pended by a.rope from a nail in the wall.

The bedstead is built on

four forks, supporting a platform of small poles, upon which is spread our bedding materials. These consist of leaves, brush and blankets. We have two plates, two spoons, two knives and a longnecked bottle.

"We were inspected to-day by General Beatty, our new brigade commander. The General makes a good impression on the rank and file of his command. Ours is now the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 14th A. C." [G.]

22. Sunday. This afternoon we received four months' pay. I have now been paid by the Government, as follows: At Zanesville, $47; Portland, $58.50; Franklin, $52; Shelbyville, $26; Chattanooga, $52.05; total, $265.55. This includes $77 bounty. We are allowed $42 worth of clothing a year. We are on the eve of some important movement, and our brigade has been ordered to be ready to move at any time. Howard's command, the Eleventh Corps, has crossed the pontoon next to the city, and is taking position to the south. A number of officers and enlisted men crossed the river to Chattanooga for the purpose of sending money to their homes. By some means not yet explained, Sergeant Lafayette Parr, Company F, was drowned. His body was not recovered.

23. We were up at three o'clock making preparations for the day's work. The noise of rebel trains can be heard beyond the Ridge, and the rebels seem to have an intimation of an attack. An artillery and infantry engagement took place during the afternoon, and lasted till dusk. As night came on, Mission Ridge was lighted up with the flash of the guns of the enemy, and their prolonged roar echoed through the valleys. We expect to take a hand in the game tomorrow. We are still on Stringer's Ridge.

24. Our division moved at 4 A. M., going up the river to Caldwell's, near the mouth of Chickamauga Creek. Here a pontoon spanned the Tennessee, but there were many troops in our front, and we did not cross till nearly 2 P. M. The division took a position nearly half way from the river to Mission Ridge, stacked arms, and listened to the preliminary music of an approaching great conflict.

25. Much more has transpired to-day than I can hope to write. We took up a position half a mile closer to the Ridge, where we lay all day, while the terrible conflict, which had been pending for days, At four o'clock in the afternoon the noise of the conflict indicated to us that the enemy had been driven from his stronghold on Mission Ridge, and that the day had been a Chickamauga to our enemies. We rested on our arms awaiting orders. Night came on.

went on.

Late in the afternoon I went with Brigham with a load of rations, and issued to the men as they lay at the base of the Ridge. From my position on Stringer I viewed the events of the day; saw the blue-coated lines as they marched in solid phalanx to meet the enemy; saw the smoke of the guns of Bragg's veterans, as they sent a deadly welcome to their advancing foe; saw the invincible columns of the Union as they ascended the side of the Ridge, and heard the shouts of victory as the Confederates fell back in full retreat. Oh for a pen or tongue that could depict it.

26. The Division moved at one o'clock this morning, crossed the Chickamauga and gave pursuit to the retreating army. The First Brigade of the Division was in the advance, the second next. At Chickamauga station, at day light, we came in sight of the rear of their army, and our brigades formed in line to attack them, but they retreated and we halted for breakfast. Vast quantities of stores were burning at the depot, including a pile of corn meal the size of a hay stack. During the afternoon the order of pursuit was changed and the second brigade took the head of the column, driving the enemy's rear guard until night came on, when, as we neared Graysville, a brigade of the enemy, under command of General Manny, made a stand and for some time disputed our advance. The contest lasted about an hour, after which the enemy withdrew. During the forenoon I loaded some rations for the officers of the regiment, and in the company of George W. Brigham, started to reach the command, and not finding them where we had left them yesterday, we started on after them, passed Chickamauga station, and at night camped in a deserted rebel camp. Brigham returned to our camp on Stringer.

27. The second brigade moved in the advance, reached Igou's Valley, near Ringgold, Georgia, and camped. The team which I had loaded with rations for the officers made such slow progress behind so many trains and batteries, that I had the driver turn it to one side and halt. We then unhitched the mules, and packing the load upon the mules we pressed on, leaving the road and taking to the woods. and fields on either side. In this manner we reached the regiment and issued our load to the hungry officers, many of whom will never know at what sacrifice it was accomplished. Started to return to Stringer, but meeting Brigham on his way to the regiment with rations, I turned back with him, and after driving ahead till long after dark, we halted and slept in a meeting house, called "Hurricane Church." 28. At 2 A. M. Brigham and I moved ahead with our supplies,

reaching the camp of the 113th before daylight, and before they had risen from sleep. Issued to the men and started to return to Stringer.

MARCH TO KNOXVILLE.

The author, being assigned to duty which pertained to the bringing of supplies from Bridgeport and Stevenson, did not accompany the regiment on the Knoxville campaign. The following account of it is furnished by Comrade Isaac Green :

28. The division remained camped in Igou's Valley during the forenoon, a heavy rain falling. At noon we marched in an easterly direction, going four miles, then halted for orders.

29. Sunday. We marched in the direction of Knoxville, made a distance of twenty-four miles and camped near Cleveland, Tennessee. 30. Marched fifteen miles and camped a mile from Charlestown.

DECEMBER, 1863.

1. Waited part of the day for supplies, and when they arrived they consisted of middlings, of which we made batter and baked into cakes. Passed through Charlestown, marched twelve miles and camped.

2. We continue to move in the direction of Knoxville. Passed through Mount Verb during the afternoon. Distance traveled, twenty miles.

