Am told that some of
the boys lost in gambling every farthing of their money half an hour after
receiving it from the paymaster.
An Indiana soldier
threw a bombshell into the fire to-day, and three men were seriously wounded by
the explosion.
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The writer was
absent from camp from October 21st to latter part of November, serving on
courtmartial, first at Huttonville, and afterward at Beverly.
In November the Third
was transferred to Kentucky.
SOURCE: John
Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, pp. 82-3
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