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ss Story of an Emigrant. 102
reader an idea of the hardships which the soldiers
occasionally had to endure 011 a march, I shall give a short sketch
of this. The detachment broke camp in Murfreesboro in the
forenoon of a vcrv hot day toward the close of May, and
marched twenty miles before night, which was considered
1 good distance for the first day. Most of the men suffered
from blistered feet, and they were all very tired. We
prepared our supper, and had just gone to rest in a large open
field and were beginning to fall asleep, when, at ten o’clock
in the evening, the signal was given to fall in. In a few
minutes the whole force were in line, and silently resumed the
march forward. We marched the whole night, the whole of
the next day, the following night, and till noon the day
after, moving altogether a distance of over eighty miles,
over a difficult and partly mountainous country, and
stopping only one hour three times a day to cook our coffee and
eat, while those who sank down by the roadside entirely
exhausted were left until the rear-guard came and picked
them up. When we finally arrived at our destination the
enemy that we were pursuing had already decamped, and
we had to return by the same route over which we had
come, though more leisurely. Among the many victims of
this march was a bright Norwegian lieutenant of my old
company, Hans johnson, who died shortly after our return
to Murfreesboro.
A few days afterward the regiment started 011 an
expedition to the South. During this march I got sick with the
fever, and would probably have died at Columbia, Tenn., if
my friend Kustrom, who at that time was captain of
Company D, had not succeeded in getting me into a rebel family,
where I was treated with the greatest care, so that in a few
days I was able to go by rail to Minnesota on a twenty
days’ leave of absence. This took place in the beginning of
the month of July, 1862.
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