3. Marched fifteen miles and camped at Sweetwater River, four miles from Loudon.

4. Marched at daylight, passing through Loudon at 7 A. M., and hurried forward up the river seven miles to a place where we are planning to cross.

5. We remain at a halt to-day. We have been marching through a well improved country, and the inhabitants give evidence of loyalty to the Union by many expressions of joy upon our approach. Now and then the flag of our country is to be seen floating from a staff in a door yard, and the people crowd to the road and watch our column with open-mouthed wonder. Several of the men stopped at a house recently and asked the proprietor for something to eat. He stoutly averred that he had nothing, but the Yankees opened the cupboard, and appropriated milk, potatoes and molasses in abundance.

6. Sunday. Crossed the river and passed through Morgantown on the opposite side. Here we were met by a courier bearing the news that Longstreet had been repulsed at Knoxville, and that further effort to reach and assist our forces there would be unnecessary. Our camp is in Monroe county, bordering on the line of North Carolina. A citizen

joined himself to Company H yesterday, and asserts his intention of becoming a member of the 113th. [Kimbro?]

7. Started at 9 A. M., and marched seventeen miles in the direction of Chattanooga. Passed through Madisonville at 2 P. M. This is a neat little village of sixty or seventy houses. Our custom has been to rest five minutes every hour during the day, and half an hour at dinner; but to-day we have been cut short of rest almost entirely. We have a pot of mush boiling for supper, and I am too hungry to wait for it to get well done. Who wouldn't be a soldier?

8. Marched at daylight, made twenty miles, and camped a mile and a half from Columbus, Polk county. During the day a family passed us on their way to the North. The lady divided a churn full of salt among us soldiers, an act of real kindness on her part. A Ray, Company E, then stole a piece of meat from her wagon, and made off with his booty. This coming to the knowledge of the Provost Marshal, Ray was tied to a tree till the brigade passed. He was afterwards tied to an artillery carriage and labeled with the word "THIEF," and marched six miles in that condition. Served him right.

9. We remained camped while a bridge is being put across the Hiawasse at this point. A bridge was burned by the rebels last week here, and must be replaced. Company E went on picket.

15. The several days of our stay in this one place have made us anxious to be on the move. We started at an early hour, and, marching a northeasterly course, crossed the Chestna River, instead of the Hiawasse, as we had expected. Then, taking a southwesterly course, we crossed the Hessefon about noon, marched eight miles further, and camped, having made twenty-two miles in all.

16. Have marched twenty-one miles to-day, and are now in camp at McDonald's Gap, a miserable place in a mountain range. Reached here long after dark in a heavy rain. It was no trifle to build a fire and prepare our suppers in such a rain as this. And now, at a late hour, I make this record. How? Well, I throw my gum blanket over my head, making a shelter for my writing materials, leaving a space for the camp fire to shine in on my paper. Often I write in this manner the events of the day.

17. We have marched thirteen miles to-day, and are now camped on the Chickamauga, six miles from Chattanooga, and on a hill. It is distressingly cold. I shudder to think how we are to spend the night, for we are shivering with cold and aching with pain.

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18. Marched at noon, and reached Chattanooga at 4 P. M. pontoon is broken, and we cannot cross to-night to our camp. spent the night with my only brother at the camp of the 94th O.V.I.

19. The troops crossed at daylight, and occupied the old camp on Stringer's Ridge, from which they moved on the twenty-fourth of last month. The men are ragged and jaded, many of them being without shoes. It is like getting home to be again in our shanties, and to know that we are to have a rest. [G.]

20. Three months ago to-day the great conflict took place at Chickamauga. Many of our wounded have returned to duty, and a great change has taken place in affairs hereabouts. The myriads of rebel tents that dotted the country south of here are pitched many miles further south; Bragg no longer makes his morning salutes from Lookout.

"While on the Knoxville march I saw but two country churches, one a log and the other a frame. Saw one school house and heard of another. Judging by what I saw of the citizens they know very little concerning the uses to which school houses are put. the women use tobacco, and few of them are handsome, according to my ideas of beauty.

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"One day I stopped at a house with a view of getting something to eat. One of the women began talking to me of hard living, bushwhacking, &c. She held in her arms a small child, which she kissed frequently, while the juice of tobacco ran down over her chin in a manner which destroyed my appetite. Fearing she might grow familiar, and want to kiss me, I left the house. I next stopped at a house occupied by an old lady who was so ignorant she could not tell me which was east or west, nor how far it was a mile ahead." [G.]

Sergeant Halliday has been appointed to the position of Quartermaster Sergeant.

25. We spent our Christmas a year ago in Camp Dennison. That was as dull as this. Our thoughts take a retrospect of years gone by, when this anniversary brought together our friends, and when feasting and festivity were on the program. We have no turkeys and pot-pies; no claret and champagne to cheer us on the occasion. But we must be content with hard bread and fat meat. After this cruel war is over we will make up for the deficiencies of to-day. Who can tell what the coming year has in store for us, or where we will be this date next year?

Two of our regimental teams have been turned over to the brigade train, and we are now on the eve of vacating this camp.

26. The brigade moved across the river into Chattanooga, thence in a southeasterly direction, beyond Mission Ridge, and camped near a church sometimes called McAfee's Chapel. This is in Catusa County, Ga. It has rained much during the day, and the surroundings do not impress us favorably with the new camp. We are to go into permanent quarters here for the winter. On our way hither we saw many things to remind us of the Confederate army-villages of log huts, graves of the fallen, clothing, redoubts and miles of riflepits.