Identifier: cu31924030907012 (find matches)
Title: History of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mann, Albert W. (Albert William), b. 1841, comp
Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 45th (1862-1863)
Publisher: (Boston, Mass., Printed by W. Spooner
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the young, all singing the air andall pitched in a different key. There was no harmony, only ababel of sound. The singing was followed by prayer by theleader, whose voice was frequently drowned by the vigorousgroans of his auditors. Occasionally his voice was raised to ashout and could be heard above the general din. By this timehis congregation was worked up to a high pitch of excitementand some of the women threw their bonnets and shawls on thepulpit stairs and went through the audience addressing a wordhere and there, enforcing the preachers remarks. Some of theyoung girls were wrought up to a state of frenzy, and began toshriek at the top of their voices and finally went into hysterics. As the season advanced the weather became very delight-ful ; the buds began to swell, the flowers to blossom forth, andall around our quarters (Company A) was a beautiful garden.We had rose trees, violets and other plants too numerous tomention. The air was filled with fragrance of apple, pear and
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PROVOST DUTY IN NEW BERNE 219 peach blossoms, and every morning the mocking birds and therobins delighted us with their sweet notes. Our letters to ourrelatives and friends contained little mementos of pressedflowers, which assured them in their cold Northern homes, thatwe were enjoying summer weather. The cavalry were kept busyin these days scouting, for the woods and swamps just outside thecity swarmed with guerillas. The cavalrymen hated them cor-dially, and were disposed to show them but little mercy. Thecamp guard of the Ninety-Second New York on the other side ofthe Neuse was frequently fired upon on dark and foggy nights,by these guerillas. They dressed in citizens clothes, and shotour men in cold blood, whenever opportunity offered. Whenthey saw a considerable body of our men approaching, they wereunionists, neutrals, or know nothings, as they chose. Onescouting party went up as far as Matirmeskut L^e in HydeCounty. The day they arrived there, they had a skirmish witha band of

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