulins, and all the paraphernalia of a battery completely equipped.
September 20th a detail went down to City Point and brought back four 3-inch Parrott guns.
They were beauties and gained our regard at once, completely usurping the place the Rodmans had held there.
We were now ready for active service again, and having been made happy by a visitation from the paymaster, who left us two months pay and settled our annual tailor's bill with the government, we were relieved from further expectat