History of the Ninety Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
History of the Ninety Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Charles a Charles Addison Partridge
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All were thoroughly tired out and greatly in need of rest. But there was no alternative, and wearily the long column moved for ward along the only pike leading northward. The usual vex atious delays occurred, an unbridged stream being the prin cipal cause. This was some distance out, and as every team had to be whipped into it, the column was continually stop ping and starting. Knowing that if an attack was made it would be from the east, the battalions marched left in front. These annoying del...ays occurred frequently for two or three hours, and so exhausted were the men that at each brief halt nearly all would drop down in the road and instantly fall asleep. A whispered, " Fall in, boys ! " would as quickly rouse them, and, more asleep than awake, they staggered rather than marched forward. Indeed, many of them slept 1864:] THE RETREAT FROM FRANKLIN. 431 soundly as they walked along, and at each halt would bunt against the man next ahead of them. Field and staff officers slept for miles in their saddles, and even the horses staggered as they walked along.
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