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IS 4.2 Story of an Emigrant.
appalling rate. The hospitals were overcrowded with
patients, and the few men left for duty were continually
occupied in caring for the sick and burying the dead, until there
were not men enough left to bury their dead comrades, and
I was obliged to ask a regiment, which had recently arrived,
to help us perform that sad duty.
At this critical moment I received orders from Washington
to take six companies to Minnesota, 011 a six weeks’ veteran
furlough, to which the regiment was entitled. Those went
who were able to. Many died on the way, but those of 11s
who surviv d until we reached Minnesota were soon restored
to usual health and strength, so that we could return in due
time and again take part in the campaign in Arkansas. The
remaining four companies, which had been furloughed the
previous winter, were ordered from Pine Bluff to Duvall’s
Bluff, on White river, where the whole regiment was
reunited under my command in the beginning of October, and
remained in winter quarters until the spring of 1865.
Shortly after our return to Arkansas 1 assumed command
of the First Brigade, First Division, Seventh army corps.
This brigade consisted of mv own regiment, the Twelfth
Michigan, the Sixty-first Illinois, and a United States colored
regiment. Our prospects for remaining in winter quarters
for several months being favorable, many of the higher
officers sent for their wives. I did the same, having first
erected a comfortable log house for us. Mv wife and two
little children arrived a few days before Christmas, and
stayed in the camp the whole winter. No important event
took place during the winter, excepting that we were once
ordered to make an expedition up White river, with a
considerable force of cavalry and infantry, and, after a fatiguing
march, succeeded 111 breaking up a camp of irregular
Confederate troops, and taking many prisoners.
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