The battery was
loaded on cars in the morning. The baggage teams, and the drivers with the
battery-horses, went on the turnpike road, through Jefferson City, Petersville,
Knoxville, and Weavertown, and arrived at Sandy Hook by nightfall. The
cannoniers, coming by railroad, made a raid on a number of express boxes, after
which, eatables and all sorts of liquors being plenty, all night, the happiness
of the men reached such a degree, as to make it impossible to post a guard,—Novel
and Drape being the happiest men in the sixth detachment, while Jim Lewes
hallooed for Billy Knight all the time. The night was extremely windy and cold.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery,
p. 33-4
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