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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 6 : (search)
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Appendix. (search)
Appendix.
An account of the capture, Imprisonment, and Release of Privates S. Augustus Alden, Lewis R. Allard, Alvin Abbott, and Frank A. Chase, substantially as related by Mr. Alden.
We were with the Battery until July 19, 1863, when I received orders to select three good men, and with them return to Berlin, Md., for mules and harnesses.
We were then some twenty miles into Virginia.
Having selected comrades Allard, Abbott, and Chase, in the latter part of the afternoon we took our departure, mounted, for Berlin, all feeling in good spirits.
On our arrival at Harper's Ferry we dismounted, fed our horses, ate our rations, and bivouacked.
On the following morning early, after feeding once more and eating another frugal meal of hard-tack and coffee, we started for our destination, reaching it about the middle of the forenoon of the 20th.
We could get the mules, but could obtain no harnesses; and as we could not procure both, agreeably with instructions, left the mules
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Roster and roll of the Company (search)