Left Camp College
Hill, or was rallied and sent to Gallatin, Summer county, Tenn, and slept on
our arms all night, and the next morning our company was sent out to ascertain
where company K, of the 79th Pa. Inf was, as they were put on out-post picket
in the night and could not be found in the morning. We found them on the Gallatin
road, one mile from town; in the mean time orders came to right-about and march
to camp again. On arriving there, orders had come to the regiment to
right-about and march to College Hill again, leaving Co. D behind. So we lay
over until the next day, and a train of cars came for us and we returned again
to camp, making a march of 23 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 18
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