Page 83 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

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I N March, i£6 -n Middleburgh J' fell," T hat is. it fell into
the hands of the Union army, and remained in their
hands afterwards. It was terrible at first, and Nancy
Pansy stuffed H arry into a box, and hid her away.

It was awfully lonesome, however, and to think of the
way Harry was doubled up and cramped down in that box
under the floor was dreadful. So at last, finding that what­
ever else they did, the soldiers did not trouble her, she took
Harry out. But she never couid go about with her as

before, for of course things were different, and although she
got over her fright at the soldiers, as did her sister Ellen and
the rest of Middleburgh, they never were friendly. Indeed,
sometimes they were just the reverse, and at last they got to
such a pitch that the regiment which was there was taken

away, and a new regiment, or, rather, two new companies,
were sent there, These were Companies A and C of the
— th Regiment o f ------ Veterans. They had been originally
known as Volunteers, but now they were known as “ Vet­
erans,” because they had been in so many battles.

The -—th were perhaps the youngest men in that depart­
ment, being mainly young college fellows who had enlisted