If our general understood what cavalry is for we would have been out long ago--miles from here--if to do nothing more than make a few maps which, it seems, our august leaders entirely lack.
"During the night the order came: 'This division will move at four o'clock in the morning with two days' rations.' All night long we were at work with axe and hammer, tearing down quarters, packing stores, and loading our waggons.
"We have an absurd number of waggons.

There is an infantry regiment camped near us that has a train of one hundred and thirty-six-mule teams to transport its household goods.

It's the 77th New York, "The next morning the sun rose on our army in motion.

You say that I am a scoffer.

I didn't scoff at that spectacle.