in one of the baggage-wagons, died. We made a halt, long enough to bury him. A kind of a grave was dug, but when we came to bury him it was found that a spring had issued forth, which had filled the hole more than half its depth with water. A quantity of bushes was then cut down and placed in it. On these, wrapped up in his blanket and without a coffin we laid him. We played the dead march to the spot and interred him with all the military honors that circumstances permitted us to bestow upon him. Truly, he found a soldier's lonely and quiet grave, or rather a grave in a lonely and quiet place. Although no wife nor children were there to wail aloud in their lament, the loss of husband and father -no woman there from whose eyes the tears of tenderness fall thick and fast. But if not, there were friends there. If no gushings of tenderness were there, there was sadness around, and many a heart was bowed in resignation to the will of God, and in the serenity of minds to which had been called home every wandering thought, we bore him in our sober sorrow for the dead, to his lonely and final resting place in the mountain wilderness, mid rocks and trees, and left him to repose in his long, long sleep mid the chantings of birds and the gurglings of mountain rills.

In marching over the first mountains I was taken with fever and ague, and upon its commencing to rain, I obtained permission from Captain Fisher to walk on ahead to a little town that lay in our way. Here I obtained the comforts of a roof, fire, &c. and was (I may state) at home in part, until the army arrived and encamped.

From here we resumed our march in the morning, and after a toiling march of several days over mountains and valleys in which we endured different kinds of hardships we arrived at Bedford.

Sometime after our arrival at that place, portions of our army were reorganized. Here we lost our Captain (Fisher) who was promoted to the rank of Major.Lieutenant Retzell became our Captain and Ensign Dentzell became Lieutenant. After these changes were

made we had to hold an election for Ensign. A member of the company whose name I have forgotten, except that we always called him Pete, was very anxious to be elected Ensign. Pete was a rattle brained, good humored and good hearted clever sort of a fellow.

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Bill, you'll vote for me, wont you." "Dave's agoing to," Tom you and Joe will make me Ensign, wont you, say." "Here, Sam, come along and give us a hoist, you may as well do it as Jim, he's agoing it to the nines." Seeing the fellow's industry in electioneering for himself we voted for him and elected him, and easily too, for he had no opposition.

There were many worthy, active and intelligent members of the company that might have been proposed, but there were not any in the company that wanted the of fice-Pete had all the benefits arising out of the exercise of the military franchise within the company. Lawyer Elder, a clever fellow and much beloved by the company could have had the office at a word had he but consented to have been a candidate.

One day whilst we lay at Bedford, I received a message with orders (I being then Fife Major,) to bring my music up to one of the officer's Marquees, I told the per son sent to me to inform the officer that I had no fifer, but that I would go myself. Warriour and myself played and beat up to the officer's quarters. We were then placed at the head of two or three file of men and marched off by a Sergeant (who had his orders) to the jail.→→ When we halted at the jail door our Strawsburg hog thief was brought out and handed over to the Sergeant of the guard who had notified us, that when we should march with our charge we should beat the "Rogue's March." When our prisoner was properly positioned we received the order of "forward," and as we stepped off, we commenced to beat the Rogue's march after him, He was then conducted through the camp and out of town, about a mile. We then discharged him with several real huzzas loud and long, and then by three cheers

or long rolls of the drum. After he had gotten some little distance off from us (far enough to ensure his security providing his heels would prove true to him,) he threw out the challenge of defiance to the whole of us. To have judged of his strength by his words, he could have thrashed the whole army then at Bedford. Besides threatening to "maul" us all, he stated that he was very glad that he was that far upon his road towards home. He then bade us an extremely polite adieu in Billingsgate slang, and then heeled it until he was out of sight. The departure of this modern Goliah was even more sportive than his presence and conduct had been previous.

Shortly after this, there was intelligence received that the "Whiskey Boys" in great numbers were lying in ambush awaiting our approach. Some believed the report, others scouted at the idea. The whole army received an ample supply of amunition. The rifle companies were ordered to mould a great number of bullets, and much preparation was made to repel any attack which the insurgents might feel disposed to make.— The orders to prepare to march upon a certain day were general. Each man drew a double or triple quantity of provisions and received orders to cook the same.

