. . . showed themselves handy in various ways during the advance
into Virginia. They helped about the
pontoon bridge for crossing the Potomac, repaired bridges and telegraph lines
on the route, and coming to a large field, containing several acres near
Charlestown, filled with corn in shock and unhusked, the troops detailed to
make it available for the Quartermaster’s department performed that service in
a double quick style rarely before exhibited in agricultural operations in
slaveholding districts.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 2
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