From the Wilderness to Spottsylvania

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Excerpt from From the Wilderness to Spottsylvania: A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Royal Region of the United StatesIt was a corps whose record was equal to that of any other, and the proud historic boast of our Division was, that it had never lost a gun or a color, although its colors had gleamed and ¿ashed, and its guns had thundered in the very front, on every battlefield of the Army of the Potomac.No other Division or Corps in the Armies of the Union had this proud distinction, and it seems to me to be Worth all the privations, all the dangers and all the wounds of those awful, eventful, historic days, to be able to say now, I was a member of the good old Second Corps.Our badge was the far-famed Trefoil, the boys called it the ace of clubs, and in all our campaigns, clubs were trumps.After the battle, of Mine Run, which was fought in the last of November, the winter of 1863-4 was spent by' the' Army of the Potomac north of the Rapidan, the Second Corps lying near Stevensburg, in the usual routine of winter quarters, except that we infused some of the pleasures of civilization into our humdrum camp life. A winter in tents, engaged in daily drills, guard-mountings and parades, is monotonous, and even card-playing, horse-racing, and kindred intellectual amusements become stale and unprofitable when made a steady occupation.Visits to friends in distant camps, and long rides along the picket lines, leaping fences and ditches to try the mettle of our horses, or down to the fords to have a chat with the Johnnies on their outposts, failed to be exciting after awhile.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.