All things being in readiness, we then took up the line of march and pushed for the Alleghany mountain. I do not recollect any thing worthy of notice until we were descending the western base of the Alleghany mountain in our approach to the "Glades." Here we had a hard time of it. It was now November and the weather was not only quite cold but it was windy and rain was falling. By an oversight we were pushed on a considerable distance in advance of our baggage wagons and at length halted at an old waste barn that we supposed belonged to some one of the insurgents, for had it not been so, our army would not have been permitted to burn the fences thereon. We collected rails and built fires, but owing to the rain and the marshy nature of that section of country, the ground around our fires with

our continual tramping became quite miry. Tramping about in order to dry and keep ourselves warm, made our situation about the fires quite an uncomfortable one, for we were oftentimes shoe-mouth deep in mud and water. There was an old house as well as a barn upon these premises. These the officers laid hold of and billeted in; their condition however, was not the most comfortable one in the world, although they had the name of having a roof over their heads. The night was a very dark one and the weather was cold, and the rain was a remarkably cold one. It is true it did not freeze, but jack frost and his binding powers could not have been far off. I went out into the woods and groped about in the dark in search of a hollow tree or hollow log into which (had I found one) I was determined to crawl and quarter for the night, but I groped about in vain. The ground out from the fires was so wet (it being covered with water) that it was impossible to lie down, and the ground around the fires was so much like to a morter bed, that it was impossible to lie down there. None of the soldiers then dared to lie down.

Our sutler arrived with his wagon sometime after midnight. A short while after his arrival, I espied a fockle or handful of straw, lying near to his wagon; this I went and picked up, and then hunted for a dry spot to lie down on, but it was Hobson's choice, mud and water or nothing. I at length spread out my straw upon the ground. When I had placed my knapsack in the baggage wagon, I had kept my blanket out and had carried it with me. In this I wrapped myself as well as I could, and laid me down upon my handful of straw to sleep. This was not long done, until worn out Sammy forgot all his sorrows, sufferings and cares, and fell soundly asleep.

When I awoke in the morning, my head was half buried in mud and water. My readers may judge of my resting place, when I inform them, that I combed the mud from within the hair of my head with my fingers I had plenty of money, but here it was in a manner useless

to me, and not worth more than would be the stones of the field, for nothing of an eatable kind could be procured with it. Nothing of comfort kind could be procured except hardware, alias "good stuff." I took four canteens (my own among the number,) and went to the sutler's wagon, and had them filled. For the four canteens full (a little over a gallon) I paid the sutler four silver dollars, and was very well satisfied to get it even at that exorbitant price. Captain Alcohol in this particular instance was of great service to myself and messmates, as also to some of our neighboring messmates. In those days of hardships, sufferings and dangers, we did not single ourselves out, and drink behind the doors and swear "we didn't taste the creature," as too many of the people do now-a-days. In this instance we came up to Captain Whiskey with a bold front, in open day and acknowledged his potent spell, and superior worth in our proper use of him. This was a dreadful night's rest with us all, and had not each man had a bite of something to eat with him in his haversack, we would have been much worse off indeed, for our baggage wagons did not reach us until near 10 o'clock on the next morning. No blame could attach itself to our wagoners, for they had been at work all night in doubling, trebling and quadrupling their teams of horses in helping each other through the swamps, which were in a manner almost altogether impassable; but we did think rather hard of our officers for pushing us so far in advance of our baggage wagons. In this, however, we might have been wrong, as they could not have conceived any idea of the wagoners encountering such difficulties as they did in passing through the swamps.Another thing was obvious, this, that our having entered them in our march on foot, no encamping ground could have been procured short of where we had halted, and miserable as it was, it must be viewed as excellent ground, compared with that which lay between there and the Alleghany mountain. My readers may judge of the land's surface, and of the state of the roads through the